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Well, it's German. Wha'd you expect?

English has weird rules, too. We just don't notice.

The best thing that ever came out of Maserati was the Citroen SM, and it Had Problems. Especially the one Burt Reynolds parked in the Savannah River. I've had cars I wanted to park in rivers. And an old friend used to sing a ditty she sorta stole from Neil Young: "Down by the river I shot my Volvo"

How can I be old enough for Social Security when I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up?

Was in southwest Colorado last week- visited Mesa Verde, drove through Durango, Silverton, Ouray, Telluride, stayed in Ridgway, and visited The Black Canyon of the Gunnison. It was nice to be out of the Texas heat but not so great to be a flatlander staggering around at the local elevations. I'm no...

Typing was my worst subject in high school. Grades kept dropping, because I got up to 35 wpm (on a manual typewriter) and plateaued for the rest of the semester. Gods being the evil-minded jokers that they are, my doom was sealed. :twisted: That seems somewhat ironic, considering your username whic...

Some of the information signs on the Pennsylvania Turnpike are inconsistent from section to section. Brother and I have been arguing for decades over whether it's really necessary to be a lert, or if it's sufficient to just keep one in the trunk.

*Hits the gas toward the next exit.*

Well, I used to be able to do 30-40 words a min on an IBM Selectric... Typing was my worst subject in high school. Grades kept dropping, because I got up to 35 wpm (on a manual typewriter) and plateaued for the rest of the semester. Gods being the evil-minded jokers that they are, my doom was seale...

lake_wrangler wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 11, 2019 5:52 pm

Out of curiosity, how long does it take a motorcycle to grow to full maturity?

Don't know about the bikes, but my brother is a longtime biker. He's 62. We're still waiting.

We're what you get when you compress a whole bunch of hydrogen and wait awhile.

What's the hazard with borax?

And Dave wins again.

Meanwhile, on a completely different note (pun definitely intended)... My choir director forwarded me an email from someone looking for amateur tenor and bass singers, to join in a choir to sing Verdi's Great Requiem... After consideration, and discussion with the person who originally had sent him...

It's why the things are so often laden with grammar and spelling errors, and what you would think are obvious absurdities: to screen out people smart enough to question whether the IRS would really send you a letter written in Engrish... I have to admit, I had never thought about that angle... That...

But now I'm so frosted off at Volkswagen over the diesel emissions fraud that I'll never buy another one. Better not buy a smartphone either. A bunch of manufacturers have been caught programming the phones to cook the performance numbers when the various testing suites are run. In other words, don...

I'll bet it had something to do with a new president or other high end management change... btw- I first joy-rid my first ride in a parking lot & it was an old air-cooled VW bus. That said, I'm still thinking of getting the successor; a Vanagon and w/ the Diesel bell-housing in there you can strap ...

And the Boca combination sound card/modem was a nightmare. {Boca was a company started by former IBM engineers - the same team who had been responsible for the PCjr...} I had my own nightmare with a Boca Ethernet card, years ago. I chose it because it used a very good Ethernet chip (AMD PCNet) whic...

I've always heard it as 'Quehr-ee'. Interesting. I've always thought it that as being a British variant pronunciation... haven't heard it used in the U.S. as far as I can recall. However... I believe I recall that some of the Appalachian accents in American English are derived pretty directly from ...

Furshlugginer publishing industry . . . .

Just last Sunday, when I filled up before driving to my dad's birthday brunch, a van filled up, next to my truck. A 73 VW van... Admittedly, the owner said it was costing her a fair bit, to keep it alive... I told her I knew the feeling (mine being a 1991 GMC Suburban...) Got rid of a 1970 VW van i...

Description sounds like they might have entirely replaced the suspension and drive train. The guys over at Doc's who rebuild old cars do that.