I was at my genulmans' club today....looking at a car show... I know....kind of late in the season but you know car guys....
A fellow offered me a 68 'vette....really nice....for a reasonable price....
But i have always liked the 67 'vette.....
When the "bunch" was polishing our elbows.... a fellow mentioned to me....
"Did you ever wonder just .....WHY......there was such a complete redesign between the '67 and the '68 corvette, with such a massive reduction in horsepower?.....?
I said, "I plead ignorance."....
And he said...."It was because there are a lot of people IN POWER who think they are smarter than everybody else, and they just HAVE to tell you and me just how stupid we are."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90th_Un...tates_Congress
http://ntl.bts.gov/historian/history.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_A...ited_States%29
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3407400213.html
I read a science fiction story in the late 70s that had the curious situation of a guy that had been magically transported to the far future and he was walking beside the road and this car CREPT up upon him.... and he flagged it down even though he was walking faster than the car....
The fellow let him ride...
and the rider glanced at the speedometer.....and it registered a hundred and fifty miles per hour.....and there were....
curiously two big EXHAUSTS in the cabin....that BLEW AIR AT HIS FACE....so that he FELT like he was going a hundred and fifty miles per hour....
but.....he was not.'
If the lie is big enough, and told long enough....everybody believes it.
and...please remember.....I hold an earned MS in plant ecology and carried placards to keep American Cyanamid from dumping concentrated sulphuric acid in the Gulf of Mexico...
But now I know....why I quit loving 'vettes after '67.
woodsmoke
A fellow offered me a 68 'vette....really nice....for a reasonable price....
But i have always liked the 67 'vette.....
When the "bunch" was polishing our elbows.... a fellow mentioned to me....
"Did you ever wonder just .....WHY......there was such a complete redesign between the '67 and the '68 corvette, with such a massive reduction in horsepower?.....?
I said, "I plead ignorance."....
And he said...."It was because there are a lot of people IN POWER who think they are smarter than everybody else, and they just HAVE to tell you and me just how stupid we are."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90th_Un...tates_Congress
http://ntl.bts.gov/historian/history.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_A...ited_States%29
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3407400213.html
I read a science fiction story in the late 70s that had the curious situation of a guy that had been magically transported to the far future and he was walking beside the road and this car CREPT up upon him.... and he flagged it down even though he was walking faster than the car....
The fellow let him ride...
and the rider glanced at the speedometer.....and it registered a hundred and fifty miles per hour.....and there were....
curiously two big EXHAUSTS in the cabin....that BLEW AIR AT HIS FACE....so that he FELT like he was going a hundred and fifty miles per hour....
but.....he was not.'
If the lie is big enough, and told long enough....everybody believes it.
and...please remember.....I hold an earned MS in plant ecology and carried placards to keep American Cyanamid from dumping concentrated sulphuric acid in the Gulf of Mexico...
But now I know....why I quit loving 'vettes after '67.
woodsmoke
So, instead of commenting on your actual post, I'll veer OT! This has nothing to do with your post except that it's car related.
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