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Re: Silly Part Name

To: Steve Patchel <spatchel@radford.com>
Subject: Re: Silly Part Name
From: Tom LeBlanc <leblanc@graddiv.ucsb.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 14:30:59 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 28 Sep 1995, Steve Patchel wrote:

> MY favorite has always been "glup valve". I think it was British Leland's
> way of tell us Yanks what they thought of our emission standards
> 
Sorry Steve, but BL's ministry of silly names didn't come up with that 
one.  That is a US emissions part name.  If you look in a US emissions 
part catalog, you will find 'gulp valve'  Just think of the "Big Gulp"... ;-)

Tom
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