In a message dated 03/19/2001 9:28:30 AM Central Standard Time,
lang@isis.mit.edu writes:
> Talk about alliteration...
>
> I drained the oil from my differential late last week, chips fell out.
> Dropped the differential pumpkin and popped the cover - broken ring and
> pinion.
>
> $#!^
>
Mr. Lang
I don't know for sure, but your problem maybe two fold, the first being
ENGLISH grammar, and the second ENGLISH mechanics.
What you describe as ALLITERATION sounds more like ELIMINATION.
ALLITERATION, of course, is the occurrence in a phrase or line of speech or
writing of two or more words having the same initial sound, particularly that
of a consonant, for example the bubbling brook, or the wailing in the winter
wind. Is that what's happening?
Of course, your final expletive is onomatopoeia, but we've no time for that.
As far as that mechanical problem goes, I vote you use the LOCKER. My car
has been using the same DETROIT LOCKER for over forty years, and its been a
race car for every one of those years. Every once in a while, going around a
turn it sounds like the rear end fell off, but each year when we open it
up...it looks like brand new.
At any rate, good luck.
Bill Dentinger
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