The meaning of fuzzy dice
Karen J. Cravens
blogs), I run across all the search terms that people have used to find
it. Sometimes they're funny, sometimes surreal, and sometimes they're
actually accurate. We have a few recurring themes, though, and one that's
come to my attention makes me wonder if there's a sort of shoes-over-
power-lines UL attached to it.
I've gotten, from a variety of search engines and source domains, a
moderately large number of searches for "meaning of fuzzy dice" (or
variants thereof... if it's ask.com it'll usually be "what do fuzzy dice
mean" or "what is the meaning of fuzzy dice" or sometimes "will you please
tell me what fuzzy dice mean?")
Actually performing the search myself doesn't turn up anything
particularly enlightening, but that's okay, I'm not really curious about
what fuzzy dice mean, I'm curious about what people think fuzzy dice mean.
Or rather, if/why they think fuzzy dice *might* mean something.
L0nD0t.$t0we11
>
> Actually performing the search myself doesn't turn up anything
> particularly enlightening, but that's okay, I'm not really curious about
> what fuzzy dice mean, I'm curious about what people think fuzzy dice mean.
> Or rather, if/why they think fuzzy dice *might* mean something.
1. Dice for softcore gamblers?
2. The manufacturer, Andrew Inc, ran out of dice clay?
3. Invented by Heisenberg?
4. The brown ones are actually called Fozzie Dice?
On a more serious note, first time I recall seeing them was about the
same era as the notorious J. C. Whitney Suicide Knob [or Necker Knob]
and from the same source. Hung from the rear view mirrors, typically
a convertible in the adverts.
--
Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them...
Alan Follett
<snip>
> I'm not really curious about what fuzzy dice
> mean, I'm curious about what people think
> fuzzy dice mean. Or rather, if/why they think
> fuzzy dice *might* mean something.
I recall my father cautioning me, circa 1958, to give wide berth to
anyone with fuzzy dice hanging from their rear-view mirror, this being,
in his view, a sure sigil of dubious social antecedents, and,
consequently, dubiouser driving skills. Of course, since then, fuzzy
dice have had a further stratum of nostalgic or ironic subtext laid down
over them.
Alan "much as with plactic lawn flamingos" Follett
Karen J. Cravens
4065E...@storefull-3134.bay.webtv.net:
> I recall my father cautioning me, circa 1958, to give wide berth to
> anyone with fuzzy dice hanging from their rear-view mirror, this being,
> in his view, a sure sigil of dubious social antecedents, and,
> consequently, dubiouser driving skills. Of course, since then, fuzzy
> dice have had a further stratum of nostalgic or ironic subtext laid down
> over them.
There's that, of course, but I would imagine the searchers would be
looking for something that the *buyers* of the fuzzy dice are trying to
convey.
Bill Schnakenberg
I eschewed the fuzzy dice, or anything else hanging from the mirror, since it was against the Vehicle and traffic law in my state.
I wonder what the little blue insert in the taillights meant.
I painted the round taillights of my 56 Ford convertible with black paint so that the only part that was clear red was an Ace of Spades. I wonder what that meant?
And what's with those Chia Pets?
-- Bill
Karen J. Cravens
news:EGm9c.942$ti6...@news01.roc.ny:
> Karen J. Cravens wrote:
>>There's that, of course, but I would imagine the searchers would be
>>looking for something that the *buyers* of the fuzzy dice are trying to
>>convey.
>>
> That they were 'cool'?
But why would anyone do a web search to find that out?
Crashj
<>
> I'm curious about what people think fuzzy dice mean.
> Or rather, if/why they think fuzzy dice *might* mean something.
An old guy in an old hotrod. In my case it is a 1973, 455 cubic inch
engine, four barrel, dual exhaust, hot rod with plumbing and fuzzy
white dice. Also front wheel drive and six wheels, 26 feet long.
--
Crashj
Karen J. Cravens
news:aa83a82f.0403...@posting.google.com:
That's what *you* think it means, but not, apparently, what the web
searchers *thought* you thought it meant. Or else they wouldn't have had
to search the web to find out what you thought it meant.
Mary Shafer
Tuck and roll? Dingleberries? Dago rake?
Mary
--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
mil...@qnet.com
Alan Follett
That's what /you/ think they thought he thought, I think.
Alan "I think I'll just lie down with a cold compress on my head now"
Follett
John Francis
Lady Penelope? Is that you?
--
Hello. My name is Darth Vader. I am your Father. Prepare to die.
R H Draney
>
>Actually performing the search myself doesn't turn up anything
>particularly enlightening, but that's okay, I'm not really curious about
>what fuzzy dice mean, I'm curious about what people think fuzzy dice mean.
>Or rather, if/why they think fuzzy dice *might* mean something.
Observation: the total number of pips on a pair of dice is 42...this is also the
constant sum of the smallest (3x3x3) magic cube...and the largest number with
the property that it and all smaller positive integers are mentioned somewhere
in the Bible....
R H "the fuzzy part I'm still working on" Draney
Thomas Prufer
wrote:
>Or else they wouldn't have had
>to search the web to find out what you thought it meant.
They are searching the web to find out what's cool? Either they are
geeks, or I am older than I thought. Or the world got younger, or
something.
I remember well when a friend bought a "Penthouse" air freshener to
dangle from the rear view mirror of his Ford Capri. This (the freshener,
not the Capri) was a cardboard snippet with a nude woman printed on it,
drenched in some sickly-sweet "freshener". Even he who'd shelled out
cash for the stupid thing found it so cloying that he banished it under
the rubber floor mat. The manufactured had anticipated this, because the
smell was still too powerful. The thing ended up in the trash.
Thomas Prufer
Keith Willis
<"L0nD0t.$t0we11"@ComcastDot.Net> wrote:
> On a more serious note, first time I recall seeing them was about the
> same era as the notorious J. C. Whitney Suicide Knob [or Necker Knob]
> and from the same source. Hung from the rear view mirrors, typically
> a convertible in the adverts.
I was trying to figure out what on earth "fuzzy dice" might be, and
which area of probability theory might use them, but now I see it's
just a WIAVBP thing. "Fluffy dice" they always were on the right side
of the pond. Normally to be found hanging from the rear view mirrors
of Ford Cortinas and later Capris. In Essex.
--
http://www.bytebrothers.co.uk
PGP key ID 0xEB7180EC
netOBSESSIVE
> Observation: the total number of pips on a pair of dice is 42...this is also the
> constant sum of the smallest (3x3x3) magic cube...and the largest number with
> the property that it and all smaller positive integers are mentioned somewhere
> in the Bible....
And the answer to the Question of Life, The Universe and Everything...
Charles Wm. Dimmick
> Observation: the total number of pips on a pair of dice is 42...this is also the
> constant sum of the smallest (3x3x3) magic cube...and the largest number with
> the property that it and all smaller positive integers are mentioned somewhere
> in the Bible....
>
> R H "the fuzzy part I'm still working on" Draney
So the dice represent the answer to Life, the Universe, and
everything?
