DeTomaso Mailing List: August 97, Message #242
     



From: "Ted A. Mitchell" <tmitch@gte.net>

Subject: Re: Realization

Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 14:09:46 -0700



Aha!  Carrying this to it's ultimate conclusion, we must conclude that

smoke is the power of the universe, and all things are dependent upon it. 

Examples:



1.  Older non-maintained cars losing power usually exhibit vast quantities

of smoke escaping out of the exhaust pipe.  Therefore loss of smoke causes

loss of power.



2.  Older human beings that are running down often emit a colorless

(although sometimes green) but highly odiferous smoke. Therefore loss of

smoke causes old age.



3.  California has been emitting so much smoke that it has resulted in

permanent smog.  Therefore loss of smoke causes moral and political decay.



4.  Forest fires result in dead trees.  Therefore loss of smoke causes loss

of life.



My computer is starting to smoke, so I had better quit.



Ted (Vader) Mitchell

http://home1.gte.net/tmitch/pe.htm

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> From: Shane F. Ingate <pantera@shiseis.com>

> To: detomaso@wgate.com

> Subject: Realization

> Date: Friday, August 08, 1997 12:04 PM

> 

> A sheet of paper blew across my desk the other day and as I browsed

through

> it the realisation of a basic truth came to me. So simple! So obvious

that

> I could not see it.

> 

> Walter Canivien, chairman of an Amateur Radio Group had discovered how

> integrated circuits work. He revealed that smoke was one thing that made

> IC's function because every time you let the smoke out of one it stops

> working. Walter claims to have verified this fact through extensive

> testing.

> 

> I was flabbergasted! Of Course! Smoke makes all things electrical work.

> Remember the last time you let smoke escape from your alternator? Stopped

> working, didn't it? I sat back and smiled like an idiot (that's not very

> difficult for me) as the realization dawned. It's the wiring harness that

> carries the smoke from one electrical device to another. Whenever the

> harness springs a leak and lets smoke out, various electrical devices

stop

> working all at once.

> 

> Feeling very smug by this time, I continued to elucidate this theory.

> Starter motors which are very heavy users of smoke need such large

> diameters of wire for this purpose. Why are Lucas electrics more prone to

> leakage than say AC? Well now, Joseph Lucas was British, right? British

> convertibles leak water. British sun roofs leak water. British engines

leak

> oil. British displacer units leak hydraulic fluid (ask any owner of a BMC

> FWD). British tyres leak air. British Ministry of Defence leak secrets.

> Naturally British Electrics leak smoke. Right! RIGHT!!

> 

> Similar logic can be applied to Italian cars.

> 

> 	Shane Ingate in San Diego



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