<VV> Stupid media....No Corvair: was History Channel

[BEllison@bbafiberweb.com]

Back in 19 hunnert, n 99...saw a reporter on the news describing the pending
disaster concerning September 9, 1999, 9:00am...., i.e. 9999 - the
international code to tell all computers to stop processing.

I was just hoping noone believed that idiot.

I remember looking up in 1/1/2000 12:05am...and realizing we still had
power, and all was well.  Said out loud to friends..."We programmers did
pretty good, huh?"

Barry Ellison
Powerbuilder/Oracle Senior Programmer


> 
> The "History" Channel also said when improving the 
> performance of the engines, folks use things like stainless 
> steel pistons......  The folks who produce the shows are 
> clueless.  Makes you wonder about their research and veracity 
> when they claim facts or make statements when talking about 
> something we have no knowledge of, doesn't it?
> 
> Chuck "getting even more cynical every day" S
> BBRT
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Miller [mailto:jncmiller@mchsi.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 10:39 PM
> To: virtualvairs@corvair.org
> Subject: <VV> VV Full Throtle on History Channel Corvair mentioned
> 
>   I was watching the El Camino versus Ranchero episode tonite 
> of  "Full Throtle" on The History Channel. And as always they 
> made a mistake on Corvair. They said because Ford used the 
> Falcon as the base for the 1960 Ranchero Chevy couldnt 
> counter because the Corvair rear engine was unsuitable for a 
> pickup bed. This may be true to a small extent as a Lakewood 
> might have been interesting in this mode. They failed to 
> mention the Rampside pickup....how could they have missed that?
>   Anyway I thought it would be interesting to see the Corvair 
> versus Mustang revived on an episode of this show and sent an 
> email to the show about this.
>   Anyone interested in sending an email to the show about 
> this same idea just
> write to : FULLTHROTTLE@TRIAGEINC.COM    Its worth a 
> shot...who knows it
> might
> be interesting TV for a change?
> 
>                                          John Miller
>                                          Iowa  
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