Charles "for the fuzzy part, ask the mice" Dimmick
--
"And some rin up hill and down dale, knapping the
chucky stanes to pieces wi' hammers, like sae mony
road-makers run daft -- they say it is to see how
the warld was made!"
Karen J. Cravens
news:025d605fuq248c799...@news.individual.de:
> Normally to be found hanging from the rear view mirrors
> of Ford Cortinas and later Capris. In Essex.
Actually, it's the probability thing that made them find the Phoenyx site;
if they'd Googled for "'fuzzy dice'" instead of "fuzzy dice" they wouldn't
have found us.
*My* Capri never had fuzzy dice hanging from the rear view mirror. A
graduation-cap tassel, yes, at least for a couple years, but that was
about it.
Olivers
I saw some....Pink four inch cubes hanging from the Mirror of a bright
purple w/much chrome new Peterbilt easing up US290 as it sweeps North of
Six Shooter Junction.
Whupping back from Houston the other evening (funeralizing, the great
USAian social experience, to which we're more attuned than were the
Aegypti, and for what else would you rise from a spartan breakfast, drive
200 miles, funeralize, post-funeral partake of a few shreds of funeral
meats and funereal gloom, stand with the men in the yard for a wee dram of
Auld Popskull - guiltily followed by a mug of Java from the Estoppe &
Shoppe - and drive 200 miles back, too late to enjoy supper were there any
cooked, but remembering the groaning board of "homemade" traditional
comfort foods you didn't have sense enough to load up on?).
Fuzzy dice and lavish post-funeral spreads of homemade specialties are both
relics of ancient cultures, preserved in tiny xenophobic enclaves. I knew
one era was past when the lemon meringue pies were replaced by those
souvenier of the 50s made with pineapple and whupped topping, but one of
the younger and not quite right up top cousins apparently brought a damn
store-bought cake this time.
Cousin Archie was heard to remark that he had drove clear up from the
ranch, a hard run after an early ride out checking to see if all the new
calves was up, and he sure didn't come that far for any g*ddamn store
bought cake. Little Betty saved the day though, and had brought about
a washtub of that Dirty Rice of hers, the one with chopped gizzards,
livers, jalapenos, garlic and green onions.
TM "A drumstick and a couple of second joints for the road" Oliver
David Winsemius
> . Or rather, if/why they think fuzzy dice *might* mean
> something.
Search stategy designed to get at what that which people are currently
obsessing:
"fuzzy dice" blog
Many hits for the dangling foam dice....
A superficial take; just retro-hip :
"Life may be a craps shoot, but you don't have to gamble with the
accessories you add to your car. Our retro Fuzzy Dice are the perfect
addition to any interior."
------------------
A bit of possible history was found on a 404ed but G-cached page:
"The History of The Fuzzy Dice
"The tradition of placing dice in a vehicle may have begun during World War
II. Pilots would place dice on their instrument panel with sevens showing
to bring them good luck on their missions. After the war, cars begin
hanging plastic dice from the rear view mirrors. But, as the story goes,
the plastic dice often melted, and were eventually replaced with flocked
material... and so the Lucky Fuzzy Dice was born!"
------------------
A slightly different version where they are more an emblem of danger than a
talisman against it:
"Why do so many people hang fluffy dice from their rear-view mirrors?
"Fuzzy dice first appeared during the late 1940s and early 1950s, with the
birth of the American hot-rod culture. Young returned servicemen with money
to burn and hotted-up older cars would participate in illegal street races.
It was this "dicing with death" and play on words that inspired the
creation of dashboard dice.
"Chris Lewis, Warradale, SA"
-----------
Fuzzy Dice by Paul Di Filippo. PS Publishing. 296 page hardback. Price
(hardback): £35.00 (UK), $90.00(US). ISBN: 1-902-880-66-X (deluxe
hardback);
It also appears to have acquired a new meaning as cute graphics on web
pages (http://trishwilson.typepad.com/blog/2003/12/that_giant_suck.html)
03/31/02 - "so you wanna try acid" guest animation on threebrain.com. Music
by The Fuzzy Dice, Sung by Todd Baran
Michael Jackson lyrics were mentioned on one website.
--
David "" Winsemius
L0nD0t.$t0we11
> I was trying to figure out what on earth "fuzzy dice" might be, and
> which area of probability theory might use them, but now I see it's
> just a WIAVBP thing. "Fluffy dice" they always were on the right side
> of the pond. Normally to be found hanging from the rear view mirrors
> of Ford Cortinas and later Capris. In Essex.
Or much earlier, on the mirror of a chopped and channelled '49 Merc.
The things were also a prize in those little steam shovel games at
travelling carnivals, dunno if that predated the J. C. Whitney era
or not.
Thomas Prufer
wrote:
>Actually, it's the probability thing that made them find the Phoenyx site;
>if they'd Googled for "'fuzzy dice'" instead of "fuzzy dice" they wouldn't
>have found us.
Er, ah -- Schrödingers 'R' Us?
Thomas "here today, gone tomorrow" Prufer
L0nD0t.$t0we11
> On Sun, 28 Mar, L0nD0t.$t0we11 wrote:
>
>>Roughly 3/28/04 01:03, Keith Willis's monkeys randomly typed:
>>
>>
>>> I was trying to figure out what on earth "fuzzy dice" might be, and
>>> which area of probability theory might use them, but now I see it's
>>> just a WIAVBP thing. "Fluffy dice" they always were on the right side
>>> of the pond. Normally to be found hanging from the rear view mirrors
>>> of Ford Cortinas and later Capris. In Essex.
>>
>> Or much earlier, on the mirror of a chopped and channelled '49 Merc.
>
> Mercedes Benz in Essex.
You either already know the answer or you'll never know the answer.
David Winsemius
> Roughly 3/28/04 10:34, O J's monkeys randomly typed:
>> On Sun, 28 Mar, L0nD0t.$t0we11 wrote:
>>
>>>Roughly 3/28/04 01:03, Keith Willis's monkeys randomly typed:
>>>
>>> Or much earlier, on the mirror of a chopped and channelled '49 Merc.
>>
>> A chopped and channeled '49 Mercedes? A Merc is what they call a
>> Mercedes Benz in Essex.
>
> You either already know the answer or you'll never know the answer.
Merc's were outboards where I grew up.
But "channeled"? 'Zat the same as "bored and stroked"?
--
David "had an Evinrude myself" Winsemius
Rick Tyler
wrote:
6+5+4+3+2+1=42?
HIBT?
- Rick "While the sum of any two opposing faces is 7, you don't get to
count each pair twice" Tyler
--
"Ignorant voracity -- a wingless vulture -- can soar only into the
depths of ignominy." Patrick O'Brian
Paul Tomblin
>On 27 Mar 2004 22:14:47 -0800, R H Draney <dado...@earthlink.net>
>wrote:
>6+5+4+3+2+1=42?
>
>HIBT?
Dunno. Is your failure to read his fault?
--
Paul Tomblin <ptom...@xcski.com> http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
"Posting at the top because that's where the cursor happens to be is like
shitting in your pants because that's where your asshole happened to be."
