On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 04:41:35PM -0700, Alan wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: > > > > >One day the steering locked in straight ahead. Also mechanical. > > > > ... > > > > >Today, someone would get a use patent on the hammer for freeing up > >steering and gear linkages, and we'd have been SOL -- sit and wait for > >an authorized hammer wielder to come charge us hundreds, I expect. > > > > Cue picture of an RAC van performing a tricky docking manuever at 70mph > while the Authorized Hammer Wielder(tm) (wearing an Indiana Jones hat, > for some reason) leaps onto the malfuntioning car, climbs through the > moonroof and applies the proper force.. > > -ajb > (Might be worth hundreds to see that...)
Ah, but it was _way_ pre-cellular. Picture a much younger Lan and his sister, top down (the car and perhaps the sister) plunging through the streets of Baltimore, dead straight ahead, struggling with the wheel and screaming their lungs out. Of course, in practice, we threw in the clutch, braked to a halt, propped open the hood and did some nasty banging with that hammer. Curiously, no one ever seemed to get mad at the traffic block -- mostly they just laughed. Those were simpler days ;-) -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
