Link? I love being right!

I got 97% kindness ... you fucking donkey.

It's mostly just a Southern US thing.

I used to occasionally eat while on acid. It was more of an intellectually curious activity than something truly satisfying - like the culinary version of watching Laurie Anderson performance art.

I'm in my 50s and I cycle almost everywhere. It's amusing how nearly everyone thinks that means I lost my driver's license to a DUI.

Because he's not Ben Roethlisberger?

The best Smashing Pumpkins song: 1979. This was a bit before school systems generally learned that it was easier to just pass students through and be rid of them.

Why is floor rust such a problem that it needs to be patched

If you already have holes in the floor clean through the steel, these areas will accumulate dirt and mud when driving in wet conditions, which will further accelerate the rust there. Over time you will have less and less floor underneath you.

the seat bases where they are bolted

This is the clearest indication of floor rust there is short of pulling up the plywood.

Then engine started right up and sounded decent.

This is really not something to base an engine evaluation on. My engine (a DT466e with only 39K miles on it after a rebuild) sounded perfect ... until one day the HEUI pump blew and I was out $3500.

That's not too bad as far as chassis rust goes, but your problem with any bus from the NE is not with chassis rust but with rust on the floor of the bus body, which your pictures here don't really show. In any event, you can't really determine the extent of floor rust until you get out the seats and plywood flooring, but chassis rust like this is a sure indication that you will have at least some body floor rust. The damage can be dealt with, but you would have to cut away the rusted-out portions and weld in patches, which will take time and a bit of money (and perhaps expertise that you don't have, but it's not really a bad thing to acquire this expertise as that will help you with other parts of a skoolie project).

Worst-case scenario is something like this.  Your bus here is probably not that bad but it might be.

Yeah, Blue Bell is awesome too (I used to live in Louisiana but you can't get it in Philly).

Not always. The T444E and the pre-emissions DT466(e) are excellent engines.

Avoid engines from 2004+ and the AT545 transmission, and you really can't go very wrong.

it doesn’t run great, handles like shit, and doesn’t start sometimes, but it looks cool and holds its value over time

Gibson is the Harley Davidson of guitars.

LiDL ice cream FTW. Fucking $2.24 for a "half-gallon" (actually 48 oz. like everybody does) and it's made with sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup.

I was a consultant for most of my programming career (since the mid '90s). One thing I noticed consistently was the cozy relationships between the consulting companies who employed me and the executives of the companies I did the actual work for. If an executive hires a salaried employee directly, they get no personal benefit from the arrangement (other than professional competence), but if they hire a consultant to do the same job they get wined and dined and free vacations from the consulting company and I wouldn't be at all surprised if real money changes hands as well.

So it's very dumb from the standpoint of the corporation as a whole, but not dumb at all (just corrupt as hell) for the individual executive making the hiring decision.

I went to junior high school (8th grade) with a dude who had two kids. Granted, he should have been a high school senior but had been held back for four years, but it was still pretty impressive.

His feet were a mess.

Back in '86 Isiah "Am I The Asshole?" Thomas referred to him as "Dr. Scholl".

That bus will have a Maxxforce engine - the engine that cost Navistar more than $100 million in lawsuits and forced the company to give up making engines entirely. If the bus really has only 20K miles on it, that's probably only because the original owner couldn't keep it on the road thanks to engine problems. This is a bus to avoid like the plague.

There's a funny routine from a British show whose name I've forgotten about a customer who orders an eggless omelette.

I went to a Hungarian restaurant (in the US) once. The bathroom was way in the back and you had to walk past the kitchen to get to it, and as I passed I locked eyes with the chef who was stirring a pot of something with a lit cigarette dangling from his mouth (this was long after smoking had been made illegal in restaurants). He just rolled his eyes and with a disgusted-but-resigned expression flicked the cigarette into the sink and went back to stirring. FWIW I felt it just made the experience more authentic.

Ridiculous - BMW doesn't make school buses.

how they continued without Jon Anderson made me want to never see the zombie band that exists today with their name

This is how I felt ... in 1980 when they replaced Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman with the fucking Buggles. Although to be fair Drama is actually a pretty decent album.

I just read that he started out as a roadie for The Nice, which was Keith Emerson's band before he was in Emerson Lake and Palmer. Never would have imagined there was any connection between those two musicians.

I've never heard anything bad about any of the members of Yes (other than the fact that they haven't always all gotten along with each other). If anybody knows of anything, please don't ruin them for me.