And in the rare horrific crash, the seat will not remain attached to the floor anyway.

I agree. But nobody cares. You must be as old as I am.

Cool. But the goals are almost beside the point. This action makes people associate goals that I agree with, with being an asshole.

Exactly. This is a 60s thing, not a 70s thing.

“Five minutes, Turkish.”

From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.

Sorry – it is a reference to Monty Python, where a father is trying to get his son to marry.

Edit: as one of your honorary fathers, I advise you to go watch the movie, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”

NaoPb! You must marry this girl! She has huge … tracts of land!

And no singing!

I had been planning to watch – from the comfort of my toasty warm living room – just to see the snowy spectacle.

I wonder how much money it takes to rebuild a blown engine in a new BMW 3-Series nowadays?

Edit: so I went and had a brief look in Google. It looks like they run between $6000 and $12000 depending on how powerful the engine is. So for a base model it would indeed be somewhat cheaper.