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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
I don't really want to tell my insurance company...
ORIGINAL: khyberbill
Mandrake is the common name for members of the plant genus Mandragora belonging to the nightshades family. Because mandrake contains deliriant hallucinogenic tropane alkaloids such as hyoscyamine and the roots sometimes contain bifurcations causing them to resemble human figures, their roots have long been used in magic rituals, today also in neopagan religions such as Wicca and Germanic revivalism religions such as Odinism. AE might also be construed as a neopagan religion.
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
I don't really want to tell my insurance company...
Nah. "Potholes" are a comprehensive loss (as long as you phrase your loss report very carefully), which is, by definition non-surchargable (act of God, etc).
On the bright side, though, you did get some nice tyres out of it. [:D]
ORIGINAL: khyberbill
Mandrake is the common name for members of the plant genus Mandragora belonging to the nightshades family. Because mandrake contains deliriant hallucinogenic tropane alkaloids such as hyoscyamine and the roots sometimes contain bifurcations causing them to resemble human figures, their roots have long been used in magic rituals, today also in neopagan religions such as Wicca and Germanic revivalism religions such as Odinism. AE might also be construed as a neopagan religion.
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: khyberbill
Mandrake is the common name for members of the plant genus Mandragora belonging to the nightshades family. Because mandrake contains deliriant hallucinogenic tropane alkaloids such as hyoscyamine and the roots sometimes contain bifurcations causing them to resemble human figures, their roots have long been used in magic rituals, today also in neopagan religions such as Wicca and Germanic revivalism religions such as Odinism. AE might also be construed as a neopagan religion.
Whoa! [:D]
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
I don't really want to tell my insurance company...
Nah. "Potholes" are a comprehensive loss (as long as you phrase your loss report very carefully), which is, by definition non-surchargable (act of God, etc).
On the bright side, though, you did get some nice tyres out of it. [:D]
BY ODIN! Potholes! I didn't even think of that.
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
So I splurged (because my old car had 195K miles on the original engine) and got myself a new 5 series. Needless to say the thing is fun to drive. Anyway, so I go out to dinner and have two martinis and a bunch of pasta and I am driving back home and I come up to the 405 to 133 interchange and it has this really fun onramp. Hey, I was powerless to resist.
So I am going about 60 on the 25 MPH onrmap and all four wheels are starting to drift and I get to the top and there is a distinct crown in the road and...whoa. Long story short I smack into this little curb with both driver side wheels and knock out the front end alignment and gouge the front rim. Bloody Hell!
I don't really want to tell my insurance company so I just go down to the BMW dealership for my pennance. The pennance amounted to about $1100 after I had to replace one rim and tire (tyre). But that is not good enough for them. They want to sell me 100% nitrogen for my tires (tyres).
"How much for that?", I ask.
"$40 Mr. Mandrake"
"$40 dollars for nitrogen, are you kidding?"
"No sir, it's 100% nitrogen. It's supposed to last longer."
"Eons, I imagine."
"Sir?"
"OK, how about this, the tires (tyres) have compressed air already, right?"
"Yes sir"
"And air is 78% Nitrogen or so."
<cautiously> "Yes."
"Right, so I will sell you the air in my tires (tyres) for 80% of $40, that's $30, and that leaves mostly Oxygen, you guys could set up an oxygen bar for the clients, that's got to be worth at least $10 or so. Then we are even. Y'all can have the argon for free."
"I wouldn't know how to write that up. How about I just throw in the Nitrogen Service as a courtesy?"
"SPLENDID!"
ORIGINAL: BrucePowers
I liked your old car. As I remember you did tell me it had close to 200,000 miles on it............................
Not so sure about this, Cap'n. Most of the wargamers I've known over time are cretins. [:'(]ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: sprior
Honky Fidd!
Care to have a swing at this one Mandrake? [:D]
I think I have it. I believe he is referring to white children with Fetal Iodine Deficiency Disorder (FIDD), also known as Endemic Cretinism.
I know it sounds a bit funny, the Cretinism part, but it is really quite tragic. Many potential strategic wargame players are lost for all time and are relegated to first person shooter games because of the disease.
Pfft...only a cretin would drive a nice sports car around with residual helium and hydrogen gases and residual dihydrogen monoxide vapor in the wheels. Clearly *that's* the reason your car skipped the curb-as a means of protest.ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
So I splurged (because my old car had 195K miles on the original engine) and got myself a new 5 series. Needless to say the thing is fun to drive. Anyway, so I go out to dinner and have two martinis and a bunch of pasta and I am driving back home and I come up to the 405 to 133 interchange and it has this really fun onramp. Hey, I was powerless to resist.
So I am going about 60 on the 25 MPH onrmap and all four wheels are starting to drift and I get to the top and there is a distinct crown in the road and...whoa. Long story short I smack into this little curb with both driver side wheels and knock out the front end alignment and gouge the front rim. Bloody Hell!
I don't really want to tell my insurance company so I just go down to the BMW dealership for my pennance. The pennance amounted to about $1100 after I had to replace one rim and tire (tyre). But that is not good enough for them. They want to sell me 100% nitrogen for my tires (tyres).
"How much for that?", I ask.
"$40 Mr. Mandrake"
"$40 dollars for nitrogen, are you kidding?"
"No sir, it's 100% nitrogen. It's supposed to last longer."
"Eons, I imagine."
"Sir?"
"OK, how about this, the tires (tyres) have compressed air already, right?"
"Yes sir"
"And air is 78% Nitrogen or so."
<cautiously> "Yes."
"Right, so I will sell you the air in my tires (tyres) for 80% of $40, that's $30, and that leaves mostly Oxygen, you guys could set up an oxygen bar for the clients, that's got to be worth at least $10 or so. Then we are even. Y'all can have the argon for free."
"I wouldn't know how to write that up. How about I just throw in the Nitrogen Service as a courtesy?"
"SPLENDID!"
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
My mood was ruined later when i got anothe AARP invitation to join email. [:@]
