IWETHEY v. 0.3.0 | TODO
1,095 registered users | 0 active users | 0 LpH | Statistics
Login | Create New User
IWETHEY Banner

Welcome to IWETHEY!

New Stop being a knobhead, CRC.
I'd never thought I'd see YOU being thin-skinned.


Peter
[link|http://www.ubuntulinux.org|Ubuntu Linux]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
New He's not he is being CRC so leave him be
All tribal myths are true, for a given value of "true" Terry Pratchett
[link|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/]

Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
New You first, PeeWee.
I don't think I was "being thin-skinned" either.

I just got a bit annoyed at mz Johnette-come-lately for mindlessly hacking away at the same (silly, stupid, and eternally annoying) "anal"-bullshit kerb that you, mr über-knobhead, had started. How fucking "funny" is that, really? Was anybody writhing on the floor from laughter at it? If so, I'd suggest it is they (these hypothetical writhers-on-the-floor), not I, who suffer from a humour deficiency(*).

Now as for you, my psychoanal(+)ytically inclined young Kemosabe, you'll stop being a knobhead in my book when you edit your post to use modern English in stead of feudal-era horsie-talk.

Until then, I feel *you* have no call to ask *me* to start or stop being anything.

HTH!




(*): Yes, Scott DK, that's you I'm talking about.

(+): Hnyuk, hnyuk, he said "anal"!


   [link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
New Oh, give it a rest, ffs.
You started this with your mindless anal wanking on about "nearside/offside".

It's common parlance over here (and elsewhere). In other words, it's not "feudal horsie talk", it's normal usage, which is why I used it. Duh.

You could have simply said "eh? offside? Wossat?", but instead you started babbling on about football and hockey:

What, had it committed a zone error on the football (or ice hockey) field?!?

One *so* wishes you people would catch up at least with the _twentieth_ century, and quit that stupid "nearside, offside" gibberish! ("Near" *what*, exactly? "Off" what, and do we care a fig?)

There are a pair of eminently simple, clear and unambiguous words to tell which side a wheel is on: "Left" and "right". You're quite free to use them, without any royalty fees to pay or anything. HTH!


Anyway, what's a "zone error" on a football "field"? Please take care to use the appropriate terminology when attempting to be sarcastically funny.


Peter
[link|http://www.ubuntulinux.org|Ubuntu Linux]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Expand Edited by pwhysall June 8, 2005, 08:34:27 AM EDT
New Any time.
Any time after you, that is.

PeeWee squirms:
You started this with your mindless anal wanking on about "nearside/offside".
No, you started it, by using such silly unintelligible terms.

Or, if you wish, you started it by dredging up that utterly worn-out, stupid, annoying old "anal" hobby-horse that sloppy fuckwits always resort to as a "defense" of their sloppiness.

You're still using it above here, I see, BTW.


It's common parlance over here (and elsewhere). In other words, it's not "feudal horsie talk", it's normal usage, which is why I used it. Duh.
OK, when you're posting on the UK-StraliaNet, feel free to talk whatever variant of horsie-talk you want.

But when you're posting here on the INTER-national INTER-net, please don't try to claim that your weird backwaters-of-a-dead-Empire dialect is "normal" usage, 'coz it sure as fuck ain't.


You could have simply said "eh? offside? Wossat?",
And that, my blind young friend, was actually what I was doing.


but instead you started babbling on about football and hockey:
What, had it committed a zone error on the football (or ice hockey) field?!?
[SNIP: Excessive quotage]

Anyway, what's a "zone error" on a football "field"? Please take care to use the appropriate terminology when attempting to be sarcastically funny.
On the contrary, Grasshopper, I used the *exact* correct kind of terminology for my purposes here.

When I'm asking (as you correctly surmised, hopefully in a "sarcastically funny" way), "Are you using that term in the technical sense of '...' as we laymen would call it?", I better be careful NOT to use too technically-"appropriate terminology" in my own rephrasing, or the effect is spoiled for all non-aficionados of the subject at hand.

