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Maegan
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 04:53 AM
I don't carry a hammer in my car. Maybe that's just a European thing. |
Boo
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 07:26 AM
Not sure if it's a European thing, necessarily.
I suppose that (if I had a car) I'd have things like screwdrivers in the boot. But a hammer does seem a little bizarre.
Apart from using to attack things (or, I suppose, to defend yourself), is there any use for one in a car? |
Charybdis
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 07:38 AM
Hammers have a myriad of uses in a car :
Removing really tight lugnuts
and
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taking out your frustrations on the POS car that couldn't have waited just five - FIVE freaking more minutes before ripping your transmission to little grindy pieces instead of stranding you in the turn lane with the nearest place to push it over a hunder feet away, goddammit. |
Boo
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 07:58 AM
You seem cross, chary... |
Maegan
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 08:48 AM
I don't carry screwdriver's...I have pliers, and wrenches. I used to carry one of those screwdrivers were the end flips around & it can be phillips or flat head. I don't know that there is much in my car that needs a screwdriver.
And for tight lugnuts...don't ya just need a good push?? |
Boo
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 08:53 AM
Hmm, yes, pliers and wrenches are probably of more use. Like I said (or didn't, I suppose) I don't drive, so I have no idea of techy-car things.
I love the phrase 'tight lugnuts'.
I'm laughing and I don't know why.
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Charybdis
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 09:24 AM
I used to carry one of those screwdrivers were the end flips around & it can be phillips or flat head. - Maegan
OMG A woman actually called it a Phillips screwdriver. Never, ever have I heard one do that. It's always "the star shaped one". |
Winona
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 09:39 AM
It is because it makes more sense that way...descriptive is good. 😊
It's kind of like how I would say "to get there, go down three blocks and turn left at the Jewel Food store, and go until you see a purple house on the left hand side.". You might say go to Johnson St., turn left onto Market St., and it's number XXX, 10th house on the left".
I can picture mine easier. |
Boo
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 09:59 AM
Phillips is a cross head screwdriver? |
Charybdis
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 10:05 AM
Just 'cause I know you're dying for more info - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Head">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Head</a> |
Boo
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 10:08 AM
Right, so.
As I said, Phillips is another name for a cross head screwdriver.
I have never heard it referred to as a phillips. I always say cross head.
Sheesh, ask a simple question...
😜 |
Myst
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 02:01 PM
I knew a guy who got so pissed off at his car while he was trying to remove the transmission that he unloaded his 9 mm into said car. It didn't help the problem of course, but he said it made him feel better at least until he got a ticket for discharging a firearm in city limits. Dummy! LOL |
Winona
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 02:06 PM
Yikes, I can't imagine having a temper bad enough to do something like that... |
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 02:26 PM
This tragic woman should have owned a '67 Plymouth Satellite, like my Chariot of Fire. I have only taken a hammer to her once, and that was to tap in a new freeze plug. Cars are like women; treat them well. Rrrraoul |
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 02:51 PM
Hammers are handy when you're trapped in a car and need to break a window to get out.
For example when you end up in a body of water, you can't open the doors until the pressure equalizes. To equalize the pressure, almost all of the air has to be evacuated. Using the hammer just gets it done quicker.
It's also handy when you need to get out after you have hit the ditch in deep snow or mud and the doors won't open, and for some reason the windows won't roll down. |
Mark-N-Isa
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 03:03 PM
If the car was an old piece of crap which she'd been having lots of trouble with she might have had a hammer for this reason. Sometimes when a "starter" goes out on a car you can get it to work by tapping it with a hammer. This loosens any debris around the brushes and between the connections and therfore allows the starter to work. I've done this before when a starter went out on an old pick-up truck I owned. The trick was taught to me by my grandfather. I called him when I was stuck at a grocery store. He showed up with only a hammer to which I replied..."Just what are you going to accomplish with that?" He reached under the truck, tapped my starter a few times with the hammer, and voila... it started! I was able to put off replacing the starter for another 3 months or so by using the tapping trick whenver the starter decided it didn't want to work... |
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 03:04 PM
Of course, she COULD just be into cracking walnuts as she drives...
😊 |
Nettie
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 05:33 AM
It's a good trick isn't it Mark. My brother in law used to carry a cricket bat in his car for that same reason. Looked hilarious but very effective. |
Boo
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 05:44 AM
I'm wondering if that isn't what she was trying to do, rather than just attacking it.. |
Nettie
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 05:57 AM
I don't know. I find violence is a very effective stress reliever! |
Boo
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 06:05 AM
Hmmm. But it can lead to you running yourself over. |
Nettie
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 06:16 AM
I bet you a million bucks that if I'm dead, I won't be stressed! |
Boo
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 06:23 AM
Ah, touche. |
Boo
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 | 02:36 AM
Friday and Saturday's articles of interest:
Star Burst
Mafia bosses are swapping their guns for Viagra. The Gambino crime family flogs the sex pills after paying off crooked doctors, the FBI said.
