In honor of my recently departed pickup, I wanted to share a few of the best Top Gear segments that feature the Toyota Pickup.
This is of course the real Top Gear on BBC, not the crappy American version on History channel.
Of course the best line of the segment was used in the introduction and is not in these videos. Jeremy Clarkson states, “Whenever you turn on the news, what is it that’s bogging down the enormous American military machine? Yeah, doesn’t matter whether it’s Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, wherever. You’ve always got a bunch of guys who rock up in their home clothes with a half-timbered machine gun and look all of them in a flatbed Toyota.”
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While the Large Morning Show in the Afternoon is not as good on Friday afternoons when Frank is out, it is still listenable. I’ve been wondering if the rumors I had read were true. I had read that he was visiting his father in San Diego.
But while browsing the show Facebook page, I saw this:
Good to know the end of the show is not yet within reach.
Ever since my first viewing of Back to the Future, I have wanted a Toyota pickup. The movie comes to a close with Marty McFly openinig up the garage to find a gleaming black Toyota truck.
From then on as a child, when I would draw, I would doodle pickup trucks that all resembled a mid-80′s Toyota Truck. A truck that has disappeared from the truck landscape. Read more…
Wal-Mart corporate lore says that the idea for the greeter was born in Louisana, when none other than Sam Walton himself walked into a store with a shoplifing problem and was welcomed by an “associate” put there by the store manager. His charge? To welcome customers and make sure merchandise was paid for. Eventually, this idea was deemed to be so great that it has been instituted in every other store across the country.
The Wal-Mart greeter was born.
Thirty plus years later and this grand plan has not been re-evaluated. I’d like to suggest it is high time to take a look at whether these greeters are necessary, effective or capable of accomplishing their relatively basic jobs. Read more…
I recently purchased a 2009 Honda Civic. It is my first venture into a non-Toyota vechicle. As with any purchase, as soon as I get my hands on it, I go about fixing all of the small annoyances I have with it.
This car is a blast to drive and doesn’t have too many annoyances that I needed to address. I figured I’d share a couple of them as others out there might also encounter the same issues. Read more…
I have been using Craigslist Ad Tracker [CAT] for some time to keep an eye on items listed on Craigslist.
Recently, I ran into a new limit of 10 items that CAT has put in place. Frustrated, I started searching for a replacement and didn’t find much.
I recalled reading about an open source Google Analytics tool called Piwik. I hadn’t tried it out yet as for most sites Google Analytics is hard to beat. I gave Piwik a try and found that it works pretty well for giving insight into ads on Craigslist.
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In follow up to one of the greatest SNL clips ever, here is Mr. Phelps also strutting his stuff with Will Forte.
Enjoy.
This comes from Season 36 Episode 22 (originally aired on May 21, 2011).
Steeper’s Tea versus Liquorville.
This comes from Season 32 Episode 9 (originally aired on December 16, 2006).
Salvation Army versus Homelessville.
