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Charlie Nudo shows his ignorance yet again...twice.
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:15:22 GMT, "William W Western"
wrote: You really are a stunod. What is a stunod? snip Stunod: stoo-NAWD n. Ital. slang: An idiot, a stupid person, imbecile. Usage: "Cheryl Nudo deve essere uno stunod perché ha sposato Charlie Nudo." Stugot: stoo-GAHT n. Ital. slang: A derisive reference to the male genitalia, usually regarding that of an animal. Usage: "Charlie Nudo è uno stugot grande e grasso." Bacciagaloup: BAH-chaw-gah-LOOP n. Ital. Donkey, jackass, beast of burden, usually expressing stupidity. Usage: "Charlie Nudo si comporta come se sia un bacciagaloup poiché è pazzesco." Pazzesco: patz-AYSK-oh adj., n. Ital. Crazy, insane, mentally disheveled. Usage: "Charlie Nudo, é pazzesco come potete rilevare tramite il suo comportamento." Nudo: NOO-doh n. Ital. Knot, something that it tied in knots, a tangle. Usage: "Charlie, Il suo cervello è legato in un nudo!" "'Ey, 'at'sa my-a boya, dat Cholly Noodles....STUGOT!" --Mama Noodles "Cholly, take ya pills!" --Cheryl Noodles "I am da capo of 8 track fraud!" --Cholly Noodles |
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Elcaset- worth a try
A worthy and rare example with which to tinker. Many Somersets make
it up into the GWN? Back in the 50s, English cars were the dominant import thanks to our Britishness I suppose. When better imports started arriving it was soon realized we had been hoodwinked by crappy Limey cars that would not start, navigate the snow drifts, or "demist the windscreens" in our winters. Rule Britannia, eh! British car industry thinking - Make our cars work for you, we will not deign to design them for use in your country. Pip, pip, old bean! Sayonara...Austin, Hillman, Jaguar, Ford of England, etc. |
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Charlie Nudo shows his ignorance yet again...twice.
"'Ey, 'at'sa my-a boya, dat Cholly Noodles....STUGOT!" --Mama Noodles
"Cholly, take ya pills!" --Cheryl Noodles "I am da capo of 8 track fraud!" --Cholly Noodles Pretty funny stuff. |
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Charlie Nudo tries to hide...without success
I guess they never taught that in Probability class and UCLA
well, it's a free college, you get what ya pay for.... snip Funny, but probably incorrect. |
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Elcaset- worth a try
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:45:13 GMT, "William W Western"
wrote: A worthy and rare example with which to tinker. Many Somersets make it up into the GWN? Back in the 50s, English cars were the dominant import thanks to our Britishness I suppose. When better imports started arriving it was soon realized we had been hoodwinked by crappy Limey cars that would not start, navigate the snow drifts, or "demist the windscreens" in our winters. Rule Britannia, eh! British car industry thinking - Make our cars work for you, we will not deign to design them for use in your country. Pip, pip, old bean! Sayonara...Austin, Hillman, Jaguar, Ford of England, etc. snip Not to mention their awful Bristol buses. Some of the old double deckers (the old Route Masters) are still knocking away out in Victoria, I suppose, making dutiful deposits of tourists for high tea daily. They were built by Bristol, and had a HUGE 6 cylinder engine that went perhaps as far as 1500 RPM, coupled to a licensed copy of the GM HydraMatic provided by Jaguar...of all people. Examples of "Britishness" in British cars: The Jag XK-E or V12, neither of which would run much past 500 miles after a complete tune-up, the Triumph XR-7 (what WERE they thinking when they designed that completely stupid engine???) and anything made by Lucas, Prince of Darkness. Their aeroplanes were similarly strange, as well. If they bought them somewhere else, they made them "strange" by specification. Example: Prior to full scale production