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The title probably pulled me to read the article the most (a jet-engine Ranger?!), but any graphic was helpful. Honestly, the truck itself looks really boring, even with all the racks and stuff. The FLIR look would’ve been fun, but the night vision text also did the job. The shades and cup version looks like a truckstop tshirt. Add an umbrella and “Life’s a Beach” and cash in!
The published one is very good.
I kinda like Lewin’s “Jet-Fueled” version a bit more, though, because the multi-fuel part of the story was the most interesting to me. The dark/silent mode deal with the little electric motor is still interesting, just not as much.
The one you published was great
Unfortunately, I get my Autopian fix through an RSS feed reader that, for some reason, doesn’t show the topshots. Now I will click through to see all of this beautiful effort.
I had an Albanian co-worker, who could never remember the teamwork rhyme, so he would say “teamwork makes the dream come true”. That is the phrase in my mind, and every time someone makes the rhyme I want to correct them, then I realize I’m the one that’s wrong. Inside baseball, is hard for others to understand.
So true. When I still taught school I did a ACT/SAT prep course every semester. I hated that either actually had questions that straight-up tested idioms. Idioms are often regional in their usage and also have zero reflection on anyone’s knowledge of English or academic ability. I had ESL kids who had better rhetorical and English mechanics knowledge than many college grads who would be stumped at almost any idiom, likewise native speakers who had just never been exposed.
That experience strongly reinforced the notion that you shouldn’t judge anyone based on them not knowing something and instead take it as a wonderful moment to introduce someone into the “teamwork makes the sleeping worthwhile” club.
I used to work with a supersmart French physicist who would say,
“I’m running around with my head cut off! Like a chicken!”
That’s a litteral translation of a French idiom. It means to be frantically working on something but with no method, or with moving goals all the time, resulting in little progress for a lot of effort.
Top one is second place. First place is the pseudo-NVG look of the very last one (green glow, black letters) because it reminds me of this kickass
stereoscopicbomber game console thing I used to have and adored.Holy shit I found it
https://www.ebay.com/itm/383855046083
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyLtH47jK70
edit: additional link and it wasn’t stereoscopic
I feel like the selected top shot should have been Silent, but deadly since I get a distinct toxic fart vibe from that green cloud.
But maybe there’s no room for additional bathroom humor since the Morning Dump is so close by.
Cup topshot: What is Master Shake doing to that poor Ranger!!!
Personally, I like the first one, proposed by Lewin. I only one a really didn’t care for the the drink cup one.
yep, first one.