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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,144
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    Buick created the first car touchscreen all the way back in 1986. The technology was dropped because customers were complaining about taking their eyes off the road, and it wouldn’t been seen again for some time. (source: rarehistoricalphotos.com)

  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,383
    According to the Riviera owners association, they built approximately 150, 1985 Rivieras with the touchscreen. These were largely captured fleet vehicles, but eventually they were sold to the public.
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  • TEAforONE
    TEAforONE Posts: 1,026
    aprazer402 wrote: »
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    Buick created the first car touchscreen all the way back in 1986. The technology was dropped because customers were complaining about taking their eyes off the road, and it wouldn’t been seen again for some time. (source: rarehistoricalphotos.com)

    And touchscreens came back when drivers no longer cared if their eyes weren’t on the road.
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  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 2,385
    Toolfan66 wrote: »
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    LOL...dude, you are twisted....I love it
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 9,987
    Toolfan66 wrote: »
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    Nice! Christmas light underwears!
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 9,987
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Toolfan66 wrote: »
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    Ummm...
    ;)
    B.A. Baracus's flashier brother's ride.
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,262
    I was thinking a modern Cheech n Chong mobile
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,262
    ^^^^^ "statistically speaking, that statement is correct"
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,469
    edited December 2023
    OleBoot wrote: »
    Geoff4rfc wrote: »
    Toolfan66 wrote: »
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    LOL...dude, you are twisted....I love it


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    The nut hole looks worn/stripped out. I mean, that is a big hole...
    Political Correctness'.........defined

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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,144
    ^^^ Tapped a few times.
  • bcwsrt
    bcwsrt Posts: 1,870
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    Brian

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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,262
    bcwsrt wrote: »
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    One of my game cams in March....Mother looking out for her fawn

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  • Viking64 wrote: »
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    Sad! (Now Portland)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,727
    Another Wild freaking Kingdom day in the ol' backyard.

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    Raptor: 1, Prey 0

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  • msg
    msg Posts: 9,987
    Woh. What was the prey?
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,262
    msg wrote: »
    Woh. What was the prey?

    Taste like chicken
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,727
    edited December 2023
    msg wrote: »
    Woh. What was the prey?

    Pigeon.
    In the last photo, you can see its white wings (wingtips). The Cooper's Hawk has it clutched in one talon while kind of hopping on the other leg as it struggles to get airborne. :p It kind of skipped into the underbrush with lunch. I snapped a few photos, but that was the only one that was decent. :|

    Autofocus on an inexpensive DSLR isn't always one's friend. :#

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    Birders (the hip, happenin' type they be) call mourning doves MoDos, so the closely related pigeons are known as RoDos (for rock dove, perhaps the more correct name for the common city pigeon).
    B) The "o" sounds are all long "o"s in those terms. :|

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,727
    edited December 2023
  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,032
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    (ASR)

    ASR? Any Surgery Required?
  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,211
    edited December 2023
    Treasures!

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    Sally Snowman, 72, is the last lighthouse keeper in America and will retire her post at Boston Light on December 30. Snowman was 10 when she first visited Little Brewster Island, home to Boston Light, America's oldest lighthouse, and married there before becoming keeper. Her departure marks the end of a 307-year era of manned lighthouses in the US

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    Boston Light is America's first lighthouse and dates back to 1716.

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    Boston Light's Fresnel lens, a marvelous 4,000-pound brass and glass lens which gives the lighthouse's 1000-watt bulb a 27-mile range

    A wonderful story and more pictures if you are interested:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12806873/Lighthouse-keeper-Sally-Snowman-Boston-Light.html

    Great story,

    The only lighthouse I have been to is Montauk NY, it was a beautiful place, beautiful time of year when we went..

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