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Post #171,938 by Nightowl 8/31/04 11:51:27 AM Reply	Oh I beg to differ A burning smell, smoke and loud clunk made me pull over to the side of the highway while driving dad's car... Moments later it burst into flame. Luckily I wasn't in it any more. Wish cars had such alarms! Nightowl >8# "A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." -- Robert Hughes, Australian Art Critic, Writer
Post #171,941 by drewk 8/31/04 11:55:12 AM Reply	He said 'smoke and burning smell,' nothing about a clunk === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #171,944 by Nightowl 8/31/04 11:57:06 AM Reply	Ah ok So the clunk is what made it catch fire then? ;) Hehehe! Nightowl >8# "A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." -- Robert Hughes, Australian Art Critic, Writer
Post #171,945 by boxley 8/31/04 11:59:41 AM Reply	certainly the clunk was at fault a gas powered motor in an older car does not burn fuel efficiently giving off a buning smell. The rings get old so oil escapes into the cylinders an gets burned giving off white smoke, a clunk however means that the motor is now broken, and you can drive a car that is burst in flames, you just dont want to drive it much further than out of traffic. I have done so more than once. thanx, bill These miserable swine, having nothing but illusions to live on, marshmallows for the soul in place of good meat, will now stoop to any disgusting level to prevent even those miserable morsels from vanishing into thin air. The country is being destroyed by these stupid, vicious right-wing fanatics, the spiritual brothers of the brownshirts and redstars, collectivists and authoritarians all, who would not know freedom if it bit them on the ass, who spend all their time trying to stamp, bludgeon, and eviscerate the very idea of the individual's right to his own private world. DRL questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #171,949 by Nightowl 8/31/04 12:11:13 PM Reply	We never completely determined it But the power steering pump was gong bad, (Dad had been told this and had not got around to having fixed it), and later it was determined by the firemen that the fire started at the power steering pump. I guess I wasn't aware of old cars doing that burning smell/smoke thing, cause my old car has a new engine. :) Nightowl >8# "A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." -- Robert Hughes, Australian Art Critic, Writer
Post #171,947 by deSitter 8/31/04 12:03:26 PM Reply	Smoke, smell, clunk, dead body in trunk... ..kept on steppin' (on it). Speaking of dead body, how's this for wasted driving? [link\|http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/Nation/story/472EB4A03212537986256F000051AD82?OpenDocument&Headline=Police%3A+Drunken+man+drives+home+after+passenger+decapitated%3B&tetl=1\|http://www.stltoday....pitated%3B&tetl=1] He probably stuck his head out to puke, then the guy eased over thinking in his best drunken logic, "if I pull over he'll miss the door". Can it be long until we see "Calvin headless" truck stickers? "NO _EAR" -drl
Post #171,955 by boxley 8/31/04 12:43:51 PM Reply	that is funny as hell. you imagine the speed he had to have been going to get a clean decap like that? Much less the sharp right turn effect, steering thru the bloodspatter on the windshield, his buddy doing the headless chicken tango beside him as he has another pull on his longneck. thanx, bill These miserable swine, having nothing but illusions to live on, marshmallows for the soul in place of good meat, will now stoop to any disgusting level to prevent even those miserable morsels from vanishing into thin air. The country is being destroyed by these stupid, vicious right-wing fanatics, the spiritual brothers of the brownshirts and redstars, collectivists and authoritarians all, who would not know freedom if it bit them on the ass, who spend all their time trying to stamp, bludgeon, and eviscerate the very idea of the individual's right to his own private world. DRL questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #171,964 by inthane-chan 8/31/04 1:10:39 PM Reply	Re: that is funny as hell. A wino sitting there nursing a double shot of vodka shakes and shivers, staring into his glass at the galactic swirl of a trillion red cells dying in the ethanol. - Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash. The "another pull on his longneck" brought that to mind... What will we do when we are Gods?