HTH!


   [link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
New Re: Any time.
You're being an utter dick.

I'm not going to dignify that load of retro-justificational twattery with a response.

Oh.

I just did.

Bollocks.


Peter
[link|http://www.ubuntulinux.org|Ubuntu Linux]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
New AKA "I don't have any real answer". OK, noted.
New Yellow flag thrown!
Offsetting penalties.

First on Peter for thinking that everyone would understand what "offside wheel" would mean (even though I do believe CRC >did<, in fact, understand it) and I certainly figured it out from context within under a second.

Offset by CRC demanding it be changed because, for lack of a better argument, we should all speak properly because we're on the Internet.

Replay the down!
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition

[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
New Bonus points awarded
...to pwhysall for introducing the term "front offside wheel," archaic though this might sound to colonial and continental ears. English will be a poorer, more sterile mindspace as these idioms die off. Points as well to CRC (who is merely restless, I think, and having at physwall reflexively as a grizzly will sharpen its claws upon the bark of a fir) for characteristically entertaining cussedness, and particularly for please don't try to claim that your weird backwaters-of-a-dead-Empire dialect is "normal" usage, which I expect to see in due course in six-point Verdana at the foot of my screen.

We now return you to our normal programming.

cordially,
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
New Having at WHOM?
Who is this physwall character?

I'm used to some fairly egregious spellings of my surname ("Wyzel" was a good one, as was "Wisul"), but they at least SOUND the same...

:-p


Peter
[link|http://www.ubuntulinux.org|Ubuntu Linux]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
New I stand corrected
Many a slip 'twixt fingertip and key caps. This was three of 'em.

cradolily,
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
New Oh, and by the way ...
Does it really make a nit's worth of difference which wheel it was? I mean really, we're describing -- in print -- the machanical sound once made by a car the current writer's SWMBO no longer owns; a sound they never identified the cause of; a sound which most likely had nothing to do with which side it was on anyway. So like, WTF?
===

Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link|http://DocHope.com|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats].
[link|http://DocHope.com|http://DocHope.com]
New ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #210465 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=210465|ICLRPD]
All tribal myths are true, for a given value of "true" Terry Pratchett
[link|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/]

Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
New No, no, no.
It's "berk", not "dick. Get it straight, you imperialist baboon.
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New ROFL!
I am sorry, you guys are *JUST* too much!
--
[link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg],
[link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey
[image|http://www.danasoft.com/vipersig.jpg||||]
New And there we are.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the once and future king, Christian R Conrad.
bcnu,
Mikem

Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer.
God Bless America.
New Normal usage? Not here.
Never heard it in my life. I have no idea which is which. When you say near, do you mean near to the driver who is usually in the car, or near to something else? Let's see if I can figure it out.

I checked with [link|http://dictionary.reference.com/|http://dictionary.reference.com/]. They have an entry for nearside, but not what you're using offside for. Their entry for nearside says the side of the vehicle nearest to the kerb. (Their spelling, not mine. Note that it is the opposite of what I would have guessed, but there were even odds of that.) Here that would be the right-hand side. You guys drive on the other side of the street, so you probably mean the left-hand side.

I have no idea whether you'll mean left or right if you use those phrases in the USA.

Suppose you do use left, just to be consistent. Note that we have one-way streets where there are curbs on both sides. (We also have streets where people park in the middle or on the side, but ignore that detail.) If you use the word "nearside" while driving down one of those streets, I'll have no idea what you mean.

The moral is that when talking with Americans, the only reason that you should say "nearside" or "offside" is that you want to enjoy the experience of not communicating.

Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
New ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #210490 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=210490|ICLRPD]


   [link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
New So I guess...
... I should insist that Southerners stop speaking with an accent when I'm talking to them, since obviously they're just trying not to communicate with me? After all, "y'all" isn't *my* normal usage, therefore they should accomodate me as their audience. How terribly provincial of you.

1) I guessed offside meaning passenger side as I read it. As it turns out, I was correct.
- but -
2) Who gives a rat's ass, other than the pathologically anal folk out there?

