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   Dave Van Domelen to tkoenig@netcologne.de   
   Re: xkcd: Car Size   
   13 Nov 25 13:37:21   
   
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   From: dvandom@eyrie.org   
      
   In article <10f41cq$2039k$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Thomas Koenig   wrote:   
   >Lynn McGuire  schrieb:   
   >> xkcd: Car Size   
   >>     https://www.xkcd.com/3167/   
   >>   
   >> Many of the eighteen wheelers around here are now using six inch spikes   
   >> for their lug nuts on their wheels now.   
   >   
   >Remeinds me of an Alan Dean Foster story, was it "Why Johnny Can't   
   >Speed"?   
      
        Yes, one of the stories that inspired the Car Wars tabletop game.   
      
        Dave Van Domelen, notes that sub-subgenre was well-represented in 1970s   
   SF magazines.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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