"Alan B. Clegg" <ALAN@NCSUVM>
Fri, 29 Aug 86 08:33:16 EDT
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Come on! What would the list be for? I would say sure to a discussion
group, but no way to another junk group...
what kind of a list are you wanting to create?
-abc
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187. A friend of Marc Donner's was driving his rebuilt sports car on
a straight, deserted highway in Kansas at 2 AM. A plaque screwed
onto the dashboard long ago when the car was new flatly stated that
it would travel 180 miles/hour. Out of a natural curiosity to see if
this was still true, he had taken it up to 120 m/h when, out of the
corner of his eye, he saw too late that he was blitzing thru a radar
trap. With nothing further to lose, he floored the accelerator, and
to his pleased astonishment, found that the car began
to race ahead at a vibrationless 180 m/h. Ten or twelve miles of
dreamlike speed thru an empty landscape ended when suddenly, he
He managed to pull up to it at a legal speed. A cop with a bullhorn
stood in front of two backed up semitrailers and hollered at him:
"Git out a here, sonny! We're waitin' for a hotrodder who's goin'
120 miles an hour, and he'll be here in exactly three minutes!" Obligingly,
he drove carefully around the semi's and away. (M. Donner, retold)
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