The true moral is that when speaking with Americans, you would expect to occasionally get questions as to your terminology. Not lectures about making sure you choose your colloquialisms for someone else.

The only question remaining is how do we measure the collective pole-up-the-ass you and Christian are sharing on this one... meters or yards?
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New Furlongs
===

Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link|http://DocHope.com|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats].
[link|http://DocHope.com|http://DocHope.com]
New no.
It is clearly one rod, pole or perch[link|http://home.clara.net/brianp/lengths.html|.]


Peter
[link|http://www.ubuntulinux.org|Ubuntu Linux]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
New You're risking a barrage of Norse longboat vituperation. ;)
Hey, it's sort of interesting. What else are we going to talk about today, eh?

[link|http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8136908|Shall we grab a taxi?]

Cheers,
Scott.
New Keeps the LRPDs coming, dunnit?
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New thats knot a good measurement
All tribal myths are true, for a given value of "true" Terry Pratchett
[link|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/]

Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
New Um, actually, I think that your guess was backwards
At least if I understood the dictionary definition right. When I park, the passenger is on the side with the curb, so that's nearside. The offside is the one that the driver is on. (Peter will correct me if I have that backwards, which event I presently give perhaps 30% odds of.)

As for who cares, perhaps nobody but it doesn't really matter to me. I'm not telling Peter what to do, I'm just giving him a data point on who will and will not understand those terms. He can do anything that he wants with that data point. A few of the options include taking it into consideration in the future, intentionally confusing people next time, using it to mock visiting tourists, or forget about it.

Do you have me confused with CRConrad?

Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
New I had it backwards, actually.
Nearside is passenger-side, which is the left-hand-side of the vehicle. So your nearside is my offside. Or something.

It's still very widely used over here, and not just in speech; you can go to any of a squillion car parts websites and buy offside doors and panels, and nearside arches and sideskirts.


Peter
[link|http://www.ubuntulinux.org|Ubuntu Linux]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
New what no fenders or wheel wells hood or trunk?
All tribal myths are true, for a given value of "true" Terry Pratchett
[link|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/]

Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
New Confused? No.
Very similar, yes. Except that sometimes CRC is joking.

And as Peter mentioned, he told me which was which incorrectly before I posted.
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New Kind of invalidates your parallel, doesn't it though?
I mean, even if "y'all" isn't your own usage, it's eminently understandable, being an obvious contraction of "you" and "all".

So, do you *still* think that I (and Ben) "have a rod up my (our) backside(s)" for thinking Peter's terminology is less than perfectly effective in communication... When even *he* can't get it right?


   [link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
New It's called "hyperbole". HTH!
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New OK, that's another word for it. Thanks!
Thanks for admitting that objections to my point work only as hyperbole, not to be taken seriously.


   [link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
New Whatever gets you through the day.
True examples are hard to find, obviously, because by definition I don't know the words I won't know. I've run across it in the past, however, with regional differences in the US.
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New I think you're forgetting the most salient detail here...
AdminiScott writes:
True examples are hard to find, obviously, because by definition I don't know the words I won't know.
Sure, *you* don't know yet what words that you don't know you'll come across in the future.

But this ("offside", that is -- not "y'all") was aparently not just an example of *you, the recipient*, not getting it right.


I've run across it in the past, however, with regional differences in the US.
What -- you've really come across cases where someone uses regional-dialect expressions that even *they, the speaker*, don't get right, often enough for it to be worth mentioning here?

And, to get back to the point: If you really have encountered *that*, are you seriously claiming that you *didn't* think that was "excessive" use of regional dialect (in the sense of hindering communication with out-of-regionals like you)?

I find it hard to believe that you really think the onus was on you to understand something that even the person who was saying it didn't understand. Is that really how you feel?


   [link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
New Ha, nice try.
You were bitching about this looooong before Peter realized he wasn't saying it correctly.

