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| Thread ID: 95107 | 2008-11-24 20:04:00 | Little car for long distance | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 722671 | 2008-11-26 07:25:00 | A "bong" is the sound you get when you hit a "bongo". | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 722672 | 2008-11-26 07:37:00 | A "bong" is the sound you get when you hit a "bongo". And how does that fit into, put your bong down,try to keep the answer down to 500 words. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 722673 | 2008-11-26 16:07:00 | "Down" is a musical annotation that tells the percussionist to hit the bongo with a downward hand motion . Not to be confused with striking the bongo in an upward motion or missing it entirely . Anybody and everybody knows that . "Down" may have been a command for you, ie: "Put that bongo down! You know that you don't know how to operate it!" I bet you played the cow bell in your primary-school rhythm band and the fact that you could even hit the bell repetitively was quite an accomplishment . Bongo playing was left to the more intelligent students and those of lesser capabilities played the cow bell or sandpaper blocks . Bongos were prolly beyond your musical ability and therefor you never understood the percussive nuances . That's 850 characters, 147 words . Is that condensed enough? I don't want to confuse F1's rhythm band bell-clapper person . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 722674 | 2008-11-26 16:29:00 | Back on-track here after a brief interlude of 850 characters, 147 words — with the resident bell-clapper whacker....... These little guys (en.wikipedia.org) were all over the place in the US quite a few years ago. I'd see them whizzing by me on the freeway and marveled at the speed the tiny tires were turning. The S500 was the first production car from Honda, released in 1963 (No metric equiv), following the T360 truck into production by four months (NZ= mounths). It was a larger displacement variant of the S360 roadster which, though developed for sale in 1962 (No metric equiv) was never produced. Like the S360, the S500 used a high-tech engine developed from Honda's motorcycle expertise. It was a dual overhead cam straight-4 with four carburetors and a 9500 RPM redline. Originally intended to displace 19 ci (492 cc), the production version was 21 ci, (531 cc) and produced 44 hp (33 kW) at 8000 rpm. Weighing just 1500 lb (680 kg), the tiny S500 could hit 80 mph (129 km/h). This setup enables a 9500 RPM redline with the ability to reach 11,000 RPM. The S500 used a 4-speed (NZ= 4-veloucities) manual transmission (NZ= Non-automatically hand-shifted by the pryzing bar and synchronized left foot) with chain drive at the rear wheels. A four-wheel independent suspension was also novel, with torsion bars in front and diagonal coil/over shock absorbers at the rear. The car was priced at $1,275 USD ($2,319 NZD) in 1963. A fiberglass (NZ= Fibreglass) hardtop (NZ= bonnet, scuttle, binnacle or swarf pump) was also available. 1,363 (1,363 NZ Equiv) S500s were produced from October 1963 (No metric equiv.) through September 1964 (No metric equiv) . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 722675 | 2008-11-26 18:41:00 | OK, I give up! | Cicero (40) | ||
| 722676 | 2008-11-26 19:58:00 | OK, I give up! en.wikipedia.org I did mean it jokingy Cic. It's not 20mpg. ;) |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 722677 | 2008-11-26 20:13:00 | en.wikipedia.org I did mean it jokingy Cic. It's not 20mpg. ;) I knew you were joking and I knew it wasn't 20 mpg. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 722678 | 2008-11-26 23:47:00 | I thought it was common knowledge that a bong is a tree :) At least it is for those that read Edward Lear when a child.....They sailed away for a year and a day to the land where the Bong tree grows.... and under every bong tree stands a piggy wig with a ring in the end of his nose...... www.nonsenselit.org Back to the car going long distances. No one has yet mentioned that for a small car that has spent 12 years pottering around town, the first time it goes high speed for a long journey is when it is most likely to have a heart attack, like water pump failure, or broken cam belt, thermostat packs up, or other nasties. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 722679 | 2008-11-27 00:31:00 | <snip> ...a small car that has spent 12 years pottering around town, the first time it goes high speed for a long journey is when it is most likely to have a heart attack, like water pump failure, or broken cam belt, thermostat packs up, or other nasties. Much the same as a human equivalent in similar circumstances!! :D |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 722680 | 2008-11-27 02:37:00 | www.nonsenselit.org Back to the car going long distances. No one has yet mentioned that for a small car that has spent 12 years pottering around town, the first time it goes high speed for a long journey is when it is most likely to have a heart attack, like water pump failure, or broken cam belt, thermostat packs up, or other nasties. The error in that thinking,is that applies to English cars of yore,not the modern Jap car. |
Cicero (40) | ||
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