I think he broke the message board

Funny reply on a msg. board thread. I've blanked out the nicknames in order to protect the identities of the unwitting participants.



There were only three replies. Dunno what happened to the other 4 billion and some.

CommutePrice.com

Go to CommutePrice.com, input your origin and destination, the miles per gallon your vehicle gets and the price per gallon, and the website will calculate your one way, roundtrip, weekly and monthly commute costs.

This website would be better if one could input the type of vehicle and get the depreciation costs figured in too. (and also have an input for yearly insurance) As it is, it's nothing more than the equivalent of a calculator in the glove box that most people would ordinarily use to figure out their commuting costs.

I'm A Little Donkey

Or "taco de harina"

You Are a Burrito

You're not a picky person. You're able to go with the flow and really enjoy life. You have a taste for the exotic, and you're quite adventurous. You're willing to try almost anything. You're very low maintenance. You don't mind getting a bit messy if it means having fun. You aren't superficial or easily impressed. Someone has to be the real deal if they're going to impress you.

What Kind of Fast Food Are You?

Jax Beer Adverts

I remember these and how much my folks enjoyed watching them. I don't recall my dad ever drinking Jax beer; it was probably too expensive for him to drink on a regular basis, anyway. I do remember him buying Berghoff or Schlitz at .99 cents/six pack.

I also remember the summer my dad decided he could save money by brewing his own beer. We kids would walk along the ditches by the road to pick up cast off beer bottles. Pop would bring them home, sterilize them and fill them up with his home brew. I liked my job: capping the bottles with a drill-press type contraption.

He had some success with it, I suppose, because we have some home movies with him drinking his concoction, the foam spewing from the bottle after opening. His failures are also in my memory...him storing his beer in our cellar and being woke up in the middle of the night by bottles exploding from the pressure, sounding just like a muffled gunshot.

Ask Jeeves is Back!

In the UK, but not here.



Ask Jeeves was the first search engine I ever used. It was before I had my own computer and was using the ones at the local library. I hadn't a clue as how to find anything, so I typed my query into the address bar and was directed to the AskJeeves website.

It didn't take me long to discover that the answers weren't what I really wanted and to find out that there were much better search engines. Still, I remember Jeeves with fondness because he was my "first".

As for the question posed in the above screenshot: No, there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Google "TANSTAAFL" if you don't believe me.

Too bad our Congress and President haven't Googled it.

I Don't Mind Fortunes Like These

Even when they're so wrong.



Heck, I have trouble unlocking my door.