Next of Skin
A stallion has been cloned from a castrated champion racer in Italy. Scientists used skin cells from the donor animal.
Scoot Ban's a Hoot
A drink-drive Scot is facing a driving ban... after crashing his 8mph electric scooter into a ditch.
Former RAF technician Andrew Robertson, 68, of Bishops Stortford, Herts, was on his was home from the pub when he drove off the road.
Police found that he was almost twice the drink drive limit when they arrived to help pull the |
Winona
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 | 07:19 AM
LOL. I love these! You willing to keep 'em coming? |
Boo
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 | 07:37 AM
Yeah, why not?
It's not like anybody expects me to actually work during the day...
Ahhh, I do it first thing in the morning anyway. That's emergency tea break time in my office.
😊 |
Winona
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 | 07:47 AM
Cool!
I'm on and off the computer all day long. I work part time for myself so I get the sweet deal - if I wanna kick off I do. Of course I still do need to watch the kiddo.... |
Boo
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 | 07:57 AM
Kids take a lot of watching, so I'm told.
But give 'em a bit of whiskey and you're sorted!
😉 |
Winona
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 | 08:14 AM
LOL, I'm just keeping him amused. We've got some great preschool practise books that he loved so we're working together on them. |
Maegan
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 | 09:41 AM
My mom calls it a phillips head too. But, she's never said it to you, so I would still be the first woman YOU know to utter Phillip, rather than calling it something stupid. (Yes, STUPID.)
Sadly, I lost my multipurpose screwdriver when I was cleaning chili out of the back of my station wagon. I took it in someplace to rinse it off, and left w/o it. I was trying to clean myself up as well. Must have slipped my mind. Need to get another soon. |
Winona
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 | 09:49 AM
Ok, I have to ask.... how'd you get chili in the back of your station wagon? |
Boo
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 02:43 AM
Thursday's Edition:
Star Burst
A poorly white stallion was given Benylin before going on stage with the Kirov ballet in Cardiff to stop his nasty cough.
Star Burst
The majority of teenage lads would love to bed an older woman, according to an online poll, but 9% said they'd expect cash to have sex with a 40 - 50 year old.
Star Burst
A man spent a night in jail... for shooting his car. John McGivney, 64, fired five rounds into his Chrysler's bonnet when it wouldn't start in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Star Burst
Germany's first neo-Nazi football team have complained they are bottom of their local league in Rathenow because their best players keep getting arrested by police.
E-mail for Tots
Toddlers could soon be sending emails with a new computer pad that uses play pegs instead of a keyboard and mouse. |
Smerk
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 03:01 AM
You get some very strange news there, Boo!
Who had the cough, the stallion or Benylin? |
Boo
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 04:04 AM
lol
I suspect it was the stallion rather than the medication... |
Smerk
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 05:30 AM
Okay, that was a misinterpretation! I read horse in ballet, and think WTF? That can't be right, maybe there's some guy by the name of Benylin in the ballet, who was given a horse to cure him of his cough! |
Boo
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 05:48 AM
A horse to cure him of his cough?
Is this usual over there?
😜 |
Smerk
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 05:54 AM
A horse in ballet? Is that usual? After all, they do have two left feet! |
Boo
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 05:56 AM
:lol:
Good point!
I don't know, actually. I've never seen a horse in ballet.
Do you have any idea why this isn't going back to the top of the forum? |
Smerk
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 06:32 AM
No idea why it's not going back to the top of the forum. |
Boo
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 06:47 AM
Mysterious.
And possibly a conspiracy.
😕 |
Accipiter
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 09:38 AM
I keep a hammer in my car. I don't really know why, though. I also keep a fire ax and a machete in there as well.
There was a car parked not far from one place I lived for a while, and it had one of those super-sensitive alarms that would start blaring away if so much as a light breeze hit the car. Needless to say, everybody got tired of hearing it go off. One of my friends finally had enough, and he went out with his shotgun and emptied a 200-round box of shells into it. By the third round, the car went silent.
That thing about the horse confused me at first, too. I was thinking that Benylin was somebody's name. It sounds like somebody from Kirov. Oh well. I've actually seen a sort of horse ballet. They were specially trained horses in Austria, but I forget what they were called. Lipizangers, or something like that. |
LaMa
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 03:37 PM
Benylin is a cough medicin that looks and tastes al lot likes tar but is very effective. It is also mildly sedative, so I hope the horse did not fall asleep.
