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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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"Does anybody know what time it is"-CTA
OK. The first part describes the suspension on the 2 trucks pictured; the "linear" is an amplifier for a CB radio that allows one to transmit with a LOT more power than allowed under FCC rules. Legally, I could have 40 channels on my CB radio. I had ~150.
Does anyone really care?
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I actually won a classic rock trivia contest by knowing what 25 Or 6 To Four actually meant. I won a date with Marilyn Chambers back in 1973.
Stay tuned for the Rest Of The Story.
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By you know who.
(I need time to compose this and not break any of the TB rules. And this is a family forum).
Stay tuned for the Rest Of The Story.
;[)
By you know who.
(I need time to compose this and not break any of the TB rules. And this is a family forum).
Was a green door involved?
In 1973 I was living in the East Bay area. Castro Valley to be exact. One Friday night while listening to my favorite radio station KSAN they ran a song title trivia contest and the question was "What does the title 25 Or 6 To 4 by Chicago mean?"
I called and gave the correct answer and the grand prize was dinner with Marilyn Chambers. As the time for the date approached Tom Donahue called me and announced that Ms. Chambers was not going to be available as she was on the East Coast making another movie. BUT they would provide me with a suitable replacement from the Mitchell Brother's stable. I had been around by that time and I knew what Stable meant and immediately agreed as I had no idea where I would be in the next 6 months when Ms. Chambers was due back. The night of the "Dinner" arrived and off to Spangers I go. While sitting at the table a sultry blond walked up, and introduced herself as Marie Louise Hartman. She asked me what I did for a living and I told her and asked her the same. (I said I had been around not that I was sophisticated). Without missing a beat she said she danced a bit at the O'Farrell theater putting herself through Nursing School. We made small talk and had a great lobster dinner and then went our seperate ways."Really Honey that is all that happened!" I was deeply and madly in love with my soon to be wife of 25 years.
So that is the boring story of Bob winning a date with the Notorious Marilynn Chambers.
BUT as an Epilog, Marie graduated Magna Cum Laude from Nursing School at San Francisco State but never worked as a Nurse. She made too much money working for the Mitchell brothers. Where upon she changed her name to Nina Hartley and became more famous and notorious than Ms. Chambers could ever imagine. As I last read the movie count is at 1303 and she is going strong.
My brush with fame.
Bob
I called and gave the correct answer and the grand prize was dinner with Marilyn Chambers. As the time for the date approached Tom Donahue called me and announced that Ms. Chambers was not going to be available as she was on the East Coast making another movie. BUT they would provide me with a suitable replacement from the Mitchell Brother's stable. I had been around by that time and I knew what Stable meant and immediately agreed as I had no idea where I would be in the next 6 months when Ms. Chambers was due back. The night of the "Dinner" arrived and off to Spangers I go. While sitting at the table a sultry blond walked up, and introduced herself as Marie Louise Hartman. She asked me what I did for a living and I told her and asked her the same. (I said I had been around not that I was sophisticated). Without missing a beat she said she danced a bit at the O'Farrell theater putting herself through Nursing School. We made small talk and had a great lobster dinner and then went our seperate ways."Really Honey that is all that happened!" I was deeply and madly in love with my soon to be wife of 25 years.
So that is the boring story of Bob winning a date with the Notorious Marilynn Chambers.
BUT as an Epilog, Marie graduated Magna Cum Laude from Nursing School at San Francisco State but never worked as a Nurse. She made too much money working for the Mitchell brothers. Where upon she changed her name to Nina Hartley and became more famous and notorious than Ms. Chambers could ever imagine. As I last read the movie count is at 1303 and she is going strong.
My brush with fame.
Bob
Oh Mr. Davidson.
While at Dessert storm the Raiders came to entertain. So I got in line to get Mr. Stabler's and Mr. Davidson's autographs and when I reached the table told an abbreviated version of that story. Ben just busted up and said that "Marie" still tells the story of going to dinner with the "Kid" sailor just before she made it big and probably has still not realized who he was with. He said he couldn't wait to tell her he met me.
Just another brush.
Bob
While at Dessert storm the Raiders came to entertain. So I got in line to get Mr. Stabler's and Mr. Davidson's autographs and when I reached the table told an abbreviated version of that story. Ben just busted up and said that "Marie" still tells the story of going to dinner with the "Kid" sailor just before she made it big and probably has still not realized who he was with. He said he couldn't wait to tell her he met me.
Just another brush.
Bob
Thank you very much @alaskaleftybass and @GonePlaid .
Keep your heads down and your ammo dry!
The XLR is a 5-pin, for +/- power from a rackmount power supply, and stereo audio outs. The "missing fourth pickup" is actually the access cover for the truss rods (yes, two truss rods - I assume Entwistle's did, as both of my Alembics had two rods).
Boy, am I glad you didn't make a typo and drop the "r"!
Also, I am blissfully unaware of Mr. Davidson's relationship with Miss Hartley. Perhaps you could elucidate.
