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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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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