On Jan 21, 2013, at 1:41 AM, Gerry Archer arche...@embarqmail.com wrote:
avoid highly emotional subjects
Bingo!
Rick
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Does anyone remember the early HP touch screen DOS systems from 1988?
HP150? Want one?
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Son's car just got totaled out.
I am looking for a car with a budget of around $3,000. No project cars or
beaters, please, it's got to be reliable transportation for a college student.
A gasser would be preferred.
Ideally it would be east of the Mississippi, as I don't want to dump a
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:41:30 -0500 Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
Son's car just got totaled out.
Is he all right?
What happened?
What kind of car did he have?
Craig
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My wife was talking with a young woman this weekend, who has 2 young
children.
She was relating the fact that her son, who is 5 or 6 (I cannot recall
which) is having nightmares because, every day at school, they are
having drills on what to do if someone comes to the school with a gun.
This
On 19/01/2013 7:24 AM, Dan Penoff wrote:
We had an incident this week where an elementary student brought a toy gun to
school in their backpack, and it was reported by a fellow student.
No discipline was taken, just a Parent Link call made to all of the households
about not allowing their
He had a 2005 Ford Focus ZX5. No big deal, ran off the road and went over some
rocks or projections that tore the heck out of the undercarriage. Sadly, the
car looks good, but the front suspension is pretty much toast.
Thanks for your concern.
Dan
On Jan 21, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Craig wrote:
Sorry to hear that Dan, by the sound of your email I'd guess he wasn't
hurt. Was this the 300E that you've been working on for a few months now?
Jaime
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
Son's car just got totaled out.
I am looking for a car with a budget
And it had something like 190k on the clock, which added to the reason why they
totaled it.
Dan
On Jan 21, 2013, at 11:57 AM, Dan Penoff wrote:
He had a 2005 Ford Focus ZX5. No big deal, ran off the road and went over
some rocks or projections that tore the heck out of the undercarriage.
No, the 300E is my oldest son's car. It's doing well and just chugging along
without problems (knock on zebrano.)
And yes, he just walked away, so that's a good thing.
We have fog down here this time of year, and in some instances it makes the
roads slick, especially since it's the dry
I find that comment funny, this person who left here because he
said the gun control talk was out of control, and that posted off
the wall comments, well just after reading some of the posts over
there, their discussion seemed much worse than ours, including stu
posting off the wall comments
...project car, in Durham NC.
It's not that bad - as far as I know, all it /has/ to have is the freeze
plug*. Also could do with the cooling fan coupler (have a proper new one
I'll include, along with a bunch of other seals etc.). Has a salvage
title, a big dent in the driver's door, and a
Does TE's father still have that coupe up in NC? He might take $3k.
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'95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20
Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
Son's car just got totaled out.
I am looking for a car with a budget of around $3,000. No project cars
or beaters,
Son is ok, I presume? Hope his Benz did a good job of protecting all occupants.
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Max Dillon
Charleston SC
'95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20
Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
Son's car just got totaled out.
I am looking for a car with a budget of around $3,000. No project cars
or beaters,
Already contacted him. He says that someone is coming up Friday to look at it,
but no other details.
I am ready to go at $3k right now, but I assume he is holding out to see if he
can get more from the other buyer. I don't have the luxury of time to wait
around, so I pretty much have to move
On 20/01/2013 5:48 PM, relng...@aol.com wrote:
..If all we wanted was MBZ chatter, we could hook up with the ritter
list..
You must be joking. Mr. Hilter's list is at least 75% twaddle. That's
non-MB.
I'll never forget Hank's 1400 word post on wood fences.
RLE
Unfortunately, not much of
On 19/01/2013 7:29 PM, ernest breakfield wrote:
hi Kaleb!
while the cumulative wealth of knowledge amongst the users here is
truly admirable, i (for one) think it would be wonderful if this list
was dedicated to Mercedes stuff, instead of being the chat room that
some people here clearly
Are you talking about the 140 coupe?
On 1/21/2013 11:33 AM, Dan Penoff wrote:
Already contacted him. He says that someone is coming up Friday to look at it,
but no other details.
I am ready to go at $3k right now, but I assume he is holding out to see if he
can get more from the other
When I was a kid (in the 50s), we did duck-and-cover drills in school and we
learned how to build fallout shelters (in fact, there still is one in my
back 40). If you are too young or sheltered to know what I'm talking about,
this was WWIII, the end of the world (like in the movie On the Beach,
Yes. I am ready to buy it at $3k.
Dan
On Jan 21, 2013, at 1:16 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote:
Are you talking about the 140 coupe?
On 1/21/2013 11:33 AM, Dan Penoff wrote:
Already contacted him. He says that someone is coming up Friday to look at
it, but no other
I think 2500 is more like it
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On Jan 21, 2013, at 12:34 PM, Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
Yes. I am ready to buy it at $3k.
Dan
On Jan 21, 2013, at 1:16 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote:
Are you talking about the 140 coupe?
On 1/21/2013 11:33
How about an old Saturn SL series? My GF drives one. Boring as hell but
reliable and cheap to own. Gives 37mpg on highway and doesn't dent:)
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On Jan 21, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
Yes. I am ready to buy it at $3k.
Dan
On Jan 21, 2013, at 1:16
I am looking at this as an opportunity for myself to get back into a decent MB
and pass my Focus to him. If it was a matter of just finding cheap and
economical transportation I would find another Focus, as they're a dime a dozen.