Nikolai mysteriously overheating - (Nightowl) - (42) - Aug. 30, 2004, 10:09:57 PM EDT

Rename it Reginald - (deSitter) - Aug. 30, 2004, 09:20:49 PM EDT

Off hand, that seems to be pretty cool for a processor. - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Aug. 30, 2004, 09:36:03 PM EDT

It's not the Processor Temperature :) - (Nightowl) - Aug. 30, 2004, 09:43:03 PM EDT

May have found the answer - (Nightowl) - (38) - Aug. 30, 2004, 10:34:50 PM EDT

Ah was wrong about affects - (Nightowl) - (37) - Aug. 30, 2004, 11:19:39 PM EDT

Re: Ah was wrong about affects - (Steven A S) - (19) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:31:37 AM EDT

Not sure about Hard Drives - (Nightowl) - (18) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:36:17 AM EDT

best thing to do is throw that alarm thingy away - (boxley) - (12) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:42:41 AM EDT

Well... - (Nightowl) - (1) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:44:00 AM EDT

Here ya go - (deSitter) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:45:33 AM EDT

rofl agreed - (deSitter) - (9) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:44:09 AM EDT

of course not - (boxley) - (8) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:48:50 AM EDT

Oh I beg to differ - (Nightowl) - (7) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:51:27 AM EDT

He said 'smoke and burning smell,' nothing about a clunk -NT - (drewk) - (6) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:55:12 AM EDT

Ah ok - (Nightowl) - (2) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:57:06 AM EDT

certainly the clunk was at fault - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:59:41 AM EDT

We never completely determined it - (Nightowl) - Aug. 31, 2004, 12:11:13 PM EDT

Smoke, smell, clunk, dead body in trunk... - (deSitter) - (2) - Aug. 31, 2004, 12:03:26 PM EDT

that is funny as hell. - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 31, 2004, 12:43:51 PM EDT

Re: that is funny as hell. - (inthane-chan) - Aug. 31, 2004, 01:10:39 PM EDT

Re: Not sure about Hard Drives - (Steven A S) - (4) - Aug. 31, 2004, 02:44:47 PM EDT

Thanks - (Nightowl) - Aug. 31, 2004, 02:54:23 PM EDT

Okay, here is what I know about fans, etc. - (Nightowl) - (2) - Aug. 31, 2004, 10:51:05 PM EDT

Bizarre change - (Nightowl) - (1) - Sept. 1, 2004, 01:55:50 AM EDT

Re: Bizarre change - (Steven A S) - Sept. 1, 2004, 11:16:19 AM EDT

Anyway, getting back to Nikolai... - (Nightowl) - (16) - Aug. 31, 2004, 12:51:13 PM EDT

you wont know until it breaks :-) -NT - (boxley) - Aug. 31, 2004, 12:52:21 PM EDT

Tried an experiment...shocked at the results - (Nightowl) - (14) - Sept. 1, 2004, 10:59:08 PM EDT

Processor usage - (deSitter) - (10) - Sept. 1, 2004, 11:03:29 PM EDT

Re: Processor usage - (Nightowl) - (9) - Sept. 1, 2004, 11:07:34 PM EDT

Re: Processor usage - (deSitter) - (8) - Sept. 1, 2004, 11:13:58 PM EDT

Re: Processor usage - (Nightowl) - (7) - Sept. 1, 2004, 11:28:10 PM EDT

Re: Processor usage - (deSitter) - (6) - Sept. 1, 2004, 11:33:36 PM EDT

Okay, I told him - (Nightowl) - (5) - Sept. 1, 2004, 11:47:48 PM EDT

Re: Okay, I told him - (deSitter) - (4) - Sept. 2, 2004, 12:15:40 AM EDT

I see - (Nightowl) - (3) - Sept. 2, 2004, 12:19:02 AM EDT

Don't know about that -NT - (deSitter) - Sept. 2, 2004, 12:19:36 AM EDT

Clean the crap off the leading edges of the fan blades. -NT - (pwhysall) - (1) - Sept. 2, 2004, 12:23:08 AM EDT

Will do, Peter - (Nightowl) - Sept. 2, 2004, 12:27:57 AM EDT

You'd be surprised at what makes a CPU get hot. - (static) - (2) - Sept. 2, 2004, 12:02:51 AM EDT

2nd experiment, amazing results! - (Nightowl) - (1) - Sept. 2, 2004, 12:09:14 AM EDT

Real world physics intrude in our digital fancies - (Arkadiy) - Sept. 2, 2004, 09:47:31 AM EDT

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