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- From: eliot@chutney.rtp.dg.com (Topher Eliot)
- Subject: Re: Fun pranks to pull with your car (Was: ++WHICH OIL BEST FOR)
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- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.161515.22569@dg-rtp.dg.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 16:15:15 GMT
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- In article <9518@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au (Murray Chapman) writes:
- |> A friend of mine snapped his accelerator cable, and rather than leave his
- |> car where it stood, we ran some string from the carby, up through the
- |> vent, and in through the window.
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- A former professor of mine did this in his beetle, and drove it from Maine
- back to Boston with a string running out of the back of the engine compartment,
- up over the roof, and tied to his finger outside the driver's door.
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- He also once drove it a couple of thousand miles with a pushrod made out of
- a piece of hardwood dowel.
-
- --
- Topher Eliot Data General DG/UX Systems Administration Development
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- "Daddy, did you know that super banana squash is a vampire? And he drinks
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