A funny Putin joke, a funky car, and a car with a fancy (not funny) name...

If you are a Muppets fan, you'll know this joke...
Q: What's green and smells of meat (bacon)?
A: Kermit the Frog

Well, Russian President-elect Putin has come uo with this one...
Q: What's long and green and smells of meat?
A: ???

For the answer, and the story, click here:

http://news.xin.msn.com/en/weird/storyviewer.aspx?cp-documentid=6116340

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Those were the days, in the 1980s, when they made cars like this one...

It's a 1982 DeLorean DMC-12 (the type featured in the Michael J. Fox movie "Back to the Future"). At least one person in Singapore has one, and he's selling it -- for $168,000. Pity, I recently traded in my car (and I did not have to fork out a six-figure sum but, aiyoh, the DMC-12 is so cool! Drool, drool).

Here's the story:

http://news.insing.com/tabloid/fancy-a-drive-back-to-the-future/id-a9403f00

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So, what's my metallic steed now? Here's a pic:

Some family members (you know who you are) have unkindly mocked the name. Fluence? Doesn't that sound like the stuff that's discharged from the sewers? Hah!

Listen, here's what Fluence means...

To flow (example, a flowing stream, from the French "fluere");
To put the fluence on is to use one's mysterious, magical, or hypnotic power, hence the derivative term, "to influence".