RE: Tar pressures

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@xxxxxxxxx>]

> One or two defensive quibbles- his characterization of the conversion
chart I
> had given could be read as their being my numbers, when in fact (as I
think I
> said) they were values given in various Alfa Romeo Owner's Manuals,
including
> 1600 roundtail, Milano, and 164. Also, where I had suspected that "the
dyne is
> a unit introduced in the recent past", Dr. Bouma pointed out that the dyne
is
> part of a system introduced in 1874. From my mediaevalist position, that
is
> indeed  the very recent past. All things are relative, but some are more
> relative than others- at least for the humanist.

so just how old are you, john, that 1874 would be in the recent past?
another immortal on the list?

> Anyhow, shan't we be proud that not a one of us - not Antonio, not John,
not
> Karl, not Jack, not Paul, not Ken, not Jak, not Willo, especially not
Jaap,
> said "Shoot, don't need no gauge t'tell when a tar has 'nuf air-"

durn tootin' - just kick it, yurl know when y'all got the proper amount of
bounce..

bs

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