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dtb · 03-12-2004, 06:42 PM

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Originally posted by baltassoc
I know the answer to this: two kids equals three rows of seats if there are regularly other people and/or dogs around.

Ding! Ding! Ding! (very big dog, too)

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Why, out of curiosity [was a minvan out of the question] - style or something else? Since station wagons were on the table I'm guessing it's not style.

It was style. I wasn't exactly imagining a wood-paneled station wagon of the 70's (with the "jump seats" in the back -- remember those?), but the Benz E 520 (or something like that, anyway). It was the only station wagon option on the table. Please don't try to tell me that you think a Mercedes wagon is equivalent -- or even close in dorkiness to a Ford Aerostar (that's a minivan, right?). If that is your view, well, I guess we just disagree.

ThurgreedMarshall · 03-12-2004, 06:46 PM

On the news this morning, I heard that Mel Gibson will make $350 million off of his film.

Wow.

TM

Flinty_McFlint · 03-12-2004, 06:50 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
[Discussion on why people with kids need a minvan or wagon]

Hell no. I'm holding on to my early mid-life crisis sports coupe for as long as I can. The infant car seat still fits in back, and the little Flintette seems to like the rumbling the sports suspension creates--puts her to sleep in 5 seconds flat. I neeeed that.

notcasesensitive · 03-12-2004, 06:51 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
On the news this morning, I heard that Mel Gibson will make $350 million off of his film.

Wow.

TM

Sad, isn't it? He managed some great controversy marketing and the public ate it up. I doubt it matters much to him if he just played himself out of the next stupid Lethal Weapon sequel.

ThurgreedMarshall · 03-12-2004, 06:54 PM

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Originally posted by baltassoc
Like hell. dtb aside, the minivan is the new cool. What could be cooler than not needing to validate one's "coolness" with the a vehicle? I heard it from my brother (who is much cooler than just about anyone, let alone my suburban-livin', professional-job-holdin', khaki-Docker-wearin' ass), so it must be true.

Is your brother Danny Devito in Get Shorty?

TM

Bad_Rich_Chic · 03-12-2004, 06:58 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
It was style. I wasn't exactly imagining a wood-paneled station wagon of the 70's (with the "jump seats" in the back -- remember those?),

I do indeed. Now, those things were GREAT family cars. Huge friggin' engine, huge friggin' seats, you could fit a family of 6 into them before having to put up the seat in back. I'd TOTALLY be trying to find one of those before heading to the SUV lot - they get about the same gas mileage, after all. (They were totally uncool at the time, but are total shag-mobiles now!)

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Please don't try to tell me that you think a Mercedes wagon is equivalent -- or even close in dorkiness to a Ford Aerostar (that's a minivan, right?). If that is your view, well, I guess we just disagree.

We just disagree (see my paean to the Ford Country Squire above). This is well and good. Variety is the spice of life!

BR(really, I'm leaving now to engage in those promised trivial cultural pursuits)C

Fugee · 03-12-2004, 07:11 PM

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Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Likes hockey. Got husband at IKEA. IKEA is Swedish. Swedes produce good hockey players. It all fits.

Probably has some goofy Swedish name with 6 vowels and 3 umlauts, though...

IKEA is coming to the Mall of America later this year. I'll be there on opening day looking for the Skön Äkta Make kit.

baltassoc · 03-12-2004, 07:13 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Is your brother Danny Devito in Get Shorty?

I guess you noticed the family resemblence?

The Oldsmobile Silhouette is the Cadillac of minivans (and very hard to spell).

SlaveNoMore · 03-12-2004, 07:28 PM

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notcasesensitive
Sad, isn't it? He managed some great controversy marketing and the public ate it up. I doubt it matters much to him if he just played himself out of the next stupid Lethal Weapon sequel.

Are you kidding? If anything, this guarantees it.

Atticus Grinch · 03-12-2004, 08:00 PM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Are you kidding? If anything, this guarantees it.

Yeah, and he'll be riding the "Mel Gibson can make a movie about Jesus that makes a ton of money!" pony all the way to . . . um . . . anyone know any other really good stories about Jesus? Not you, Fugee.

Where do you go after you make a once-in-a-lifetime movie? It's not like he can be the frickin' James Cameron of Jesus movies.

SlaveNoMore · 03-12-2004, 08:23 PM

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Atticus Grinch
Yeah, and he'll be riding the "Mel Gibson can make a movie about Jesus that makes a ton of money!" pony all the way to . . . um . . . anyone know any other really good stories about Jesus? Not you, Fugee.

Where do you go after you make a once-in-a-lifetime movie? It's not like he can be the frickin' James Cameron of Jesus movies.

You forget - this is the town where Kiddy Raping Fugitives win Best Directing honors and Calvin Broadus can go from murder trial to everyone's favorite uncle dizzle foshizzle wizzle.

Atticus Grinch · 03-12-2004, 09:02 PM

Two NYU students, as a prank, put a 400 gallon pool in the common room of the sixth floor of their dorm. This is not surprising. What is surprising is that they got away with it for a month.

Anyone have any other cool college prank stories? Extra bonus points if it involves embarassing coitus interruptus or killing a Whiffenpoof.*

*I mean that literally, not as a redundant euphemism for embarassing coitus interruptus.

SlaveNoMore · 03-12-2004, 09:06 PM

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Atticus Grinch
Two NYU students, as a prank, put a 400 gallon pool in the common room of the sixth floor of their dorm. This is not surprising. What is surprising is that they got away with it for a month.

Say what you will about dem ugly new poured concrete dorms being a visual blight in the East Village - they sure do have some structural integrity.

Fugee · 03-12-2004, 09:52 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Yeah, and he'll be riding the "Mel Gibson can make a movie about Jesus that makes a ton of money!" pony all the way to . . . um . . . anyone know any other really good stories about Jesus? Not you, Fugee.

Where do you go after you make a once-in-a-lifetime movie? It's not like he can be the frickin' James Cameron of Jesus movies.

Are you kidding? How about the "prequel" with all the cool miracles and stuff**? I can just imagine the marketing slogan "You saw how he died, now see how he lived!" And then there's the Old Testament -- think of "The Ten Commandments" with modern special effects (although it wouldn't be the same without Yul Brynner, Lily Munster and Charlton "Mr. NRA" Heston). The Christian community would totally support more well made Jesus movies. Nevertheless, I doubt Mel will follow up with another one.

**In deference to Atticus's request, I won't list all the good stories.

bold_n_brazen · 03-12-2004, 10:09 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

Anyone have any other cool college prank stories? Extra bonus points if it involves embarassing coitus interruptus or killing a Whiffenpoof.*

*I mean that literally, not as a redundant euphemism for embarassing coitus interruptus.

As a senior in college, several of my sorority sisters and I made a sport of catching each other in the act.

We'd fling open the door, scream "We caught you!", and then run laughing down the hall.

Of course, pay back was inevitable. I was glad my boyfriend lived in a house of his own.

ETA: That after some reflection, I recall that we screamed "We're even!" and not "We caught you!". This, however, does not make this story any less dorky.