wore the embarrassing suit to the graduation functions and never wore
it again.
But you left out the most important part: did it fit?
Cut and material OK (except for the color)?
-- Jim
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The 560 SEL has been running worse and worse lately. Intermittently.
Feels like a misfire at low RPM's, it's pretty much fine when revved
up. It's back to dying at times when trying to start out. I believe
I smell gas when it's acting up. Frustrating, especially after just
putting a
Wiring harness insulation degrading? My '87 wagon suffers greatly from
this. I've acquired a used engine wiring harness in decent shape, but
unlike my '95 sedan, this wiring harness runs all over under the hood,
connecting the EDS computer and other relays to components and connections
at both
On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 05:29:51 -0800 Jim Cathey via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I'm thinking bad connection in the ignition system. Somewhere.
That covers a lot of ground, including the ignition switch, fuses,
common ground points. Also a whole lot of the innards of things
like the
Ok, you asked about computers, and most here know I'm a UNIX guy at heart
and an Apple guy most of the rest of the time. So yeah, I'm going to say
Mac just off the cuff right up front. However, you say that 90% of what you
do is eMail. What is the other 10%? Heavy photo and graphics manipulation?
I was just researching this yesterday! Have a line on a Pro 1,1 to sit next
to the Pro 5 and wondered about the install. You say your graphics card has
flashed firmware? Is that absolutely necessary? I've seen a set of
alternate graphics drivers direct from nVidia that allows quite a few of
So I'm going to go 180 on you and a full on different direction. My opinion
is to get a mechanical switch keyboard and then get double shot keys. Yes
the boards can be a little pricey (mine was $129) but the double shot keys
will never fade. As the letters are a physically different layer, not
Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote:
Kim Komando says apple and gateway to the most reliable laptops.
Gateway is not reliable as a desktop.
I thought Gateway and Compaq were low end products from HP?
Mitch.
HP bought compaq.
the remains of Gateway after professional management were bought
Ed,
I have an ATI 5870 PC card that has been flashed with firmware that will allow
it to run on a Mac. ATI was Apple's pick of graphics cards for many years,
although the only real difference between an Apple branded one and a regular
card is the firmware and the ability to display a boot
Sort of like the list today.
RB
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Be careful, I may hafta throw in another B-52 tale. ;)
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- Original Message -
From: Randy Bennell via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
To: Craig diese...@pisquared.net; Mercedes Discussion List
mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ]
I thought I had another day to drive my car.
The way that our insurance works, we have quarterly payments. One is due
tomorrow so that is when we normally convert the car to storage
insurance and cancel the normal insurance.
My good wife went in and paid the insurance today and they made the
SWMBA has taken #2 boy and left the state. That was a few months ago. She
calls and tells me she has some business deal that requires me to leave home
and keep an eye on the kid in AK for the next few weeks. I guess that is one
way to keep me from fretting about with the benz cars. I think
On 30/10/2014 4:35 PM, clay via Mercedes wrote:
SWMBA has taken #2 boy and left the state. That was a few months ago. She
calls and tells me she has some business deal that requires me to leave home
and keep an eye on the kid in AK for the next few weeks. I guess that is one
way to keep me
'Hope it goes well.
Wilt
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From: clay via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 5:35 PM
Subject: [MBZ] Short Hiatus
SWMBA has taken #2 boy and left the state. That was a few months ago.
On 30/10/2014 4:35 PM, clay via Mercedes wrote:
SWMBA has taken #2 boy and left the state. That was a few months
ago. She calls and tells me she has some business deal that
requires me to leave home and keep an eye on the kid in AK for the
next few weeks. I guess that is one way to keep me
DON'T DRINK THE WATER
By Wilton Strickland
During the entire three to four months, while flying bombing missions
from Thailand to Vietnam in Sep - Dec, 1972, we had been told many times,
Don't drink the local water, because of the danger of possibly getting
dysentery or some other
A couple years ago Angie and I went on a cruise. One of the stops was Cozumel
in Mexico. I noticed at that stop that unlike all the other places we had been
the ship didn't take on water. We went to a dolphinarium and swam with the
dolphins and had lunch there. At lunch I noticed that the water
The wife, who is an X-Ray tech at the crosstown clinic, tried to process a 41
year old white male for a scan, but couldn't because he was dead.
It was the opinion of my highly trained spouse that, not only was he not
deceased, he was actually in pretty robust physical condition.
He got shuffled
We were told the same thing in Italy, between '96 and '99. We were sternly
warned to only drink bottled water, brush our teeth with bottled water, use
bottled water in any food that wasn't heated to boiling. After I'd been
there a bit and befriended a doctor and some other folks who worked at
He was only pinin
--R
On 10/30/14 6:31 PM, Van Knutson via Mercedes wrote:
The wife, who is an X-Ray tech at the crosstown clinic, tried to process a 41 year old
white male for a scan, but couldn't because he was dead.
It was the opinion of my highly trained spouse that, not only was he not
We were told the same thing in Italy, between '96 and '99. We were sternly
warned to only drink bottled water, brush our teeth with bottled water, use
bottled water in any food that wasn't heated to boiling. After I'd been
there a bit and befriended a doctor and some other folks who worked at
In Uganda, I was told don't drink the water and
don't drink the milk whatever you do
Going to work, we passed the modern sanitary
dairy twice a day. It looked better than most in
the USA. The milk was bagged in 1 or 2 L bags,
Euro style.
I got up enough nerve to try the butter with no
Beautiful plumage!
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
He was only pinin
--R
On 10/30/14 6:31 PM, Van Knutson via Mercedes wrote:
The wife, who is an X-Ray tech at the crosstown clinic, tried to process
a 41 year old white male for a
Time for all new rubber in the air part of the fuel injection -- new
idle control valve hoses, new boot for the fuel distributor, and new
seals between manifold halves. Normal maintenace, alas.
Also check to make sure the air flow metering flap is moving normally,
the electrohydraulic
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
THAT, SIR, is a GREAT one!Worthy of a MASH prank!
Agreed! Worthy of an ATTABOY! even if it isn't a MB repair... :D
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Our consumptive rule, especially in third world countries, was don't drink it
if it doesn't go fzzzt when you open it
I only got sick a couple of times when traveling to the far corners.
Once, while doing a month long stint in Cairo, we were leaving the next day and
the guys we worked with
Cheer up, Randy. You'll probably get a brutal freeze or early blizzard...
Or both... Before (US) Thanksgiving
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I thought I had another day to drive my car.
The way that our insurance works, we have
Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
I had dysentery. Got it from the ice cubes in the Diet Coke. Lost almost 20
pounds in two weeks.
I don't take restaurant ice. I'd rather have my fountain pop water main
temperature than with restaurant ice in it.
I've seen too many ice machine pics on the
As Marvin Zindler in Houston used to say in the Slime Report, Slahm inna Ice
Machine!
Marvin was famous, not only for his large collection of toupees and pastel
suits and 40+ plastic surgeries, but also for busting that home out on the
range. If you have ever heard ZZTop's Lagrange, or of The
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