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Author: John_HJohn_H
Date: Jun 29, 2007 01:35
OzOne <> wrote:
Other issues aside (and there's plenty of those) to name a car by a
meaningless number has to be a portent for disaster. Which they might
even have averted had they called it the Galant 3800!
They shoulda learnt from that other great Australian lemon... the P76.
The joke at the time was it should've been named the P38 -- because it
was only half a car.
To add a 0 simply adds to the joke.
Then to try to save the situation by bringing out a Gold, Silver,
Bronze, or even a Platinum Edition just goes to show how out of touch
they really are. They might as well have called it the Ferrous Oxide
Special!
--
John H
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Author: FranFran
Date: Jun 29, 2007 01:17
On Jun 29, 5:21 pm, "Noddy" dodo.com.au> wrote:>> No, he never favoured autonomy. He became a kind of living god, who
>> consumed his subjects.
>
> Um, perhaps you can explain the difference there :)
>
Either we're working with different meanings for "autonomy" (I'm in
favour of quite a bit of it for humanity) or you meant that *he*
wanted autnomy for himself, which I'll grant.
autonomy:
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Author: George W. FrostGeorge W. Frost
Date: Jun 29, 2007 01:05
"Peelah Ben Arhna" yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:c7c983hvc0m5hnj02he7i7kvdr741cne1s@4ax.com...> Daryl Walford wrote...
>
>>IMO its crazy to ban a P plater from driving a particular car based on
>>the number of cylinders when almost any late model 6cyl has a lot more
>>power than any older V8.
>
> What about L platers? Currently they can drive anything except for trucks,
> etc., under instruction. As soon as they get their licences, the
> restrictions kick in.
>
> Remember a few years ago in country Vic, a girl on Ls was driving her
> father's Clubsport. She drifted into the gravel, overcorrected and slammed
> into an oncoming vehicle. Everyone in the Clubby died.
>
> They went on about the disparity between what L platers can drive and what
> P platers can drive. Thing is...
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Author: George W. FrostGeorge W. Frost
Date: Jun 29, 2007 00:52
> George W. Frost iceworks.org> wrote:>> "Athol" privacy.net> wrote:>
>>> One thing is missing from the Egyptian way of doing it... Rollers.
>>> Insert suitable sized rollers underneath and it moves easily without
>>> having to be floated...
>
>> Sure, first dig a hole under the boat to insert the rollers, then use
>> multiple pumps to pump away the incoming sand to keep it out of the
>> roller
>> bearings, also to pump out the incoming sand and water while you dig the
>> hole, ending up with a very large hole which the boat will drop down into
>> on
>> top of whoever is working under it.
>
>> typical Libran....not an engineer, barges in headfirst without thinking.
>
> Aside from the fact that I was making a fundamental theoretical comparison ...
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Author: Peelah Ben ArhnaPeelah Ben Arhna
Date: Jun 29, 2007 00:26
Just JT wrote...
>"Peelah Ben Arhna" yahoo.com.au> wrote:>>> My take on unions: they're passé and should go. People should be
>>
>> Well, you're entitled to your opinion, just like everyone else.
>~~~~~~~~~~~~
>This is where we can agree to disagree.
What? You don't think that you're entitled to an opinion??
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Author:
Date: Jun 29, 2007 00:25
wrote in message news:5ba9835p9migtmpi5bkcn6i1jm59pocue1@4ax.com...
> Well designed chassis don't torque steer.
Magna's do.
What does that tell you?
--
Regards,
Noddy.
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Author:
Date: Jun 29, 2007 00:22
wrote in message news:jt7983tbnqb2qs01fdl79hj47bn55nl062@4ax.com...
> Ever driven an AWD VRX....I say VRX because it has the uprated
> suspension.
Oh yeah. *huge* difference.
Slightly stiffer shocks and springs transform it from a beached whale to a
rubber dingy.
--
Regards,
Noddy.
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Author:
Date: Jun 29, 2007 00:21
> No, he never favoured autonomy. He became a kind of living god, who
> consumed his subjects.
Um, perhaps you can explain the difference there :)
> He was raised in a seminary by Russian Orthodox
> priests. There he learned at the table and knee of masters of
> bullying, spying and abuse, how to control those about you. Years
> later, he tracked down many of those who had taunted him, and ensured
> they got what he fancied they had coming to them.
To be blunt, he killed virtually everyone he ever had anything to do with.
Good *or* bad.
> Interestingly, his party name "Stalin" (the 'steely one') came from
> That's a gross exaggeration, unless you're going to count all those
> who died from every cause. That said, the mountain of bodies
> consequent upon his capricious rule was surely horrendous -- probably
> in the tens of millions.
The last "count" I heard was 60 million under his reign. Total dead
(military and civilian) from WWII was estimated at 50 million.
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Author: Peelah Ben ArhnaPeelah Ben Arhna
Date: Jun 29, 2007 00:19
Dan--- wrote...
>I can vouch for that I knew someone who had one, one of the first of the
>Aussie delivered models. the 4.0 litre v6 was gutless as all fuck it
>chewed through fuel and spent more time in the dealers getting niggly
>things fixed. The Taurus, Exploder, F series all fucked over here. :-)
Two workmates own Ford Explorer V8s. They've never had any problems with
them, other than one of them had an overheating problem for a while, but
was resolved with new head gaskets.
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Author:
Date: Jun 29, 2007 00:16
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:13:18 +0800, Fraser Johnston PCM code reading
> says:
>
>> wrote in message
>> news:su69835onk3sm2p6fjm8odre4hd6n854g3@4ax.com... >>
>> That would be nice with AWD. Pity it is a front wheel drive nannas
>> car.
>>
>> Fraser
>
> What it Fraser you will get Oz's knickers in a twist. :-)
>
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