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ROTFLMAO ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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| 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

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It used to be that way here, also. I took all the smog equipment off of a 1968 Toyota Corolla so I could fit an air conditioning unit in it.

I see an occasional BMW as big as my Q45. I think they're terribly expensive.... much higher than my Q45, which had a sticker of $63K, but I got it for $43K since it was last year's model, with 148 miles on it ;-)

That sounds about right. Toyota has a proving ground right here in Arizona.

...Jim Thompson

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|  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     |
|  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
|  Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC\'s and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
|  Phoenix, Arizona            Voice:(480)460-2350  |             |
|  E-mail Address at Website     Fax:(480)460-2142  |  Brass Rat  |
|       http://www.analog-innovations.com           |    1962     |
             
I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

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In Arizona they don't _measure_ anything during your smog inspection, they just plug into the car's computer and it tells them whether everything is OK.

There's even a sign saying, "If Check Engine Light is On, You WILL NOT PASS Emissions Test".

...Jim Thompson

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|  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     |
|  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
|  Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC\'s and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
|  Phoenix, Arizona            Voice:(480)460-2350  |             |
|  E-mail Address at Website     Fax:(480)460-2142  |  Brass Rat  |
|       http://www.analog-innovations.com           |    1962     |
             
I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Only from your own post about removing the crosspost. And who (except me!) is going to follow up on that?

What the hell is going on here? Cant find enough apostrophe abuse to keep you happy? OK, heres a couple... enjoy!

John

Can't; it's zoned residential. But if the guy directly across the street wants to paint his house in big swaths of primary red and blue and yellow and green, with a flagpole in the middle... well... he already has.

John

Perhaps, but they can try. That is what the zoning special exceptions are all about... doing what you can't.

And, of course, you will have to spend your nickels trying to fight it, because they will usually grant exceptions if no one complains.

-Chuck

Or at least that is the theory today.

I long ago invented the curse: "May whoever designed this mess spend eternity maintaining it."

In message , dated Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Jim Thompson writes

How many laps at Indianapolis is that?(;-)

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2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely.

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On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:47:43 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

Not being able to service one's own car is retarded for the person that would buy an unserviceable car. Service costs are sky high as it is.

Not an american car either. No matter where it was made, the money still goes back to the parent.

Buy American.

Well, no traces have been found, and in those days it was SO expensive to fly from Nairobi to New York. (;-)

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2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely.

John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:44:25 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

Still have to pay a subscription fee.

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:58:16 +0100, "Reg Edwards" Gave us:

You're an idiot. On a $100,000 custom board, if a chip fails, it gets replaced. THE CHIP, not the board.

It depends entirely on the devices and products in question, dumbass.

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:23:40 -0700, John Larkin Gave us:

When one gets a single dark (or white) pixel on a large LCD screen, one notices it.

A single pixel. My 32" has ONE (black). a half inch down, and 5.25 inches in from the right upper side of the screen. Virtually never gets seen, but I do know it is there.

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:37:29 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

I'd say they've choked about all they can out of that chicken.

Any more and something is liable to fail.

Do they race with that engine design?

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:39:42 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel) Gave us:

Maybe it is a value and affordability issue.

Low value in the strictest sense, and WAY overpriced, and NO it does NOT hold its value.

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:08:25 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

Cars that old are grandfathered out of the restrictions anyway.

In '68 there were no EPA controls yet. They were just coming online. A vapor recovery valve and/or tank was the first item.

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:00:41 -0400, "jack" Gave us:

Yeah! Here here! There there!

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:41:03 +0100, Eeyore Gave us:

You could be a little more retarded, but not in this life.