- Andreas Prilop takes OE top posters to task.
Bob Ward
>On Sun, 28 Mar, L0nD0t.$t0we11 wrote:
>
>>Roughly 3/28/04 01:03, Keith Willis's monkeys randomly typed:
>>
>>
>>> I was trying to figure out what on earth "fuzzy dice" might be, and
>>> which area of probability theory might use them, but now I see it's
>>> just a WIAVBP thing. "Fluffy dice" they always were on the right side
>>> of the pond. Normally to be found hanging from the rear view mirrors
>>> of Ford Cortinas and later Capris. In Essex.
>>
>> Or much earlier, on the mirror of a chopped and channelled '49 Merc.
>
> A chopped and channeled '49 Mercedes? A Merc is what they call a
>Mercedes Benz in Essex.
>
>O J "My other car is a Mercedes" Gritmon
Yes, but in Essex they are all confused about hoods and boots and
wings and tyres and stuff like that, too.
Bob Ward
Channelled is when you lower the body on the frame. Usually the sled
would also be nosed and decked, with frenched taillights, as well.
Rick Tyler
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:
>In a previous article, Rick Tyler <rht...@comcast.net> said:
>>On 27 Mar 2004 22:14:47 -0800, R H Draney <dado...@earthlink.net>
>>wrote:
>>>Observation: the total number of pips on a pair of dice is 42...this is
> ^^^^
>>6+5+4+3+2+1=42?
>>
>>HIBT?
>
>Dunno. Is your failure to read his fault?
Yeah, well, so's your mother.
- Rick "Innumerate" Tyle
Paul Tomblin
>On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:02:15 +0000 (UTC), ptomblin...@xcski.com
>(Paul Tomblin) wrote:
>>In a previous article, Rick Tyler <rht...@comcast.net> said:
>>>On 27 Mar 2004 22:14:47 -0800, R H Draney <dado...@earthlink.net>
>>>wrote:
>>>>Observation: the total number of pips on a pair of dice is 42...this is
>> ^^^^
>>>6+5+4+3+2+1=42?
>>>
>>>HIBT?
>>
>>Dunno. Is your failure to read his fault?
>
>Yeah, well, so's your mother.
She very probably is.
--
Paul Tomblin <ptom...@xcski.com> http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
-- Ferenc Mantfeld
R H Draney
>
<stuff about fuzzy dice in fine literature, culminating in:>
>
>Michael Jackson lyrics were mentioned on one website.
And leave us not forget:
"I whistled for a cab and when it came near
the license plate said 'fresh' and it had dice in the mirror,
if anything I could say this cab was rare
but I thought now forget it, yo home to Bel-Air
I pulled up to a house about seven or eight
and I yelled to the cabby 'yo home, smell ya later,'
I looked at my kingdom, I was finally there
to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air"
R H "was Carlton the kid from the Mean Joe Greene Coke commercial?" Draney
Crashj
> On 27 Mar 2004 16:38:13 -0800, cra...@mindspring.com (Crashj) wrote:
>
> > "Karen J. Cravens" <silve...@phoenyx.net> wrote in message news:<Xns94B97BFA...@130.133.1.4>...
> > <>
> > > I'm curious about what people think fuzzy dice mean.
> > > Or rather, if/why they think fuzzy dice *might* mean something.
> >
> > An old guy in an old hotrod. In my case it is a 1973, 455 cubic inch
> > engine, four barrel, dual exhaust, hot rod with plumbing and fuzzy
> > white dice. Also front wheel drive and six wheels, 26 feet long.
>
> Tuck and roll? Dingleberries? Dago rake?
Negative on the new upholstry, but a good idea for the windows. We may
have to look into it.
Rake is provided by turning the air bags to the full upright position,
and it can kneel to almost touch the pavement in back with them down.
Being old isn't all its cracked up to be, but neither is being dead.
--
Crashj
TeaLady (Mari C.)
news:c45qg...@drn.newsguy.com:
Well, that's obvious - some diety, or perhaps an abesent minded
lesser being, left the things in the back of the fridge too
long. Long enough, in fact, that they weren't any good for
meatloaf filler, and long enough to suck any life that might
have tried to creep in right back out of 'em.
--
Tea"a fiver year old's five year old fungus collection"Lady /
mari conroy
"The adjectivisation of our nounal units will be greeted with
disconcertion by elders" Simon on the status of English as she
is spake.
"Stated to me for a fact. I only tell it as I got it. I am
willing to believe it. I can believe anything." Sam Clemens
Crashj
> In article <aa83a82f.0403...@posting.google.com>,
> Crashj <cra...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> >"Karen J. Cravens" <silve...@phoenyx.net> wrote in message news:<Xns94B97BFA...@130.133.1.4>...
> ><>
> >> I'm curious about what people think fuzzy dice mean.
> >> Or rather, if/why they think fuzzy dice *might* mean something.
> >
> >An old guy in an old hotrod. In my case it is a 1973, 455 cubic inch
> >engine, four barrel, dual exhaust, hot rod with plumbing and fuzzy
> >white dice. Also front wheel drive and six wheels, 26 feet long.
>
> Lady Penelope? Is that you?
?? Thunderbirds, SciFi Channel, but nothing about GMC ??
--
Crashj
David Winsemius
> On 27 Mar 2004 22:14:47 -0800, R H Draney <dado...@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Karen J. Cravens filted:
>>>
>>>Actually performing the search myself doesn't turn up anything
>>>particularly enlightening, but that's okay, I'm not really curious
>>>about what fuzzy dice mean, I'm curious about what people think fuzzy
>>>dice mean. Or rather, if/why they think fuzzy dice *might* mean
>>>something.
>>
>>Observation: the total number of pips on a pair of dice is 42...this
>>is also the constant sum of the smallest (3x3x3) magic cube...and the
>>largest number with the property that it and all smaller positive
>>integers are mentioned somewhere in the Bible....
>
> 6+5+4+3+2+1=42?
>
> HIBT?
No, you just didn't read twice before posting. He said "pair of dice".
--
David "" Winsemius
Mary Shafer
> Mary Shafer <mil...@qnet.com> wrote in message news:<t1gc60dim8qmcc29q...@4ax.com>...
> > On 27 Mar 2004 16:38:13 -0800, cra...@mindspring.com (Crashj) wrote:
> >
> > > An old guy in an old hotrod. In my case it is a 1973, 455 cubic inch
> > > engine, four barrel, dual exhaust, hot rod with plumbing and fuzzy
> > > white dice. Also front wheel drive and six wheels, 26 feet long.
> >
> > Tuck and roll? Dingleberries? Dago rake?
>
> Negative on the new upholstry, but a good idea for the windows. We may
> have to look into it.
Is the best place to get tuck and roll still on the Mexican side of
the border?
You need one of those metal plates in the rear window, with the name
of your car club.
> Being old isn't all its cracked up to be, but neither is being dead.
Growing old isn't for sissies.
