Does Your Dog Look Like Your Car?
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Guy B. Meredith
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ArfinGreebly,
Fun thread. Good to be silly once in a while.
Firstly, those automatic transmissions are NOT smarter than you. That is why they don't know when it is really time to shift. I had to drive an automatic for a few years and I HATED it . Dumbest thing on earth. Liked the car, though--1993 Saturn SC1.
Now, because we acquired an Australian Shepherd, I have a manual shift car--Toyota Matrix--that is equally stupid. GD headlights control themselves so I can't sneak up on miscreants in the neighborhood or be courteous when parking outside place with big windows or using the neighbor's driveway to turn around. And the GD thing relocks itself if I don't open a door within X seconds after using the remote to open it. :banghead:
The dog and car don't match. Aussies are smart and the car is demented.
My preference is for small cars (with sufficient gun toting space, however) with manual transmissions. My firearms preference is for revolvers with some leeway on my anti auto bias for a couple of M1 Garands with a Mossberg Persuader to keep them company. My preference for dogs is one that doesn't want to be in my face all the time.
Well, the guns are right, my wife has made noises about me getting a little fun car and the dog might grow up some day...
Fun thread. Good to be silly once in a while.
Firstly, those automatic transmissions are NOT smarter than you. That is why they don't know when it is really time to shift. I had to drive an automatic for a few years and I HATED it . Dumbest thing on earth. Liked the car, though--1993 Saturn SC1.
Now, because we acquired an Australian Shepherd, I have a manual shift car--Toyota Matrix--that is equally stupid. GD headlights control themselves so I can't sneak up on miscreants in the neighborhood or be courteous when parking outside place with big windows or using the neighbor's driveway to turn around. And the GD thing relocks itself if I don't open a door within X seconds after using the remote to open it. :banghead:
The dog and car don't match. Aussies are smart and the car is demented.
My preference is for small cars (with sufficient gun toting space, however) with manual transmissions. My firearms preference is for revolvers with some leeway on my anti auto bias for a couple of M1 Garands with a Mossberg Persuader to keep them company. My preference for dogs is one that doesn't want to be in my face all the time.
Well, the guns are right, my wife has made noises about me getting a little fun car and the dog might grow up some day...
Dog: none (unless my parents' beagle counts as an adopted brother)
Vehicle: '99 F-150, one surprisingly large dent in the side where I backed into it at 5mph moving a Durango (five-foot tall girls who don't want you adjusting their mirrors...). Hard to beat a pickup for value, but I wouldn't cry if you handed me the keys to a Mini Cooper, Volkswagen GTI or BMW.
Guns: don't like 'em flashy or fancy. CZs and 1911s, revolvers of all kinds, an AR-15 and a semi-auto Thompson, and I can't help but love cowboy guns.
then there's a slight cultural detour from the Texas/guns/pickup stereotypes: listen to older punk rock and newer hip-hop (and country and gospel and everything else, but mostly the first two), lean well to the political left of most everyone you know or I know, rock a fairly scraggly beard (fashion sense: Homeless Charles Manson), have switched majors back and forth between fine art and literature numerous times over the years; subscribe to the New Yorker, Harper's Weekly, Esquire, ArtForum and ReadyMade (and read too many others).
Actually, sometimes I think I took up shooting just so I'd have a half-dozen more magazines to read each month.
I may or may not be a little drunk (on Crown and water) typing this.
Vehicle: '99 F-150, one surprisingly large dent in the side where I backed into it at 5mph moving a Durango (five-foot tall girls who don't want you adjusting their mirrors...). Hard to beat a pickup for value, but I wouldn't cry if you handed me the keys to a Mini Cooper, Volkswagen GTI or BMW.
Guns: don't like 'em flashy or fancy. CZs and 1911s, revolvers of all kinds, an AR-15 and a semi-auto Thompson, and I can't help but love cowboy guns.
then there's a slight cultural detour from the Texas/guns/pickup stereotypes: listen to older punk rock and newer hip-hop (and country and gospel and everything else, but mostly the first two), lean well to the political left of most everyone you know or I know, rock a fairly scraggly beard (fashion sense: Homeless Charles Manson), have switched majors back and forth between fine art and literature numerous times over the years; subscribe to the New Yorker, Harper's Weekly, Esquire, ArtForum and ReadyMade (and read too many others).
Actually, sometimes I think I took up shooting just so I'd have a half-dozen more magazines to read each month.
I may or may not be a little drunk (on Crown and water) typing this.
Bullet Bob
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I don't know if they match or not. Here's my car, an Acura TL:
And here's my dog, Abby, a Golden Retriever:
Maybe my wife's 7 month old German Shepherd is a better fit (he's about 4 months old here):
And here's my dog, Abby, a Golden Retriever:
Maybe my wife's 7 month old German Shepherd is a better fit (he's about 4 months old here):
Guns: Springfield XD.45 Tac. Early 30s 1911 with custom grips. Late '44 production M1 Garand.
Cars: 98 Plymouth minivan, 182,000miles. 89 Dodge Daytona, race only.
Pets: Two cats that could probably take down most Dobs and Rots. Seriously, they are the uber-mean to dogs. Oh, and I've got fish too.
Cars: 98 Plymouth minivan, 182,000miles. 89 Dodge Daytona, race only.
Pets: Two cats that could probably take down most Dobs and Rots. Seriously, they are the uber-mean to dogs. Oh, and I've got fish too.
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