Britt Miller was challenged to demonstrate her strength a week or two back, and would up deadlifting one side of what appears to be a 1982 or 1983 Buick LeSabre or Regal. While I wasn't able to find the shipping weight of either car of that vintage online, I did find the shipping weight of the 1982 Chevrolet Caprice Classis, which my freakish memory spit out as having been built on the same GM chassis with the same engine, drive train, etc as the LeSabre - the most commonly produced version of the Caprice weighed about 3500 pounds. I imagine the Regal would have had a similar weight.
I don't have the math to determine the amount of force Britt would need to apply to heft the car - less than half the total weight, I'm sure, but probably more than a quarter. In a second picture at her blog, the owners of the car are actually sitting on the hood. In the first picture the wheels have been lifted completely free of the ground, perhaps a foot or more above the pavement.
Oddly enough, the same day Britt performed this astonishing feat, Cecil Adams addressed the topic in his The Straight Dope column - SuperMom: Could a mother actually lift a car to save her child? Cecil has trouble giving a conclusive answer, but in light of this I think he'd have to admit the answer is a pretty firm "you bet your ass!"
Also oddly, this past week I had engine problems and pushed my truck about a quarter of a mile, mostly on a declining grade but with inclines as well. The inclines were back-breaking - I wished I still had my Mazda. When I told a friend what I had done she informed me that I am a "wild person" who has no common sense and that I should have simply called for a tow. Imagine what she'd say about Britt lifting a pimped-out decrepit dinosaur for the benefit of a bunch of suburban ricers?
Frank Cho is the artist on this month's New Avengers (#15), and it's a great-looking book. He inserts various little gags - as an example, in one panel Wolverine is shown wearing a "Beltsville" t-shirt, which is a reference to Liberty Meadows, Cho's famous strip. Another amusing little vignette is Wolverine guzzling an entire gallon of milk, at least some of which winds up on his costume. Historically Wolverine has been more frequently depicted guzzling beer and smoking cigars, so I assume this is social satire by Cho.
Remember the dates for this year's Arnold Classic: March 3-5 in Columbus. There will be interesting FBB and figure fields this year, and you might even get to see Arnold himself.
Sorry for the dearth of posts lately, but I've been very busy at work and I've also been working on a paysite backend system for fitness models and bodybuilders, using open-source and some commercial components. I'm expecting to launch the first paysite next month. Don't worry - it won't affect Amaz0ns. This is a free site and always will be. The only thing I might charge for here would be eBooks, if I could convince writers and artists to churn out quality content on a regular basis. I've actually written about this before - the idea would be to set a price point of $3 or $5 for a high quality story or comic book. I have no plans to implement something like this now, but I reserve the right to do so in the future without being bitched out for saying that I would never charge for access.
I've been encouraging disillusioned Windows users to try Ubuntu Linux lately. Ubuntu is a free distribution of the Linux operating system, and has the benefit of being small enough to fit on a single boot CD. So you can download the whole thing, burn it to CD, and then boot your PC off the CD drive to give Ubuntu a test drive. (Alternatively Ubuntu will mail you a CD for free, but you have to set up a Launchpad account first. That's also free.)
Another thing I've been telling everyone about is the i-Fusion by Sonic Impact. I got mine at Target but it's also available at Amazon.com. It's a high quality, truly portable speaker system for the iPod. It folds up into a solid little zippered case and it has a lithium-ion battery that is good for about 15 hours on a single charge! There's also a storage compartment in the unit for an iPod and for earbuds. I love my iPod but I'm not really someone who likes to wear buds or phones, so for me the iPod is all about its ability to interface with my car stereo and my home stereo, and now the i-Fusion. I've been taking it everywhere, listening to it all the time. I can't wait to take it camping when the weather warms up. Here's a review at Playlist.
Finally, we're coming up on the 4th anniversary of the first version of this site, "Lingster's Big Mouth", which launched on January 19, 2002. In some ways it's hard to believe it's been that long, but in other ways maintaining this site has been such a big part of my life for the last four years that it seems hard to remember what it was like before I had the responsibility. We're also coming up on the tenth anniversary of my first post that's archived at Google. There were others prior to that but they are lost to time, I suppose. It begins "Lo ye Immoral Hordes of Big Girl Fetishists-" and pretty much goes downhill from there. (It seems I was kind of an asshole in my 20s.) But ten years have gone by! Holy crap! How did that happen?
It occurred to me recently that if attraction to muscular women ever becomes the standard male attitude, I and some others like Marknew could wind up as weirdly quasi-apocryphal figures shrouded in mystery. You know, like when people debate who William Shakespeare really was, or Jack the Ripper. And of course it's always supposed to be someone famous, never some ordinary schmuck. "He was really the Duke of Edinburgh!" There was a great Superman story about 20 years ago where some future historian had proved that Superman was actually Ralph Nader, I recall. Another historian said, "Well, I think he might have been a reporter named Clark Kent..." And everyone looked at him and said, "Who?"
So in the event that some future historian reads this while trying to trace the evolution of male sexual tastes: no, I am not Ralph Nader. (But I do know where his office is located.)
Another thing I've been telling everyone about is the i-Fusion by Sonic Impact. I got mine at Target but it's also available at 
. It's a high quality, truly portable speaker system for the iPod. It folds up into a solid little zippered case and it has a lithium-ion battery that is good for about 15 hours on a single charge! There's also a storage compartment in the unit for an iPod and for earbuds. I love my iPod but I'm not really someone who likes to wear buds or phones, so for me the iPod is all about its ability to interface with my car stereo and my home stereo, and now the i-Fusion. I've been taking it everywhere, listening to it all the time. I can't wait to take it camping when the weather warms up. 
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