Mary
--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
mil...@qnet.com
Bob Ward
wrote:
>On 28 Mar 2004 16:27:29 -0800, cra...@mindspring.com (Crashj) wrote:
>
>> Mary Shafer <mil...@qnet.com> wrote in message news:<t1gc60dim8qmcc29q...@4ax.com>...
>> > On 27 Mar 2004 16:38:13 -0800, cra...@mindspring.com (Crashj) wrote:
>> >
>> > > An old guy in an old hotrod. In my case it is a 1973, 455 cubic inch
>> > > engine, four barrel, dual exhaust, hot rod with plumbing and fuzzy
>> > > white dice. Also front wheel drive and six wheels, 26 feet long.
>> >
>> > Tuck and roll? Dingleberries? Dago rake?
>>
>> Negative on the new upholstry, but a good idea for the windows. We may
>> have to look into it.
>
>Is the best place to get tuck and roll still on the Mexican side of
>the border?
>
Perhaps not the best, but arguably the cheapest.
Did Anyone else catch "American Hot Rod" on Discovery, covering Boyd
Coddington's "Alumatub"? Pretty good looking all aluminum hotrod
thetre - natural metal finish.
Thomas Prufer
<dwin$emiu$@fnord.comcast.net> wrote:
>But "channeled"? 'Zat the same as "bored and stroked"?
You'll find the "phrases for masturbation" thread over there, under the
Subject "Dust mites legend".
Thomas Prufer
rzed
news:Xns94BAC73...@130.133.1.4:
> R H Draney <dado...@earthlink.net> wrote in
> news:c45qg...@drn.newsguy.com:
>
>> Karen J. Cravens filted:
>>>
>>>Actually performing the search myself doesn't turn up
>>>anything particularly enlightening, but that's okay, I'm not
>>>really curious about what fuzzy dice mean, I'm curious about
>>>what people think fuzzy dice mean. Or rather, if/why they
>>>think fuzzy dice *might* mean something.
>>
>> Observation: the total number of pips on a pair of dice is
>> 42...this is also the constant sum of the smallest (3x3x3)
>> magic cube...and the largest number with the property that
>> it and all smaller positive integers are mentioned somewhere
>> in the Bible....
>>
>> R H "the fuzzy part I'm still working on" Draney
>>
>
> Well, that's obvious - some diety, or perhaps an abesent minded
> lesser being, left the things in the back of the fridge too
> long. Long enough, in fact, that they weren't any good for
> meatloaf filler, and long enough to suck any life that might
> have tried to creep in right back out of 'em.
>
I love "diety" -- it works on so many levels here.
--
rzed
Crashj
> Roughly 3/28/04 01:03, Keith Willis's monkeys randomly typed:
>
>
> > I was trying to figure out what on earth "fuzzy dice" might be, and
> > which area of probability theory might use them, but now I see it's
> > just a WIAVBP thing. "Fluffy dice" they always were on the right side
> > of the pond. Normally to be found hanging from the rear view mirrors
> > of Ford Cortinas and later Capris. In Essex.
>
> Or much earlier, on the mirror of a chopped and channelled '49 Merc.
Lowered and Shackled.
--
Crashj
Olivers
The '49 and '50 Mercury "todoes" lent themselves to channeling and chopping
the top to a point that the side windows are all of 9 inches are so.
removing the door handles and all other chrome, the resulting machines in
midnight or even a deep lustrous purple (and the auto paints of the 50s
were miserable compared to today's) were "Bubblicious", the same sort of
bulb like aerodynamics as displayed in the new Beetle and some of the
furrin concept cars.
TM "Raised to the sound of Ford Flatheads in the night" Oliver
Olivers
> On 28 Mar 2004 16:27:29 -0800, cra...@mindspring.com (Crashj) wrote:
>
>> Mary Shafer <mil...@qnet.com> wrote in message
>> news:<t1gc60dim8qmcc29q...@4ax.com>...
>> > On 27 Mar 2004 16:38:13 -0800, cra...@mindspring.com (Crashj)
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > An old guy in an old hotrod. In my case it is a 1973, 455 cubic
>> > > inch engine, four barrel, dual exhaust, hot rod with plumbing and
>> > > fuzzy white dice. Also front wheel drive and six wheels, 26 feet
>> > > long.
>> >
>> > Tuck and roll? Dingleberries? Dago rake?
>>
>> Negative on the new upholstry, but a good idea for the windows. We
>> may have to look into it.
>
> Is the best place to get tuck and roll still on the Mexican side of
> the border?
They all be living in SOCAL now.
There are a couple of shops in Nuevo Laredo.
>
> You need one of those metal plates in the rear window, with the name
> of your car club.
Unless your car had been lowered too low, ours hung from the real bumper on
a couple of links of chain, just low enough that they would drag the
pavement when the rear wheels "dug in" after popping the clutch with the
RPM's up.
>
>> Being old isn't all its cracked up to be, but neither is being dead.
>
> Growing old isn't for sissies.
It's forgetting what you wanted to remember, while recalling all the
foregettables.
>
> Mary
>
TM "Setting out to depart this life bearing my shiled or borne upon it, I
forgot it." Oliver
Lee Ayrton
>
> TM "Raised to the sound of Ford Flatheads in the night" Oliver
>
I wuz told that we wouldn't be making up old Springsteen lyrics on this
BBS.
james
Bill Schnakenberg <will...@hvc.rr.com> wrote:
>I eschewed the fuzzy dice, or anything else hanging from the mirror,
>since it was against the Vehicle and traffic law in my state.
>I wonder what the little blue insert in the taillights meant.
It's another case of pushing the limit of what's legal to modify.
Same reason low riders have adjustable height.
james
Mary Shafer <mil...@qnet.com> wrote:
>Is the best place to get tuck and roll still on the Mexican side of
>the border?
Oak Cliff, Texas.
John Schmitt
> Actually performing the search myself doesn't turn up anything
> particularly enlightening, but that's okay, I'm not really curious about
> what fuzzy dice mean, I'm curious about what people think fuzzy dice mean.
> Or rather, if/why they think fuzzy dice *might* mean something.
In all its awfulness:
http://www.tackyliving.com/crafts/fuzzyDice.html
John "for when AFU becomes too exciting" Schmitt
Rick Tyler
<dwin$emiu$@fnord.comcast.net> wrote:
>Rick Tyler wrote in news:8kee6019h0dcv8sbm...@4ax.com:
>
>> On 27 Mar 2004 22:14:47 -0800, R H Draney <dado...@earthlink.net>
>> wrote:
>>>Observation: the total number of pips on a pair of dice is 42...
>>
>> 6+5+4+3+2+1=42?
>
>No, you just didn't read twice before posting. He said "pair of dice".
Dude, you snipped the part where RH posited feeding the dice through a
half-wave bridge, which allows only the positive pips to go through.
