Big Thumb truck
Dave Fossett
up when it decided to name one of its trucks "Big Thumb".
http://www.nissandiesel.co.jp/BIG/menu.html
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Dave Fossett
Saitama, Japan
Michael Cash
<re...@via.newsgroup> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>Just curious, but I wonder what sort of image Nissan was trying to conjure
>up when it decided to name one of its trucks "Big Thumb".
>http://www.nissandiesel.co.jp/BIG/menu.html
That's been around for years.
Hino has the "Dolphin" (or is it "Super Dolphin"?)
Sometime in the next couple of weeks I'm supposed to get a shiny new
2003 Mitsubishi-Fuso "Super Great"
What I *really* want to know about Nissan is how in hell they get "UD"
out of "Nissan Diesel".
--
Michael Cash
"There was a time, Mr. Cash, when I believed you must be the most useless
thing in the world. But that was before I read a Microsoft help file."
Prof. Ernest T. Bass
Mount Pilot College
Eric Takabayashi
> Just curious, but I wonder what sort of image Nissan was trying to conjure
> up when it decided to name one of its trucks "Big Thumb".
> http://www.nissandiesel.co.jp/BIG/menu.html
Tonight I saw for the first time the Mister Donuts Pingu themed electric
toothbrush giveaway. Is there anything interesting about the design?
http://www.misterdonut.co.jp/newcamp/index.html
http://www.misterdonut.co.jp/info15/index.html
「こんな感じな電動歯ブラシいる？」indeed.
Michael Cash
<eta...@yahoo.co.jp> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
What I'm sick and fucking tired of is fucking Winnie the motherfucking
Pooh in every fucking vehicle. There's a fucking Poohdemic going on in
this country. Some people have multiple (some *very* multiple) Poohs
in their cars, but it seems the Diet passed a law requiring everybody
to have at least one.
I used to like Pooh. I'm trying very very hard not to hold this
current fascination against him.
Michael Cash
<mike...@sunfield.ne.jp> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>Sometime in the next couple of weeks I'm supposed to get a shiny new
>2003 Mitsubishi-Fuso "Super Great"
Like the top model on this page:
http://www.mitsubishi-fuso.com/jp/lineup/truck/super_great/tractor/fp_lineup.html#001
But in a different color scheme, of course.
Declan Murphy
> What I'm sick and fucking tired of is fucking Winnie the motherfucking
> Pooh in every fucking vehicle. There's a fucking Poohdemic going on in
> this country. Some people have multiple (some *very* multiple) Poohs
> in their cars, but it seems the Diet passed a law requiring everybody
> to have at least one.
You are sick and tired of Winnie the motherfucking Pooh in every fucking
vehicle? Never mind in vehicles. I have a Winnie the Pooh electric alarm
clock waking me with a screeching buzzer every morning.
> I used to like Pooh. I'm trying very very hard not to hold this
> current fascination against him.
I hold it against him. I hold it very personally. I take great delight
in smashing his head in (it doubles as the snooz button) at every
opportunity. Somehow she-who-owns-the-remote sleeps on oblivious to it all.
--
Their daily paychecks will soon flitter off to the cash registers of the
bars willing to cash them and who is to say either are wrong? Not me. A
hundred dollars in my wallet has never felt as good as five bucks of
cheap hooch in my bloodstream, and if that ain’t the Lord working in
mysterious ways, then you can call me a Philistine. For in the hand of
the Lord there is a cup and the wine is red. It is fully mixed, and He
pours it out (Psalm 75:8)
http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/05_03/05-03-boozing-bible.html
Cheers Mike.
Dave Fossett
> Tonight I saw for the first time the Mister Donuts Pingu themed electric
> toothbrush giveaway. Is there anything interesting about the design?
>
> http://www.misterdonut.co.jp/newcamp/index.html
> http://www.misterdonut.co.jp/info15/index.html
>
> 「こんな感じな電動歯ブラシいる？」indeed.
Looks like an electric toothbrush to me...
Personally, I'm saving up for the jumbo slipper.
Ed
"Michael Cash" <mike...@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message
news:l5efivk7hgcsjau79...@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:14:04 +0900, Eric Takabayashi
> <eta...@yahoo.co.jp> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>
> >Dave Fossett wrote:
> >
> >> Just curious, but I wonder what sort of image Nissan was trying to
conjure
> >> up when it decided to name one of its trucks "Big Thumb".
> >> http://www.nissandiesel.co.jp/BIG/menu.html
> >
> >Tonight I saw for the first time the Mister Donuts Pingu themed electric
> >toothbrush giveaway. Is there anything interesting about the design?
> >
> >http://www.misterdonut.co.jp/newcamp/index.html
> >http://www.misterdonut.co.jp/info15/index.html
> >
> >「こんな感じな電動歯ブラシいる？」indeed.
