FB: Liberty League

[JT]

Tommorrow JT flies to San Juan to start 7 days of cruising.  Sun, Fun, Gambling, Drinking, Cigar Bar.  JT is in a good mood.  Here's a few jokes:

One day, a man came home and was greeted by his wife dressed in a very
sexy nightie. "Tie me up," she purred, "and you can do anything you
want."

So he tied her up and went golfing.

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A Polish immigrant went to the DMV to apply for a driver's license.

First, of course, he had to take an eye sight test.

The optician showed him a card with the letters:
'C Z W I X N O S T A C Z.' "Can you read this?" the optician asked.

"Read it?" the Polish guy replied, "I know the guy."


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Mother Superior called all the nuns together and said to them, "I must
tell you all something. We have a case of gonorrhea in the convent."

"Thank God," said an elderly nun at the back. "I'm so tired of
chardonnay."

[Senor RedTackle]

Someone please shoot RT......

[Apple Jack]

Someone please shoot RT......

care to elaborate?

[Senor RedTackle]

Someone please shoot RT......

care to elaborate?

RT is DEEP in his fortress of solitude, reflecting on recent events. Will update later

[AUPepBand]

With gas at $2.65 in Iowa KR assumes it's buttloads more expensive on the east coast.

$2.84 here

$2.49 in Jersey City

$2.85 here in Boston....U89 may need to drive down to Jersey City to fill up.

LD11 isn't quite sure as he hasn't paid for gas in 2 years, but he believes gas is in the $2.80 range around here.  Suckas.

It's $2.85 here in the Southern Tier of New  York. blech

Grad drove by gas station this am to find price of regular gas now at $3.09 to $3.11.  Premium is now $3.31.  Is $4 per gallon in the near future?  This is unbelievable!!

Normally, I wait 'til the weekend to fill up because our two gas stations here in Mayberry have a gas sale every weekend, dropping the reg. UL price by 6 cents. But this morning, with the gauge on E, I said, "What the heck, at $2.97/gal. today after paying $2.79 or so last week, it may be $3.11 on Saturday....ON SALE!"

And I remember the days when I could fill my tank in Morrisville for $7 or $8 for the Friday afternoon trip back to Alfred for a Saxon football weekend.

[Knightstalker]

A young lady from a good family found out that she was pregnant.  She didn't want the baby but being a good Catholic she decided to give birth.  She talked to her doctor and told him to take the baby when it was born.  The doctor said he couldn't do that.  She begged and pleaded with the doctor and finally he said he had a solution.  He told her that when she delivered the baby he would give it to a woman who was in the hospital to have their appendix removed and just tell them that they had been pregnant and didn't know it.  The day came and the baby was born but there were no women in the hospital for their appendix, the only patient was a priest.  The doctor gave the baby to the priest and told him that it wasn't his appendix it was a baby.  The priest took the little boy home and raised him.  One day the boy asked the priest about his family and who his mother was.  The priest said you must have been a immaculate conception, I am your mother and the bishop is your father.

[Kilted Rat]

Here's what Gro thinks about the Gas price debate:

['gro]

+K to Kiltedrat for that post and pic, brilliant!![/size]

[diehardfan]

Ditto on the k+ for kiltedsrat... major kudos. Now ignoring the message of the picture....

Here's what DHF thinks of the gas price debate:


Hybrid Cars = less gas used.


Biodiesel, Ethanol


Law of supply and demand folks.

[JT]

JT think oil shale will be the ticket.  Successful extraction of said oil would make the US the largest oil producer in the world.

[Kilted Rat]

Thanks Gro and DHF right back at ya.


As far as Hybrids, KR has a couple of problems:

1. They're ugly as hell... at least the Prius. The Prius reminds KR of Gremlins. KR almost got run over in a mall parking lot by a fat chick in a Gremlin, and they still scare the sh*t out of KR.



2. Way too many people are buying them simply to make the following statement, "I'm the world's largest flaming liberal and I'm proud of it." If you want to announce you're a flaming liberal get a WELLSTONE/ Hillary bumper sticker (depending on if you're from MN or NY) like everyone else does and get on with life.

