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Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!pacbell.com!network.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!scott From: scott@psy.uwa.oz.au (Scott Fisher) Subject: Re: CLUB Story Message-ID: <1992Sep7.014141.8733@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> Sender: news@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: wapsy.psy.uwa.oz.au Organization: University of Western Australia References: <7539.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 01:41:41 GMT Lines: 31 dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) writes: >-> Joy is a Jaguar XJ-6 with a flat battery, > What shape *should* it be? For the lack of a smiley...is it possible that the US uses a different term for a battery that has no energy left inside it?...Ahhh...how about "dead" battery? :-) For those of you who are interested in the differences between UK/OZ terms and US ones (relevant to cars) get a Haynes manual and look in the back, they have a glossary of common terms. eg.. UK US disks rotors _______________________________________________________________________________ Scott Fisher [scott@psy.uwa.oz.au] PH: Aus [61] Perth (09) Local (380 3272). _--_|\ N Department of Psychology / \ W + E University of Western Australia. Perth --> *_.--._/ S Nedlands, 6009. PERTH, W.A. v Joy is a Jaguar XJ-6 with a dead battery, a blown oil seal and an unsympathetic wife, 9km outside of a small remote town, 3:15am on a cold wet winters morning. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------