SteveA,
I'm wit' you, bro -- check out Neil Sedaka at his hardest of hard-core:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgDZOhQbmRs&feature=related
What was anybody thinking?
Well, that clip does explain it. I'm sorry I had to watch it. So that was the Freddy. I'll just go take an anti-emetic now to avoid blowing lunch all over the keyboard.
Bony - I can assure you I'm old enough, but I've never heard of the Freddy. Please elucidate. The Watusi, the Boogaloo, the Electric Slide, sure - but the Freddy?
Another spectacular write-up. What comes across so clearly is that you love both (or all three) of them, but for slightly different reasons. Some great phrases - "...supercharger perched like a bomb...", and shift feel that's "...direct and mechanical, like chambering a round." Very cool...
I'm sure you're right, Frank, but what percentage of smokers of 20 years or more duration get COPD/emphysema or some other significant limitation of lung function?
Oh, I thought it meant, like Elmer Fudd says, "Ttt, ttt, ttt, tt-that's all, folks!", like they only have a few left, and there might not be any more. But what do I know? I'll bet Jason's right.