This was going to be a random declaration.

[kiya]

I was going to say that the next car commercial I see that uses "We Will Rock You" shall be deemed morally deficient if it doesn't include cars stomping their tyres.

Should be easy to do with CGI.


So I went upstairs to make this proclamation to Kevin, who's camped out in the bed waiting for Suzi to call for their date night. He was amused, and flopped his hand over for me to give him a squeeze.

Arthur, however, took this as an invitation to come over and be petted.

He leapt! to the bed!

Put in a brief cameo appearance as a bouncing cat head!

And fell off again.

By the time I'd picked myself up off the foot of the bed, he'd managed to figure out how to get up onto the bed again, and was looking deeply perplexed at why the humans were all quaking.

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[oneironaut.livejournal.com]

Cars, or at least specific cars with sufficiently good suspensions and whatnot, can be made to bounce on their front tires (pivoting around the back ones). Apparently this is done competitively. No, I don't get it either.

[brooksmoses]

It's a historical thing, sorta. The original purpose of a hydraulic adjustable suspension was so that you could drive your car around with it sitting just barely above the ground looking cool, but jack it up to legal height if the local constabulatory or a speed bump were sighted. I'm told that sufficiently cool adjustable suspensions also allowed you to park whereever you wanted -- because, if you set the car down on the frame, there was no way they could tow it!

Then, someone noticed that they could make their car bounce up and down with their hydraulic suspension, if they cycled it repeatedly. A few rounds of one-upmanship on coolness of suspension hydraulics, and ("Hey, watch _this_!") someone got theirs to actually hop off the ground. And then, of course, everybody wanted one.

So, there you have it -- a very predictable combination of "Hey, watch _this_!" and one-upmanship.

- Brooks