Since you monsters have gone and produced an entirely indecent amount of comments in the previous open thread so as to render us using old and inferior machines and/or software helpless in navigating it.

Being as late to the previous party as I was, I have no idea what you were talking about before, but whatever it was, feel free to continue it here, be it boobs, peppers, boobs, alcohols (in particular ALL.THE.RUM.), boobs, BBD&Q alternatives (why mess with a good thing, I ask?), boobs, economics, boobs, various and assorted foods, what the fuck is wrong with Missouri, boobs, hating Iowa, boobs, and doing mean things to Clemson.

Purwho, have you got any of that Jack left?  This open-thread-making is strenuous

Also, the word count seems to have increased.  This is bullshit.  I want to publish this fucking thing.  Balls.  Fuck this stupid thing, it's worse than BARBARA STREISAND!

FUCK CLEMSON!

So I gather we have more than a few gear/motor/petrolheads on EDSBS, from the amount of posts in the Top Gear subthreads and related gifs/jpgs from TG.

So, being as how I've recently been converted to the wonder that is Top Gear and car fandom, I was wondering if you monsters would be interested in having a car discussion thread, where we could talk about/rave over/criticize each other's current wheels.

I'll start us off:  My current car is a 1990 Buick LeSabre, with a 3.8L V6 (no turbo) and somewhere around 165 horsepower and Lord only knows how much torque.  It has no functioning A/C (which is kind of a pain in the ass), one of the windows doesn't roll down and two others don't roll up right, there's loads of rust on the hood and I can actually see the passenger-real wheelwell courtesy of the rust there.

So, what do you all have?  Have at it below, and fuck Clemson!

[ED: Thanks to UMBAI for sharing his observations with us. As a reward, he's bein' frontpag'd.]

This is a just-off-the-top-of-my-head piece, as I just got back from the Vaught.  No stats right now, because I was there mostly to enjoy, not keep track of how many passes people threw.

My overall impression is that we'll be alright.  Between Mackey and Brunetti, we won't be wanting for a decent quarterback, though I was disappointed that I didn't get to see Stoudt for comparison.

Brunetti threw 2 picks, one which was almost returned for a touchdown, but offset that by throwing 2 or 3 TDs (can't remember, my brain's frozen), including a beautiful 90-yard bomb to Korvic Neat after spin move-ing out of a sure sack and another, the first of the game, to Ja-Mes Logan while scrambling.

Unfortunately, he also showed himself to be a bit of a butterfingers, fumbling the snap two or three times.  The fact that it was 50 degrees and probably 10-20 mph constant winds in The Vaught (the coldest place in Mississippi on any given day) might have had something to do with that, at least I hope that's it.

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