About the wheels...

[bestclimb]

Originally Posted by markweatherill

I'll just point out that 'Pedantics' probably isn't a word, although it could be the study of pedantry or something. But 'Pedants' is the word you were looking for, not to nit pick or anything, that would be, er, you know.

ah with pedants like these who needs a dictionary?

[freebeard]

Pedantiacs of the World unite!

[RedDevil]

Careful - so easy to put a foot wrong...

Seriously, let's keep it on topic.

[Fat Charlie]

That is the topic. It was never about an ingredient list of wheels, it was all about wildly inaccurate yet widely accepted descriptions... and my blood pressure.

[Xist]

Originally Posted by Fat Charlie

That is the topic. It was never about an ingredient list of wheels, it was all about wildly inaccurate yet widely accepted descriptions... and my blood pressure.

I have OCD too!

[Fat Charlie]

I don't have OCD, I'm just interested in clear communication.

Ships in the Night
By Lawrence Bush

I had only just arrived at the club when I bumped into Roger. After we had exchanged a few pleasantries, he lowered his voice and asked, "What do you think of Martha and I as a potential twosome?"

"That," I replied, "would be a mistake. Martha and me is more like it."
"You're interested in Martha?"
"I'm interested in clear communication."
"Fair enough," he agreed. "May the best man win." Then he sighed. "Here I thought we had a clear path to becoming a very unique couple."

"You couldn't be a very unique couple, Roger."
"Oh? And why is that?"
"Martha couldn't be a little pregnant, could she?"
"Say what? You think that Martha and me...."
"Martha and I."
"Oh." Roger blushed and set down his drink. "Gee, I didn't know."
"Of course you didn't." I assured him. "Most people don't."
"I feel very badly about this."
"You shouldn't say that: I feel bad...."
"Please, don't, " Roger said. "If anyone's at fault here, it's me!"

[Xist]

Originally Posted by Fat Charlie

I don't have OCD, I'm just interested in clear communication.

Nice! That is a better joke than my Isaac Asimov one. People always laugh, I explain it, and they do not think that it is funny. Strange how I stopped telling it.

Jim comes into a bar and finds his best friend, Bill, at a comer table gravely nursing a glass of beer and wearing a look of solemnity on his face. Jim sits down at the table and says sympathetically, "What's the matter, Bill?"

Bill sighs, and says, "My wife ran off yesterday with my best friend."

Jim says, in a shocked voice, "What are you talking about, Bill? I'm your best friend."

To which Bill answers softly, "Not anymore."

I trust you see the change in point of view. The natural supposition is that poor Bill is sunk in gloom over a tragic loss. It is only with the last three words that you realize, quite suddenly, that he is, in actual fact, delighted. And the average human male is sufficiently ambivalent about his wife (however beloved she might be) to greet this particular change in point of view with delight of his own.

http://www.e-reading.ws/chapter.php/...-_Prodigy.html

People usually comment that a lousy best friend runs off with his best friend's wife.

"No, he was so happy that his wife ran off that whoever took her became his new best friend."

"That is a stupid joke!"

[Fat Charlie]

You've got to love today's attention spans. Someone dressed up the old Take my wife... Please! making it more than just a one liner, and nobody gets it.

[ecomodded]

Originally Posted by dirtydave

What kind of rims are better for MPG?

Narrow ones !

[NeilBlanchard]

Smooth and flat wheels, and narrow tires.