She Served Me Well
Alas, my beloved 93 Nissan pickup has reached the end of her road. After 107,000 miles, she needs a new exhaust system, new tires, new timing belt and a whole lot of new steel underneath to patch the rotting frame. Fuel tank is leaking, she has a strong odor of gas and is clearly burning oil. Oh, and she's supplying the cab with a steady stream of fresh carbon monoxide, so the windows are always down.
Estimated repairs far outstrip her Blue Book value, so it's time to put her out to pasture.
Having a pickup has been convenient, but I'd also consider an SUV. Maybe one of those new fangled hybrids. One thing I definitely don't want to do without is 4-wheel drive.
If there's one bright spot in this, I suppose that with the economy in the meepter, there are a lot of good deals out there.
Anyone have any recommendations or good experience with a particular make/model?
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BeachGoat
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fastlane fosters a pen-pal/lover relationship with a terrorist who blew up herself just yesterday - unlucky
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fastlane tries out his first gloryhole - blown by disease ridden mule that likes to snap carrots in half - very unlucky
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on MIT's Freaky Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing: I mean after all+
graycube
on MIT's Freaky Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing: Why are they wearing+
fastlane
And how could I forget Pepper as she attempts to scare a wild animal. Honey badger doesn't give a meep.~ unlucky
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Sunny goes to baby a shower. Drowns.~ unlucky
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Dragonstaff wears a buIIetproof vest. Shot in the face. ~ unlucky
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BigD meeps the meep out of a girl. Literally.~ unlucky
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BeachGoat bends over to pick up hot girI's dropped books. meeps. ~ unlucky
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M_A_M means to write "kk" to black friend on Facebook chat. Adds extra k. ~ unlucky
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MstrLance finally goes to summer camp. Auschwitz. ~ Unlucky
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Spanky goes to snort a line of coke. Sneezes. ~ unlucky
fastlane
Post watermelon head post haste.
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Spanky volunteers to help inner city kids, shot in drive by. ~ unlucky
BeachGoat
Happy Day to Ya, Long May Ye Wave It
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ShbuhpRlo&feature=youtu.be
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on Spanky's Pic Place: I SWEAR I was+
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Happy Birthday, Spanky! You're in your prime for the 13th time.
MstrLance
I bet it's well manicured.
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Try to picture Joan River's meep during the exam. It'll save some embarassment.
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spanky... You Goshdarn two-faced Gemini!
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Don't kid yourself, you'll cry yourself to sleep after the next physical. Happy birthday you middle aged meepgot.
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Happy birthday. Post pic for photoshopping.
sunny77
today on linkswarm, spanky unsuccessfully attempts to change the subject
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Or: Nine years before getting the pickle jar treatment.
spankerchi+
Change of topic; I'm 41 today.
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Ummm...
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The doc went at me like he was trying to get the last pickle out of the jar.
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Pepper
Home Sweet meeping Home! Ahhhh...
nurglets
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BeachGoat
Tell the GrandMonkey, "He's Dancing with the Tree!"
BeachGoat
There is a 400lb Senegalese Tortoise down the street who has a tree stump for a girlfriend.
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My pet Gerbil is dry meep a mound of cedar bedding? What gives?
BigDinWaun+
One of those old Republican Women's Cookbooks or French Gastronomy in Africa?
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I'm trying to fashion a rattle and pacifier out of chicken gibblets... does anyone have any references for this... one of those old Republican Women
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BeachGoat
"It's a Boy!"
BeachGoat
http://upload.linkswarm.com/i/beachgoat/pullingporkLSg.jpg
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Let the baby roast rest for an hour, then have your guests help pull the meat. Everyone will have fond memories of the event to cherish FOREVER!
spankerchi+
Just remember to give yourself plenty of time for cooking (a field-dressed baby can weigh upwards of 30 lbs and take a FULL DAY to cook!)
spankerchi+
I prefer free range, breast fed toddler as there's more dense muscle mass.
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Do you keep them penned up like veal and infuse them with formula or mother's milk? I hear formula fed babies have a medicinal taste. I don't want that for the party.... I would be a terrible host.
spankerchi+
No need to leave the skin on. A toddler's got a lot of good marbling.
spankerchi+
I'd go dry rub and smoke it like a picnic meep.
BeachGoat
HOME!...That is all
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Can anyone recommend a Masala that flavors flesh?
sunny77
however much is in a can of coconut cream
pete56
MstrLance
Trans-fat or poly-unsaturated?
BigDinWaun+
How many fat calories in a small, American toddler?
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MstrLance
MIT's new coating should help with that.
graycube
hoyaguru
clipswarmed MstrLance's Dogs Shot by Police
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on Michael McKean (somewhat famous Linkswarmer) found naked in tragic meep car accident: Well, even with a+
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on Michael McKean (somewhat famous Linkswarmer) found naked in tragic meep car accident: He could just be+
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Ahh. One of those.
dragonstaf+
Not to my knowledge. Details please.
spankerchi+
That's when you take a really greasy meep and before the meep hits the water it grabs onto your meep hair and swings from tuft to tuft around your a##hole.
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on Michael McKean (somewhat famous Linkswarmer) found naked in tragic meep car accident: The real question is+
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Speaking of hair removal products; Have you ever taken a Tarzan Sh#t?
spankerchi+
Ugh...too much barbecue pork.
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KIA SPORTAGE, meep YEAH
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I used to drive a Chevy Blazer, loved it. I drive a pickup now, and love it more due to being able to haul meep on a regular basis. Add an extended cab and it's HOORAY!!
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The name sounds all Hoo-rah and meep, but my Jeep Patriot seems to be doing well. It is ten months old and has done 28,500 miles and gets around 37 mpg in American. I have the diesel engine with the 6-speed manual.
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Nissan XTerra FTW!
That meep comes with a first aid kit so you can bandage yourself up when you are 4-wheeling so hard it rocks your meep face right off.
Seriously though, I nubs my XTerra.
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Seriously though, I would break it down like this:
Land Cruiser - Basically THE 4x4, it will cost you more upfront but you will save on maintenance costs later.
Toyota FJ Cruiser - Looks goofy as meep and had a really meepty release that made Toyota look stupid. The japs responded to this by fixing all their problems within the first model year and adding improvements, that meep is a monster now (still have meepty blindspot visibility).
Toyota Tundra (or a Hilux if you can find it) - meeping unstoppable machine, Hilux is the toughest truck ever built. REMEMBER THIS?
KIA SPORTAGE (I love my kittygrowl) Seriously meep YAH Tough truck competition
http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=3942788,t=1,mt=video,searchID=,primarycolor=,secondarycolor= CHESTBUMP!
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Been an Explorer owner since '91. Apart from never seeing above 16MPG, they are a solid, well built car. I have owned four of them (91, 93, 96, and 03), and quite honestly, they have been solid and cheap to maintain, but expensive to fuel. Consistent problem is rusting at the bottom of the rear passenger's door frame, where water runoff must pool or hang out. Mostly cosmetic, as its not frame rust, but superficial.
Having owned six other vehicles, the worst by far was a product by Chrysler. Now this is a late 80s model containing their famous turbo (reads meep), but from what I have heard, they are still rolling out meep on wheels (Sebring anyone?)
You should be able to find many, many Explorers at dealers, auto-locater, vending machines at this point in time. I would also wait a month or two if you are going new, as things are about to shake loose with the restructuring deals at GM.
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Be a man and get a Smart Car.
meep meep
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brrrrrm brrrrrrrrrm
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Buy American.
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what is that nurg, i want one.