- Rick "Duh" Tyler
--
"Lacking intelligent discussion, I suppose one could
always resort to bigotry." Daniel L. Snyder
Bill Schnakenberg
A picture is worth a K words.
http://carnut.com/cgi-bin/_image.pl?/show/00/kkoa/kkoa211.jpg
--
Bill
David Winsemius
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 02:06:07 GMT, David Winsemius
> <dwin$emiu$@fnord.comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>Rick Tyler wrote in news:8kee6019h0dcv8sbm...@4ax.com:
>>
>>> On 27 Mar 2004 22:14:47 -0800, R H Draney <dado...@earthlink.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>>Observation: the total number of pips on a pair of dice is 42...
>>>
>>> 6+5+4+3+2+1=42?
>>
>>No, you just didn't read twice before posting. He said "pair of dice".
>
> Dude, you snipped the part where RH posited feeding the dice through a
> half-wave bridge, which allows only the positive pips to go through.
>
> - Rick "Duh" Tyler
There was an Afusian named Rick,
Who cross-threaded his posts as a trick.
He twisted the meme,
Achieving his scheme,
To fool the crowd and get away quick.
Rick Tyler
<dwin$emiu$@fnord.comcast.net> wrote:
>Rick Tyler wrote in news:0kgg601srh5a8kjui...@4ax.com:
>
>> Dude, you snipped the part where RH posited feeding the dice through a
>> half-wave bridge, which allows only the positive pips to go through.
>There was an Afusian named Rick,
>Who cross-threaded his posts as a trick.
>He twisted the meme,
>Achieving his scheme,
>To fool the crowd and get away quick.
Mobius poem,
Being a man not a meme,
Tyler endureth.
- Rick "One limerick doe snot a poetry corner make" Tyler
Lee Ayrton
> >There's that, of course, but I would imagine the searchers would be
> >looking for something that the *buyers* of the fuzzy dice are trying to
> >convey.
> >
> That they were 'cool'?
> I eschewed the fuzzy dice, or anything else hanging from the mirror,
> since it was against the Vehicle and traffic law in my state.
> I wonder what the little blue insert in the taillights meant.
cf "Elaborate hankie code"?
Lee "Soft top, high-volume pump, not into drag -- Jeep" Ayrton
Anthony McCafferty
<will...@hvc.rr.com> writes:
>A picture is worth a K words.
>http://carnut.com/cgi-bin/_image.pl?/show/00/kkoa/kkoa211.jpg
My dog gets into exactly that stance when her bladder demands attention.
Anthony "Few good looking cars between '37 and '57, you ask me" McCafferty
Crashj
<>
> Did Anyone else catch "American Hot Rod" on Discovery, covering Boyd
> Coddington's "Alumatub"? Pretty good looking all aluminum hotrod
> thetre - natural metal finish.
Got only bits and pieces of that show. Got the impression he is a
planner and director, not a builder?
My Lotus Super 7 had polished bodywork to go withyellow fiberglass
fenders and nose. First time I showed up at SCCA tech inspection they
tried to flunk me as "unpainted." HA! I pointed out the reg said
bodywork must be "finished." Let me tell you, we spent hours polishing
that aluminum.
--
Crashj
David DeLaney
Tch. Won't someone think of the CHILDRUN?
>- Rick "One limerick doe snot a poetry corner make" Tyler
Dave "can meme people with the best of them" DeLaney
--
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It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
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Bob Ward
Nope - Boyd Coddington is definitely a builder, but he's probably the
equivalent to Thomas Kinkade in his field. There are a lot more
"Built by Boyd Coddington" cars out than one man could reasonably
account for.
See http://www.boydsshop.com/ for a few examples.
JG
Hmm, vely intelesting, but I like 153, (1)^3 + (5)^3 + (3)^3.
Jer "go fish" ry
Anton Sherwood
> Actually, it's the probability thing that made them find
> the Phoenyx site; if they'd Googled for "'fuzzy dice'"
> instead of "fuzzy dice" they wouldn't have found us.
Though it shouldn't be hard to come up with uses for fuzzy-valued
virtual dice.
--
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http://www.ogre.nu/
Anton Sherwood
> I painted the round taillights of my 56 Ford convertible with black
> paint so that the only part that was clear red was an Ace of Spades.
Deuce, surely, or did you drive a reverse-pediddle?
Red spades, hm, reminds me: I've had an eye out for years for decks
of cards with extra suits, or with normal suits in abnormal colors.
Karen J. Cravens
news:106usqc...@corp.supernews.com:
> a reverse-pediddle?
YM "padunkle."
Hank Oredson
news:106usqc...@corp.supernews.com...
> Bill Schnakenberg wrote:
> > I painted the round taillights of my 56 Ford convertible with black
> > paint so that the only part that was clear red was an Ace of Spades.
>
> Deuce, surely, or did you drive a reverse-pediddle?
>
> Red spades, hm, reminds me: I've had an eye out for years for decks
> of cards with extra suits, or with normal suits in abnormal colors.
Just an FYI, I have lurking around here somewhere, a standard
bridge deck with ... lesee can I remember it right ... clubs in green
and diamonds in orange. Hearts and spades in the normal colors.
Plastic not paper. Two decks. Backs some kind of "typical 1950s
sorta jazzy like" design, white background. Dates from the 1960 - 68
time frame, when we played a lot of bridge / hearts / et al.
--
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Hank Oredson
news:Xns94C0D616...@130.133.1.4...
What's the drill on a reverse-pediddle?
Free kiss if you see the normal variety ...
Anton Sherwood
Now how could something *first* appear in (say) 1948 *and* 1952?
Bob Ward
wrote:
>> "Fuzzy dice first appeared during the late 1940s and early 1950s, with the
>
>Now how could something *first* appear in (say) 1948 *and* 1952?
Californians were early adopters. Kansas and Nebraska got into the
game much later
R H Draney
>
>Karen J. Cravens wrote:
> > Actually, it's the probability thing that made them find
> > the Phoenyx site; if they'd Googled for "'fuzzy dice'"
> > instead of "fuzzy dice" they wouldn't have found us.
>
>Though it shouldn't be hard to come up with uses for fuzzy-valued
>virtual dice.
The shooter's point is 8.41336...bets down!...r
L0nD0t.$t0we11
>> "Fuzzy dice first appeared during the late 1940s and early 1950s, with the
>
> Now how could something *first* appear in (say) 1948 *and* 1952?
>
During the Cold War era, many inventions appeared twice...
--
Evolution is really just survival of the minimally adequate
L0nD0t.$t0we11
Actually Kansas and Nebraska got into the Act and were directly
involved in California's entry.
Anthony McCafferty
A die should be cubular, and furred
As a baby bird,
Quiet
As rubber truncheons in a riot,
Potent as the measured talk
Of Deja cloisters where Ice Weasels walk -
A die should be pointless
As the sight of nerds.
*
A die should be pendulous in space,
At the drag race,
Swinging, as exhaust releases,
Cell by cell the thought-entangled brain,
Swinging, as the suicidal knob swings,
In turn by turning, the wheel-
A die that is motionless in space
Means no race.
A die should represent
Intent
For all street pickup races lost
Matted fur and stink of exhaust.
For luck
Snake eyes bouncing on a slick-shod 'Stang-
A die should not mean
But hang.
