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DC Tom

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  1. Depends on the speed and length of the ramp. You see, cars don't fly straight off a ramp. They rotate - the front wheels leave the surface of the ramp before the back, which means the car starts to pitch down before it's fully airborne. But that rotation rate depends on the speed of the car leaving the ramp and the angle of the ramp. However, since you merely said "get airborne," the car will technically airborne once it leaves the ramp if the ramp is higher than the car is long. So say, for example, a Ford Explorer, which is 17 feet long. With a ramp 20 feet high and 80 feet long, that's a 14 degree angle. 20 feet high and 300 feet long, it's a 4 degree angle. At any speed sufficient enough to get it over the edge of the ramp and not get hung up. But if you're talking about jumping 30 busses or something...that's much more complex.
  2. Is that when the Democrats will have successfully disowned it and rebranded it as "Republican legislation?"
  3. That's the entire Clinton experience in a nutshell: ***** themselves over with coverups of stupid *****.
  4. In the meantime... https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/asia/taiwan-us-china-bolton-intl/index.html
  5. Good social graces? Where, in the SS? Tipping is racist.
  6. I think "abysmal" is an exaggeration; I always thought he was merely pedestrian. But that's in a group that includes such luminaries as Booger McFarland, Beastley Reece, and Joe Namath. So the bar's pretty low.
  7. I could see this trade happening, some foggy Christmas Eve...
  8. You're really not helping yourself.
  9. One of my favorite Bruce Smith memories is Jeff George dropping back, looking left, and clearly mouthing bug-eyed "Oh, *****!" before Smith annihilates him for the fourth time that game. And one of my favorite SB XXV moments is captured in the series of stills where Leon Seals pancakes Hostetler. One of the reasons sacks aren't as important nowadays is because that level of intimidation has been taken out of the pass rush. QBs are much more protected nowadays, so you don't see "pressures" where the QB is pancaked after the throw, or where QBs are honestly frightened at the prospect of being sacked. Getting a QB rattled has become less about the intimidation, and more about getting inside the QBs decision cycle and forcing errors. That being said, they're not unimportant, either. A mere "pressure" never turned a 2nd and 5 into a 3rd and 18 (intentional grounding excepted, which frankly should be tracked as a stat along with sacks) and drastically limited an offense's play calling options.
  10. Of course, for me "shirtless and bare feet at 2am" is comfortably mid-50s. I loathe summer.
  11. LOL Because Captain Marvel and Avengers Endgame had no political or social messaging. Hell, I still haven't seen Captain Marvel because I was told not to culturally appropriate the feminist experience.
  12. I really think you just made that up. But it needed to be made up. It's a good saying.
  13. http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/26832836/bill-buckner-dies-69-battling-dementia May you find in repose the peace that you never found in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.
  14. My first new car had a sunroof specifically so I could see the lights.
  15. They can't even describe electrolysis accurately.
  16. CNN: "Trump Pays Homage to Japanese Emperor, Dishoners WWII Pacific Veterans on Memorial Day. Now Will Pelosi Impeach?"
  17. Fixed. Which is also why I'd like to see him as a position coach. His presence alone says "work your ass off to be successful."
  18. Or the nuclear craters. North of Vegas is fascinating to look at on Google Maps satellite view.
  19. Wow. Imagine how much it would have cost if all 20 Nazis showed up.
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