[robtcorl]

If time allows, I may try to pop in on this shop

Better have the girls hold onto your credit cards.

[savoche]

Just in case anybody thought Otis didn't keep his training going.

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[savoche]

The metric system has always been problematic for me.

I'm sure that goes both ways

[robtcorl]

Just in case anybody thought Otis didn't keep his training going.

That's nuts!

[Racer X 69]

My weekend with the girls and Flo = Fête de l'Humanité - Wikipedia

In 1972 the lineup was:

The Who
Mireille Mathieu
Country Joe and the Fish
Golden Earring

Three of them would be awesome together. I've seen Golden Earring a few times, the largest venue was the Paramount theater in Seattle. Still intimate enough that it was an awesome show.

The other two are also well represented in my music library and on my iPod.



Never heard of Mirelle Mathieu. so I looked her up.

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Quite the contrast to the other three, eh? Especially as that was the era when Country Joe and the Fish were doing the Fish Cheer at their shows, and Madame Mathieu is more, um conservative.



I found it interesting that she is singing in French, and the subtitles are also in French.

[Racer X 69]

The metric system has always been problematic for me.

I'm sure that goes both ways

I reached driving age in the Pacific Northwest, so it was a regular thing to head up to British Columbia for the weekend. Everything is metric there. Gas is sold by liters. Beer too.

And the speed limit signs on the Canadian version of an interstate highway are metric.

When you see a sign that reads 100, that ain't miles an hour Bubba. Fortunately they started printing kilometers an hour in a smaller font inside the miles an hour line on speedometers not too long after I started to drive, and 100 kph is about 60mph (not exactly, but close enough), and everyone cheats by another 5 or so and the RCMP don't bother them.


They also have zones posted at 105 and 110.

That's cookin' man.


And while driving Monstro and company I visited British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec quite a bit. They are all metric. The instrument panel in the trucks could be switched from metric to imperial easily, but I had to finish my log out each day with the miles I ran, and easy as it was to change, I quickly tired of it and just guestimated my way across the Great White North.


Here I am taking a lunch break on the Eastern Alberta Plain. About 7 kilometers (4 miles) to the East (left) is Manitoba. The two lane highway I was on runs mostly parallel to the border from Medicine Hat 160 kilometers (97 miles) North to Oyen, Alberta where I hooked up with a similar two lane highway that angles Northeasterly to Saskatoon, 365 kilometers (227 miles).

A long day's ride, to be sure. I ran it twice, the first time out to Saskatoon and back to Medicine hat in one day, the second trip I made it two days and stayed overnight at the Flying J in Saskatoon, then made it all the way back to Sweetgrass, Montana the second day.

And although it may seem lonely and desolate, it sure beats running I-95 or I-5, or any interstate from Kansas City to the Atlantic Ocean.





Saskatoon Flying J.

They pull double 16 meters (53 footers) on the Canada Prairie.





Sweetgrass Pilot (used to be a Flying J, even has a real restaurant).





The next day a Ukranian backed into the side of my truck so hard it shoved it sideways 4 feet, and broke the cab to frame mounts moving the cab about 4 inches to the right side of the chassis.

I had just fueled the truck, and his ICC bumper (a bumper designed many years ago to make trailers safer) pierced the left fuel tank. 300 gallons of diesel on the ground.

Jackass said it was my fault.




So much for the metric system.

[Racer X 69]

Maybe Mark can decipher this.

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(As noted, there is language that may be considered NSFW, or even offensive, namely the title of their latest album.)

[Jean Poitiers]

... Never heard of Mirelle Mathieu. so I looked her up. ...

Me neither until I came to France.

She's now kind of a (bad) joke in many circles ... I cannot say anything about her earlier career.

And please note that she still has the same haircut!

Mireille Mathieu - Wikipedia

[Racer X 69]

Me neither until I came to France.

She's now kind of a (bad) joke in many circles ... I cannot say anything about her earlier career.

And please note that she still has the same haircut!

Mireille Mathieu - Wikipedia

Yes, a hairdo that is reminiscent of Dorothy Hamill.

Mireille was quite the looker. Odd she never married.

[savoche]

Seems parts of Spain have seen some rain. But not mainly in the plain.

[Jean Poitiers]

Seems parts of Spain have seen some rain. But not mainly in the plain.

No license plates there, so I guess that all of that "WAS" new inventory ... plus I will bet that many will be dried and cleaned then put back on the used market. Maybe a bunch will head to eastern Europe or Russia ... and then be recirculated into western Europe.

My dad, the criminal defense lawyer, had a used car dealer as a constant client and he (and his sons) would buy very high mileage and rather new company cars in states other than Oklahoma.

The scheme was to have a fictitious sale between shell companies where the cars would pass through a Missouri license tag dealer to wash the "high" mileage off the titles. Example, buy a car in Kansas with 150+ K miles on it, then have the "odometer guy" pass by to roll 100+ K off the speedo (this at the time was done in exchange for a piece of paper with Benjamin Franklin's face on it) ... then tag the altered car now with the lower mileage in Missouri and then bring it into Oklahoma to sell retail as a low mileage clean almost new car. Neat, eh.

I even once saw the "odo" guy work his magic in Tulsa at this used dealer's lot ... not really hard to do with the old wheel-dial speedometers of the '70's & 80's.

To close on a happier note, the Feds finally caught this dealer and sons ... and my dad could not save the dealer dad and one of his sons from a free long-term stay in a Federal prison. Happy ending in some respects.

[robtcorl]

Happy TGIF, even if it is the 13th.

[Racer X 69]

Happy TGIF, even if it is the 13th.

And a full moon too!

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[robtcorl]

And a full moon too!

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[dbs]

Its the 14 th now ....but.....yes there was a full moon.......and my tyre must think its the thirteenth it has a nice hole in the sidewall.......damn roadworks


Dave