So think of this as me looking for a decent MB, not a
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
Cold day in heck that I would turn over a car like that to a 20 year
old
Is Tarek 20 already?
-Tim
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Tempting. Color? Any rust? Miles on the car? Original head?
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Tim C bb...@crone.us wrote:
...project car, in Durham NC.
It's not that bad - as far as I know, all it /has/ to have is the
freeze
plug*. Also could do with the
Without going to any discussion about guns, period, let us look at the true
source of this young mans fear, how it was installed, who taught it to him,
where it came from.
We have in our society today a culture that teaches children to be fearful.
In an older society, we were taught by example
Dan Penoff wrote:
I am looking at this as an opportunity for myself to get back
into a decent MB and pass my Focus to him.
Did you change your mind? Or am I confused? In your original
post you said:
I am looking for a car with a budget of around $3,000. No
project cars or beaters,
Good point. Sorry for any confusion. I was trying to get something up on the
list ASAP since I had just gotten the word from the insurance company.
So let's do this again with a little more clarity:
I have $3000 to spend on a car (ideally an MB) for me so I can pass my Focus on
to my
I recently purchased a 900 AMP jumpstarter at Advance Auto and noticed
that they had a bottle of sulphur additive, that I didn't see carried at any
of the other FLAPS .Having a 1983 240D ,am I OK with the amount of sulphur
in our present diesel fuel ?? Since the amount has been lowered
Several of you expressed interest in a mattress source that I found last
fall, and now I'm finally getting around to sharing.
http://www.lovemymattress.com/
They are located in Greeneville SC, so if you like to Buy American, that's a
plus.
The president of the company exchanged
Thanks.
Wilton
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From: Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net
To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 6:40 PM
Subject: [MBZ] OT Mattress source - custom sizes available
Several of you expressed interest in a mattress
Snake oil, no need for it. You'd be better off adding some bio-diesel to
improve fuel lubricity, which may have suffered when the sulfur was removed.
Sulfur won't help at all, may do harm; increase the amount of acids your oil
needs to deal with.
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'95 E300, '87
Thanks Max.
Peter
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Thanks, Max. Now I'm wondering how I can try one out before I buy may have
to make a trip to SC.
Dan
On Jan 21, 2013, at 6:40 PM, Max Dillon wrote:
Several of you expressed interest in a mattress source that I found last
fall, and now I'm finally getting around to sharing.
Me, too.
Wilton
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From: Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Mattress source - custom sizes available
Thanks, Max. Now I'm wondering how I can try one out before I
Well, it's a single bed, so you'll need to coordinate for different nights.
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Charleston SC
'95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20
WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:
Me, too.
Wilton
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Imagine if they trained kids in school to gang rush a gunman that's
killing their fellow students. 20+ kids rushing to tackle the gunman
would put him out of commission. Sure, a few might die in the rush, but
95% likely that would be less than the number killed if they just cower
in fear
Take this scenario into thought: Someone who uses the contact list posts
a car problem and they receive answers. Some of those answers may come
from people on their ok list and others from the block list. What
if correct answers come from people on the block list? Then the
original poster
...Is that from hitler list?..
I don't recall anything like that from Mr Hilter's list and I was on it
early on before he stole it from Easley who wouldn't have permitted any
dustups.
The original MB list (1995-ish?) did have some exciting moments when
Cookies was around.
RLE
Wow. I remember cookies. What an idiot!
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On Jan 21, 2013, at 10:29 PM, relng...@aol.com wrote:
...Is that from hitler list?..
I don't recall anything like that from Mr Hilter's list and I was on it
early on before he stole it from Easley who wouldn't have permitted any
Yep, As Scott said, the real world has consequences, whether
immediate, deferred, or whether people are in denial. Laws of
Fizziks and other laws of nature and Nature's God always have
consequences.
Kids should be trained to be watchful for dangers, and know how to
react, and how to
What culture? I taught my son to be careful, but fearful? No. Are
you talking about the culture in your home town or is this yet another
straw man?
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:11 PM, G Mann g2ma...@gmail.com wrote:
Without going to any discussion about guns, period, let us look at the true
Oh, why not just arm each of them?
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Benz Hogs benz-n-h...@gulseth.net wrote:
Imagine if they trained kids in school to gang rush a gunman that's killing
their fellow students. 20+ kids rushing to tackle the gunman would put him
out of commission. Sure, a few
Hey, any kid who thinks there are no dangers in the world lives in a
cave or off the grid
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
Yep, As Scott said, the real world has consequences, whether immediate,
deferred, or whether people are in denial. Laws of
andrew sez:
Hey, any kid who thinks there are no dangers in the world lives in a
cave or off the grid
And most of those dangers are from do-gooders who know better than
the rest of us.
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Good luck getting the alarmist/anti-gun crowd to back something like
that. Hell, they wouldn't even back my idea. Mao's standard Banned
finished here
Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL
'98 ML320 Max (160,xxx mi)
On 1/21/2013 10:02 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote:
Oh, why not just arm each
That would be an individual decision. Is a difficult persons expertise
worth leaving him off the blocked list?
Marshall is a good example. He was authoritarian, self-centered, irascible
at times, and usually convinced he was correct. He irritated me frequently;
especially since I recognised
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