Oh Yes Wyoming!

Went back to the Seinfeld & Superman site today and noticed something I missed the first time, a Playbill on the table with the film canisters. If you click on that you get a flash animation sing-a-long of the song “Oh Yes Wyoming!” If you though I was having problems dislodging the song from my head before, it won’t go away for about a month now, I just got through listening to it several times so I could copy down the lyrics.

Oh Yes Wyoming!

Oh Yes Wyoming!
With the tress and the horses and the rocks and the sheep
Oh Yes I’m Going!
Through the plains and the trails and the streams and the hills
Oh No Nebraska!
Is there a plainer state I ask ya
Oh Yes Wyoming!
There’s no place I’d rather be roaming
With the geysers and the canyons and the watering holes
With the geysers and the canyons and the watering holes
Oh Yes Wyoming!
With the mountains and the lakes and the plentiful fish
Oh Yes I’m knowing!
This land will fulfill my every wish
Oh No Dakota!
Doesn’t interest me one i-ota
Oh Yes Wyoming!
There’s no place I’d rather be roaming

(spoken)
Hey Zeke!
What is it Antelope Joe?
You know I love them girls back in Wyoming
I heard you like the geezers too
It’s geysers and anyway that’s just a rumor
I’m talking about my special girl Daisy
I call her ol’ faithful
I heard she ain’t that faithful
She sure is old though
Ha ha ha ha

Oh Yes Wyoming!
With the cabins and the camping and the bakin’ beans
Oh Yes I’m Glowing!
With the bison and the banjos and the wily raccoons
Oh No Ohio
I can hardly wait to say goodbye-oh
Oh Yes Wyoming!
There’s no place I’d rather be…
End with m-i-n-g…
Shout it out loud with me
W-Y-O-M-I-N-G
Oh Yes!

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Hey George! I Found Your Weapons Of Mass Destruction

We got our Annual Notice of Policy Status from our good neighbor the State Farm agent. In the cost of insurance section it listed Universal Life – $300.00 and WMD – $30.

They were right here all along, and I’ve been financing them.

Mazda R.E.V.

I got a big fat envelope in today’s mail announcing this new Mazda promo. I guess they couldn’t come up with something using zoom-zoom and because of their previous Rev-It-Up thing they have named this program R.E.V., which stands for Rewards Every Visit. I think it is something like those cards that grocery stores use, the more you buy, the more reward points you get and then you redeem those points for fabulous prizes or something. I’m totally vague on this because the fat envelope came with a cover letter and no less than three (and some of those multi-page) inserts chock full of fine print and titled Rules and Terms & Conditions. And I ain’t slogging through all that to unearth the nugget of fools gold offered. One of them is an application for a Mazda REV credit card. If you drive a Velocity Red Mazdaspeed Miata you might go for it because that looks like what is depicted on the card, but otherwise the minimum 12.99% interest should keep everyone else away. There appears to be some sort of sweepstakes involved and I might try and get in an entry, if they don’t make me fill out too big a form online. You don’t have to get the credit card to play along, but them including it in the mailing will probably get some suckers to apply thinking it will increase their odds of winning.

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Spinners

They started out as high priced LARGE chrome wheels with an additional disc on the outside. The disc spun independently of the wheel, so when the car/truck came to a stop, the wheels looked like they were still spinning. These wheels cost a great deal of money, thousands a piece. Then came add-on spinners to place over your existing dubs, reducing the cost to a mere several hundred per wheel. Not to be left out of this craze the po’ folks demanded a low price alternative. Ever accommodating, car aftermarket manufacturers came through, we now have chrome-like plastic hub caps that are spinners, available at a Wal-Mart near you.

Saw some cheapo ones on a POS green Hyundai this afternoon (one spinning, the other not, on the side we could see.) Donna summed it up perfectly, “They are like baseball cards in the spokes of a bicycle, for adults.”

Hauling U-Haul

I remember when on the back and sides of those small U-Haul trailers there used to be in 3″ high letters, MAX SPEED 45MPH. I guess they must have improved their equipment and their renter education, because today as I cruised down the Interstate at 75 mph, I was passed like I was standing still by a pick-up pulling a U-Haul trailer and it had nary a speed warning on it.

Speaking Of Wheels

While poking around the ol’ hard drive on Thursday I found another chapter of the Life of Brian that I had coded for the Master’s Miata Club’s web site several years ago. All the other LOBs were in word format, but for what ever reason, this one wasn’t, so I missed it the first time through. Chapter 5 happened in late 2000 and concerns the jinxed purchase of a set of tires and wheels from the TireRack.

This purchase was jinxed for the entire life of the tires too. For whatever reason this combination of the wheels and tires had a tendency to spontaneously got flat. Happened 3 times in the two year life span of the tires. Best we (the collective knowledge of the Miata.net Tires forum and I) could come up with was that once the tire pressure dropped below a certain level the bead of the tire could separate from the wheel. The set of Bridgestone SO-3s that came after, never failed in their 2 years before I wore them out.

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Wheels They Go ‘Round In Circles

A friend at work just bought a new Saturn Ion Quad Coupe. One with those oh so trendy small back doors that swing out backward, ala suicide doors of old. To him, the lesser of all the evils in the color choices, was white. Looking at the Saturn web site, I think I would have gone with the blue, but that is me. To me all white cars look kind of like refrigerators with wheels from some angles.

James says the only thing he really doesn’t like about the car is the wheels. And come tax refund time next year he will probably get some after market wheels. I recommended he check out TireRack.com and play around. On the site you can get a crude idea of what a set of wheels will look like on your car.


Here are the OEM wheels. They don’t look to bad here and I think they go with the car. They look good close up, but in the real 3-D world they do leave a lot to be desired.


He mentioned he would get something a little less busy, something maybe with five spokes, something like my OEM Miata wheels….


I think my wheels look good and they are easy to keep clean, but I’ve said it here before, I’d like a 15″ wheel for the lightness factor and to differentiate my car from the thousands of other stock Miatas out there.


The bolt pattern is the same on both wheels, maybe we should swap. In this rendering, just as the one above with the wheels on the Saturn, they look OK, but I’m sure they would still be ugly in real life. Swapping is one of those random weird thoughts that go through your head, but are quickly dismissed if you are a sane person. As I said Wednesday, I may be stupid, but I’m not crazy.

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