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Re: Car Cover

To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Car Cover
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:01:02 -0600 reply-type=response
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You know... the more I think about it, I may have bought that Tyvek car 
cover at K-Mart. ;)

Kurtis Jones
Russellville, Arkansas
1963 TR4 - CT19389L
1959 AH Bugeye - AN5L23250
www.geocities.com/tr4_1963

----- Original Message ----- 
From "David Lieb" <dbl at chicagolandmgclub.com>
To: <RBHouston@aol.com>; "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: Car Cover


>> 1. Calculate the  smallest limb diameter on a persimmon tree that will
>> support a 10-pound possum.
>
> 3/8"
>
>> 2. Which of these cars will rust out the quickest when placed on blocks 
>> in
>> your front yard? a)  A '65 Ford Fairlane b)  A '69 Chevrolet  c)  A '67
>> Chevelle d)  A '64 Pontiac GTO.
>
> The Ford, every time.
>
>> 3. If your uncle  builds a still that operates at a capacity of 20 
>> gallons of
>> shine produced per  hour, how many car radiators are required to condense
>> the  product?
>
> The proper unit here is pickup radiator, not car radiator, and everyone 
> knows each 5 gallons of shine per hour adds one more rad.
>
>> 4. A  woodcutter has a chain saw that operates at 2700 RPM. The density 
>> of
>> the pine  trees in the plot to be harvested is 470 per acre. The plot is 
>> 2.3
>> acres in  size. The average tree diameter is 14 inches. How many 
>> Budweiser's
>> will  be drunk  before the trees are cut down?
>
> This is supposed to be hard? Heck, ALL of  the Bud will be gone before the 
> chainsaw even gets started!
>
>> 5. If every old refrigerator in the state  vented a charge of R-12
>> simultaneously, what would be the percentage decrease in  the ozone 
>> layer?
>
> Now we are talking miracles. You want us to believe that any of them still 
> HAVE a charge?
>
>> 6. A front porch is constructed of 2x8 pine on 24-inch  centers with a 
>> field
>> rock foundation. The span is 8 feet and the porch length is  16 feet. The
>> porch floor is 1-inch rough sawn pine. When the porch collapses,  how 
>> many > hound dogs will be killed?
>
> Exactly half.
>
>> 7. A man owns a Tennessee house and  3.7 acres of land in a hollow with 
>> an
>> average slope of 15%. The man has five  children. Can each of his grown
>> children put a mobile home on the man's land and  still have enough 
>> property
>> for their electric appliances to sit out front?
>
> Yup. And the next generation, too.
>
>> 8. A 2-ton truck is overloaded and proceeding 9000 yards down a steep
>> slope on a secondary road at 45 MPH. The brakes fail. Given average 
>> traffic
>> conditions on secondary roads, what is the probability that it will 
>> strike a
>> vehicle with a muffler?
>
> 0%
>
>> 9. A coal mine operates in a NFPA Class 1,  Division 2 Hazardous Area. 
>> The > mine employs 120 miners per shift. A gas warning  is issued at the 
>> beginning of > the 3rd shift. How many cartons of unfiltered  Camels will 
>> be smoked during
>> the shift?
>
> This cannot be calculated on the basis of the data supplied. You have to 
> tell us how many days it has been since payday.
>
>> 10. At a reduction in the gene  pool variability rate of 7.5% per 
>> generation,
>> how long will it take a town that  has been bypassed by the Interstate to
>> breed a country-western  singer?
>
> Come on, Robert, every one of those towns has a population that is 30% 
> country-western singers already. Did you want to know how long until one 
> of them gets to the Opry? Paid or paying?





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