<OT> Re: Unity ROCKS not!!!

[Billie Walsh]

On 05/10/2011 11:49 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 21:27 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:17:00PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 20:03 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>>>> On 9 May 2011 19:53, Thierry de Coulon<tcoulon at decoulon.ch>  wrote:
>>>>> On Monday 09 May 2011 08:18:37 pm Douglas S. Saylor wrote:
>>>>>> Give the AVERAGE automobile driver
>>>>>> (cost, repairs aside) the option to have manual or automatic
>>>>>> transmission MOST will choose NOT to choose gear selection: automatic is
>>>>>> preferred by most (I HATE automatic transmission BTW)
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry. Give the _american_ average automobile driver (maybe UK or Australia
>>>>> too). Here in Switzerland it would be the opposite.
>>>>
>>>> Also in the UK most would choose manual.  We don't want any sissy
>>>> things like automatics here.
>>>
>>> I can burn rubber in second gear, with a hopped up 350 V8, in my 1977
>>> Chevy pickup, coupled to a good automatic. Somehow, somewhere, all the
>>> smog control gadgets disappeared... like magic. Beats me! With the cost
>>> of fuel now, I'm afraid to start it.<shrugs>  Ric
>>
>> So can I in my '65 Chevelle Malibu with a built 350/350. However, down
>> shifting for a curve can get dicey due to the lag. Ah for the days when
>> I could drive a 4 speed but can't now because I have to wear an
>> orthopedic boot on my left leg and can't feel the clutch. *sob*
>>
>> Take a tip: Don't get old. When you hit 60 screw a .45 in your ear and
>> let it rip.
>
> You're two years too late. Once I punched past 60, it all fell apart on
> me. Too many years of riotous living, I suppose.<cackles>  Worked hard,
> played hard, it all finally caught up with me. What I really need is for
> a bagpiper to wail away in some bar for me to get into a really good
> fist-fight and go down bleeding like a true Scot. Beaten, bruised and
> passed out. Then I could claim S.S disability and get paid. Gotta find
> the silver lining to this cloud. My claim for disability based on
> diabetes, blackening toes and blood clots ain't dead enough for 'em.
> <chuckles>  Ric
>
>

One friend of mine says it's not the age that gets you, it's the mileage.

I'm one owner, high mileage. Been rode hard and put away wet to many times.

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"A good moral character is the first essential in a man." George Washington

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