BTW, Arthur
The original joke was that if Ted Kennedy drove a VW he'd be president.
This bit of humor relied on the common knowledge current at the time of
the Chappaquiddick incident that VW beetles could be depended on to
float for some time after they went into the drink.
I might relate a story from my youth in the tundra of Michigan's Upper
Peninsula.
Two associates of mine in my home town of Escanaba, MI, Rick Kobasic and
Joe Snow were riding in Rick's Studebaker on the ice on Lake Michigan.
For those of you who think this is crazy, the ice in the winter can be
over two meters thick there.
And besides, how will you get to your fish shanty if you don't have a
snowmobile?
At any rate, Rick managed to find a thin spot on the ice (which can happen
near shore above a lake bottom spring) and the car went through the ice.
He and Joe were surprized to be floating serenely about level with the
top of the wheels with no evidence the vehicle was taking on water..
Whereupon, Joe panicked, said, "I'm getting the hell out of here!" and
opened the door rather than climbing out of the perfectly good
windows onto the ice.
Whereupon the car sank to the bottom.
Both Rick and Joe escaped, only cold and wet.
Rick would never ride with Joe after that for some reason.
On Wed, 24 Sep
1997, Arthur
Pfenninger wrote:
=%O Don't know, but if VW's did Ted Kennedy would have been president!
=%O...Art
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=%OOn Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Debra A Morrow wrote:
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=%O> Do MGB's float???
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=%O> Debbie
=%O> 79B in Nora's path
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"Never ascribe to Malice that which can be explained by Ignorance"
John J. Peloquin
Molecular Biology &
Biochemistry
3205 BioSciences II
UC IRVINE
Irvine, CA 92697-3900
jpeloqui@uci.edu
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