Long car trips, a wild head of Einstein-y fur in my lap.

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Despite a fervent fan campaign to save Mr Toad's Wild Ride, the Coney Island-style, runaway car goof was run off the road in 1998 in favour of the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

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All was calm and serene when suddenly the car tried to kill me, sending itself into a wild 180-degree spin, which miraculously hit nothing.

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And in 1965, selling motorbikes for a spell in Moses Lake, Washington, business became a lot more interesting when, fired up with a Wild Turkey or two, he did tricks to draw in the customers: jumping a car, then a car and a 20-foot box of rattlesnakes, then two cars, rattlers and a mountain lion, until a crowd came to watch him.

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