One more law

I missed the Staff meeting, but the Memos showed that Larry Jaques wrote on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:07:04

-0800 in rec.crafts.metalworking :

Had a friend, bran new fast car. Coming back to Tucson from SD, there's a nice flat stretch of desert. So he's tooling down the highway, and notices there's a cop car behind him, lights going. Looks down - doing an excessive rate of speed, 90 plus. "oops" and pulls over. He's all apologetic, road hypnosis, hadn't realized how fast he'd speeded up, and blah, blah. Cop tells him that if he hadn't slowed down, he would not have caught up to him. Said he'd been clocked at around 140 earlier, "way out in front". Ooops. Let him go with a warning, as I recall. Dang, I can remember his face (big hair and mustache - it was

-- pyotr filipivich "I had just been through hell and must have looked like death warmed over walking into the saloon, because when I asked the bartender whether they served zombies he said, ?Sure, what'll you have?'" from I Hear America Swinging by Peter DeVries

On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 21:09:08 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed Huntress" quickly quoth:

Yet you keep swearing that you're not a liberal. Hmmm... ;)

-- An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. -- Sydney J. Harris

You don't want to know what the little liberal gives me, when he comes out. It's not something you want to hear about before breakfast. d8-)

-- Ed Huntress

Chap I knew slightly; to look at him, (short, bald, well worn clothes in his early 60's) you would expect him to be driving a rusty Chevy pickup with at least one fender held in place with baling wire; had the first Toyota MR2 I had seen. I asked him how fast it would go and he replied that he didn't know because the police quit following him at 160. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Oh, kilometers! I was about to call him a liar ;)

I keep my little inner liberal on a chain. For some strange reason it seems to like that. ;)

Wes

I think my Saturn SL1 could do that.

'Inner liberal'? Shoot the little bastard!