Rear wheel drive or not, weight shifts from your car's rear wheels to its front wheels when decelerating from forward motion. Unless your car also has rear wheel steering, this is a good thing to maintain while you are going downhill.

To paraphrase Jules Winnfield, "Physics, motherfucker! Do you speak it?"

Quite the opposite, in fact. They all survive - none of them actually fail to do so. Regardless of how much the actual death of contestants might increase ratings, the lawyers would never let the marketing team have their way on that one.

On the bright side, they'll have twice as much toilet paper.

You're absolutely correct when you say that.

No, no it is not. A typhoon is an atmospheric event and requires, you know, an actual atmosphere in which to occur.

Max? As I live and breathe, it's Max Headroom!

To paraphrase Tom Lehrer, "The Internet is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it".

Huh, must've been before my time!

About Mr. Krwzyk - That's about pronunciation of words in another language. What's your point? I knew a Chinese guy whose name could not even be correctly written in English, but there are accepted conventions (dogma, if you will) on how to write, in English, the phonetic representation of such names.

It's been my experience that people in the IT world are very comfortable with the use of abbreviations and acronyms and rarely "wordify" the unpronounceable ones to make them pronounceable (EBCDIC qualifies, but only just). The naturally pronounceable ones, on the other hand usually are pronounced (NAT, FIDO, IMAP, BIOS). While sequel is an acceptable, if unnecessary, pronunciation of SQL, I have found it rare except in the specific case of users of Microsoft SQL server, where it seems to be the rule rather than the exception. But it doesn't actually bother me as I am not a dogmatic anal retentive. And I'm fine with that. My shrink's got enough to deal with as it is.

The vowels in "SCUBA" go a long way to making it acceptable as an individual word. There are no vowels in "SQL". Unlike SQL, SCUBA is not commonly encountered in the areas of Information Technology and Computer Science, in which the use of acronyms is commonplace and well accepted. (Cue the story* of the IBM engineer who had to ask his client what was meant by F.A.N. in a maintenance request. Upon being told that fan was a word, not an acronym, the engineer informed the client that the correct term was in fact A.M.D., meaning Air Movement Device.)

*probably urban legend

That rumour is somewhere between a gross exaggeration and outright lie - unless Canada is using a very different polymer than that which has been in use by Australia for the last twenty odd years. Yes, very hot air will shrink Australian banknotes (I've actually done it with a fiver), but it has to be a lot hotter than anything available in a clothes dryer.