of the Lockheed P-38 "Lightning" in 1941, the RAF ordered a passel of them under the "Lend-Lease" agreement. A sparlking performer in its USAAF dress, it was a bit of a slug as an RAF fighter, mainly because the Brits demanded usage of inferior Rolls-Royce engines rather than the turbocharged Allisons, and specified that both engines/propellers turn the same direction. Thus, you wound up with a plane which could turn on a dime in one direction, but the pilot would have to fight mightily to get it go elsewhere...or even straight! The Avro Lancaster was a storied, but very quirky, aircraft that lasted well into the 1960s in airliner and freighter service, mostly in South America, due to the British presence there. Not many USAAF pilots would go back for second trips in a Lancaster, while any RAF pilot lucky enough to get a B-17 or B-24 would have to have their fingers pried from the stick. The Lancaster seemed to be designed to fight the pilot at all times in the air and even on the ground. Perhaps that's a part of that "stiff upper lip" demeanor, eh? 32° here as I type, with all doors and windows sealed tightly to keep in the interior at a nice 22°. Thank goodness for those mandatory insulation and weatherstripping codes demanded by Jerry Brown back in '78! |
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Charlie Nudo tries to hide...without success
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:50:15 GMT, "William W Western"
wrote: I guess they never taught that in Probability class and UCLA well, it's a free college, you get what ya pay for.... snip Funny, but probably incorrect. snip Most assuredly. I know this for a fact, as I'm reminded every time the subject comes up about the repayment of those student loans. Still, all in all, they were quite a bargain. The fly in the ointment came with Ronnie RayGun tried to start "calling in" Federally dispensed student loans early. He was rebuffed by Congress, and by the time the issue came up again in his second term, he was well into senility. |
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Elcaset- worth a try
soon realized we had been hoodwinked by crappy Limey cars that would not
start, that completely stupid engine???) and anything made by Lucas, Prince of Darkness. Having said that, I should mention I was at an auction this past summer that had several old Vauxhalls sitting behind a barn up for auction. I think the one had a plate from the 70s on it and a tree growing out of the engine compartment. They hooked a battery up to it and the thing fired up and purred like a kitten. Course it was summertime, but still...sitting for thirty years - not bad. |
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Elcaset- worth a try
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:37:23 GMT, "William W Western"
wrote: soon realized we had been hoodwinked by crappy Limey cars that would not start, that completely stupid engine???) and anything made by Lucas, Prince of Darkness. Having said that, I should mention I was at an auction this past summer that had several old Vauxhalls sitting behind a barn up for auction. I think the one had a plate from the 70s on it and a tree growing out of the engine compartment. They hooked a battery up to it and the thing fired up and purred like a kitten. Course it was summertime, but still...sitting for thirty years - not bad. snip Ah yes...the ones made to look sort of like a miniature Buick Special. I still have a post card, issued circa 1960, from the then-local Buick/Vauxhall dealer with a picture of one of them spanking new. Against all odds, there actually were quite a few of them running around southern California, as the GM dealers, stuck with only the Corvair to compete against Ford's intensely successful Falcon, touted them as "economy cars". (That'd be a Frontenac up there, eh.) |
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Elcaset- worth a try
them as "economy cars". (That'd be a Frontenac up there, eh.)
