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- From: hhtra@usho21.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: FLAME! Only a Manual!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.123958@usho21.hou281.chevron.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:39:58 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.063944.1@dac.mdcbbs.com> <BxAuD9.8E4@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov9.181206@usho72.hou281.chevron.com> <83559@ut-emx.uucp>
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- In article <83559@ut-emx.uucp>, klin@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Y. Kevin Lin) writes:
- |> hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock) writes:
- |> >
- |> >|> asr_2@dac.mdcbbs.com writes:
- |> >|>
- |> >|> ...lets say your in the middle of no place and get into a wreck.
- |> >|> Then lets say your car (auto) is flipped but the other car (manual trany)
- |> >|> is good to go, and the other driver is near death...
- |> >
- |> > ... what if the pilot was hit in the left leg and right arm
- |> > and the navigator was hit in the right leg and left arm and
- |> > the control switch was in the middle of the panel and the
- |> > aircraft was in a 30 deg per second roll and an enemy fighter
- |> > had missile lock on and just then a bird-strike shatters the
- |> > canopy...
- |> >
- |>
- |> How about this:
- |> Johnny lives in Boresville, OK where no one can get anywhere without a
- |> car. (This is not NYC where you can get a cab three o'clock in the
- |> morning.) Friday night Johnny's buddies Billy and Mike pick him up
- |> and the three of them ended up at Moe's Bar. By the time Moe is kicking
- |> everyone out of the bar, Johnny is the only one sober enough to legally
- |> drive. Needless to say, Billy's car is a five speed and Johnny never
- |> had learned how to drive one. So now what do we do? Sure we can have
- |> Billy drive his own car while intoxicated but he might make the local
- |> front page next morning. Or the three of them can hang out the sidewalk
- |> all night.
-
- What a perfect time for Johnny to learn to drive a stick. He has
- access to a car that he doesn't have to worry about breaking, a buddy
- who is in no condition to argue, and there is ample motivation - drive
- or "hang out" on "the sidewalk all night."
-
-
- I apologise if my attempt to interject some comic relief into this flame
- war failed. I thought my orginal post was facetious enought that smiley
- faces were not required. No good deed goes unpunished.
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- :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
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- TRAVIS
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