Anthony "at least it wasn't Houseman" McCafferty
R H Draney
Numbers one to six
Paired on opposing faces
Each pair makes seven.
R H "there once was a cube from Nantucket..." Draney
Karen J. Cravens
news:c4via...@drn.newsguy.com:
> Anthony McCafferty filted:
>>Alea Poetica
> Numbers one to six
> Paired on opposing faces
> Each pair makes seven.
> R H "there once was a cube from Nantucket..." Draney
Guys, I might need to archive this for posterity (properly attributed),
okay?
R H Draney
Then you may want the companion pieces I didn't get finished before I had to
leave the office:
Six sides, twelve edges,
So that means there should be eight...
Say! Euler was right!
-and-
That the game's called craps
Says much about the luck of
The guy who named it.
R H "one haiku each on three unrelated properties" Draney
Lee Rudolph
Or Yeats.
Lee "Alea, Alea, Innisfree!" Rudolph
Bill Kinkaid
<"L0nD0t.$t0we11"@ComcastDot.Net> wrote:
>Roughly 3/27/04 10:11, Karen J. Cravens's monkeys randomly typed:
>>
>> Actually performing the search myself doesn't turn up anything
>> particularly enlightening, but that's okay, I'm not really curious about
>> what fuzzy dice mean, I'm curious about what people think fuzzy dice mean.
>> Or rather, if/why they think fuzzy dice *might* mean something.
>
>
> 2. The manufacturer, Andrew Inc, ran out of dice clay?
>
> 3. Invented by Heisenberg?
>
> 4. The brown ones are actually called Fozzie Dice?
>
The black leather ones are called Fonzie Dice.
Bill in Vancouver
"To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country
or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with
wonderful works, nine-tenths of which have their faces
turned to the wall."
- Thomas Huxley, quoted in _Birding Basics_ by David Allen Sibley
Ron Parker
> Red spades, hm, reminds me: I've had an eye out for years for decks
> of cards with extra suits, or with normal suits in abnormal colors.
You've probably seen this article, then:
Anton Sherwood
>> Red spades, hm, reminds me: I've had an eye out for years for decks
>> of cards with extra suits, or with normal suits in abnormal colors.
Ron Parker wrote:
> You've probably seen this article, then:
> http://www.thegamesjournal.com/articles/GameSystems2.shtml
Thanks!
I occasionally played Oh Pshaw with a Sextet deck, twenty years ago.
Somebody once mentioned an eight-suit game, using two decks:
the cards of one deck were defaced to produce Not-Hearts &c.
Bob Beck
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Olivers wrote:
>>
>> TM "Raised to the sound of Ford Flatheads in the night" Oliver
>>
> I wuz told that we wouldn't be making up old Springsteen lyrics on this
> BBS.
But newish (late-90s) Cake lyrics are just the thing:
"In the land of race-car ya-yas
In the land where you can't change lanes
In the land where large fuzzy dice still hang proudly
like testicles from rear-view mirrors..."
bob "i been there before" beck
dgr...@cs.csbuak.edu
Well, if that's what you want fuzzy dice to represent, why not spring for
something like this: http://www.bumpernuts.com/
--
David Griffith
dgr...@cs.csbuak.edu <-- Switch the 'b' and 'u'
sha...@att.net
David DeLaney
And in Knoxville, in various places, there are signs noting that the area is a
No Cruising Zone, in that cars going past the sign three times in I think four
hours in the same direction are subject to po-po action.
Dave, automatic remission
--
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Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK>
Thomas Prufer
wrote:
>On 2016-03-13, sha...@att.net <sha...@att.net> wrote:
>> Fuzzy Dice were the symbol of being a "player" back in the day. Usually hung
>> in the cars of the "bad boys" cruising the "strip" looking for a hotty to put
>> his arm around and whatever else while cruising and later in the evening.
>
>I'm thinkin' someone may have responded to a decades-old thread again.
>
>And in Knoxville, in various places, there are signs noting that the area is a
>No Cruising Zone, in that cars going past the sign three times in I think four
>hours in the same direction are subject to po-po action.
>
>Dave, automatic remission
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_dice> with a link to the definitive article
"Fuzzy dice, dream cars, and indecent gestures: correlates of driver
behavior?"[1].
Where's the fun in that? No handwaving, nor arguments, no a FOAF told me -- pah.
Thomas Prufer
[1] <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8166776>
Drew Lawson
>On 2016-03-13, sha...@att.net <sha...@att.net> wrote:
>> Fuzzy Dice were the symbol of being a "player" back in the day. Usually hung
>> in the cars of the "bad boys" cruising the "strip" looking for a hotty to put
>> his arm around and whatever else while cruising and later in the evening.
>
>I'm thinkin' someone may have responded to a decades-old thread again.
The thread was barely cold.
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| What you do is your own glory
| What you love is your own power
| What you live is your own story
Charles Bishop
replying to?
And why am I replying 12 days later?
--
cahrles
Don Freeman
have been 12 YEARS. But then again we don't get many posts anymore, so
maybe we are starved for company.
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RH Draney
> On 3/25/2016 10:33 AM, Charles Bishop wrote:
>>
>> And why am I replying 12 days later?
>>
> Really. If you're going to post in the spirit of the original it should
> have been 12 YEARS. But then again we don't get many posts anymore, so
> maybe we are starved for company.
legendary Ed Rice....r
David DeLaney
ago. ... Non-sekrit email of course.
Dave, detecting his presence takes special equipment
Thomas Prufer
wrote:
>Oh, Ed's still around; I read email from him (or maybe mari) an hour or two
>ago. ... Non-sekrit email of course.
Usenet in general is in decline, though, and a lot of the a last active groups I
read are being burdened by regulars soapboxing on politics, or crossposted
soapboxing.
Thomas Prufer
ANMC...@alum.wpi.edu
Of Deja cloisters where Ice Weasels walk -"
AN "Google wasn't so helpful with direct search" McC
Moe Trin
<tqkhfb524e5kh3iab...@4ax.com>, Thomas Prufer wrote:
>There are hundreds if not thousands of lurkers here!
>Usenet in general is in decline, though,
Year 2010 2011 2013 2014 2015 2016
Articles 77990 62857 61834 65127 55372 11714
2016 is to 0200 UTC 29 May, so multiply that number by 4 to get an order
of magnitude. But yeah - when was the last time you saw a post in
alt.humor.best-of-usenet? (4 in June 2014 - before that, 9 in October
2013, 7 in April 2013 and 13 in January 2013 - but my logs only go back
to January 2003)
>a lot of the a last active groups I read are being burdened by regulars
>soapboxing on politics, or crossposted soapboxing.
uniq -c | column
1507 From: 97 Message-ID: 697 Subject:
3 Lines: 56 References: 104 Xref:
[juno ~]$
You probably don't speak UNIX, but that shows how many rules for a
specific header. A good killfile helps to get the noise levels down.
Use to was, there was even a FAQ that told you how to set filters in
the "popular" news readers. About a year ago, it was at
http://static.slated.org/killfile/killfilefaq.htm.
