Crescent wrenches (was: Nomenclature (was: NEXT Color Printer find

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Fri Jan 4 10:28:10 2002

OOOHH! I'd rather forget about that.

When I lived out in the country, the first intersection with a major highway
that I encountered each day was with a 4-lane-divided that parallelled our
"major" river. A few miles downstream lay the Ft. St. Vrain Nuclear Plant,
which was credtited with considerable thermal pollution, one effect of which
was a heavy fog bank several miles up as well as down the river. One
side-effect of this fog bank was a layer of ice on the 4-lane, that claimed
several lives each year at the very intersection where I got on and off the
4-lane every time I drove that way. On the worst occasions, visibility was
not sufficient even to allow one to venture to the space between the
dividers. Even when signals were installed there, which wasn't until after
the Nuclear plant had been shut down, and after I moved away from that area,
visibility was sometimes so poor one couldn't see the signals when waiting
for them to change. It was awful, and took a terrible toll on account of
the ice.

Overdriving their visibility and trying to outrun trains seemed to take
plenty of young lives every year.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Pope" <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: Crescent wrenches (was: Nomenclature (was: NEXT Color Printer
find


> >
> > Odd that you should mention this ...
> >
> > As they've reccently had snow in the southern U.S, where that's a
noteable
> > and rare event, youngsters interviewed DO refer to the thing as a "snow"
> > sled, apparently because snow is such a rarity.
>
> HA... And they are *just* learning about the phenomenon known as "black
ice".
> :-D
>
> Bryan
>
>
> >
> > Dick
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Matt London" <classiccmp_at_knm.yi.org>
> > To: "'ClassicComputers'" <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 6:10 AM
> > Subject: Re: Crescent wrenches (was: Nomenclature (was: NEXT Color
Printer
> > find
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > Whoa, can't let that one by: we know what a snowmobile is up here
> > (c'mon,
> > > > fellow Canucks, back me up on this one!); mind you, if you asked ME
what
>
> Yes, as a fellow Canuck, I know what a snowmobile is... In the town of
9,500
> where I grew up, as soon as there was 3 to 6 cm of snow, everyone would be
> on their skidoo's.
>
>
> > > > a snowmobile is, I would indeed look at ya kind of funny (oops,
funnily,
> > for
> > > > the language police), since apparently YOU don't know what it is or
you
> > > > wouldn't be asking...
> > > >
> > > > But a snow sled??? Who calls it that? Sounds like the SkiDoo
trailer.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, one of us invented the thing, so we can call it what we
like!
> > >
> > > Just a second! What's this I see...
> > > From: M H Stein <mhstein_at_usa.net>
> > > A Canuck wuth a usa.net email address? Something screwy there if you
ask
> > > me, but then again I'm one of those dodgy brits :&)
> > >
> > > -- Matt
>
>
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