Random Unthreadworthy Questions

**MakersTeleMark** · 11-17-2022, 03:59 AM

**oldnew_guy** · 11-20-2022, 02:41 PM

My nephew knows some cartoon character named “Mater”. Wtf is this? Short for tomater? Cartoon character that gets everyone else pregnant? Some slang I don’t get? Or has nephew just made up some word for something he can’t say?

**Core Shot** · 11-20-2022, 03:18 PM

Tow Mater

Cars movie. Lol

He’s a loveable tow truck.

**Supermoon** · 11-20-2022, 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by oldnew_guy

My nephew knows some cartoon character named “Mater”. Wtf is this? Short for tomater? Cartoon character that gets everyone else pregnant? Some slang I don’t get? Or has nephew just made up some word for something he can’t say?

Probably a gay, trans, drag Queen trying to out rainbow fentanyl in kids’ candy. Better send him to bible camp just to be safe

**Danno** · 11-20-2022, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by oldnew_guy

My nephew knows some cartoon character named “Mater”. Wtf is this? Short for tomater? Cartoon character that gets everyone else pregnant? Some slang I don’t get? Or has nephew just made up some word for something he can’t say?

Ok Boomer.

**::: :::** · 11-20-2022, 04:41 PM

Cars

**ötzi** · 11-20-2022, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by Garbowski

In WA you can use the Shaggy defense and it will be automatically dismissed. There is a box to sign right on the ticket. They do not make you name the driver.

I wish they had that where I lived, the way they did it you couldn't get out of it.

I don't really like technology making accusations.

It's a slippery slope no doubt. It's interesting on toll highways because they know exactly how fast you were going but they don't give you a ticket. I bet that changes some day.

**MagnificentUnicorn** · 11-20-2022, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by Dantheman

Why is Ruth's Chris so popular? I've been twice now and both times was very happy it wasn't on my dime. Steak was good but hardly sixty fuckin' dollars good, salads and sides were meh. Yet, the place was packed.

Ruth’s Chris is today’s Black Angus Restaurant

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**anotherVTskibum** · 11-20-2022, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by ötzi

It's a slippery slope no doubt. It's interesting on toll highways because they know exactly how fast you were going but they don't give you a ticket. I bet that changes some day.

It would make it really interesting with intermittent traffic if the only rule was that your average speed couldn't be above the speed limit.

The technology is 100% available now given that we can do timestamped plate based tolling.

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**Core Shot** · 11-21-2022, 09:05 AM

That always amazed me about toll highways.
They have the data.
But don’t use it.

**joetron** · 11-21-2022, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by ghosthop

Do you and your partner routinely have swingers try to pick you up or is just us?

My wife and I have plenty of couple friends that haven’t tried to fuck us but it has happened enough that we remain skeptical the first few times we are invited over a new house. This was not on my adulting bingo card.

Do you live in Draper?

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**Bunion 2020** · 11-21-2022, 10:14 AM

Patagonia mid-weight bottoms for $ 79.00??????

WTF?

**oldnew_guy** · 11-21-2022, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by Core Shot

Tow Mater

Cars movie. Lol

He’s a loveable tow truck.

Originally Posted by Supermoon

Probably a gay, trans, drag Queen trying to out rainbow fentanyl in kids’ candy. Better send him to bible camp just to be safe

Originally Posted by Danno

Ok Boomer.

Originally Posted by ::: :::

Cars

Ha! Just when I think I’ve seen every kids cartoon movie.

Seems like a sneaky parent joke naming a tow truck character that hooks up to other cars, “mater”, but what do I know. Is he red?

**Dantheman** · 11-21-2022, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by oldnew_guy

Ha! Just when I think I’ve seen every kids cartoon movie.

Seems like a sneaky parent joke naming a tow truck character that hooks up to other cars, “mater”, but what do I know. Is he red?

He's rusty AF. There's a lot of sneaky adult jokes in Cars that go right over kids' heads. Cars is a genuinely great movie and arguably the best animated movie ever, IMVHO. The sequels were hot garbage, but the original is all-time.

**::: :::** · 11-21-2022, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by ötzi

It's a slippery slope no doubt. It's interesting on toll highways because they know exactly how fast you were going but they don't give you a ticket. I bet that changes some day.

I was under the impression that way back in the day, the NJ turnpike had a time minimum to move between toll booths otherwise you’d get a ticket for speeding — was that really a thing?

**Supermoon** · 11-21-2022, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by ::: :::

I was under the impression that way back in the day, the NJ turnpike had a time minimum to move between toll booths otherwise you’d get a ticket for speeding — was that really a thing?

I also have that memory, so maybe?

**old goat** · 11-21-2022, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn

Ruth’s Chris is today’s Black Angus Restaurant

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At least Black Angus has a name that makes sense.

**muted reborn** · 11-27-2022, 07:50 PM

Wasn't there a long thread about the best bibs to buy are? Search isn't finding anything for me.

**Brownski** · 11-27-2022, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by ::: :::

I was under the impression that way back in the day, the NJ turnpike had a time minimum to move between toll booths otherwise you’d get a ticket for speeding — was that really a thing?

Not that I’ve ever heard and I do drive it occasionally. If they did, I would be the guy that got nailed. I heard they did that in Oklahoma or Kansas or some shit. Probably apocryphal in both cases.

**ötzi** · 11-27-2022, 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by ::: :::

I was under the impression that way back in the day, the NJ turnpike had a time minimum to move between toll booths otherwise you’d get a ticket for speeding — was that really a thing?

I heard that too years ago but I think it was bullshit. I never heard of anyone getting a ticket and I've hauled ass myself up and down that road way too many times for way too many years.

**J. Barron DeJong** · 11-27-2022, 09:19 PM

Originally Posted by muted reborn

Wasn't there a long thread about the best bibs to buy are? Search isn't finding anything for me.

https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...Help-with-Bibs

(can always do a google search instead of using the TGR search.)

**BmillsSkier** · 11-27-2022, 09:22 PM

Originally Posted by old goat

At least Black Angus has a name that makes sense.

Someone once posted up the story behind the stupid name. Ruth bought Chris' Steak House, then it became hers, until it wasn't and it was owned by a PE fund? I don't know.

All I know is that place, Smith & Wollensky, Mortons, et al bring back some seriously debaucherously good times early in my career. The days of corporate AmExes with no limits and no questions so long as it either started at a steakhouse or ended at one were good times.