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>>>>>>>To me the funniest thing about the story, if you want to call it funny, was that Novak -- age 77 -- was driving a black Corvette convertible.
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>>Midlife crisis car for somebody with really good genes <s>
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>Heck, I'm midlife aged and already know I'm too old for a Corvette ;-) I had two of them when I started making serious money in my late 20s and think that was the ideal age to be a Corvette driver. I see fat middle-aged guys driving them all the time and it's a joke. And 77 is a little past middle age.
I decided to act out early so I wouldn't make a fool of myself later. Not sure if I was successful at the latter but I certainly worked hard at the former. My auto-erotica was a 1959 Jaguar X150. ( there was an MGA - my first car - and a Jag Mark VII as well, but the XK150 was The Fantasy.) In reality, of course, it handled like a Zamboni, spent more time in the shop than on the road and saved me from investing in real estate in San Franscisco in the 70s. But women liked it, and I liked women so I guess it did what I asked it to do.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
