Well, the teacher did have a lot of great stories about growing up in one of Tito's concentration camps. And we got to watch Das Boot.

I invented my own runic script and would write all the German I was supposed to be learning on the covers of my notebooks, hidden in drawings of monoliths or spaceships or whatever. I would have these notebooks on the floor during tests and I would get perfect scores. Now I don't speak a fucking word of German except for what little I remember from Nightcrawler in the X-men comic books. Unglaublich!

Great question!

Eh, it was just BASIC combined with the best (by far) visual forms editor available at the time.

You should see what Visual Basic used to do to people.

The Japanese took Singapore largely thanks to bicycles. There must be a few photographs of that shit.

make them want the right to drive unregistered

Lol so many of these fuckwits already think that's true ... as long as they're just "traveling" and not involved in commercial activity.

Florida used to use these sort of overturned metal soup bowl things as turning lane dividers. It was a way of giving a tactile warning to drivers of lane departures without damaging the cars. It was also a way of landing drunks riding their bikes at night flat on their fucking faces. You can guess how I know.

I dream of getting a speeding ticket on my bicycle some day. I would frame that thing so fucking hard. It's not often that I can actually legitimately get up to a speed above the limit, but it does happen once in a while.

For a long time Vermont allowed people living out-of-state to register their vehicles in Vermont and get a VT license plate. They do require inspections but if you were out of state and never actually went to Vermont, the inspection requirement was irrelevant. This was often used by the skoolie (school bus converted to motorhome) community to get a bus registered and legal before it was converted to a motorhome (at which point you can register it normally in most states). And it was used generally by people with shitty old cars that couldn't pass an inspection and didn't have a valid title. However, they closed this loophole three years ago and now you can't newly register an out-of-state vehicle there any more.

Sometimes the world is a Mandel Bro and sometimes it isn't.