Modern Vespa

I'll send you some,if you say I'm not a weenie.

Remember Nick & Nora Charles and Asta?? Now those were detectives, especially Asta.
Besides weenies and Krap Dinner are the best.

not one MV Weenie has mentioned my fellow aerodynamic head, Kojak. Who loves ya', Baby?

We should start an intramural softball legue: the ModernVespa Weenies vs. The StellaSpeed A--holes. Then we'll have both sides covered, so to speak.

Softball is for weenies..

Do you remember the old SNL bit with Phil Hartman as Telly Sevalas advertising the "Player with yourselves club card" ?

I have to give my vote for Belker on Hill Street Blues as the best detective ever

Special Agent Dale Cooper - Twin Peaks. Does the FBI count??
Such a great mix of intelligence, toughness and good looks, and so wonderfilly unhinged at the same time.
I'm sure he even wore chaps in one episode for undoubtedly no reason at all...

MY SCOOTER MAKES A NOISE WHEN I PRESS THE STARTER BUTTON WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Hire a private dick to find out.

(in this thread, anyway)

Special Agent Dale Cooper - Twin Peaks. Does the FBI count??
Such a great mix of intelligence, toughness and good looks, and so wonderfilly unhinged at the same time.
I'm sure he even wore chaps in one episode for undoubtedly no reason at all...

You need to grease up your turn signal bearings.

Shifter elitists are funny. "If it aint broke, it aint cool"

Charlie's Angels get my vote every time.


"Do you know where I can buy hi-viz rally patches?" ......... A. Weenie

As someone great once said, "the closest we get to the wind in our faces is when we turn on the fan in the shed"

(BB we love your work)

I like Jonathan Creek, though he wasn't so much a detective as hippy in a duffel coat who lived in a windmill. I doubt the series made across to the States. The fact that his partner was aggressive overweight female journalist was also a plus. I don't like TV that's really good looking, it makes me feel inadequate.

I think I am a weeny, though I've got to say its not much of an insult - it sounds cute to me.

Alan Davies is hot. In a squooshy sort of way.

My post went up twice??
OMG I must be a weenie.

Would Mulder (X-Files) count? Hubba hubba!

Yeah, Alan Davies is sexy in his way, I did fancy him in the series. Peel off that duffel coat... mmm

Julie Burchill wrote a column about him once. Google it. It's worth it.

Scully was my close second choice....

Can't ignore Crockett and Tubbs from Miami Vice. Can't vouch for their detective skills, but they had style (at least back then). And the music was better.






... and now I've got that damn theme song running through my head! Aarrgh!

"he was bloody brilliant"

I used to see him on the way to work, wish I had read the article then, might have stopped and chatted him up!

Attagirl!

Weenie... ok, probably.

Detectives, oh, what a bunch to pick from!

Jim Rockford is just a personal role model
Everyone in school rolled over a car hood like Joe Mannix (I taught my son to do the same)
You've got to give props to Joe Friday, talk about cool and collected

But guys, would you include Maxwell Smart in this category? Now that's class!

Going back a little farther, the Avengers (and Emma Peel) gushed style and wit!

I am huge Avengers fan, and went to the school where they filmed all those mad country house styled episodes!

I love Mrs Peel, but not in a Jonathan Creek way.

Travis McGee may be gone but Serge A. Storms is still a loose cannon in South Florida. More trivia: name the skipper of No Mas

Columbo is SOOOOOOO #1, with Angela Lansbury a far-distant second.

I love that scene in Faraway, so Close where he's trying to break into the german missle silo and the guards think they're watching Columbo on the security monitor.

And The In-Laws is one of the greatest movies ever. Serpentine, Shelly, SERPENTINE!

Bb.

It's like deja vu.

Yea that is brilliantly funny!

This thread is totally funny.

stella speed..... those guys are losers! I say we fight them after school. who's with me? Buy the way Angelene Jolie (taking lives) is the hottest dective, but Eastwood is the badest!

Jim Rockford. Definitely.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071042/

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So do I have to fight myself?

Seriously, I've never heard them call us weenies. I heard them call us ninnies.

Stella Speed gives me that edge that is sometimes missing here but waaay out of control on the bbs. It's nice middle ground. + there is some really good technical information on there about 2-strokes. I rely on them for doing my own maintainance. From this forum I get more of a social outlet.

Everyone needs to click the link on Bryce's profile and do what Chopper Reid says!

Commissario Montalbano!

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/1803/index.htm

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Actually, I'm just here for the cupcake.

I like Stella Speed because it's full of 30-something burn-outs who lusted after Italian steel during the bad-old days of the 80s and 90s... maybe that's just me, though.
Seriously though, I've dug up better technical info there than that other board, and the ribbing that takes place is all in good fun.

As far as TV detectives go, there is only one, Frank Pembleton from Homicide: Life on the Street.

Can't forget about this guy! Frank Drebin

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I come here basically to try and make dumb jokes and write down EVERY SINGLE THING that Greasy says about maintenance on the LX150s. Joined Stellaspeed cause I thought I was getting a Stella. Someday I'm sure I will so I still lurk there and try to absorb as much info about the two-strokes as I can. Not so much on the tuning end but the maintenance board over there is a wealth of info.

Oh and Magnum, hands down!