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Lefty Mark's avatar

<i>Love will get you like a case of anthrax And that's something I don't want to catch.</i>

At home I'm a tourist.

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Sock it to <i>me?</i>

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The story goes that you could develop film by dipping it in the Genesee River downstream from Kodak in Rochester.

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It was a key element in the solar panels that Jimmy Carter put on the roof of the White House.

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One of my fondest memories of the first Earth Day was participating in a huge demonstration that demanded that the US import more oil.

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And of course this inefficiency was all the fault of the hippie communistic environmentalists, because they held all of the key engineering jobs in Detroit and were therefore able to design the cars that way.

Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

Teach the controversy!!1!

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We had joy we had fun We went streaking in the sun But the people we passed were just looking at our ass

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"<i>reduced fuel efficiency</i> along with the pollution"

Th' fuck?

Good_Gawd_Yall - Unperson's avatar

I, too, had a sort of visceral reaction to that blanket statement. But you've said it better than I did. I said a swear, out loud.

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And were given little trees in paper cups, which promptly died (the trees).

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Good point on you. Negative point on the textbook writers. No new technology is rarely "just right" out of the box. The car I just bought (nothin' special, btw...not a hybrid/electric/diesel gets mileage my old Beetle could only dream about...forget my old Belvedere. I know, I know...I shouldn't be looking for accuracy here.