Thanks for playing, drive through.
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New Not even a "nice try" from you, though.
Too obvious a try at obfuscating the whole point of _this sub-sub-thread_: That your contention that it wasn't confusing was *wrong*, and that the fact that this was due to Peter himself getting it wrong rather proves my point, not yours.

And I could hardly have been "bitching" about *that* before you started the SST, which is so bleeding obvious that it makes your try not-even-nice.


   [link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
New Sorry, not my conversation, yours.
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New Ha ha, very funny. But, hey, if you're granting...
...me "ownership" of the whole conversation, then your behaviour above only becomes all the more egregious: In the future, don't be such an arsehole as to try to retroactively redefine what it's been about, mmkay? That sucks bad enough even if you're an equal "part-owner" of a conversation.


   [link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
New No, you mistake my meaning.
The supposed "sub-sub-thread" about "That your contention that it wasn't confusing" is your conversation, not mine. In other words, I'm not involved in your "Peter was wrong himself, therefore I was right" construct, which was invented far after the fact to justify your *original* post -- regardless of your attempt to hijack my meaning.

And now I'm done with this completely, now that you've finished your descent into casuistry.

HTH!
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Expand Edited by admin June 10, 2005, 08:22:40 AM EDT
     Can I trust this? - (ben_tilly) - (165)
         Dunno, but seems pretty low. - (Another Scott) - (1)
             No trade-in - (ben_tilly)
         No - (broomberg) - (1)
             Thought not :-) - (ben_tilly)
         Can you get a written quote? - (pwhysall) - (2)
             It is here as well...but there are ways around that... -NT - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                 Troof. These are CAR DEALERS we're talking about, after all. -NT - (pwhysall)
         Maybe - - (Ashton) - (8)
             Am I being too picky? - (ben_tilly) - (7)
                 That depends. - (pwhysall) - (2)
                     Right. I just hate spending money. - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                         Re: Right. I just hate spending money. - (Ashton)
                 Don't do it - (broomberg) - (2)
                     Good points - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                         Just be a reasonable alternative - (broomberg)
                 Don't choose between sizes based on price. - (Another Scott)
         If you are paying cash - (boxley) - (5)
             Re: "tell them that you are comparing" - (a6l6e6x) - (4)
                 I didnt even look at GM even tho I get the discount - (boxley) - (1)
                     Better than Fords - (tuberculosis)
                 There is a *reason* that GM is desperate - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                     No argument there. Last one I owned was a 1980 Citation. -NT - (a6l6e6x)
         Was price quoted on one of the demo models? - (jbrabeck) - (1)
             Will check on that - (ben_tilly)
         now have you looked at khia's more car less price - (boxley) - (17)
             Re: now have you looked at khia's more car less price - (Yendor)
             Kia, not Khia - (broomberg) - (7)
                 What, you never heard of a Garmann Khia? :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (6)
                     well I meant the Korean not the Carmen:-) -NT - (boxley)
                     No, but I have heard of a VW Karmen-Ghia. -NT - (folkert) - (4)
                         No you haven't; Alex had it right. - (CRConrad) - (3)
                             My favorite Picker of Nits! -NT - (folkert) - (1)
                                 Bah, I bet you say that to *all* the girls! - (CRConrad)
                             That's a Bingo! -NT - (a6l6e6x)
             That's the life span of an American car - (tuberculosis)
             No, and quality matters - (ben_tilly) - (6)
                 Re: No, and quality matters - (dws) - (1)
                     On Hyundai... - (pwhysall)
                 they wouldnt offer such a warranty if they expected expensiv - (boxley) - (3)
                     Actually, no - (broomberg)
                     Point - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                         didnt know about the milage, mind changed -NT - (boxley)
         Probably add local delivery, taxes and tags. - (bepatient) - (71)
             And it will never, ever break. - (pwhysall) - (70)
                 Depends. - (Another Scott) - (66)
                     Re: Depends. - (Ashton) - (1)
                         Werd. - (pwhysall)
                     Sure it's a wheel bearing? - (Steve Lowe) - (63)
                         Seconded.. though usually.. those 'click' not whine (?) - (Ashton) - (60)
                             Most interesting... - (pwhysall) - (59)
                                 Can't you weird Brit-peeples say "left" and "right"? - (CRConrad) - (58)
                                     Dear CRC - (pwhysall) - (51)
