<VV> Stupid human tricks

[J R Read_HML]

Around here, we just use a potato.  I suppose someone from Idaho thought of 
it first.


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Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan and Clare Wesson" <alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Stupid human tricks


> Frank "thinking before doing" Burkhard wrote:
>
>> Why not just stop up the tailpipe so no exhaust gas can leave the
>> engine?  100% EGR should quickly put a stop to the combustion
>
> He he he! When I was at university in the 70s there was a guy with a hot 
> Ford Escort (the old RWD kind), and he really thought he was the bee's 
> knees! Everyone else had cars about 25 years old, but this poseur had one 
> that was about 3 years old and very hot. To make things worse, he never 
> maintained it properly, but just drove it at high speed, and very badly, 
> all round the grounds.
>
> One day a friend of mine rammed a drilled cork up the exhaust - in England 
> we have things called 'optics' in bars, which is where a bottle of spirits 
> is suspended upside-down and a measure is stuck to the bottom, with a tube 
> going through the cork. If the measure is pushed up it lets one measure of 
> spirits into the glass.
>
> Anyway, some wag (well, I know who it was, because he couldn't stop 
> talking about it!) shoved an 'optic cork' with a 1/8 or 1/4 inch hole 
> through it right up this Escort's exhaust as far as it would go (out of 
> sight). Of course, the car would only do about 15 miles an hour, ands this 
> idiot drove it round like that for ages (weeks) before taking it to a 
> garage to get it fixed! It was wonderful! The reason I know is because I 
> ran the bar, and the guy who wanted the cork had to ask me for it!
>
> So now you have a great way to get back at people you don't like...
>
> Cheers
>
> Alan
>
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