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Fond Farewell

Drive Time

I see with some regret that Audi is discontinuing both the R8 supercar and its baby brother, the TT sports car.

For obvious reason$$$ I was never in the market for either, but I still feel somewhat melancholy because the thought of the loss of any car built for the pure enjoyment of driving is not a happy one.

A hundred years ago I talked about the joys of open-topped sports cars, and my feelings have not changed one iota. If anything, my desire to own a convertible sports car has increased, not lessened,  even though I know that I’d probably need some kind of crane or lift to get my decrepit fat ass out of the thing.

Hence my lottery dream of the exquisite BMW Z8:


(horrifyingly, since sold)

…or more reasonably, the Mazda MX-5:

Which leads me to today’s little thought exercise.

Below is a list of 20 sports cars (not supercars).  Assuming that all were driveable and in excellent condition, and had assurance of some kind of reliability (and please note that last factor)…

…rank your top 5 of the 20 (and only of these 20, no substitutions) with reasons if so desired.  Consider whatever factors you feel are important:  “wow” (that feeling when you walk into your garage and realize that it’s yours, all yours), reliability, chick-appeal, speed, handling, trunk size, whatever.

Note that there’s a mixture of old and new.  Feel free to mix ‘n match.  Also, I’ve left off some obvious ones (pure performance cars like the E-type, Corvette, Ferrari, AC Cobra etc. so that you end up having more choices).

Sunbeam Alpine

Honda S2000

Austin Healey 3000 MkIII

Jaguar XK120

Mercedes 230 SL

Alfa Romeo 1750 Spider

MGB GT

VW Eos

Toyota 2000 GT

Audi TT

Morgan Plus 8

BMW Z4

Ford Mustang

MG TF

Toyota MR2

Lotus / Caterham Seven

Triumph TR4

Fiat Dino 2400 Spider

Porsche 356 C

Jensen Interceptor

My Top 5 below the fold:

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3 Worst Questions

Friday Feature, The Worst

Okay, here’s a participation game which is prompted by this little snippet (no link because reasons):

So, Gentle Readers:  what are the three ugliest, rudest, most impertinent and foul questions you could ask of His Royal Gingerness?

Yeah, I know, nobody gives a shit about this emasculated little Brit woketwerp or his horrible Hollywood slutwife.  Have some fun.  Winner gets a prize TBD.

Being Prepared

The Gun Thing

Excellent news from Israel, in the matter of self-defense:

An Israeli news anchor has carried a gun live on air while presenting from the studio amid fear of another Hamas attack.

Lital Shemesh, a presenter for right-wing Israeli broadcaster Channel 14, was pictured on Tuesday sitting behind her anchor desk with a gun tucked into the waistband of her trousers.

Makes sense, of course, because if Channel 14 is indeed a “right-wing” news outlet*, then they would be a likely target of Hamas terrorist scum.

Also, she seems to be quite a cutie:

…and therefore would be a target-within-a-target for terrorists’ swinging dicks — so she damn well should be armed in the event of some Muzzy reindeer games.

Good for her, refusing to be a victim.

*Given the source of the report (a Brit newspaper), “right-wing” would translate as “center-left” in American terminology, i.e. not screamingly-socialist like most TV stations and other media in the West.

News Roundup

Bad News

Let’s start off with some Election News:


...kinda like the conservative Supreme Court guys were over the abortion thing, huh?  Sauce, goose, gander, etc., you fucking Commie cow.


...yeah, they’ve been “trending Republican” since the 1990s, and yet somehow they always keep sending Democrats to the White House and Congress.  Consider me unconvinced.

In related Political News:


...is it so wrong to be envious of the Argies, for once?


...never a Covid death when you really want one.  And speaking of disgusting Commies…


...when you’re running huge deficits, you’ll harvest extra revenue from anywhere.


...hate to break it to you, Ed, but Portland is Third World.

From the Animal Kingdom:


...key word:  Australia.


...see previous item.

News from the Muslim Assholes Dept.:


...ah yes, the Religion of Peace strikes again.  Also, they lie:


...they’ve been taking lessons from Bill Clinton.

Time for some better Sex News:


...the only surprise is that he was fired at all.
#LiberalCollege


...wait:  Dolly Parton has always been in an open marriage, and I’m only finding out about this now?

And in more Showbiz News:


...the poor, poor man;  how much more suffering must he endure for his art?

In (link-free) INSIGNIFICA:

 

Finally, let’s look at what I’m calling the Edible Eighties:

Donna Mills (82):

Linda Gray (80):

Martha Stewart (81):

…and especially Martha:




…that’s her “JBF” look.  Pity the fool…

And that’s all the old news for today.

“Context”

Muzzies

From some Izzy pol comes this little snippet:

Well, yes.  As some smarty-pants academic said a little while ago, context is everything.

I mean, I feel the same way about Commies (apart from the “rape” thing, I’m not the man I used to be –although I might be persuaded to take at least one* such ghoul for the team).

Still, it’s not a healthy thought and the Pals should be dissuaded from acting out those impulses by, say, mass relocation to the Congo.  (For some reason, Israelis have an institutional dislike of concentration camps and Babi Yar-style killing pits, so relocation seems to be the best alternative.)

So I’m not going to condemn the Pals outright because glass houses etc.  But I am going to encourage the Izzies to do whatever they think works.  I think they can generally be trusted to do the right thing, e.g. blowing up Iran’s nuclear bomb capability, so as far as the foul and loathsome Hamas / Hezbollah assholes are concerned, it’s all systems go.

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