- 1. Re: Spring spacers (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:44:33 -0800
- Tradition has it that the, ah, bosom of Marie Antoinette was used as the model for the shallow champagne glass, which of course makes it the first... (...oh no, he can't REALLY be about to say it...)
- /html/fot/2000-01/msg00231.html (6,842 bytes)
- 2. Healey Triumphs (was Re: My mistake) (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 11:50:38 -0800
- I can offer some enlightenment here... Donald Mitchell Healey (DMH) was apparently quite a fellow -- flew airplanes in the war *before* the one with Mosquitos and Messerschmidts and NUMBER 51 mowing
- /html/fot/1999-12/msg00044.html (12,396 bytes)
- 3. Re: Healey Triumphs (was Re: My mistake) (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 16:24:17 -0800
- jonmac wrote (responding to me, in double >>s): I've always thought so too -- and I can't remember where I came up with the impression it was Denmark. Much more likely. Wonder why I got the idea it w
- /html/fot/1999-12/msg00049.html (13,252 bytes)
- 4. Re: It was me Bill !! (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 13:38:54 -0800
- As immortalized in Shakespeare's "Henry V," of course. However, Andrew Mace in particular should make a point of never seeing that play, as I'm sure he'd break down in tears at Montjoy's line, uttere
- /html/fot/1999-12/msg00064.html (9,219 bytes)
- 5. Virus Hoaxes (was Re: Virus Warning) (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:42:40 -0800
- Known, documented hoax. Specifically, the "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" hoax is called out here: http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html#jesus That site is the best place I know to check out virus-w
- /html/fot/1999-12/msg00196.html (9,697 bytes)
- 6. Re: Tradition, Flags, and His-Toe-Ree (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:06:57 -0800
- Jack Brooks wrote (referring to the URL below): Ah. Sounds like my time to chime in. The yellow flag with red stripes is the debris flag, typically used to denote (among other things) oil on the raci
- /html/fot/1999-12/msg00205.html (9,629 bytes)
- 7. Re: Bombing of Coventry (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 11:01:21 -0800
- I'm probably safe in speaking for anyone on this list when I say that you have not only our explicit permission to ramble thus, but our rapt attention when you do so. I'm sure I'm not the only person
- /html/fot/1999-11/msg00071.html (7,651 bytes)
- 8. Starting 'em early (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 17:07:28 -0800
- Well, yesterday I started building a TR3A with my son Charlie. We brought it home in a box -- no engine, transmission or diff but no rust either, chrome wire wheels, BRG (not too shiny but we decided
- /html/fot/1999-11/msg00177.html (7,535 bytes)
- 9. Re: TR compression vs. HP (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:50:58 -0700
- It's about an order of magnitude off. Standard seat-of-pants estimate is around 4% per point, so you may be looking at an 8% increase from the two-point CR bump alone. On the plus side, CR increases
- /html/fot/1999-10/msg00051.html (10,230 bytes)
- 10. Re: quotation addition (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:12:49 -0700
- While I can well imagine that Cleese said that at some time, he was quoting George Bernard Shaw when he did so... Shaw is almost as much a bore as Shakespeare: their plays are filled with things you
- /html/fot/1999-10/msg00149.html (6,773 bytes)
- 11. Shed full of GP Spitfire bits, anyone? (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:35:17 -0700
- We went to my daughter's soccer game Saturday, with my almost 3-year-old son wearing a jacket covered with various patches, including an old SCCA wheel patch. "Who's the racer?" said Melissa's mom (I
- /html/fot/1999-09/msg00104.html (7,190 bytes)
- 12. Re: Swallow Doretti (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:01:27 -0700
- Q: What do you call two Swallow Dorettis in a parking lot? A: The National Convention. Actually, that was Howard Goldman's (Moss Motors) joke; the National MGB (you should pardon the expression) Asso
- /html/fot/1999-08/msg00110.html (8,478 bytes)
- 13. Re: Rearranging the wardrobe (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 14:20:52 -0700
- And don't forget power windows versus manual, how do you put the top down, and the ever-popular "the last REAL Miata" discussion. --Scott
- /html/fot/1999-05/msg00010.html (7,619 bytes)
- 14. Re: Rearranging the wardrobe (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 14:59:11 -0700
- And I thank you, even though I didn't follow up on the inquiry that started this latest round of Toad-like automania, originally asking about the cost of a Spitfire like that shiny red one on his Web
- /html/fot/1999-05/msg00011.html (11,739 bytes)
- 15. Re: Montezuma's Ferrari (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 15:31:08 -0700
- Well, if it was Triumph Racing Society, that'd have the additional benefit that the acronym was TRS. --Scott "Yeah, I got ALL that TRS on my car" Fisher
- /html/fot/1999-05/msg00027.html (8,587 bytes)
- 16. Re: Misc. Ramblings (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:57:53 -0700
- A *wonderful* anecdote about a 5000 mile trip in a TR-3, ending with: Oh, Jack, *can* I... It was 1985, and I'd owned my first British sports car -- a Blaze Red 1974 M.G. Midget, still showing 24,999
- /html/fot/1999-05/msg00131.html (20,619 bytes)
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