On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 05:14:54PM -0700, Wade Curry wrote: > Lan Barnes([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Fri, May 20, 2005 at 04:52:35PM -0700: > > > > 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 ;-) > > > > What _I_ want to know is exactly how it was discovered that banging > on the engine with a hammer was an effective way to fix, rather > than break, the darn thing. I'm trying to picture Lan getting > stuck in traffic the first time and deciding to try the hammer > first for no other reason than the fact that it was his favorite > tool. ... Now where seems a good place to start whacking this > beast into submission? :-) > > Wade
If you crawled under the car or lifted the hood and had a confederate wiggle/jamb the control in question, you could see where the problem was. I don't remember what I whacked it with the first time -- maybe an old, heavy coke bottle, maybe a shoe. The hammer was a later hi-tech addition. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
