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David Burge Profile picture
@iowahawkblog
Jun 4, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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My new favorite movie of all time: High School Confidential (1958). It has EVERYTHING: switchblade fights! Mamie Van Doren! Reefer addicts! Jerry Lee Lewis! Midnight hot rod races! Vampira beatnik poetry! And non-stop hep cat lingo galore, daddy-o! ImageImageImageImage
I literally can't believe I never saw this movie before last night on TCM. Should be available on TCM on demand soon
Plus it has my late great pal Norm Grabowski (uncredited) as one of the Wheeler Dealers, the hoodlum gang that runs the reefer biz at 35-Year Old Student High School Image
And Michael Landon as head honcho of the Rangers, the high school's top hot rod club Image
And Charlie Chaplin Jr as undercover narc busboy at the beatnik jazz club owned by local reefer kingpin "Mr A" played by Jackie Coogan - whose movie career started as child costar of Charlie Chaplin Sr in "The Kid" and later became Uncle Fester on The Addams Family Image
And two chopped lead sled 48 Chevy coupes built by George Barris. Note: no one will be seated during the shocking lead sled flip scene ImageImage
In short: this is not a movie, it is a 1 hour 25 minute xray of my brain
Footnote: here's a Jackie Coogan tangent I went off on, prompted by a car ID request

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Right fucking now
Players earning money, out in the open, in a free market
Historically bad program winning a championship
Teams with gigantic spending failing terribly
10-15 programs with a legitimate chance at a title
End of the ESPN-SEC 1000 year reich

What's not to like?
Iowa has about the lowest transfer turnover in the country. Because they recruit underrated 2-3 stars with chips on their shoulders who remain loyal. Pay $2 million for a 5-star, don't be surprised when he considers the deal purely transactional.

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I love Texas, but my god the Dallas skyline is an aesthetic abomination.

Worldwide skyline rankings:

1. Chicago
2. 4000-way tie of also-rans
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Honestly outside a few notable buildings Manhattan architecture is decidedly mid. Like a movie trailer that shows you a few highlights but the rest is just boring
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M is for her Mercury Marauder
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A very happy 150th birthday to the Otto Cycle internal combustion engine from Dave's Car ID service! Revealed May 9, 1876, it was the first practical example of a gasoline powered 4-stroke (a/k/a Otto Cycle). Or as we gearheads say, "suck squeeze bang blow."

German Nicolaus Otto invested 14 years of research, trial and error, and help from his employees Gottfried Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach into creating it, but reportedly had zero interest in transportation applications; his were all designed as huge stationary engines for industrial or agricultural jobs. When it debuted, it claimed the "day of steam was at end." Not a correct forecast as it turned out, but it carved out a niche in the light industrial market. I've seen a working Otto engine from the early 1880s.

In any event, the potential of Otto's engine for transportation didn't escape his employees Daimler & Maybach, who pioneered the earliest days of automobiling with scaled down, more efficient versions of Otto's 4-stroke. It wasn't the invention of the car, but it made the invention of the car possible.Image
Technically the Otto engine was not the first internal combustion engine. Otto was inspired to create his design after seeing Jean Lenoir's IC engine in 1862. He built a replica but noted it was noisy, inefficient, and had an unfortunate tendency to BLOW THE HELL UP.

The key insight he derived was that compression mattered. Though it had a piston, Lenoir's design did not compress the fuel, it simply ignited and returned to TDC where it received the next fuel charge. It worked, but not for long due to the stress on the cylinder and piston. Otto's experiments proved fuel compression was more efficient and resulted in more power and durability.

Unlike Otto, Lenoir *was* interested in transportation. He powered a boat with one of his engines in 1861, and built his "Hippomobile" (2) in 1862. Petroleum powered, it made a 7 mile trip around Paris in 1863 at about 1.8 MPH. Arguably the first gasoline powered car, beating the Benz Patent-Motorwagen by over 20 years.Image
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To dive even deeper in the IC rabbit hole, the Niépce brothers received a 1807 patent for their "Pyréolophore," an internal combustion engine for boats. The fuel? A mixture of finely crushed coal dust and lycopodium powder.Image
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From my intrepid cousin, who has learned through the National Archives that our grandmother was forced to attend what was literally known as “Detention School” until she dropped out. I couldn’t be prouder or more delighted Image
*I'm the result of crossbreeding a completely taciturn American Gothic Iowa farm family (Dad) and a family of insane dysfunctional Irish criminal alcoholics (Mom). This is my mom's mom
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Honestly it's just Nebraska with a better PR agency
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Look man, you can move to Denver and buy some kind of lameass Yamaha acoustic guitar and a fat tire mountain bike and a stupid Jeep with rubber ducks on the dash, but it will never erase the fact you rode the bus until 12th grade
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