Posted on 04/30/2005 7:02:14 AM PDT by pjsbro
Obviously he likes 6 foot tall, 250 lb blue-eyed blonds. (Hey, I do too)
The problem is that the vikings didn't live long enough to have any descendants; they died in their battles. Norwegians are the descendants of the pussies that stayed home.
The middle digit looks like a 6 only if you are looking at the bottom. If you look at the top, you'll see that it is an 8. IOW, they faked a 666 on the bottom for some reason.
LOL. I've actually heard a serious theory put forth on the sad state of France today: that they essentially lost an entire generation of men in WWI and thus for the past 80 years all the living French are descended from the draft-dodgers and those who were unfit for combat at the beginning of the 20th century.
The bar chart, taken on face value, is very misleading. If you read the fine print underneath, it states "so high because the economy (of S'pore) relies heavily on oil refining, petrochemicals, and shipping industries, which use a lot of oil." So all of the oil used as raw materials for the production of gasoline and petrochemicals in this small city-state manufacturing center on steroids, as well as the use of Singapore by many as the distribution hub for supplying goods throughout Southeast Asia is thrown into their "gallons used each day per person" number. Even though the results of this manufacturing are by and large exported, and not consumed internally by Singaporeans.
All the other countries data is similarly determined.
What a deluded moron. The "oil industry" would want nother more than to him to hold on to his fuel inefficient old car. Not only that, but his old car probably produces as much pollution as 10-20 new vehicles. Whoever said that Liberalism was a mental disease is surely right
What do you expect? He's a retired art and music teacher...
Actually, in the Toyota Aygo you stand a good chance of surviving that impact with your Dodge pickup because all new cars sold in Europe have to meet the very strict European New Car Assessment Programme (EuroNCAP) crash standards, including side-impact tests that are far more severe than what our NHTSA standard requires. After all, there are a lot of tractor-trailer rigs running all over Europe, and Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, and Saab-Scandia trucks are almost just as big as most tractor trucks here in the USA; this means even very small cars of new design have to provide good protection in case they are hit by something bigger.
Someone is using brains in car design? I don't believe it!
And in fact, from what I've read about the specifications of the Aygo, the car could probably be sold in the USA with minimal modifications, since the car has so much safety features standard (ABS, front and side-curtain airbags, etc.) and the fact the Aygo's clutchless manual transmission can run in either manual or automatic modes. Indeed, there's always a small (pun not intended) chance that the Aygo could replace the Toyota Echo as Toyota's entry-model car for the US market, too.
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