For this first few years and then they dropped all the silly names and odd looking grills. |
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Elcaset- worth a try
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:55:39 GMT, "William W Western"
wrote: them as "economy cars". (That'd be a Frontenac up there, eh.) For this first few years and then they dropped all the silly names and odd looking grills. snip My first trip to Canada was in '67 for l'Expo in Montréal. Many Mercury trucks and Meteor cars were still to be found everywhere, along with Acadians (Chevy IIs) and other odd birds. The most popular car by far in Montréal (and in le cité du Quebèc) were "Chevrolacs"...US Pontiac bodies outfitted with Chevrolet drive trains. The Laurentian seemed the equivalent of the US Catalina, and the ritzy (by comparison) Parisienne was obviously a dupe of the Bonneville, but the make's name was definitely Pontiac, and used the same logo. There was also a "bare bones" Pontiac that would've been the twin of the by-then demoted Star Chief, but I don't remember what it was called. I do remember it as looking quite stripped and had a Chevy 6 for power. All these cars had the inferior small block Chevrolet engines and PowerSlide or Saginaw 3 speed transmissions, and had somewhat more Spartan appointments. A 327 was about as big as one could get, it seemed, in an "Chevrolac." Full wheel covers, a necessary appointment on the West Coast at the time, were even more non-existent than they were in the Northeast, as were white ringed tires (tyres?). A quick look at the underhood of an Acadian showed it to be an exact copy of the US version of Chevy II, using the obsolete 235 "Blue Flu" 6 and manual Saginaw gearbox. The Frontenac was also, aside from name and funny Pontiac-style grille, a dead ringer for the 144" 6 and 3 speed found all over the US in the '60s. I don't know if Ford Canada even offered the larger 170" 6 up there at that time. Many Meteors were still using old Y-block engines in '60s Canadian cars, after the Y-block had be superceded by the FE engine in 1959 down below. Oddly, the Meteor that showed up in the US in '62 never appeared in Canada. It was the intermediate Fairlane twin, while the northern cousin was the full sized Merc. There was some sort of trade agreement back around that time that, for some reason, obviated the chicanery with the funny names and funnier grille treatments on most cars, but I do remember the miserable Chevy Vega was sold as a Pontiac Astre up there and had a similarly horrid track record. It seems that after the late '70s, though, what was available down here was also available up there to a point. Chrysler products were never segregated; what models were up there were also down here, probably since Chrysler had been building engines and cars in Canada since the '50s. In the '80s, Oldsmobiles seemed big sellers in Ontario, as I recall. Prior to that time, Oldsmobiles were unavailable in Canada, but, after Smith had "cookie cuttered" every GM product, one brand was the same as any other except for little "glued-on" accoutrements. When Roger Smith set about destroying Al Sloan's GM, he dissolved the various pseudo-independent divisions as separate entities and started "badge engineering" all GM cars except Cadillac, which still did manufacture their own engines and only shared body shells with the most senior Buick and Olds models until 1986. Both Chevrolet and Pontiac marques then wound up in the "GM-Canada business unit." Chevrolet cars built in California at the old Van Nuys plant, where my wife's '92 Camaro came from as did all the "Chevrolac" Fireturds, was a GM-Canada operation, as were all the combined Chevy and Pontiac plants by that time. Probably a tax dodge or some other corporate nonsense, but here we had a GM car, built in California, that stated it was built by the "GM-Canada Division of General Motors." When Van Nuys was shut down and the "new" Camaro/Fireturds started being built at GM's Youngstown, OH, plant, the product was still a "GM-Canada" product, although most parts along with final assembly all happened in the US. GM's current demise was precipitated by Roger Smith, as was AT&T final demise perpetrated by Bob Allen. Both are scurrilous scumbags of American corporate stupidity and lack of awareness, let alone "vision." Ford under Caldwell was doing a lot better at that time, but the Ford family did their best to hamstring any moves by Caldwell to modernize or do anything ground breaking. The coup de grace for Ford came with the family installed "Billy" Ford as chairman, and the whirlpool of destruction started in short order. His chairmanship was probably best heralded by the horrendous explosion of the 1919 vintage steam power plant at the Rouge plant, caused by deferred maintenance and staff cutbacks ordered by "Billy." One humorous memory of Montréal...the gendarmes were using Renault Dauphines as their patrol vehicles, surely out of some misguided allegiance to the "homeland." On a hot summer day in July of '67, broken down Renault cop cars would be found littering all the streets of the city all day long. Also in high numbers there were Citroëns....both moderne DS, and the ubiquitous CV-2. If one were to explore the oddities of Gallic thinking, a thorough investigation of the DS would do nicely. One lasting impression of Montréal at night was the beautifully lit, massive Jacques Cartier bridge, as well as the teenage French-Canuck girls on le Métro at night. |
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