Well with that attitude, maybe all 4x4's should be Hummer's. If you get
stuck, they send a helicopter to get you out ;-)
Larry
BTW I do agree on this, but as WST put it "There are dumb people...
and not so dumb people."
On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 08:21 AM, David Lieb wrote:
>> ... An SUV is just another tool, that when properly used, achieves the
> desired
>> results ...
>
> Well put, WST. Fortunately, no one is forcing me to own or drive an
> SUV. Too
> high of a percentage of SUVs on the road have never done anything that
> wouldn't have been done better by a minivan.
> Since I have no reason to drive off-road, front-wheel drive, low roll
> center, clutch, and handbrake are my formula for a good winter car. In
> twenty-odd years of driving mostly in the Chicago area, I have yet to
> need a
> 4x4 to pull me anywhere. On the other hand I have helped a couple of
> them
> out of ditches. 4x4 means you will probably get there eventually, but
> it
> does not mean that it is safe to drive it very fast in adverse
> conditions. I
> get annoyed by the SUV assumption that if this is the fastest they can
> be
> safely driven in snow, then they should make sure that no one else
> drives
> any faster by blocking as many lanes as possible. Besides, they just
> aren't
> nearly so entertaining to watch as a 5-liter Mustang in the snow ;-)
> I always liked the credo of Tom Bodett who grew up in Indiana and
> moved to
> Alaska:
> "Having four wheel drive means that when you get stuck, no one is
> going to
> happen by to help you out."
> David Lieb
> RWA Midgets
> owning trucks is what friends are for
>
--
Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104
The bottom line: Sure, there's pain in adopting the Mac. But if I accept
that, I get to use a computer that works, and that pretty much does
what I
expect and want a computer to do.
Stewart Alsop
FORTUNE.com
Monday, June 25, 2001
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