 Winter warnings from Tom Tom
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRuV5EFIV6E&Lid=2Check out the bus sliding towards the bikes and the news reporter. 
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New Tires
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Global warming, BRING IT ON!
In related news, I see a couple of thousand in Scotland are out of power on the coldest day of the year, 165 mph wind gust and snow. Wishing them all the best.
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Oh my...that's why we just stay home on those days.
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. - Charles Dickens
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doesn't everyone try to get out of the car as it's sliding out of control? 
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I've been in situations like that more than once. Good times!
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After seeing that video I'm kinda glad we don't have a winter wonderland at Christmas here in Australia..... No putting our bikes to bed for six months down here 
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When the roads are a sheet of ice the only people trying to drive are stupid. I remember driving across Kansas when a snow/ice storm began one winter. The tractor trailers were whizzing past me secure in the knowledge that the laws of physics don't apply to them. I took the next exit and got a motel room. The next day you could nearly walk the length of Kansas across the tractor trailers filling the medians. Unbelievable.
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I think Paul Simon summed it up nice when he sang those famous lines... "Slip slidin' away Slip slidin' away You know the nearer your destination, The more you slip sliding away." He was singing about winter driving conditions in Kansas, wasn't he? 
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Little Richard said it best,
"Slippin and a slidin, beepin an a ridin"
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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A lot of those clips looked familiar. Too bad they cut out all the impacts.
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I was hitch hiking as a kid and got a ride in a bucket truck once. We started down a huge hill and just as we started down the truck just started sliding. We slid all the way to the bottom, a good 1/2 mile or so. Scared the crap outa me but we got lucky and didn't hit anything. This was out in farm land, not much to hit except telephone poles and cows.
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During the Great Ice Storm of 1998 in the east I still had steel spikes on my golf shoes. It was so much fun watching others try and figure out how I could stop and go at will while they were all floundering trying to get from A to B. That same trick was used in the Grey Cup (Canadian Super Bowl equivalent) by my brother in law in Montreal when there was a frozen field to play on. He put staples in the soles of his shoes along with everyone elses on his team, they won.
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I thought they renamed that 'The Doug Flutie Cup'.
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When I was a kid, we lived at the top of a hill near an intersection on the edge of town in PA. My cousins and I used to spend time in winter guessing which cars would make it up the hill. Drivers who almost made it would slide down the hill, back up and try to get a better run at it.
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Quote:
I thought they renamed that 'The Doug Flutie Cup'.
And the Warren Moon Cup too. Haven't you noticed how the American game is starting to look alot more like the Canadian game in the past couple years. Sorry 
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