Archive-name: uk/usenet/killfiles
Posting-frequency: every calendar month
Last-modified: 3 Nov 2002
Well... maybe Usenet is dying.
Old guy
Thomas Prufer
<ibup...@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> wrote:
>And they ALL agree with me!
>>a lot of the a last active groups I read are being burdened by regulars
>>soapboxing on politics, or crossposted soapboxing.
>
>[juno ~]$ grep -vE '^([%\[ ]|Score|$)' score | cut -d' ' -f1 | sort |
> uniq -c | column
> 1507 From: 97 Message-ID: 697 Subject:
> 3 Lines: 56 References: 104 Xref:
>[juno ~]$
>
>You probably don't speak UNIX, but that shows how many rules for a
>specific header. A good killfile helps to get the noise levels down.
>Use to was, there was even a FAQ that told you how to set filters in
>the "popular" news readers. About a year ago, it was at
>http://static.slated.org/killfile/killfilefaq.htm.
>
> Archive-name: uk/usenet/killfiles
> Posting-frequency: every calendar month
> Last-modified: 3 Nov 2002
do post worthwhile content occasionally, but start threads with egregiously
off-topic political crap. This in turn inspires answers and rebuttals. And a
more-or-less polite "Oi, don't do that" was met with, well, you can killfile
me/the thread, thread drift is ok, and a particularly annoying attitude of
"well, here there are people that read this, and all the on-topic groups are
dead".
Also, it has opened the loony door, and some of those looneys are nasty. But
these are easily recognized and killfiled, generally: most from one anonymous
server, an "imaginative" name, inflammatory Subject...
>Well... maybe Usenet is dying.
mail, and so on...
Oh, and I thought red dice meant "will race", black dice "won't race". But I
probably read that here...
Thomas Prufer
Moe Trin
<p97kfbdqbkolspilk...@4ax.com>, Thomas Prufer wrote:
>Moe Trin wrote:
>From the few active groups I still read, my problem has been a few
>regulars that do post worthwhile content occasionally, but start threads
>with egregiously off-topic political crap. This in turn inspires answers
>and rebuttals. And a more-or-less polite "Oi, don't do that" was met
>with, well, you can killfile me/the thread,
lines that have one or more "controversial" words.
>thread drift is ok,
as long as it doesn't get completely away from the original subject
>and a particularly annoying attitude of "well, here there are people
>that read this, and all the on-topic groups are dead".
and an average of 30 of those groups DON'T have posts in a given month.
Ten additional groups are over 90% noise.
>But these are easily recognized and killfiled, generally: most from one
>anonymous server,
are trivial to filter on - and I do, primarily because all of those posts
I see using them are wasted time/bandwidth.
>> Well... maybe Usenet is dying.
>Eh. As is POTS (plain old telephone service),
noticed that the costs keep drifting up - they QUOTE a low price, but add
taxes and "other fees" - so the actual cost is doubled. It's definitely
cheaper here to buy dumb cell phones with pre-paid air-time cards.
>rotary phones,
Yeah, but have you noticed they're no longer charging an extra fee for
tone dialing. (Just checked - I have two phones that I can set to
"pulse" dial, and that mode still works on my POTS line.)
>coin phones,
trying to remember the last time I saw one... no luck. But how much
of that is due to increasing costs of a phone call, and the fact that
"EVERYONE" has a portable phone of some kind and that many people empty
the coins out of pockets/purse and don't normally carry any to feed a
phone if one were available? (Quit smoking about 20 years ago, so the
driver's ash-tray in the car has a couple of $ of coin stashed there, but
that's more for parking meters the city uses as an income source.)
>snail mail,
That's an on-going "discussion" - and I rather doubt it's going to
completely disappear any time soon. Package delivery out here in the
boonies is a main reason.
>Oh, and I thought red dice meant "will race", black dice "won't race".
>But I probably read that here...
Taste" (ISBN 0-06-092121-8) from 1990 says J. C. Whitney sold a ton of
those, before paring back their offered choices to just white with black
dots.
Old guy
Thomas Prufer
<ibup...@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> wrote:
>>Oh, and I thought red dice meant "will race", black dice "won't race".
>>But I probably read that here...
>
>But what about the pink dice with black dots? The "Encyclopedia Of Bad
>Taste" (ISBN 0-06-092121-8) from 1990 says J. C. Whitney sold a ton of
>those, before paring back their offered choices to just white with black
>dots.
newsprint, and the whole thing like the back mail-order pages of a comic book,
only with more motor oil: skull-shaped door lock buttons, Beetle camshafts for
increased performance, gas-mileage-increasing carb magnets, drill-driven oil
pumps to change the oil via the dipstick tube, all kinds of neat-o stuff.
I ordered, so they probably still send three catalogs simultaneously to that
address...
And Edmund Scientific, back when they still sold fun and cheap things...
Dunno about pink dice, black dice, or red dice: I had an AMC Pacer, and in no
way was that in any way, shape or form a "racer".
It did have no aircon, in Warshington DC, which made for interesting summer
experiments in solar energy uptake.
Thomas Prufer
Moe Trin
<vp0nfb1u37abs9p43...@4ax.com>, Thomas Prufer wrote:
>J.C. Whitney! The catalog of my youth! Everything in it, printed on
>cheapest newsprint, and the whole thing like the back mail-order pages
>of a comic book, only with more motor oil:
>skull-shaped door lock buttons, Beetle camshafts for increased
>performance, gas-mileage-increasing carb magnets,
to the carb
>drill-driven oil pumps to change the oil via the dipstick tube,
an pit in the center of the space.
>all kinds of neat-o stuff.
the carb(s) and intake manifold that was about 3/4 inch / 20 mm thick
and contained a free-wheeling turbine wheel to "better mix" the air
and gas mixture. Increase the engine power by SUPERCHARGING your
engine. There were also the fancy spark-plugs - fire injectors or
something like that.
>I ordered, so they probably still send three catalogs simultaneously to
>that address...
that stuff - and I'd need the money I saved to make the car-payments
(a third of my paycheck) and state mandated insurance cost (under 25
with a muscle-car... how about another sixth of my wages).
>And Edmund Scientific, back when they still sold fun and cheap things...
rent didn't buy much.
>I had an AMC Pacer, and in no way was that in any way, shape or form a
>"racer".
>It did have no aircon, in Warshington DC, which made for interesting
>summer experiments in solar energy uptake.
owned was a Merc 250-SL, and you could take the top off that and run
it as a rag-top.
Old guy
Thomas Prufer
<ibup...@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> wrote:
>The one I remember best was the small insert that was placed between
>the carb(s) and intake manifold that was about 3/4 inch / 20 mm thick
>and contained a free-wheeling turbine wheel to "better mix" the air
>and gas mixture. Increase the engine power by SUPERCHARGING your
>engine. There were also the fancy spark-plugs - fire injectors or
>something like that.
could clean them up, hooked up to the battery. And back then, oil changes were
3000 miles or something silly.
And one could open the hood and drop stuff through the engine and it would hit
the floor. Now, cars are packed tighter under the hood, and it takes a
prehensile arm to reach the oil filter.
