My car's working again!!! (page 2)

SYN

Thanks for your replies, guys!

Ruby: Yeah, cars are such expensive objects to maintain.

Alchemist: I'm taking apart the dashboard this coming weekend, both to fix the knob that controls the heating and to remove the dead hamster that lodged in the cubby hole last winter during the traditional South African Hamster Run. And photos will be coming shortly, showing the Falcon in all it's, uh, glory!

Elsewhere: LOL!

Larc: Glad you managed to get so much mileage out of yours! Bear in mind the ancientness of the Falcon, however. Your car managed to travel the distance to the Moon - mine will probably only make it to High Earth Orbit or something.

Simon: Well, maybe yours was stolen? I bought the Falcon from a gangster who wears a thick fur coat with fox tails on it and smokes cigars, and lives in a shack with zinc walls. So maybe this is the same car?

Xander: If you called a boot a trunk here, nobody would know what the hell you were talking about!

patio34

Hi Syn,

I have just two things to say to you:

1) There was a ranch owner in Texas bragging about how big his ranch was and said: "I was driving my truck over my land and it took 5 hours just to drive over all of it." His associate said: "Yeah, I had a truck like that once." Sounds like your vehicle

2) I had my car smog-tested yesterday and it failed. Since my car has 250,000 + miles on it, my son who's an expert on cars said it's not worth fixing and plan to get another one. I can't even sell it as it's illegal to sell a car that can't pass smog. Bummer . . .

BUT, congratulations on your getting your car on the road again!

Pat

SYN

Patio: Smog testing? Good grief. America sounds like a very strict place. Here, it's OK for a car not to have a steering wheel, a monkey wrench will do. We don't even know what a smog test IS here!

patio34

Hi Syn,

I know, it stinks doesn't it? Here my car runs perfectly well and the state of California tells me too bad--it has too many emissions. But I can't complain as the car is very old and it's time to get a new one. It used to be the state would buy it back for $500 to get the polluters off the road, but they discontinued that program. Thanks for the sympathy!

Pat

SYN

My car is the one on the right, the yellow one.

patio34

LOL Syn! Why DO the Shriners drive around like that? Go figure!

Pat

The Alchemist

Because the Shriners are wack. Hey wasn't Pastor Russell a Shriner?

Xander

nobody would know what the hell you were talking about

Reminds me of a story I heard...well, just recently, actually.

Coworker of the wife was telling us of her time she spent in the UK (she well to school there for, ?7 months? or so with a group of other Americans).

Anyway, her and a group of friends were going out - one of her American buddies asked her "So, what'll you be wearing tonight", she replies "Oh, I dunno, a sweater and black pants probably".

UK fellow in front of her wheels around - "Is that ALL you'll be wearing?!?!". She: "Well, yeah, what's wrong with that?" He: "Try some trousers for god's sake!"

Hmmmmm.....

AH-HA!

UK 'Trousers' = US 'Pants'
UK 'Pants' = US 'Underwear'

Ooops.

(scratches head - hmmm, I guess the khaki 'Nice Pants' commercial series wouldn't do so good over there, huh?)

SYN

LMAO!

Don't worry Xander, when you visit South Africa, I'll organize you some hot maidens that you can charm with your American accent! Seriously, American guys here are viewed as novelties, and as a result get laid properly far more often than SA guys!!!!!!!

*jealousy*

Xander

I'll organize you some hot maidens that you can charm with your American accent

Sadly, I think the wife would object to that. Sounds fun, though.

American guys here are viewed as novelties....*jealousy*

YOU'RE jealous?!?!

Oh, c'mon, the fellow who's wooed MrMoe is jealous of ME?!? I'm telling her you said that.

My car's working again!!!

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