Re: O death, where is thy sting? Little AC

["Daegrigg (Don)" <daegrigg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There you go again, starting another neon thread.  Actually, the death where
is thy sting quote has it's beginning in the New Testament, King James
version, from whence Shakespeare did barrow.  But be encouraged that the
fabled court of the royal digest will come as a light through yonder window
with your answer. For:
Tomorrow, and tomorrow,  and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, ...
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death."  (See there is a connection.)

Thanks for much fun.

Don

----- Original Message -----
From: Tessie McMillan <tessmc@domain.elided>
To: <alfa-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 1:52 AM
Subject: O death, where is thy sting?


> Sorry for the subject line, I was trying to come up with nifty phrases
> that related to dead batteries.
>
> I installed a new battery in Olive Oil today. I bought a kill switch with
> the battery, but was not able to figure out a good way to install it,
> since there did not seem to be much room.
>
> Those of you who have a Series 3 spider still with the trunk upholstery
> intact, how could you imagine installing the kill switch? It is supposed
> to go on the negative terminal, but if I do this, it would be extremely
> difficult to use -- sort of pointless, since I'd have to perform the
> equivalent of disconnecting the negative lead just to get at the kill
> switch &:-).  Since this new battery is a dry cell, I also tried mounting
> the battery sideways, but then it did not fit on the battery shelf and was
> unstable.
>
> For now I'm minus a kill switch. Here's another question, though. The new
> battery has 1050 amps for starting; my previous battery had 500 or so.
> When I first started the car with the new battery, the car turned over so
> fast, it was almost before I returned the key from the starting position.
> None of that 'si si si si si si' stuff; the starter just said "si si BOOM"
> and the car was running. In getting Olive cleaned up, moving her, checking
> the oil, etc., I started her about four times total, and each time it
> was very fast, very surprising. Then I took the car out for a long drive,
> parked, went for a walk along the beach, and had dinner. When I came back
> to the car and started it, she had gone back to her normal "si si si si
> si BOOM" style of starting. Should I be worried about this?
>
> Tess
> confidential to Bruce: apropos of the dragons and tailgaiting in
> general: after 9/11, I noticed a general increase in hostility and
> aggressiveness towards me when I was driving the Spider. This became
> pretty pronounced after the 'war' in Iraq. At first I attributed it to a
> general intolerance of foreigners/foreign things in general, and then I
> realized it was a specific kind of vehicle, and a specific kind of
> behavior. I was getting a lot of trucks deliberately cutting me off. It
> would be far too easy -- and perhaps unwise -- to advance an opinion that
> some very recent political events have sent the message that it's okay to
> use violence when you don't like someone else's appearance or words....
> No, that would be too easy. It could be the recession, the high
> unemployment, Boeing's exodus, Mercury in retrograde, or any number of
> things causing people to act out while driving. I just know that I don't
> get purposely cut off when I'm driving the gray Audi Quattro sedan; just
> when I'm driving the cream colored Spider convertible.
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