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Re[3]: Think you're having a bad day?

To: STUART_BRENNAN@hp-andover-om3.om.hp.com, tigers@alpine.b17a.ingr.com
Subject: Re[3]: Think you're having a bad day?
From: LeBrun@hii.hitachi.com
Date: Wed, 22 May 96 12:36:37 PST
     All;
     
         -Ignore my last message. A better urban legend would start...
     
          "There once was a (any English car model) owner who had the
           following problem (take your pick) whilst driving his
           (model name) to the (pick one)".
     
           (Now go into great detail about the problem, as well as the      
           solution, keeping in mind these scenarios only apply to English  
           cars & their redundant parallel systems).The solution must take  
           weeks or even months to implement & must require the expenditure 
           of such sums of money that it will be higher than the GNP of     
           Botswana or other such nation.
     
           When you finally solve your problem, you are so ecstatic that    
           you rush to your computer to issue an E-mail or publish your
           newsletter ONLY TO FIND that 53-1/2 different people already     
           have experienced the EXACT problem you did, but kept quiet out   
           of embarassment when you first asked for help.They did this
           because they thought that they were the only ones that had this
           particular problem.
     
           You also must spend lots of money on shop manuals that when      
           after reading, you realize that what you need to spend on        
           extinct tools would keep your Snap-on man's kids in Harvard      
           full-term if you could buy the tools in the U.S.There MIGHT BE
           a source for the left-hand drive Metric-combo crescent wrench
           you MUST HAVE at a tool bazaar in  Pakistan. When you go, you
           can also make great deals on surplus Soviet & U.S. military
           hardware at the same time to offset the cost of your trip &
           to appease your family during your absence. 
     
           Once you finally get your car going, ignoring the howling dogs
           on your block and dirty looks from your neighbors, you make it
           to the gas station to find: a) gas is 3-digits per gallon with
           a decimal point, and b) there is no more 100+ Octane fuel at
           the pump, except at your local airport. 
     
           Finally, you're back home, all a-glow because your beloved car
           is one step closer to perfection. You then start to think about
           the next project, not realizing your house is devoid of 
           furnishings and life, except for the fish. In reality, your
           family left 4 months earlier, and now it becomes clear why
           when you were working on your pride-and-joy, that no one was
           there any longer to hand you tools. You just figured they went
           to the bathroom.
     
           So, you pop open a cold one, grab the wrench you got SUCH A DEAL
           on overseas, and go to work.
     
     
                       Happy wrenching,
     
     
                                       Phil LeBrun 
     


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Subject: Re[2]: Think you're having a bad day?
Author:  LeBrun@hii.hitachi.com at ~INTERNET
Date:    5/22/96 11:37 AM


     Yeah;
     
          -Maybe the individual in this story was on leave from his
           regular job searching for alligators in the New York 
           sewer system?
     
          -This way we can tie a couple of urban legends together. 
     
          -Anyone else want to add any more...let's make our own
           convoluted run-on urban legend. 
     
     
                                 Phil
     
     
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Subject: Re: Think you're having a bad day?
Author:  STUART_BRENNAN@HP-Andover-om3.om.hp.com at ~INTERNET 
Date:    5/22/96 12:23 PM
     
     
     
Have we been had, or is this becoming one of those "urban legends"?  I heard 
almost this same story on a morning radio show a couple weeks back, except it 
was set in southern France, and the aircraft was one of those amphibians 
(Canadair?) with a scoop in the bottom to fill the tanks while doing "touch and 
go" landings.
     
Stu  
     
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Subject: Think you're having a bad day?
Author:  Non-HP-owner-tigers (owner-tigers@triumph.cs.utah.edu) at 
HP-ColSprings,uugw3
Date:    5/22/96 12:01 PM
     
     
     
Hi group,
I just received this little clippet and thought I would pass it along. BTW 
the latest issue of Car Craft has a nice article about overheating problems. 
Nothing really new, but a concise collection of things to check and possibly 
change.
     
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If you think you're having a bad day...
     
     Fire authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section 
     of forest whilst assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The 
     deceased male was dressed in a full wetsuit, complete with a dive 
     tank, flippers and face mask.  .
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     ..
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Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed! 
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Cullen in Tempe B9472658, B395002751
     
     


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