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07-17-2018, 02:57 AM - 1 Like   #52036
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QuoteOriginally posted by Racer X 69 Quote
More like how many gallons to the mile.


Actually, that's the way I'm used to think of it. Well, metric, of course; litres per "mile", the Norwegian mile, or mil, being 10 km.

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How are the Flint Hills related to dogs eating musk melons?
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Hourly average posting rate so far this month points us towards 43,000 by month's end. I guess there will have to be some seriously frenetic posting on that last stretch to get the II badge stuck onto the prize.
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Oh, I did use an electronic tuner to re-map it gently. Made a big difference on kick-down and gear changes from the auto box
A Mustang with an automatic?

Sacrelidge!

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QuoteOriginally posted by Racer X 69 Quote
How are the Flint Hills related to dogs eating musk melons?
murphy law made me post that in error in response to a post

so I once I realized that I combined the posts to show what I was responding to

you mentioned the flint hills I believe - #52194

and that is the post I originally meant to respond to and post the link

clear as mud right ?
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It's bonnie, isn't it?

Some people actually did such a conversion, using the Rover 3500 V8 which - as you probably know - was actually a Buick design...
The Rover V8 was an all aluminum engine, if I recall correctly. Lightweight.

A few racers gave dropped them into small sports cars and been quite successful on the road course.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Aslyfox Quote
murphy law made me post that in error in response to a post

so I once I realized that I combined the posts to show what I was responding to

you mentioned the flint hills I believe - #52194

and that is the post I originally meant to respond to and post the link

clear as mud right ?
You do know that you can edit your posts, for up to a year after they were posted.

Just sayin’.

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QuoteOriginally posted by reh321 Quote
You don't know "flat" until you've lived in western or central Kansas. We lived several miles from the Arkansas River, but we were part of the flood plain so our mortgage holder required that we have flood insurance. Grain elevators are known as "prairie lighthouses" - you can see one miles away, and since the roads are largely a grid system, you can use one to drive to the town even if you don't have directions.
yet even without large changes in elevations, there are spots where there are folds, gullies, coulees where things may be hidden until you reach them
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You do know that you can edit your posts, for up to a year after they were posted.

Just sayin’.
yeah but I can't edit a response to my post

can I
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QuoteOriginally posted by Racer X 69 Quote
The Rover V8 was an all aluminum engine, if I recall correctly. Lightweight.

A few racers gave dropped them into small sports cars and been quite successful on the road course.
For many years, that same alloy GM-Buick-derived Rover 3.5L (215ci) V8 was used in the Morgan Plus 8, with 0-60mph in 5.6 seconds for the later fuel-injected version... a lot of fun at the time, especially in such a basic, low-to-the-ground, open-top sports car. I got to drive a late 90s / early 2000s example at a track day some years ago, and it put a huge smile on my face
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QuoteOriginally posted by savoche Quote
Seems to me whoever transcribed those indian names either was dyslectic or suffered from APD - or both
The Salish language is unique and different.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Aslyfox Quote
yeah but I can edit a response to my post, any way I choose



can’t I?
Why not?
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The Salish language is unique and different.
Languages fascinate me. The Navajo code talkers have always interested me. Figuring out the click sounds of certain languages in Southern Africa is frustrating - but great fun when you start getting the hang of it
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Languages fascinate me. The Navajo code talkers have always interested me. Figuring out the click sounds of certain languages in Southern Africa is frustrating - but great fun when you start getting the hang of it
as I understand it

the secret to the Navajo Code Talkers was not that it used a language not known to many outside of the tribe but that it was a code within that language


knowing the word used was " turtle " in English did not reveal what was meant by " turtle "

I have heard that the hardest " code " to break is a " book " code where each party to the code needs the same book, the same printing of it and the knowledge of how to use it to decipher the message encoded

of course, my information is probably out dated

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" Figuring out the click sounds of certain languages in Southern Africa is frustrating - but great fun when you start getting the hang of it "

like some of the dialogue in this movie:

The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) - IMDb

The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) - IMDb
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QuoteOriginally posted by reh321 Quote
and since the roads are largely a grid system,
Those roads mostly follow survey section lines, a section is a mile square.
Southeast Missouri's nickname is Swampeast Missouri because much of it was swamp before drainage ditches were dug and the swampland turned into farmland.
If you want to see flatland, go there.
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