                                         I bet he has a really clean house! -NT - (bionerd) - (50)
                                             Oh, bullcrap. So, silly vego-person, can *you*... - (CRConrad) - (49)
                                                 You need to turn up your humor detector. :-) -NT - (Another Scott)
                                                 Stop being a knobhead, CRC. - (pwhysall) - (37)
                                                     He's not he is being CRC so leave him be -NT - (boxley)
                                                     You first, PeeWee. - (CRConrad) - (35)
                                                         Oh, give it a rest, ffs. - (pwhysall) - (34)
                                                             Any time. - (CRConrad) - (11)
                                                                 Re: Any time. - (pwhysall) - (9)
                                                                     AKA "I don't have any real answer". OK, noted. -NT - (CRConrad) - (6)
                                                                         Yellow flag thrown! - (bepatient) - (5)
                                                                             Bonus points awarded - (rcareaga) - (2)
                                                                                 Having at WHOM? - (pwhysall) - (1)
                                                                                     I stand corrected - (rcareaga)
                                                                             Oh, and by the way ... - (drewk) - (1)
                                                                                 ICLRPD (new thread) - (boxley)
                                                                     No, no, no. - (admin) - (1)
                                                                         ROFL! - (folkert)
                                                                 And there we are. - (mmoffitt)
                                                             Normal usage? Not here. - (ben_tilly) - (21)
                                                                 ICLRPD (new thread) - (CRConrad)
                                                                 So I guess... - (admin) - (19)
                                                                     Furlongs -NT - (drewk) - (1)
                                                                         no. - (pwhysall)
                                                                     You're risking a barrage of Norse longboat vituperation. ;) - (Another Scott) - (1)
                                                                         Keeps the LRPDs coming, dunnit? -NT - (admin)
                                                                     thats knot a good measurement -NT - (boxley)
                                                                     Um, actually, I think that your guess was backwards - (ben_tilly) - (13)
                                                                         I had it backwards, actually. - (pwhysall) - (1)
                                                                             what no fenders or wheel wells hood or trunk? -NT - (boxley)
                                                                         Confused? No. - (admin) - (10)
                                                                             Kind of invalidates your parallel, doesn't it though? - (CRConrad) - (9)
                                                                                 It's called "hyperbole". HTH! -NT - (admin) - (8)
                                                                                     OK, that's another word for it. Thanks! - (CRConrad) - (7)
                                                                                         Whatever gets you through the day. - (admin) - (6)
                                                                                             I think you're forgetting the most salient detail here... - (CRConrad) - (5)
                                                                                                 Ha, nice try. - (admin) - (4)
                                                                                                     Not even a "nice try" from you, though. - (CRConrad) - (3)
                                                                                                         Sorry, not my conversation, yours. -NT - (admin) - (2)
                                                                                                             Ha ha, very funny. But, hey, if you're granting... - (CRConrad) - (1)
                                                                                                                 No, you mistake my meaning. - (admin)
                                                 Yeah, actually I did understand what Peter was talking about - (bionerd) - (9)
                                                     ... - (admin)
                                                     You keep coming back to that. - (pwhysall)
                                                     Errrrmh, <cough>... ummm - (folkert)
                                                     Oh, you're all just basking in your cleverness, arent you? -NT - (bionerd) - (4)
