The official E36 OT Thread!!

Originally Posted by FenderBender

Chad, how do you mess up eggs? lol

Originally Posted by hornhospital

^This X10 to the nth

How the crap do you mess up cooking eggs? Even with too much heat you should've been able to do a decent job of it. You need more kitchen time, son.

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Originally Posted by E36 Phantom

Let me preface this by saying I've ruined pre-made cookie dough that just requires heating the oven and popping it in.

Originally Posted by drivinfaster

he walked into the kitchen??

That's actually pretty accurate.



I HATE cooking. I really do.

See, I enjoy eating, and having to do work to get to the end point of enjoying good food takes all the enjoyment out of the meal.

Also, we never ate at home growing up. Parents were too busy to deal with groceries, making food, and then cleaning up so we almost exclusively ate at restaurants. Never really had much training in the way of cooking.

Now, I do hover in the kitchen and taste test and direct the flavoring. Drives Brittany nuts.

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Originally Posted by drivinfaster

i enjoy eggs as well.

and pasta...
and cheerios...
and pizza...
and jello...
and mussels...
and porkchops...
and...


well, y'all get the idea...



df

Can't help but notice the decided lack of tacos on this list mister.

Originally Posted by jonesin

Can't help but notice the decided lack of tacos on this list mister.

well,...uh,...se, it was like this...i...uh,...sorta, kinda......dagnabit ed!! whydoyagottadothistome!!??


























cause i eated them allzup??

df

Originally Posted by jonesin

Can't help but notice the decided lack of tacos on this list mister.

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Sorry for the crappy cell phone pics..it was getting dark. Not a scratch on it. Was a trade in from a local doctor. First owner had it for 9 months and put 9k miles on it...the 2nd owner, a doctor, had it for 5 years and averaged a little over 1k miles a year. Had services on time and an oil change every year. Fully loaded with cold weather, HK stereo, navigation, parking sensors, everything.

I got it for dealer retail ($31.9k) so not a great deal, but my financing is at a ridiculously good rate (65 months @ 1.99%). Have to wait for the banks to open Tuesday and for the plates to be transferred from the wagon...so I will likely pick up it next weekend.

First mod is swapping out the ZCP wheel for the standard M wheel (to get my radio buttons and cruise control back), maybe a clear bra, Crown rustproofing, then find some winter wheels for it!!!

I can't believe I pulled the trigger on it (zcp brakes and rotors are gawdawful expensive)...but with the mileage, I couldn't pass it up. Nothing like spending $30k in 30 minutes

Wtf Jen, wow!

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and chad, i getcha...i like to cook simply because i never went out much as a kid except to places that would pile on the servings regardless of what it tasted like. of course when you are a kid going to eat at a restaurant, *any* restaurant, is pretty much a treat.

but i cooked very little when i was in my late teens to early 20's. now i like to try different things just because.

of course mrs df always askes 'how can you eat *that*???!!!

i reply 'simple. my elbow bends and my mouth opens...'




in non-food related topix, i am seriously thinking about getting an e38. found one for cheeps, and, would eventually become a candidate for a manual swap. would like to do a 6 speed. that would be awesome!! but it'll give me time to get cadence put together properly without leaving me without a daily, and i sorta miss my e32...

i can live without a v12 (for now...) and would like to see what the m60 is all about.

what say ye one and all??




df

Originally Posted by FenderBender

Wtf Jen, wow!

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Is that a good thing????

Originally Posted by TechieTechie

Signed sealed and delivered....I'm yours!

Sorry for the crappy cell phone pics..it was getting dark. Not a scratch on it. Was a trade in from a local doctor. First owner had it for 9 months and put 9k miles on it...the 2nd owner, a doctor, had it for 5 years and averaged a little over 1k miles a year. Had services on time and an oil change every year. Fully loaded with cold weather, HK stereo, navigation, parking sensors, everything.

I got it for dealer retail ($31.9k) so not a great deal, but my financing is at a ridiculously good rate (65 months @ 1.99%). Have to wait for the banks to open Tuesday and for the plates to be transferred from the wagon...so I will likely pick up it next weekend.

First mod is swapping out the ZCP wheel for the standard M wheel (to get my radio buttons and cruise control back), maybe a clear bra, Crown rustproofing, then find some winter wheels for it!!!

I can't believe I pulled the trigger on it (zcp brakes and rotors are gawdawful expensive)...but with the mileage, I couldn't pass it up. Nothing like spending $30k in 30 minutes

Need someone to drive it home ?



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Originally Posted by TechieTechie

Signed sealed and delivered....I'm yours!

wow!!!

that thar is reeeel purty like. jus b'careful cuz i heerd telt that them thar emm cars is speshul n goh reeel fast-like. don wan nun o' them pohleeese gittin a'holt uh yer scorn't 17 yeer old drivin habitz now... (insert redneck smiley here...)



congrats jen!!!





df

Congrats Jen!!! That's quite fantastic!

