XPost: alt.checkmate, soc.penpals   
   From: melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie   
      
   On 1/6/2020 1:26 PM, % wrote:   
   > On 2020-01-06 8:12 a.m., mixed nuts wrote:   
   >> On 1/6/2020 5:24 AM, Sn!pe wrote:   
   >>> mixed nuts  wrote:   
   >>>> Gerk  (Neal Warren) wrote:   
   >>> [...]   
   >>>>> In an old fashioned internal combustion automobile engine   
   >>>>> you'd be VERY lucky to get 20mpg.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> DOH!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I get 30 mpg in my 450 hp track ready fast supercar.   
   >>>   
   >>> Does it have speckles?   
   >>   
   >> It's a metallic blue - more sparkle than speckle, I believe.   
   >>   
   >> The hard working police officers who pull me over for obstructing a   
   >> fully authorized 110 mph stealth practice perfuit (no flashing lights)   
   >> for driving 55 mph in a 55 mph zone on a 4 lane highway with light   
   >> traffic have written "black" on the warning ticket and didn't note any   
   >> speckles.   
   >>   
   > i get all kinds of mileage and once ,   
   > i did 42 mph coming down baldy hill ,   
   > i almost lost my hat   
      
   I used to ride my bike down the airport hill. It's 600ft at the top and   
   400 ft at the bottom, and pretty steep, so if you get real low over the   
   handle bars and stick your feet out the back, you can get going pretty   
   good.  I never lost my hat though, because I didn't wear one.  The whole   
   trick about it, and why we did it, was to get going fast enough so the   
   big German Shepard at the bottom couldn't catch you.  He didn't pay much   
   attention when you were walking or riding slow, but if you were moving   
   fast he'd try to run you down, so you had to go faster than he could. I   
   think they can do about 40.   
      
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