Burn all GIFs was 1999

Excellent

I'm currently repairing my friends car made in 1999 that has the heater controls on a 7" LCD. It's not touchscreen, it uses physical controls but the setting is shown on the screen and it is impossible to even demist the windows without it.

The replacement is prohibitively expensive but used units are available from end of life cars, however they may not last very long and the labour involved in fitting them is very lengthy.

I didn't say anything about how it is spent, I just used a common colloquial term and not the latest bureaucratic phrase.

"Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) (also commonly known as vehicle tax, car tax and road tax)"

Yes you can, there are no prerequisites for either an MOT or insurance in the UK. To buy a road fund license ('road tax') you do need to have both insurance and an MOT but the case you describe is plain wrong.

eMacs run Emacs just fine.

eMacs are PowerPC based and therefore won't run recent versions of Mac OS and also won't run recent versions of Safari or Firefox. I wouldn't be surprised if this means they don't support Google Docs etc fully or even at all.

They really are pretty much useless these days, I have just retired an office full of them that have been soldiering on for years but the number of websites that were simply not available to them became too great.

"When was the last time you saw Top Gear give a Consumer Reports review of a car"

In the early nineties.

"George Carlin used to point out that if you put a large spike on the steering wheel so that the driver would suffer badly in a collision, the numbers of collisions would drop dramatically."

He got the idea from TE Lawrence.