3.  KR was very very very bored during a psychology lecture the other day and made some calculations (you RPI math nerds should be proud)
A person who buys a new Prius Hybrid over similar car spends roughly $7k-8k more for their Prius. Assuming this person gets 60 MPG (definite overestimate) and the other car gets 30 and assuming this person drives 15k miles a year at $3.00 a gallon, it would take 10-11 years to make up the cost differential. What are the odds that someone buying a new car today is going to still have that car with 150k miles on it in 10 years? Slimmer than my odds of being reincarnated as a Victoria Secret 34DD bra.

4.  The name Prius just sounds weird... kinda like Tom Cruise's new alien baby's name Suri which means pickpocket in Japanese.

5.  KR's aunt has a Prius and that uncle drives a Hybrid Toyota SUV. The SUV gets 25 MPG and KR's uncle is thrilled by this fact.  KR's car gets 30, don't get a Hybrid SUV if you wanna make a statement/save gas, buy a damn car.

6.  How many mechanics out there do you think honestly have a GD clue how to fix a hybrid car? About as many mechanics as there are that can do a full oil change through your muffler. This means all repairs are gonna have to be done at a dealership which is fine until the warranty runs out, then its $1000 to get a tune-up and $50 for an oil change.

7.  Every person KR has ever seen driving a hybrid (aunt and uncle included) has the stupidest damn look on their face like they're trying to figure out where the man talking to them on the radio is hiding in their car.

8.  KR was cut off by a prius on the highway the other day, you know the maneuvre where you have to slam on your breaks to avoid plowing over a car going 32 MPH on the highway who decided to switch lanes 2.5 inches in front of you? Yeah it was a lot like that.

9.  KR can't afford a new car let alone any car right now and prays every night the 140k Dented dream makes it through 2 more years of school.

10.  Yes, I know there are tax breaks for buying hybrids, but there are also tax breaks for housing homeless people and I don't have the space, time, money, or desire to do either this year.


That being said, anything we can do to limit how much we have to care about middle east politics is awesome. That dry arid hornet's nest has nothing to offer the world aside from oil. As my old buddy TDT quoted to me from the movie Syriana

"a hundred years ago you were living out here in tents in the desert chopping each others heads off, and that's exactly where you're gonna be in another hundred"

No need to get into politics, but there are a lot more people in the middle east who wanna blow up America than there are in Canada, the sooner we can stop dumping money in there the better.


And with that final post on the LLPP board, KR is now checking deep into the reflection room for 36 days of intense board studying. Drop a rat a PM if you're bored/want useless medical info from an unqualified unprofessional/ feel like encouraging a worn down med student.

[diehardfan]

And with that final post on the LLPP board, KR is now checking deep into the reflection room for 36 days of intense board studying. Drop a rat a PM if you're bored/want useless medical info from an unqualified unprofessional/ feel like encouraging a worn down med student.

Awww, someone needs a hug. 

[Pat Coleman]

JT think oil shale will be the ticket.  Successful extraction of said oil would make the US the largest oil producer in the world.

I have heard this stuff is expensive to extract. But good news is that demand for gas was down .3% year-over-year, whereas usually it goes up about 1.5%.

[Pat Coleman]

3.  KR was very very very bored during a psychology lecture the other day and made some calculations (you RPI math nerds should be proud)
A person who buys a new Prius Hybrid over similar car spends roughly $7k-8k more for their Prius. Assuming this person gets 60 MPG (definite overestimate) and the other car gets 30 and assuming this person drives 15k miles a year at $3.00 a gallon, it would take 10-11 years to make up the cost differential. What are the odds that someone buying a new car today is going to still have that car with 150k miles on it in 10 years?

If your purchase is solely about saving money, then yes, it's not always going to make sense. However, I'm pretty sure there are other benefits (reduced demand for gasoline lowers the sale price, etc.).

[johnnyadmit]

I have heard this stuff is expensive to extract. But good news is that demand for gas was down .3% year-over-year, whereas usually it goes up about 1.5%.

So where does the law of supply and demand come into play?  Unless the world oil supply has decreased by more than .3%, you'd think the price wouldn't increase by nearly 50% like it has in the last month or so....