> At 07:14 PM 10/1/96 GMT, you wrote:
> >>I noted that my normally reliable quarz dash clock was a little
> >>fast. I reset it to the proper time, but then realized that it was =
> >>running fast - i.e. the second hand made one revolution in around =
> >>20 seconds! I reset the beast again after parking the car in the
> >>garage, and now, 24 hours later it is still reading correctly.
> >
> >You haven't begun dribbling, or going bald, have you?
> >
> >(Stephen King, Christine)
> >
> >
> >PaulH
> >73 Roadster (HD&H)
> >75 V8
> >
>
>
> Are you saying that if you are going bald .....you should expect to
> dribble?!? No one told me about THAT!! Are you SURE???!!
>
> You probably though that because I wrote that I was going
> bald.....well,...I'm not. Really! I'm not.
>
> Don Mathis,Ph.D.
> LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES
> donmathis@lucent.com
> '61 MGA
> '37 Bentley
>
Well, with the clock going fast I wasn't sure whether that would make the=
driver get older or younger, hence the "or".
BTW, does anybody remember a short story (probably in Playboy, if I'm hon=
est)
about a car that used no petrol but was powered by some kind of energy =
transfer
from the driver? A young chap bought it from an incredibly ancient bloke=
,
drove it several hundred miles, looked in the mirror and suddenly realise=
d why
the seller was so old.
PaulH
73 Roadster (HD&H)
75 V8 (DD)
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