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From: Joel Koltner on 5 May 2010 20:17 "Joerg" <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:84efjbFemaU1(a)mid.individual.net... > Detroit's nightmare: An elegant elderly lady in front of Costco, loading > upscale food items into an Austin Healey. Her first car, she bought it used > in 1961, still looked almost like new. "I guess it'll survive me ..." she > said. Would that be because it has no seat belts nor air bags to protect her in case some teen driving a Humvee crashes into her, sending her body flying around the passenger compartment while the car itself remains relatively unschatched? ;-) I expect you've watched, "The Man in the White Suit," right? Admit it -- you want to be Sidney Stratton! :-) ---Joel
From: Joerg on 5 May 2010 20:27 Joel Koltner wrote: > "Joerg" <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message > news:84efjbFemaU1(a)mid.individual.net... >> Detroit's nightmare: An elegant elderly lady in front of Costco, >> loading upscale food items into an Austin Healey. Her first car, she >> bought it used in 1961, still looked almost like new. "I guess it'll >> survive me ..." she said. > > Would that be because it has no seat belts nor air bags to protect her > in case some teen driving a Humvee crashes into her, sending her body > flying around the passenger compartment while the car itself remains > relatively unschatched? ;-) > AFAIR it had seat belts retrofitted in, just like I did that with my old Citroen. But no airbags, of course. With vintage cars you always take a risk but obviously she has managed driving without a major accident for almost 50 years. > I expect you've watched, "The Man in the White Suit," right? Admit it > -- you want to be Sidney Stratton! :-) > No, never seen it. But now that we get the THIS-TV channel over the air we might catch it one day. They have lots of classic movies and about every 2nd one sticks, meaning the DTV signal doesn't pixelate. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: krw on 5 May 2010 21:33 On Wed, 5 May 2010 16:07:48 -0700, "Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: ><krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote in message >news:ejr3u5h2l42rj28hkmbkkhcu5ol9s2egk4(a)4ax.com... >> While I'm certainly not a Carly fan, HP was on that trajectory long before >> she >> came on the scene. > >Being able to largely just go with the status quo ought to help her >qualifications as a political candidate too? :-) > >Point taken, though -- Tektronix largley imploded as well, without any one >particular CEO to serve as whipping boy... > >Apple's a pretty amazing/rare case of a phoenix (named Steve Jobs) rising >from the ashes of near-irrelevancy. Jim Jones did pretty well for a while too. He just didn't market his brand of soft drink as widely as Steve has.
From: krw on 5 May 2010 21:39 On Wed, 5 May 2010 17:17:22 -0700, "Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >"Joerg" <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message >news:84efjbFemaU1(a)mid.individual.net... >> Detroit's nightmare: An elegant elderly lady in front of Costco, loading >> upscale food items into an Austin Healey. Her first car, she bought it used >> in 1961, still looked almost like new. "I guess it'll survive me ..." she >> said. > >Would that be because it has no seat belts nor air bags to protect her in case >some teen driving a Humvee crashes into her, sending her body flying around >the passenger compartment while the car itself remains relatively unschatched? >;-) > >I expect you've watched, "The Man in the White Suit," right? Admit it -- you >want to be Sidney Stratton! :-) Nah, I much prefer black. White suit? In fact, suit? Yeah, I do have a go-to-interview only suit hanging up in the closet. Yep, black. ;-) I guess it has been off the hanger once since I interviewed for my present job; my mother's funeral.
From: krw on 5 May 2010 21:40
On Wed, 05 May 2010 17:27:25 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >Joel Koltner wrote: >> "Joerg" <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message >> news:84efjbFemaU1(a)mid.individual.net... >>> Detroit's nightmare: An elegant elderly lady in front of Costco, >>> loading upscale food items into an Austin Healey. Her first car, she >>> bought it used in 1961, still looked almost like new. "I guess it'll >>> survive me ..." she said. >> >> Would that be because it has no seat belts nor air bags to protect her >> in case some teen driving a Humvee crashes into her, sending her body >> flying around the passenger compartment while the car itself remains >> relatively unschatched? ;-) >> > >AFAIR it had seat belts retrofitted in, just like I did that with my old >Citroen. But no airbags, of course. With vintage cars you always take a >risk but obviously she has managed driving without a major accident for >almost 50 years. > > >> I expect you've watched, "The Man in the White Suit," right? Admit it >> -- you want to be Sidney Stratton! :-) >> > >No, never seen it. But now that we get the THIS-TV channel over the air >we might catch it one day. They have lots of classic movies and about >every 2nd one sticks, meaning the DTV signal doesn't pixelate. It was a good movie, though older than I am. I remember watching it in the '60s on the Late Late Show. |