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MuninsFire
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7. "RE: Sidebars: Travels with Zoner"
In response to message #3
 
   >I tried to explain the procedure, but you know how it is with these
>things—you just know how to do it, having figured it out over
>however many months, and it's not really something you can explain,
>especially if it's eight-thirty in the morning and you're Zombie Boy.

I usually have these experiences with computing machinery. My fingers know what to do to make the thing work correctly, but the rest of me is still in bed asleep at that time. Trying to describe the somatic components to other people is an exercise in futility.

>—you know how '80s hair metal bands liked to do that thing where
>big sheets of fire would shoot up all along the front of the stage?
>Picture something like a scale model of that, except instead of the
>front of a stage, it's happening all around the edges of the hood of
>an old Chevy pickup. It made this incredible sort of BLAM
>noise and shot a perfect rectangle of orange flame about a foot high
>all the way around.

Little bit more impressive of a scale model than a foot-high stonehenge, innit?


>We ducked into the nearest restaurant, a Friendly's (remember those,
>Northeasterners? I think they're gone now, I haven't seen one in many
>years),

Ah, yes. With the 'fribble' as their house name for a milkshake, which I can never have again after that unfortunate incident with my younger brother.

> When I
>unscrewed the wing nut on the cover and took the breather assembly
>off, I found that the carburetor underneath was sparkling
>clean,
as if someone had come along while we were away and
>installed a brand new one. Nothing seemed to be broken, so I put the
>breather back together (sans the blown-up filter ring), then tried to
>start the truck, not thinking much of my chances.
>
>It started right up, better than it had since I'd owned it, and ran
>perfectly.

Huh. ....I think I see: you must have effectively reversed the polarity of the fuel flow. As we all know, that is the fix for everything that ails a cantankerous primary power coupling.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea


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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
 Car Adventures: Neon (& Predecessors), Part 1 [View All] Gryphonadmin Apr-07-19 TOP
   RE: Car Adventures: Neon (& Predecessors), Part 2 Gryphonadmin Apr-07-19 1
      Car Adventures: Neon (& Predecessors), Part 3 Gryphonadmin Apr-08-19 2
          Sidebars: Travels with Zoner Gryphonadmin Apr-09-19 3
              RE: Sidebars: Travels with Zoner Peter Eng Apr-09-19 5
              RE: Sidebars: Travels with Zoner Nova Floresca Apr-10-19 6
             RE: Sidebars: Travels with Zoner MuninsFire Apr-10-19 7
              RE: Sidebars: Travels with Zoner mdg1 Apr-27-22 11
          RE: Car Adventures: Neon (& Predecessors), Part 3 Peter Eng Apr-09-19 4
      RE: Car Adventures: Neon (& Predecessors), Part 2 Gryphonadmin Apr-27-22 9
          RE: Car Adventures: Neon (& Predecessors), Part 2 rwpikul Apr-27-22 10
   Sidebar: Motoring in Massachusetts Gryphonadmin Apr-11-19 8
      RE: Sidebar: Motoring in Massachusetts Moonsword May-04-22 12
      RE: Sidebar: Motoring in Massachusetts jonathanlennox May-06-22 13
          RE: Sidebar: Motoring in Massachusetts Gryphonadmin May-06-22 14


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