In the 70's my brother and I rode a VW bus from a concert with Alice Cooper. He drank too much and had too much pizza. We saw Alice Cooper throw up in the bus! That's my claim to fame!
That's not all though. He was too drunk to be social. He was so blind drunk he couldn't even see us!
His first truck was a cab over engine (COE, picture on left) with extra strength rear springs (for a more comfortable ride with heavy loads), but he normally had light loads, so the ride was extra harsh.
His next tractor was a 225" wheel base, air ride equipped Freightliner (euphemistically called a Freightshaker in the biz) with a conventional layout (picture on right) , known as a "coffin nose" or "hood", for obvious reasons. This tractor featured a much more comfortable ride.
A " linear" is an illegal power booster for a "CB" radio.
You can legally transmit with up to 4 watts of power.
Most drivers have their radios "peaked and tuned", that is, hot rodded to put out about 20 watts, to increase the effective range of transmission.
Back when, many drivers ran 100, 500, even 1,000 watt linear boosters that would shred your radio if they "keyed up" (transmitted) within twenty miles of you.
These amps also emitted so much spurious RF (radio frequency) energy, that they would heat up metal parts in the cab.
The joke was that drivers sitting right over one of these were surely microwaving their family jewels and rendering themselves sterile!
Nobody uses these anymore for obvious reasons, plus the FCC has gotten much more skilled at locating these mobile pirate radio stations! Big fines!
As an aside, modern trucks are more comfy than a Cadillac. The driver sits in a seat with air suspension to isolate him from the cab, which sits on an air suspension to isolate it from the movement of the frame, which sits on an air suspension to isolate it from the road surface. Think "magic carpet"!
Advanced aerodynamics reduce wind buffeting, set-back front axles reduce turning radius and effort, 600 hp engines with almost 2,000 lbs/ft of torque pull endlessly. Now the majority of new tractors are equipped with 10 speed automatic transmissions, because companies have a hard time finding drivers that know how to "row their own" (drive a stick).
The trucking industry has advanced, technologically, more in the last 10 years than in the previous 100.
Sorry, I'll let myself out now.
Leaving quietly.
No, please, don't get up.
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LOL
When I open the engine hood I have NO IDEA what I'm looking at. I've learned enough to fill the windshield reservoir!
What I know is that at this time the truckers and front liners are our heroes-- bringing life saving equipment as well as human essentials thousands of miles across the highways. God bless all the front'liners.
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They are releasing the first generation of all electric, not hybrid, trucks. There are direct drive at the axles like train locomotives, other configurations spin a drive shaft. Trucking has changed. Daimler who owns Freightliner is delivering in limited numbers. There are six on the road in the US. A charging network is still needed. Their main competition is Tesla who hopes to go into full production by the end of 2020. There have been delays, they were supposed to be in production in 2019. Tesla has a 300 mile range on a charge version for $150,000, the 500 mile version is $180,000. The range of the Freightliner is 250 miles (90 minutes for an 80% charge to add 200 miles). I heard that it was selling for $400,000, four times the cost of a diesel. Nobody who's buying these really cares about the cost at this point.
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My allergies seem to get worse every season. I have them all year round to one degree or another.
Well done.
Before I hung it up, I was at an RV show where they had one of these >
The cab was pretty much identical to my last truck. I turned to the salesman and told him "Something's missing". He looked puzzled. I said "that stick like thing comin' outta the floor". He cracked up. It had a 'Freedom 12' in it.(12 speed automatic for y'all non "large car" drivers)
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So if there are steampunk bands even before I wonder if there are steampunk bands, might stand to reason someone, somewhere there was a real life trucker who may have gone by BJ and drove with a chimp. I mean, where's the line drawn?
Drove standards all my life and there's a meme about a standard being a millennial anti-theft device. I changed my mind about slushboxes with the Audi S4. Realized its fancy programming actually shifts better than I do. Is a PRNDL the driving equivalent of autotune?
So that's me and two friends inside a Grateful Dead concert when this guy rolls up besides us with an incredible story of how hard it was to get here. And we're looking at each other, minds blown as the band plays because the guy telling us a wild story, and asking questions, and succeeding in scaring the three of us out of our wits is Alice Cooper.
Had to google Ms. Hartman and I see she is not related to Mary Hartman Mary Hartman.
Drove standards all my life and there's a meme about a standard being a millennial anti-theft device. I changed my mind about slushboxes with the Audi S4. Realized its fancy programming actually shifts better than I do. Is a PRNDL the driving equivalent of autotune?
So that's me and two friends inside a Grateful Dead concert when this guy rolls up besides us with an incredible story of how hard it was to get here. And we're looking at each other, minds blown as the band plays because the guy telling us a wild story, and asking questions, and succeeding in scaring the three of us out of our wits is Alice Cooper.
Had to google Ms. Hartman and I see she is not related to Mary Hartman Mary Hartman.
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