Had a lot of it in my childhood. |
LaMa
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 03:39 PM
Oh and Rambo; it is Lipizaner. |
Accipiter
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 09:55 PM
Wow, I was only one letter off! Sometimes I even impress myself. Nobody else, of course, but at least myself. . . |
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 09:56 PM
Well, I'm off to Majorca now. I've always heard about people going there, so I thought I'd go myself and see what's so great about it. Happy weekend, everybody. |
Nettie
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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 | 12:11 AM
Hmmm, seems like everyone is going away for the weekend except me.
:down:
Oh well, I'm sure I can amuse myself in here. |
Nettie
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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 | 12:12 AM
La La La La La LaMa La La LaMa La La Dum De Dum De De Da Da Dum LaMa!
Thought I'd sing a song about our favourite furry friend. |
Smerk
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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 | 03:43 AM
Very nice Nettie! I'm not going anywhere either. |
LaMa
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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 | 04:49 AM
Thought I'd sing a song about our favourite furry friend.
:red: |
Winona
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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 | 08:31 PM
Someone else who shot his own car, this time in US. <a href="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1365187.html?menu=news.quirkies.strangecrime">link here. </a> |
Smerk
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 | 05:26 AM
You should feel honoured, LaMa! |
Boo
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 04:53 AM
Weekend Articles
Shock for Car Yobs
Electrician Peter Bayles got so tired of vandals attacking his car, he wired it up to the mains to give the yobs a shock
But a neighbour saw him boobytrapping his Ford Mondeo and tipped off the police.
Bayles, 28, of Eldon, Co Durham, yesterday admitted attempted assault when he appeared at Teesside Crown Court.
He was given an 80-hour community punishment and 12 months of community rehabilitation.
He said outside court: "The vandals made my life a misery."
An L of a Mess
A learner driver reversed over her mum and killed her while trying to park.
The 16 year old was being guided into a spot when she hit the accelerator and crushed her against the kerb.
Police in Marlborough, New Jersey, haven't named the pair but described it as a "horrible accident".
They said the couple had even set up traffic cones in the street for her lesson.
Dead Careless
Mortuary boss Richard Vassar faces a fine for careless driving after losing a coffin from his trailer in Idaho.
It's a Knockout
A sports lesson ended with a pupil impaled by a javelin and his pal knocked out with a shot putt in Kalama, Washington State.
Zoo on Wheels
Police got a nasty shock when they stopped a motor home because of a broken rear light.
In a search of the vehicle they found 32 alligators and more than 50 snakes, tortoises, chickens, rats, rabbits and dogs.
Three officers from Arizona Game and Fish Department spent seven hours binding the alligators' mouths with tape.
"They were a little feisty," said an officer.
A Cheap Shot
A polite customer who held a door open for a man at a store in Kansas City was shot in the leg for making a sarcastic remark. |
Boo
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 04:54 AM
Winona, that's the same guy!
International news here...
Actually, only one of today's updates isn't from America. |
Maegan
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 06:18 AM
Winona:
...See Off Topic thread for the "Chilli Incident". |
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 09:48 PM
I miss the old tabloids they used to have, things like "Giant Frogs Eat Entire Brazilian Village!" or "Cows in New England Mysteriously Explode!". Now they all seem to be things about Jessica Simpson's marriage or Brad Pitt's latest girlfriend. Where'd all the fun stuff go? |
Boo
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 03:41 AM
Shame Game
A computer game in which players can choose to 'take' a cocktail of hard drugs is on the way to the UK.
Narc, in which a cop is corrupted by taking LSD, ecstasy and crack, is banned in Australia.
US psychologist David Walsh said it glorified drugs and added: "It is a dangerous message."
Star Burst
Spicy lovers can now tie the knot over a curry. The Mint Leaf in London's Haymarket is the first Indian restaurant to get a marriage licence. |
Boo
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 03:42 AM
Acci, I used to love the Weekly World News.
Me and my best friend read it religiously when we were teenagers, but then everywhere stopped stocking it.
Only recently have I found it again, in a tiny newsagent. I'm so pleased! |
LaMa
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 04:04 AM
Spicy lovers can now tie the knot over a curry. The Mint Leaf in London's Haymarket is the first Indian restaurant to get a marriage licence.
Now I regret even more that you're married Boo - I love spicy curries.... |
Boo
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 04:12 AM
Me too.
Mmmmmmm curry... |
Boo
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 04:12 AM
Now the yoghurt I'm eating seems really boring. |
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