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[93JC]

Slugbug *punch*

Bitch please, we all know it's punch-buggy.

The peak of in-car entertainment when I was a kid was "I spy with my little eye..."

[Laconian]

"Slugbug" was a game played while traveling. The first one to see an air cooled Type 1 VW Beetle yelled "SLUGBUG" and socked the person next to them in the shoulder. What am I, the fucking historian around here? 

Slugbug *punch*

Slugbug was still going strong in the 80's.

[Soup DeVille]

"Slugbug" was a game played while traveling. The first one to see an air cooled Type 1 VW Beetle yelled "SLUGBUG" and socked the person next to them in the shoulder. What am I, the fucking historian around here? 

Did you also play the game where if you saw a hearse first, you got to put a plastic bag over your cousin's head until it was out of sight?

[Cookie Monster]

I hated reading in the car. It made me nauseous.


I remember we used to try and see which cars had their registration out of date though.

[Laconian]

Did you also play the game where if you saw a hearse first, you got to put a plastic bag over your cousin's head until it was out of sight?

LOL whaaaat?

[12,000 RPM]

Did you also play the game where if you saw a hearse first, you got to put a plastic bag over your cousin's head until it was out of sight?

You need to stop throwing these things out at random and formally document them all ASAP.

[MX793]

I used to read in the car.  Or play Punch Buggy.  Or play spot the padiddle.

[12,000 RPM]

I was OK to just geek out over all the stuff going on in the car. When I was a kid I used to make pretend cars out of boxes. Steering wheel, gauges, gearshift, everything

[FoMoJo]

I don't remember what we did on trips in the car , but mostly we just went to the local village on the week-end to get a few groceries.  It was only about a mile or so.  Once in a while, we went to the big town that was about 14 miles away.  So much exhaust fumes leaking into the car, it was a '38 Ford, my brothers and I were probably out cold by the time we got there.

[giant_mtb]

Slugbug was still going strong in the 80's.

I remember playing slugbug in the mid-late 90s.  And padiddle, which was where when you saw a car with one headlight, first person to hit the ceiling got the point.

[Laconian]

Slugbug players have been punch drunk in the 70's, when more Beetles were on the road.

[CaminoRacer]

I've recently realized that I'm responsible for lots of punches being thrown.

[Soup DeVille]

LOL whaaaat?

Then there was the game where they would heat up the cigarette lighter; then toss it under the seat when you're not looking. Then they would go "hey I dropped my (whatever) and it rolled under the seat" and then wait and see if I burned my fingers when I stuck my hand under there to look for it.

[Soup DeVille]

You need to stop throwing these things out at random and formally document them all ASAP.

No point anymore, but truth is some of my cousins were real assholes.

[68_427]

I always hated these in-car games. 

Slugbug is really pissing me off just like fucking padiddle.  Such stupid fucking names

[Laconian]

Then there was the game where they would heat up the cigarette lighter; then toss it under the seat when you're not looking. Then they would go "hey I dropped my (whatever) and it rolled under the seat" and then wait and see if I burned my fingers when I stuck my hand under there to look for it.

You're making shit up

[GoCougs]

Those apostrophes are killing me.

[Soup DeVille]

You're making shit up

And on one trip, when the car got stuck in the snow, we ate Jacob.

[CaminoRacer]

Then there was the game where they would heat up the cigarette lighter; then toss it under the seat when you're not looking. Then they would go "hey I dropped my (whatever) and it rolled under the seat" and then wait and see if I burned my fingers when I stuck my hand under there to look for it.

[RomanChariot]

Then there was the game where they would heat up the cigarette lighter; then toss it under the seat when you're not looking. Then they would go "hey I dropped my (whatever) and it rolled under the seat" and then wait and see if I burned my fingers when I stuck my hand under there to look for it.

One time my brother and I were on a road trip in a Ford Courier and he started lighting smoke bombs and throwing them under the seat while I was driving. Purple and green smoke everywhere and I was rolling down the window as fast as I could. He is my older brother. Yes, we were idiots.

[AutobahnSHO]

Congrats Lebowski and y'all are the best.

In minivan-related news I didn't do better than 24mpg cross-country: NY past Toronto through Flint, Lansing, to Indiana then cross I-80 to the furthest southwest corner of Wyoming. Lots of 80mph and even extended 85mph where the Wyoming limit gets up to 80mph. At 80mph churning 2200rpms so I'm somewhat disappointed with that mileage. HOWEVER, we were pushing into the headwind so we'll see how the return trip goes.

Odyssey has 10 cupholders but no good place to put a phone, I got a suction cup arm-mount for one of the cupholders under the radio.

[giant_mtb]

Congrats Lebowski and y'all are the best.

In minivan-related news I didn't do better than 24mpg cross-country: NY past Toronto through Flint, Lansing, to Indiana then cross I-80 to the furthest southwest corner of Wyoming. Lots of 80mph and even extended 85mph where the Wyoming limit gets up to 80mph. At 80mph churning 2200rpms so I'm somewhat disappointed with that mileage. HOWEVER, we were pushing into the headwind so we'll see how the return trip goes.

Odyssey has 10 cupholders but no good place to put a phone, I got a suction cup arm-mount for one of the cupholders under the radio.

Gotta consider all the weight of people & cargo.  Each 100lbs makes a big difference, especially at 80+ mph.  I remember an old rule of thumb being that every 5mph over 60 is about one mpg lost.

[AutobahnSHO]

I take it back- I got up to 28 and 29mpg on a couple tanks. My maths sucks.

And it was just me and two lightweight preteens, not much cargo really. Going back home we're taking boxes and boxes of wife's cargo, stuff we didn't have room for at our house when we first got married. Boxes of papers and keepsakes etc....   Might have to buy one of those bags to put suitcases on the roof. (I'm too cheap for an expensive box.)

[giant_mtb]

Ah, well that's respectable mileage.  Did you enjoy the shitty roads through MI?

[AutobahnSHO]

Ah, well that's respectable mileage.  Did you enjoy the shitty roads through MI?

not really any worse than anywhere else...

[giant_mtb]

not really any worse than anywhere else...

I know, I know.  The freeways aren't bad.

[MX793]

Gotta consider all the weight of people & cargo.  Each 100lbs makes a big difference, especially at 80+ mph.  I remember an old rule of thumb being that every 5mph over 60 is about one mpg lost.

An extra 100 lbs is pretty meaningless to steady-state cruising fuel consumption.  It adds like 2 lbs of rolling resistance drag to the vehicle.  Makes a much larger difference in stop and go.

[giant_mtb]

True enough. I suppose aero is the biggest factor up there.