>>I had an AMC Pacer, and in no way was that in any way, shape or form a
>>"racer".
>
>I must admit I never understood the rational behind that car
It was called "Snow White's Coffin" by imaginative friends...
Thomas Prufer
Charles Bishop
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban, in article
> <tqkhfb524e5kh3iab...@4ax.com>, Thomas Prufer wrote:
>
> >There are hundreds if not thousands of lurkers here!
>
> And they ALL agree with me!
>
> >Usenet in general is in decline, though,
>
> Has been for how many years? I'm scanning 79-82 newsgroups:
>
> Year 2010 2011 2013 2014 2015 2016
> Articles 77990 62857 61834 65127 55372 11714
>
> 2016 is to 0200 UTC 29 May, so multiply that number by 4 to get an order
[snip-he knew what I was going to write 2 months ago]
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Charles Bishop
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2016, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban, in article
> <p97kfbdqbkolspilk...@4ax.com>, Thomas Prufer wrote
> >coin phones,
>
> trying to remember the last time I saw one... no luck. But how much
> of that is due to increasing costs of a phone call, and the fact that
> "EVERYONE" has a portable phone of some kind and that many people empty
> the coins out of pockets/purse and don't normally carry any to feed a
> phone if one were available? (Quit smoking about 20 years ago, so the
> driver's ash-tray in the car has a couple of $ of coin stashed there, but
> that's more for parking meters the city uses as an income source.)
phones, in actual phone booths - the kind you can go into, and sit down
and close the door. There was even a shelf I think. I don't know (forgot
to check) if there were phone books. The first set was in the downtown
courthouse in LA, CA. The second was in the (older) courthouse in Santa
Barbara, CA. No surprise they kept them in such old buildings I guess.
[1] Strictly speaking, I don't know if they were coin operated -
something else I forgot to check. The could accept only credit cards or
some newfangled payment scheme such as bit coins.
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charles
Charles Bishop
lot and got permission to test the temps in a black and white car? That
is, in two cars, one black exterior and the other, white exterior.
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cahrles
Charles Bishop
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 03:45:02 -0000 (UTC), Moe Trin
> <ibup...@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> wrote:
>
> >The one I remember best was the small insert that was placed between
> >the carb(s) and intake manifold that was about 3/4 inch / 20 mm thick
> >and contained a free-wheeling turbine wheel to "better mix" the air
> >and gas mixture. Increase the engine power by SUPERCHARGING your
> >engine. There were also the fancy spark-plugs - fire injectors or
> >something like that.
>
> Yeah, spark plugs with "more electrodes", and little 12 Volt sandblasters so
> you
> could clean them up, hooked up to the battery. And back then, oil changes
> were
> 3000 miles or something silly.
>
> And one could open the hood and drop stuff through the engine and it would
> hit
> the floor. Now, cars are packed tighter under the hood, and it takes a
> prehensile arm to reach the oil filter.
charles, what with the hand on the end of it?
danny burstein
[snippepth]
>[snip-where have all the $Things gone?]
>> >coin phones,
>phones, in actual phone booths - the kind you can go into, and sit down
>and close the door. There was even a shelf I think. I don't know (forgot
>to check) if there were phone books. The first set was in the downtown
>courthouse in LA, CA. The second was in the (older) courthouse in Santa
>Barbara, CA. No surprise they kept them in such old buildings I guess.
has plenty of street location coin phone kiosks.
Why? Because... decades ago the NYC gov't Franchise Board (the
group that permits things on sidewalks..) approved the placement
of advertising on them.
If you, as say, a barber shop, want to put a clapboard on the
sidewalk advertising your business, bzzzzzzt, no can do.
But you can take out an advert covering the side of the phone
kiosk on the corner.
Hence the various phone companies that operated these pay phones
have cheerfully kept them up and lit. They didn't make (and
probably lost...) money as a phone appearance, but made plenty
in the advertising.
NOTE: About a year ago NYC made a _major_ change in the franchise
arrangement, and these kiosks are transitioning into WiFi bases
to cover the area down the block from them [a] (and the apartment
windows across the street...). ALSO, they're going to be providing
free local phone calls [b].
[a] NY Telephone/Bell Atlantic/NYNEX/Verizon, or whatever
they were known as in 2000 or so, as part of their DSL offering,
began placing 802.11b WiFi bases on payphones. If you had
a DSL account, you could use the WiFi as well.
It kind of faded away a year later.
There was one just a couple of blocks from me and I'd
park next to it with my clamshell Mac..
[b] the setup to restrict the freebies to "local" calls
looks to me to be a huge headache, and I woudn't be surprised
if they just allow all US and maybe Canoodian calls.. I'll check
when I bump into one of the operating units. (There are about
a dozen now, with more on the way).
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Moe Trin
<ctbishop-FA39E8...@news.individual.net>, Charles Bishop wrote:
>Moe Trin <ibup...@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> wrote:
>>> coin phones,
>> trying to remember the last time I saw one... no luck.
on the sidewalk in front of a Walgreens drugstore - no phone however.
>Oddly enough, in the last few weeks, I've seen banks of coin operated[1]
>phones, in actual phone booths - the kind you can go into, and sit down
>and close the door. There was even a shelf I think. I don't know (forgot
>to check) if there were phone books. The first set was in the downtown
>courthouse in LA, CA. The second was in the (older) courthouse in Santa
>Barbara, CA. No surprise they kept them in such old buildings I guess.
phones in the building, rather than the age of the building.
Old guy
Moe Trin
<ndkod0$62t$1...@reader1.panix.com>, danny burstein wrote:
>NOTE: About a year ago NYC made a _major_ change in the franchise
>arrangement, and these kiosks are transitioning into WiFi bases
>to cover the area down the block from them [a] (and the apartment
>windows across the street...).
ACM Forum on Risks to The Public in Computers and Related Systems has
had a couple of stories on that - these are two of the latest I see.
Risks 29.35
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 09:29:49 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein <lau...@vortex.com>
Subject: City's Public Wi-Fi Raises Privacy Concerns (NYCLU)
Risks 29.39
Date: March 22, 2016 at 5:43:13 PM EDT
From: Hendricks Dewayne <dew...@warpspeed.com>
Subject: New York has just opened a massive public spying network
(Kirsty Styles)
There have been numerous stories about the telco wanting to get rid of
the expense of maintaining the POTS, verses views that the cell phone
network fails in emergency situations, such as the hurricanes a while
ago.
Old guy
Thomas Prufer
wrote:
>[b] the setup to restrict the freebies to "local" calls
>looks to me to be a huge headache, and I woudn't be surprised
>if they just allow all US and maybe Canoodian calls.. I'll check
>when I bump into one of the operating units. (There are about
>a dozen now, with more on the way).
vandalism, and AFAIK banks really don't like to accept coins in large amounts...
So a reduction or abolishment is a Good Thing, as far as the handling goes.
Thomas Prufer
Thomas Prufer
wrote:
>Don't you already have a prehensile arm?
Thomas Prufer