April 26, 2011 by Hawk.

Florida… They used to say the state was going to the dogs.
Now it looks like the dogs are coming to us!
On a side note - He drove better than many senior citizens!

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Hawk (If Hawk can drive why can’t dog?)

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April 19, 2011 by Hawk.

I realize sometimes I can be a real ass. Anyone that’s run into me on usenet or web forums can readily attest to that. But seriously, I’ve deleted over a hundred spam comments for hemorrhoid relief in the last couple weeks…

Hawk (abrasive, like sandpaper to the testicles)

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April 11, 2011 by Hawk.

I miss my 1968 Oldsmobile Toronado terribly. It was perhaps the coolest car I’ve ever owned. Over four thousand pounds of Detroit steel with a 380 horse power, four hundreds and fifty five cubic inch engine sitting on top of the drive wheels… Yes, the Toronado line from Oldsmobile (introduced in 1966, the year of my birth) were all front wheel drive. Even riding on bias ply tires (look it up) my ‘Toro was better in snow than any two wheel drive vehicle I’ve ever owned. I once had to find a gas tank for it. I spent over a month calling nearly a hundred salvage yards across the country. Many of them just laughed at me, the bastards. Amazingly I found one in a salvage yard just an hour’s drive from where I lived. I drove the wonderment for a couple years until the brakes went and had it parked outside my apartment on a dead-end street while I saved up the cash to get it repaired. One day a drunk driver going for his second or third DUI hit one of my neighbors on the corner then decided to run from the scene. Getting to the end of our dead-end street and realizing he couldn’t escape that way he put his 1970’s era pickup truck in reverse and managed to back into my Toronado at, the police estimated, thirty or forty miles per hour. Destroyed the bumper, radiator, water pump and broke the transmission. And that was the end of my Toronado. {sniff}

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Hawk (practicality SUCKS!)

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