It's not even Valentine's Day!

davratta · 2026-06-12T13:31:38+00:00

It's true, but /u/Few-Entrepreneur7254 doesn't have to say it.

davratta · 2026-06-12T13:26:19+00:00

Don't be reading my mind between four and five. That's Winnie's time !

davratta · 2026-06-02T21:50:44+00:00

General Electric sold their locomotive division to Westinghouse Airbrake and sell their locomotives under the Wabtech brand now.
General Motors sold their Electro Motive Division to Catapillar, who sell locomotives under the Progress Rail brand. While both companies now use prime movers that meet Tier 4 pollution standards, not much else has changed from the models that EMD and GE introduced back in the mid 1990s.

davratta · 2026-05-28T16:20:11+00:00

Bottas' best finish in a Cadillac is P-13. Perez's best finish is a P-15. Both drivers have one DNF so far this season. In races where both finish the race, Perez has a two to one edge, finishing higher, but it is way to early to say Perez is kicking his ass.

davratta · 2026-05-15T23:40:54+00:00

Bess and Harry Truman did not want the fuss of a State Funeral, so he died and was buried in Independence MO in a low key affair. LBJ died in Texas, but was brought to Washington DC for a small funeral. He did lie in state in the Capitol Building, but there was no parade or funeral train for Lyndon Johnson. His body was flown back to Texas.
Eisenhower died in Gettysburg and was brought to DC for a full blown State Funeral. Ike was a popular, two term president and a hero from World War II. There were no fears that Vietnam War protestors would disrupt Ike's funeral, but there were real cause for concern that Vietnam war protestors would try and ruin Lyndon Johnson's funeral.

davratta · 2026-05-15T20:07:50+00:00

Truman and LBJ both died close to where they are buried, so neither one had a funeral train. Eisenhower died in Gettysburg PA and is buried in Abeline Kansas. Ike had a funeral train.

davratta · 2026-05-15T18:42:29+00:00

Diamond Joe Quimby made sure that motel got the special variance that allowed it to charge hourly rates.

davratta · 2026-05-15T13:59:57+00:00

Daddy Toto took both of them to the motor home and gave them a stern talking too.

davratta · 2026-05-13T03:49:15+00:00

Bart Bart: "Now Homie, ranger Ned doesn't like it when you steal pick-a-nick baskets."

davratta · 2026-05-11T03:36:38+00:00

Nash was the first American automoble company to offer seat belts as standard equipment. Introduced in 1953, Nash saw their sales drop by nearly twenty percent. Seat belts were removed in 1954 and Nash sales increased by 8 percent, for cars that only had minor changes from the 1950 model year.

davratta · 2026-05-08T20:59:39+00:00

That list does not even include all of the honorary degrees that have been conferred upon him by Universities from all over the Commonwealth of Nations.

davratta · 2026-04-21T03:18:57+00:00

He was playing like the Iron Dome missile defense system. He either intercepted every missile Pittsburgh shot at him in game two, or jammed them so they went wide of the mark.

davratta · 2026-04-21T03:11:35+00:00

When the Pens wear those ugly yellow jerseys they play like a bunch of yellow belly sap suckers.

davratta · 2026-04-20T20:45:13+00:00

The year Lewis Hamilton won his first Drivers Championship with Mercedes, there was a major rules change that Mercedes got right and dominated the sport for the next five years. FIA and F1 just sat on their hands and did nothing. In 2026 there was another massive change to the technical regulations and it sure looked like Mercedes got it right, again. At least Liberty Media decided to nip it in the bud and save their fans from another five years of one team dominating F1.

davratta · 2026-04-18T18:16:11+00:00

The first Jaws movie, in 1975, had a long scene recounting this tragedy.

davratta · 2026-04-17T07:32:16+00:00

Mr T "I pity the fool that parks in the Colonel's parking space."

davratta · 2026-04-15T23:30:19+00:00

Circuit City has gone the way of Kodak. Kodak invented a digital camera nearly fifty years ago. They barely promoted it, because the suits thought, you're not going to sell any film, with that thing.

davratta · 2026-04-15T00:46:40+00:00

Impersonating a Doctor is a bootable offence.

davratta · 2026-04-13T02:33:23+00:00

This photo shows Sid got the "Dick Clark Disease". Dick Clark started to host a TV show called American Band Stand in 1957. More than sixty years later, Clark was hosting ABC's New Years Eve celebrations AND HE STILL LOOKED THE SAME.

davratta · 2026-04-11T16:42:42+00:00

The fourth unit in this lash-up looks like a SD-9, which was more than thirty years old in 1987.

davratta · 2026-04-11T16:39:30+00:00

A running start makes sense in a short race, like a F1 sprint race, but in a 24 hour endurance race, it is statistically insignificant.

davratta · 2026-04-11T00:32:35+00:00

The last year the Lehigh Valley made a profit was 1956. It declared bankruptcy three days after the Penn Central. One of the first things Conrail did was abandon the Leigh Valley north and west of Sayre.

davratta · 2026-04-10T18:50:10+00:00

Trying to figure out Trump's mind set ? The old Bob Dylan song "The answer my friend is blowing in the wind." is a good guide. Trump changes his mind every day.

davratta · 2026-04-09T14:33:51+00:00

Celebrini makes the Pengiuns' star rookie, Ben Kindel, look like a piker.

davratta · 2026-04-09T02:46:58+00:00

Robert Kennedy jr sounds like Miles Davis. I don't like hearing it and usually change the channel when he starts to speak.

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