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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!sgi!igor!donb
- From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
- Subject: Re: People who say they'll do you a favour (favor)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.224622.4640@igor.tamri.com>
- Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
- References: <9211171602.AA08728@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 22:46:22 GMT
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- In article <9211171602.AA08728@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk> library@prg.oxford.ac.uk
- writes:
- >
- >My car needs a bit of work done to it. A garage quoted 1500 pounds for a new
- >engine. I blanched at that. Took it away from the garage because a guy at
- >work said he had a mate who could help.
-
- Holy heck, that's heavy. How many of you did it take to lift it? :)
-
- >Peeve: being so technically incapable that I find the courtesy light inside
- >the car too complicated to fix!
-
- What's a courtesy light? We USAns have two kinds of ligts in our cars:
- map lights and high-beams-from-hell, which we use to blind obstinate
- slowpokes and send them over cliff edges to a fiery death...
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- don
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