Some years ago I rented a car while mine was being fixed. It was a bright red four door sedan. I don't remember the make.

When I came out of a local Outback Steakhouse and returned to the car in the parking lot, I found the words "Hot Boy" keyed on the car's trunk.

I guess I should have been flattered. However, I would have preferred not to have coughed up a $100 deductible.

My first car was a 1993 Mitsubishi Galant S. Great car got amazing gas mileage. Went as far as I could with it but eventually at 287,000 miles the repairs it needed to keep it going outweighed the cost of a new car.

The second car I still own. a 1998 Subaru Impreza Outback Sport. It's run like a beauty since the day I got it. The all wheel drive saved myself from accidents several times. Doesn't get as good mileage as my first car but the low maintaince cost and safety make up for it.

Third car we are currently trying to sell is a 1997 Ford Escort ES. Amazing thing about this car is it's 'new car' smell hasn't faded, it's in great shape, low miles, but hard to keep up with the repairs and doesn't handle ice very well. After our son was born we haven't used it so it's just an extra insurance liability we don't need.

I actually don't drink either. Chili's or TGIFridays both sound good. Along those lines maybe an Outback Steakhouse even. (They have good bread.) As far as time goes, Charms and I can both be wherever straight from work by say ~3:30 at the earliest.

Other participants, any thoughts?

*save - because VS has made the papers:
Idaho Falls Post Register
HEADLINE: Kudos in order for local TV station
BYLINE: By NICK DRAPER

It's time to give credit where credit is due: Well done, KIDK Eyewitness News.
The TV station's investigative report about a phantom pooper has become somewhat of an Internet craze. Type in ""phantom pooper"" on Google and you'll see what I mean. Web sites including Moron.com, i-am-bored.com and a host of others picked up KIDK's Oct. 10 broadcast for all
on the Net to behold. In case you don't already know, here's the background, according to Channel 3: A man has been defecating at the pillars of the Lindsay Boulevard underpass.This act, besides being gross, is upsetting patrons and employees at nearby businesses because the smell has been
drifting to their doors.

I went to check out the area Friday morning to see if things have improved.
Upon parking my car at Outback Steakhouse, I did notice a foul smell
in the air. But I was downwind from a cattle trailer, so there's no way I would have noticed anything except those smelly cows.
And the pillars were noticeably cleaner than the ones KIDK displayed numerous times during its broadcast. But I think that's because it rained the whole day Thursday, not because the pooper decided to find another spot.
It's funny, though. It seems like most of the people logging on to the Web sites replaying the story aren't laughing with KIDK's newsteam - they're laughing at them.

Take Videosift.com for instance, which titles the report ""Phantom Pooper - This is News?"" Someone also left a comment below the video questioning which was worse, the story or KIDK for broadcasting it.
Ouch!
What these Internet low lives fail to realize is this type of behavior needs to be exposed, and Channel 3 did just that. It's a good thing the Idaho Falls Police Department isn't taking this phantom pooper lightly, either.
Lt. Joe Cawley didn't know who was specifically assigned to the case,
but did say officers patrolling the area around the Lindsay Boulevard underpass will be on the lookout for anyone dropping trough.
This guy faces a misdemeanor if they catch him in the act.
Even though some on the Net find the phantom pooper story ridiculous, KIDK is still getting a lot of exposure. And that has to count for something, right?
So kudos to KIDK Eyewitness News.
You really did live up to your new slogan: ""Watching Out for You.""
Cops and courts reporter Nick Draper can be reached at 542-6742.

Have you people all taken a giant leap from your senses? All I have done is watch the video that was linked and read the comments here, and it seems to me that you folks are taking even bigger leaps than the report. The video did not say that the police stopped her because they saw putty, nor even that they saw it prior to arresting her. She walked into Logan Airport with a blinking breadboard on her chest. Unless she has been living in the Australian outback for the last 8 years, that sounds like about the stupidest thing one could do. Let me ask you - would you walk into Harlem with a white hood on your head on Halloween pretending to be a ghost so you could "stand out from the crowd"?

I have no idea how she was handled after apprehension, and if she was not basically immediately released upon realization that she was simply stupid, then yeah, the cops went to far. Why are airport security walking around with sub machine guns??? Are you for real? In Logan Airport? Do I think it's right? Of course not, but it's certainly understandable if not legally defensible. And where the hell were sub-machine guns mentioned anyway. Furthermore - a sub-machine gun is essentially nothing more than a pistol that shoots really fast and has a bigger clip. It's not even close to something like an M-16A4, which I have seen carried by several agents in several airports (and scares the living shit out of me).

Back to the playdoh - it was probably used to the tie the electronics down without soldering. I was a computer engineering student for 3 years before switching to neuroscience, and while given the right parts and a big enough board, I could likely work out a 4 stage pipeline, I have never once successfully soldered a circuit together. Soldering if for technicians.

Don't make mountains out of mole hills - this country has enough real injustice to deal with as it is.

Tags changed from "guy pearce, ray winstone, australia" to "australia,outback,western,murder,justice" by gold star member gwaan.

The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, an Australian author. In 1983 it was adapted as a television mini-series that, during its television run became the United States' second highest rating mini-series of all time behind Roots; both series were produced by television veteran David L. Wolper.

The mini-series starred Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown, Mare Winningham, Philip Anglim and Jean Simmons. It was directed by Daryl Duke.

Set primarily on Drogheda, a fictional sheep station in the Australian outback, the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans the years 1908 to 1962.

Song is from the self-titled "Heart" album, 1985

thanks for the "not outback" tag! i heard that stupid ad on the radio a month ago, and it's always bugged me that i couldn't remember where that song came from. now i know.

Victoria Bitter or more commonly known as VB is the only mainstream beer to successfully penetrate across Australia’s culturally entrenched state beer obsession. It can be seen on tap from outback Western Australia, to old Sydney town and the Northern Territory. But perhaps the extent of its success is perhaps best emphasised in Queensland where XXXX once completely ruled the state’s beer drinkers. Nowadays, you would be hard pressed to find a Queensland pub that did not have both XXXX and VB on tap for all to enjoy.

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He was much more popular in the US than Australia (when living).

I think people thought he was putting on the "Outback Aussie" schtick a bit thickly.