a jet-powered car

A guy in California, Ron Patrick, has created a jet-powered Volkswagen Beetle that is street-legal.  Apparently there aren’t any rules in California’s book against this.  The police have pulled him over numerous times but found nothing to charge him with.  Technically the car even qualifies as a hybrid since it has two engines.  The jet engine adds 1350 horsepower to his car.  He’s got quite a few pictures, which you should check out.

At the bottom of the page he shows a jet-powered scooter he is making.  I don’t think it’s so good an idea… I could see someone losing control of that pretty easily…

Nonetheless, you have to give this guy credit for pulling off something most of us (guys) would like to do…  I imagine most of us (guys) have watched Batman and dreamed of how cool it would be to have a jet-powered car.

disposable cars

This happened recently, and it’s definitely something random, which you don’t hear too often…

BELGRADE (Reuters) – A Serb man set his car on fire when he heard how much he had to pay to reclaim it after it was towed away for illegal parking.

An attendant told the daily Press the man was very calm.

“He went to his car, took a few things then opened the hood and set the engine on fire. When it was well ablaze he got back on his bike and rode off.”

I’m supposing his car wasn’t worth very much…  Or maybe it was some newly-invented disposable car…  I’ve played with those in video games, and I must admit it can be fun to drive your car off a cliff, bailing out at the last second.  Of course, this concept only works well in video games when you have unlimited money and can just go get another one… but at least we’ve got video games to do such things in, since real life doesn’t afford us those opportunities.  (Is that my point?  Have I finally arrived at a point for this post?  Have you been waiting?  Do you even care?  Is anyone still reading?  For those who have stood with me during the boring and irrelevant parts of this post, I will offer you a valid point : video games are fun!  Now, I know, some of you already know this, and might feel like this post is a waste of time.  But consider this!  Suppose there’s a visitor on our site who doesn’t yet know that video games are fun… just imagine how much fun he’s about to have!  There are many worlds to explore…)

conspiracy theory?

I was just re-reading the post on “a not-so-realistic simulation of the WTC on 9/11

Talk about a conspiracy theory!  That is just too funny.  However I would like to poll the masses that frequent this blog (yes… BOTH of you)

 

What is your favorite conspiracy theory?  Don’t have one? Feel free to make one up.

Also what evidence (if any) do you have to support your claims?

random Monday quotes

There’s been several people search for funny Monday quotes (or some combination of those words), so today we’ll provide some random Monday quotes from our resident quotesmith’s collection.

Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.

Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays… ~ secretary, Office Space

Monday is the root of all evil.

I’ve come to the conclusion that Mondays last 50% longer than the other days [each]. ~ Turtle Dundee, 7/25/06

And according to a recent study we conducted, Monday has been voted “Least Popular Day of the Week” 176 years in a row.