                                                         They're sure basking in something! - (Nightowl)
                                                         Had I seen it in time, I too would have been sorely tempted. -NT - (CRConrad)
                                                         poor fellas cant tell the difference between an adjective - (boxley) - (1)
                                                             If you've got... - (pwhysall)
                                                     OK,w/ that admission you can to call me (or NE1) one too! :) -NT - (CRConrad)
                                     Oh *absolutely* gibber the Norse longboat terminology at us -NT - (drewk) - (4)
                                         ICLFRPD (new thread) - (pwhysall)
                                         Uh, that would be Larboard/Starboard, Lubber Boy -NT - (tuberculosis) - (2)
                                             nope havn/styrbord larboard is the same -NT - (boxley) - (1)
                                                 Not so - (tuberculosis)
                                     Doubly so when they drive on the wrong side of the road -NT - (ben_tilly)
                         It seems like a wheel bearing. - (Another Scott) - (1)
                             The wheel bearing's fine. Needs a rear McPherson strut. (new thread) - (Another Scott)
                 Consumer Reports likes them - (ben_tilly) - (2)
                     Re: Consumer Reports likes them - (lincoln) - (1)
                         Means it is even better than advertised. :-) -NT - (ben_tilly)
         Internet/Fleet sales is the way to go - (tonytib) - (6)
             that's how I bought my '96 Nissan Altima - (cforde) - (2)
                 '96 Nissan Altima - (Ashton) - (1)
                     ICLRPD (new thread) - (Steve Lowe)
             Over here, one avoids ex-fleet cars like t'plague. - (pwhysall) - (2)
                 Please read more carefully - (tonytib) - (1)
                     Over here... - (pwhysall)
         Some things I saw. - (static)
         It looks like I can trust it (is LoJack worthwhile?) - (ben_tilly) - (34)
             Yes. Do you know what it is/does? -NT - (folkert) - (1)
                 I know what it is/does - (ben_tilly)
             Do you know of anyone out there that's had a car stolen? - (Another Scott) - (3)
                 This *IS* Los Angeles - (ben_tilly)
                 It does happen. - (admin) - (1)
                     Had my new '87 'stang stolen... - (folkert)
             Take it - (broomberg) - (2)
                 I believe there is no sticker with LoJack - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                     If professional thieves get it, it won't matter -NT - (drewk)
             I *would* have said yes, but look at the insurance company - (drewk) - (1)
                 Yabut, there is a twist - (ben_tilly)
             Aren't taxes computed on the before rebate price? -NT - (lincoln) - (1)
                 Yes. -NT - (ben_tilly)
             If the insurance company thinks so, they'll pay for it - (tuberculosis) - (20)
                 How odd all this is. - (pwhysall) - (19)
                     if the car starts by inserting a key into a tumbler - (boxley) - (15)
                         Slide hammer is faster than a drill. -NT - (hnick)
                         Pair of scissors - (rcareaga)
                         OK. You're in. Now start it. - (pwhysall)
                         Don't work for modern anti-theft ignition killers. - (static) - (11)
                             That's certainly the case for my car. -NT - (pwhysall)
                             cant press the valet button? - (boxley) - (9)
                                 "Valet button"? - (pwhysall) - (7)
                                     what is an immobilizer - (boxley) - (6)
                                         Never heard of that. - (pwhysall) - (5)
                                             how is it connected to an immobilizer? a wire? -NT - (boxley) - (4)
                                                 Indeed. - (pwhysall) - (3)
                                                     and the laguage they speak is called voltage - (boxley) - (1)
                                                         Right. - (pwhysall)
                                                     is this the widget in question? (new thread) - (boxley)
                                 Don't have one of those. - (static)
                     Arse 1! -NT - (pwhysall)
                     Arse 2! -NT - (pwhysall)
                     Falling Car Crime In The UK & The Great Insurance Ripoff (new thread) - (pwhysall)
         Purchased - (ben_tilly) - (7)
             Congrats! -NT - (Another Scott)
             car dealers never lose :-) - (boxley) - (2)
                 He lost according to Toyota's figures - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                     Re: He lost according to Toyota's figures - (dws)
             suggestion.. - (cforde) - (2)
                 I'll definitely think about that - (ben_tilly)
                 ICLRPD (new thread) - (ben_tilly)

I like when things catch fire and explode, which means I do not have your best interests in mind.
309 ms