>
> What I'm sick and fucking tired of is fucking Winnie the motherfucking
> Pooh in every fucking vehicle. There's a fucking Poohdemic going on in
> this country. Some people have multiple (some *very* multiple) Poohs
> in their cars, but it seems the Diet passed a law requiring everybody
> to have at least one.
So you gonna put some pooh dingleberries in your new super great Fuso HD?
I like the poohdemic. It lets me know which girls are willing to go the
super great cutesy distance. A woman that has twenty identical pooh sans
littering her dashboard is a woman who understands a woman's place in the
hundred acre woody.
Let me guess. Your wife doesn't have a plethora of pooh sans in her car. And
no, a single pooh keitai strap doesn't count.
Eric Takabayashi
> Eric Takabayashi wrote:
>
> > Tonight I saw for the first time the Mister Donuts Pingu themed electric
> > toothbrush giveaway. Is there anything interesting about the design?
> >
> > http://www.misterdonut.co.jp/newcamp/index.html
> > http://www.misterdonut.co.jp/info15/index.html
> >
> > 「こんな感じな電動歯ブラシいる？」indeed.
>
> Looks like an electric toothbrush to me...
It is.
Now activate it with the cap on, and cap holder in upright position..
Kevin Wayne Williams
>
> What I *really* want to know about Nissan is how in hell they get "UD"
> out of "Nissan Diesel".
Perhaps because the Nissan truck line is powered by Universal Diesel
engines, and has been since I was a small child? I vaguely remember a
childhood photo of me posed in front of a big blue Nissan truck with the
big UD on the front. I'd have to go dig though my mother's attic to be sure.
Digging around the web, it looks like Westerbeke bought most of the old
Universal Diesel business, and Nissan bought the big truck engine line.
The biggest Universal Diesel that Westerbeke sells is a 2 liter four
cylinder, and I suspect that Nissan is running larger engines than that.
KWW
Dave Fossett
> Now activate it with the cap on, and cap holder in upright position..
Overactive imagination... :-)
Kevin Gowen
> Michael Cash wrote:
>
>>
>> What I *really* want to know about Nissan is how in hell they get
>> "UD" out of "Nissan Diesel".
>
> Perhaps because the Nissan truck line is powered by Universal Diesel
> engines, and has been since I was a small child? I vaguely remember a
> childhood photo of me posed in front of a big blue Nissan truck with
> the big UD on the front. I'd have to go dig though my mother's attic
> to be sure.
Tablets chiseled by wisecracking pterodactyls don't count.
--
Kevin Gowen
"His final words to me were: 'This time I think the Americans are
serious. Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is the end.' "
- Ala'a Makki, the former director of Uday Hussein's television
station, on the Ace of Hearts
Kevin Wayne Williams
> Michael Cash wrote:
>
>>
>> What I *really* want to know about Nissan is how in hell they get "UD"
>> out of "Nissan Diesel".
>
>
> Perhaps because the Nissan truck line is powered by Universal Diesel
> engines ....
Looks like I got it wrong. I was surprised to not find better tracks,
and it was because I was chasing the wrong things. It looks like the
Universal Diesel sale to Westerbeke happened, but the UD on Nissan
trucks stands for "Uniflow Diesel". From
http://www.udtrucks.com/aboutus.htm :
UD TRUCKS have earned an outstanding reputation for quality,
dependability and durability. The "UD" trademark, which originally stood
for "Uniflow Diesel", became known over the years to mean "Ultimate
Dependability."
http://www.nissandiesel.co.jp/frame_e.html says the 1955 marked the
introduction of uniflow-scavenging 2-cycle diesel engines.
Next mystery: what the hell is uniflow-scavenging?
KWW
John W.
John W.
Ken
[snip]
> UD TRUCKS have earned an outstanding reputation for quality,
> dependability and durability. The "UD" trademark, which originally
> stood for "Uniflow Diesel", became known over the years to mean
> "Ultimate Dependability."
>
> http://www.nissandiesel.co.jp/frame_e.html says the 1955 marked
> the introduction of uniflow-scavenging 2-cycle diesel engines.
>
> Next mystery: what the hell is uniflow-scavenging?
The Japanese term is "tanlyuu souki".
Scavenging designates the expulsion of remnant gases from the
combustion chamber by a forced -- as opposed to sucked in -- inflow
of fresh air while the exhaust valve(s) is(are) open.
The scavenging fresh air is forced into the cylinder by a
blower, and also improves thermodynamic efficiency by cooling
the combustion chamber, valves and piston head.
"Uniflow" means that the scavenging air flows in the same direction
as the combustion gases, thus minimising turbulence.
As an aside, if the fresh air were blown into the combustion
chamber with the exhaust valve(s) closed, the air pressure in the
intake manifold would probably exceed atmospheric pressure, and
we'd talk of "supercharging" instead of "scavenging".