OT--In honor of my weird dream...

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My blog is updated with an entry devoted to MG Jr. and Top Gear. :hi:
:rofl:

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1. I'll have to check my PMs and bookmarks for your blog url

because every time my browser crashes (once every few months, it seems) I lose all my tabs, and I'm bad about not bookmarking them :P

I'm just waiting for whenever the next season from Top Gear because I want to see if they cover the Veyron "ditching" in La Marque, Texas ;)

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3. Alas, I think they missed the window of opportunity to talk about it

but the video is on the Top Gear site! http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/bugatti-crash-2009-11-16

I wish they had talked about it, though--the boys would have verbally eviscerated the idiot!

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5. The comments are doing a pretty good job of that,

including the two teens that took the video, though they are mistakenly calling them "good ol' boys". No, these are just your typical ill-informed American teenagers.

I can't say I'd recognize a Veyron from the side, either, but would never mistake it for a Lamborghini, nor call it something else if I didn't know it. I watch Top Gear because it's funny and can appreciate the engineering that goes into those cars. But, I'd never want to own any of them except the Toyota Hilux, because at least it has a purpose to its existence ;)

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7. The Hilux--the unkillable pickup truck!

I bow to its immortality.

I got to see a Bugatti Veyron up close over the summer at the auto museum in L.A.:



I don't usually get stupid over supercars on TV, but seeing one "in the flesh" so to speak was a different experience. They truly are works of art, and suddenly I WANTED one. And now I want to dope slap the guy who drove it into the pond.

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10. Back in the mid-eighties, I knew a guy that restored cars

though he did so on older european sports cars, not the "supercars" of today. Still, he had some fine one-of-a-kind and rare vehicles in his collection. I did a documentary on him and his shop for a film class, but I need to get the Super-8 film transferred to video. I did back then, but gave him the tape, while I kept the film (including all the unused bits.)

Here's one of his cars I got to see up close, too: Lancia Blue Ray

Of course, I'd slap anyone for driving such a car on American roads. They're just not built for speed, nor are any of the other drivers. Plus, I don't want to have to share the road with yet another idiot in a vehicle really designed for the Autobahn and Swiss mountain roads.

One of the biggest problems I've observed with American drivers is that they are honestly afraid of curves and turns:
"It's a straightaway! Eat my dust!"
"What?! You expect me to take that reducing radius cloverleaf at anything more than the posted 25mph? ARE YOU INSANE?!?!?!?" :P

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2. I just read it

and, yes, he should grow up to be another Stig :P
First, he'll need to learn how to drive on both sides of the road ;)

Oh, here's a Japanese car-chase with toy cars and buildings. It's fairly violent (sometimes even too violent for me) but it's so crazy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaHVBov1ajo

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4. OMG that video is insane

The kid's gonna love it. And...violent? pfft--seen some of the driving games lately? He's got one (demo only--we are NOT buying this one) that has timed motorcycle obstacle courses, but if you hit something and crash, the driver gets flung over the handlebars like a rag doll and then the bike and the driver burn up in a fireball. Real nice. :eyes: (But Jr. does know the difference between video games and reality, thank goodness.)

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6. I do not game.

I have no interest in any of the video games out there. The few "games" I play are the various pinball games by Littlewing, Clickomania (usually while I'm waiting for a program/video to load) and Jigsaws Galore. Nothing terribly exiting or requiring a game-controller. This free keyboard still works just fine :P

That video is indeed insane! Someone posted it in the Lounge, so I saved it for later viewings. It may also be part of a series, so you might look through the related videos, too. I'm going to watch some more Thunderbirds episodes now :D

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8. Sighhhh we immediately had to watch them ALL

MG Jr. enjoyed them immensely--so thanks for the link! :hi:

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9. You're welcome!

:hi:

I have only watched the one, but might look at the others, too.

Have you ever shown him any of the Thunderbirds episodes? There are plenty of big machines getting smashed ;)

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11. I haven't thought about Thunderbirds in years!

:hi:

Mr. MG just introduced Jr. to The Pink Panther (the shorts). He really loves how goofy they are, plus he's never seen "good old-fashioned cartoon violence" like the stuff we grew up on--at first he was a little shocked, but then he took to it like a duck to water and laughed like a maniac when Clouseau's gun blew up in his face, etc. Greaaaat.
:rofl:

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12. What I remember the most about those movies are

his ridiculous costumes/make-up
an accent even the French can't understand
his over-the-top fights with his houseboy, Kato :rofl:

Too bad he's too young (maybe) to understand the humor of Dr. Strangelove and see how much of a master Sellers was in all of his roles :D

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13. I loved the Peter Sellers movies

but right now the kid is just watching the toons. All in good time, all in good time--both for the live-action PP movies and for Dr. Strangelove! My kid is going to have a proper pop culture eddication, ayup!

The other day he mentioned something about a catapult and a cow--of course he, of all younguns, is going to tap into these things without having seen them already, right?--so I promptly YouTubed-up the scene in the Holy Grail with the French "kunnnnniggits" and "Fechez la vache!" I lament that a 6YO is too young to watch the whole movie, but I suppose I can wait. :evilgrin: (Oh--and he did enjoy that scene immensely.)