From this point forward, no one is allowed to type 'Maverick Rowan', or otherwise refer to that individual, in any capacity. Should anyone fail to comply with this directive, you will be banned in perpetuity from this message board.
I am officially banning the words 'Maverick Rowan' from panther-lair.com
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Can I say Maverick if I am referring to the character from Academy Award winning movie Top Gun?
Or this ...
Full disclosure ... family is headed to Cedar Point tomorrow.
So I guess I won't be making posts about roller coasters.
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Don't be too hard on him. We still have an outside shot at his younger brother, Iceman.
I must say that while I can't comment on the basketball player Rowan, this Maverick was pretty darn awesome!Or this ...
Honestly, all sour grapes aside, "Maverick" is one of the cheesiest names any parent could curse a child with. Obviously his old man, who seems not only a control freak but dumb as a bag of hammers, was a big enough Top Gun fan to name his kid after the Tom Cruise character. I'm sorry, but that's pathetic and about as WT as it gets
This is my favorite post in this thread by far. Unfortunately I'm old enough to remember when POS like that thing were what passed for cars in this country.
Mark Cuban "pleased."
And why he didn't get involved in this recruitment in some way, I'll never know!
Can I say Maverick if I am referring to the character from Academy Award winning movie Top Gun?
Hold up: Top Gun won an Academy Award?
Hey, I rolled one of those crates on the Pkwy east. Ended up on its roof. I had a papercut-level scratch on my hand. I had borrowed the thing from my wife's aunt, as mine was in the shop. At least it was OK structurally. We rebuilt it.
Hmmmm... and now we know the TRUE NTOP!
Ended up sitting on the roof?
Actually, I had a bad accident many years ago now.... on the Palisades Interstate Parkway near Bear Mountain (this in NY near West Point) where I went off the road and ended up sitting on the roof... on the INSIDE as the car was upside down. I received no injuries but the car was never the same.
This was my reaction as well...like everyone else who grew up in the 80s I enjoyed the movie, but you gotta be kidding--it was no Citizen Kane.
Yep.....sitting on the roof.....listening to the radio....which meant the car was still running!!! Reached up w/o looking, found the key & turned it off. Rolled up...not down, a window and scurried out in a nanosecond. Stood up and looked at the 18-wheeler stopped about 30 yards short of me. This was about 11:00 AM, on the way to see a client in Monroeville. Guy pulled out in front of me w/o signalling, I juked left into the high curbing, which collapsed the A-frame, etc, setting off a slo-mo ballet. Worst adrenaline headache of my life..
US auto manufacturers really put out some truly horrible offerings in the first wave of small evonomy cars in the early 1970's. The Chevy Vega and Pinto were just plain bad. Chrysler's K cars weren't much better. I had a Dodge Aspen, which, despite winning Motor Trend's Car of tge Year award, had all 4 fenders rust off and had a carborator flaw that caused it to stall every time you made a left turn uphill before it was fully warmed up. And, sometimes when it was warmed up.
While this maybe could belong in the Locker Room, The US automakers couldn't have done a better job of ushering foreign car manufacturers in and killing the industrial base of this country if they had tried.
My second car was no better, a Dodge Diplomat. Had been a police cruiser. Young, no money, you do what you have to do. Looked like a Sherman tank coming down the road. Could have put the Chevette in the trunk. Haven't bought an American car since. Have a Rav4 now.
I was young & stupid. My parents never owned a car. Bought a 1959 Jag XK150 for $1300 in 1965. Really dumb thing to do.....but had a blast. Sold it for $865 when I got drafted. That car today, in "driver" condition?? $75-80,000.
It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas.
Was it the new Bluesmobile or what?