Originally Posted by drivinfaster

wow!!!

that thar is reeeel purty like. jus b'careful cuz i heerd telt that them thar emm cars is speshul n goh reeel fast-like. don wan nun o' them pohleeese gittin a'holt uh yer scorn't 17 yeer old drivin habitz now... (insert redneck smiley here...)



congrats jen!!!





df

Yay Jen! You officially just reached heroine status.

Originally Posted by TechieTechie

Signed sealed and delivered....I'm yours!

Congrats Jen! That's one heck of a fun car. Should give you endless smiles behind the wheel.

Originally Posted by TechieTechie

Is that a good thing????

Yes! ! !

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Holy moly, Jen!


By the way, that cost more than my house....32 years ago.

Way to go Jen!

Thanks everyone for listening to me whine about car searching over this past year....and for the well wishes. This one is a keeper :-)

Maybe the accident was the car gods telling me to listen to my gut and get rid of the snowmobile and move onto something more fun.

But what the heck to I call this one? The CookieMonsterMobile is too long

Debtmobile?

Lmfao James.

Jen, that is insanely awesome. Gorgeous.

And, FWIW, CookieMonsterMobile is perfect.

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Fast machine

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Imagine, if you can, just being out of high school with your whole life ahead of you when you are called to a strange land you have never seen to fight an evil you do not know. There is no choice, you have to go.
The fighting is constant, the casualties are terrible. Old friends and new ones are dying all around you, hundreds and even thousands in a day. You're terrified and faced with death every waking moment. You're not sure why you have to keep fighting, but in the same moment you know that everything that is right depends on you fighting a strange and unknown enemy, and winning.

And so you fight, thousands of miles from everything you know. You fight and fight. You kill men. You wonder if you are right, if you are justified. You wonder if it will ever end, if life will ever be normal again. You wonder if you will ever get home and see familiar faces, familiar places, ever again. You wonder if you will ever lead a life where success is not measured by the death you inflict.

You fight and you fight, day in and day out. You see men die, young men, men just like you, with families at home, an ocean and a lifetime away. You kill men, young men, men just like you, with families at home. You know it is circumstance and dumb luck that kills them and not you.

When you get home people will call you a hero, but that's not what you feel like. You feel like a young man scared and wanting to go home, wanting to see your Mom, your Dad, your girlfriend, anyone but the enemy who is trying to kill you in this nameless place. People will try to relive this hell for ever, when all you want to do is forget. People will celebrate your actions, but what you are doing makes you sick.
You fight through mud, through cold, through unspeakable horror, until the fighting ends, until the killing stops. The enemy has been defeated; you have won. You don't feel like a winner, you just feel exhausted, relieved, sad, sick, and a million other things that people who weren't there wouldn't understand.

In your victory is loss. Loss of friends, comrades, young men who should have lived, sons and husbands and fathers who will be missed until the dying moments of their loved ones. There really is no victor, for the ones you have killed in your victory really aren't much different from the ones you mourn. Their parents and children and lovers will miss them just the same. They were just following orders, just doing their job.
There is war today. There always has been; there always will be. We are the lucky ones. The wars of our time do not begin to rival the horror WWI and WWII. Generations of families, even entire communities, were erased fighting for the freedoms we take for granted. The freedom we enjoy is the labour of those before us.

On this solemn day, be thankful for those who fought for our privileges, and respect those who choose to fight today to allow this privilege to those in far away lands who are oppressed. Whatever your beliefs or political leanings, today is a day to respect those who do and who did offer their lives to protect our way of life. Whether you agree or don't with the politics of current of past wars, today is the day to appreciate those who fought and those who fight, who set aside their personal beliefs and take orders, those who risk, risked, and gave up their lives in support of the nation we call home. Today is not a day for politics, it is a day for remembrance.

Freedom is not free. Do not forget those who paid for our freedom, and be thankful we do not live in an age where our own freedom is something that must be won by force. Enjoy your Sunday, for you will not spend it overseas dodging bullets. Whatever you do today will be better than that.

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Just another rainy rallycross morning

Thank you Ed, Carlos, and whomever else of our OT gang (speak up!) has served for their countries. Most countries don't have the opportunity to have 100 million people vote in a hard fought election without fighting or fear of retaliation. Freedom is not free....something we take for granted more often than not.

And Ed..thank you for sharing that very moving piece....

Damn Jen, congratulations!

Originally Posted by SlimKlim

Damn Jen, congratulations!

Thanks...think I found the one car that might have topped Patrick's car