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It's art if you can get the government to pay for it!

Hey, this is a pretty good list indeed! It's nice that they didn't forget our recently discussed Tomb of Lenin. Also, I am gratified that they included Mao's statue in Red China among the Totalitarian Monuments. Too many people cut Red China slack these day because of all the $ to be made through moving and selling their wares. Esquire has kept things honest by lumping the Chicoms where they belong.

Straight talk from Sid.

Yes, I empathise with him concerning speeding drivers. Nonetheless, if his kiddie lawn ornaments spook a dopey driver into crashing into my car and hurting my family members, I would make him very very sorry.

As a kid in the late 70s, I remember watching imported dubbed Ultraman after school. Yeah it was really cheesey, but it was cool.

Trevor is spot on. Also, what about the inattentive/wasted driver who spots the kid at the last minute and then overreacts, causing an accident that kills a carload of reaal kids. Bloody moron... At least his intentions are in ehe right place I guess. We have a lot of retards around here who think their yards look great with realistic deer sculptures near the road.

Seriously, if I lived near that idiot with the cardboard kids, I would lean on the horn every time I passed his house. Day or night (I even might make a special trip when I'm fighting insomnia) he'd hear a very loud application of my very loud horn. The neighbors would kill him if his wife didn't first.

"Repetitive Strain Injury", huh? What a farce. Good call on his part picking something it is absolutely impossible to prove or disprove. It's a lot like having a perpetual backache, but it's tougher for someone to film you doing something you shouldn't be able to do. But, in the end, I really don't care if he wants to be a stoner. More power to him as long as he doesn't drive or use my tax dollars to obtain his "medicine".

So, he didn't even earn an iPod for his troubles?

I remember that TZ episode! Indeed a good likeness! Keep your eye on this kid... he could be trouble.

Wow, thatnks for posting the bobcat one ... very cool. Wet kitty.

That is actually rather neat. Alas, my wife would not dig it though...

The Ass of Damocles

Yeah, the hand-thing is pretty weird. it would be a good post-amputation game for convicted Arab thieves, though.

Yeah, that's F'D up, alright.

well, resale value doesn't mean too much to a lot of people. Speculators buy cars hoping to make money; ENTHUSIASTS buy cars to DRIVE them. If it was possible to "resume" Delorean production the way Caterham resumed producing the Lotus 7 or the Avanti was produced decades following the death of Studebaker, that would be very cool. It's gonna be tough though for any "DMC2", though:

1. The stainless steel body panels are a *KEY* feature and they will be very tough to reproduce in small volume.
2. Frankly, the performance of the 2.8L Renault engine sucks (and always has). That contributed to the car's less than stellar sales in the early 80s. Do you keep the dog engine because it's historically accurate or move to something better? I personally would go with something better... As Corey notes, this new car is not a real Delorean anyhow. The current Caterham Seven uses a much nicer powertrain than the original Lotus Seven (and they sell!). Keep everything that made the Delorean unique (rear engine, gullwing doors, stainless steel) and adapt the rest where necessary.

Ugh... What a dopey broad. Bloody dingbat.