The crazy Van won Best in Show in my small town

Not the production date, but today is when we took delivery in 1984, so that's as good as I can come up with for a birthday.

That's me on the first day of preschool...temp tags still on it!!

As if you ever needed a reason, crank up some ZZ Top in his honor.

@shop-teacher Back when I was an auditor, I was visiting one of our manufacturing plants. I noticed the plant manager ordered catering a lot...like almost weekly and often 2x per day. We chatted about it and he said "if you want people to show up and listen to you, feed them". Pretty solid advice. All the people in the plant liked him and it was one of our better run paint plants. Solid approach.

(the multiple per day was to make sure each shift was taken care of)

Also, from Reddit: “Never thought I would spend 3+ hours watching it rain in another country.”

Oh my lord. Norm was one of the absolute best of all time! Devastating.

https://deadline.com/2021/09/norm-macdonald-dead-obituary-comedian-saturday-night-live-weekend-update-anchor-was-61-1234833212/

@pip-bip This definitely has one of those fine-I-told-my-spouse-I'll-sell-it vibes

@just-jeepin Similar feelings by somebody who has maybe 5-6 alcoholic drinks a year (and always at my own house).

This just feels like political theater. Throw it in the bill knowing it'll get stricken. But the people that put it in can then have talking points about how they're pro-safety and anti-drinking and driving. And whomever argues about taking it out, is all of a sudden anti-safety and pro-drinking and driving.

flippin politicans. Just do you damn jobs. fix our roads, keep the environment clean, and find ways to improve quality of life for everybody.

I wouldn’t have counted on Bob Dole outliving him too

@i86hotdogs Happy Birthday chief. This has worked out well for me to share my Van as well

@nermal never underestimate the value of being able to take a dump in your own bathroom.

@eric Yup - more than just retro gamers. My bro has picked up and flipped some from estate sales too.

@shop-teacher I think talking to somebody who knows more about this (art institute, local college art department, etc.) would be smart. But I could water based UV working here...oil based is riskier. Assuming you get the proper go-ahead, I'd be inclined to maybe take it to an auto body shop. I feel like they'd have good product and equipment to make quick work of this.

@davesaddiction Norm & Dave are probably the two individuals who shaped my humor the most [along with classic Simpsons of course].

@racinbob the Sony trinitron TVs seem to be very sought after still by the retro video game folks. We've had a few town recycling events and there's a weird guy (full disclosure: my brother :)) who will hang out with the guys running it and gets to cherry pick the trinitrons.

I wouldn’t have counted on Bob Dole outliving him too

@essextee love it. Norm was really the best at Weekend Update.

Norm's appearance on one of Letterman's final shows is amazing. Man...stunned. One of the funniest people ever.

Oh my lord. Norm was one of the absolute best of all time! Devastating.

https://deadline.com/2021/09/norm-macdonald-dead-obituary-comedian-saturday-night-live-weekend-update-anchor-was-61-1234833212/