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Old 10-13-2011, 10:02 PM   #1101 (permalink)
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...you update your status on facebook with "One more trip to Lowes and I shall have a smooth belly."

and the very first comment is from a 50-something mother of one of your friends; "your car...right?"


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Old 10-14-2011, 12:36 AM   #1102 (permalink)
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YKYAEM If you catch a gas price war and fill your extra 12 5 gal cans and are upset cause you can't accurately figure your mileage. BTW bought gas at 2.989 LOL

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Old 10-14-2011, 01:08 PM   #1103 (permalink)
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Old 10-18-2011, 01:29 AM   #1104 (permalink)
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After hearing about the aero benefit of using a tankbag, I'm now tending to use it even when empty w no other purpose! Now I'm wondering if the basketball I have net bungied on the passenger seat is helping to clean my rear air!!??!! CB400!
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Old 10-19-2011, 09:38 AM   #1105 (permalink)
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I visited honda-tech. It's all about ground-scraping, vtec-revving, fast-n-furious stuff. I am amazed to see someone asking about swapping in a tall-geared VX transmission for the gas mileage. (they usually swap the other way for "performance")

Then I see that it's someone from this site. Hi California98Civic!
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Old 10-19-2011, 02:43 PM   #1106 (permalink)
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YKYAEM when your fuel log total miles travelled is 16.3 miles under the odo reading, on your car had 16 miles on it when you got it.
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Old 10-19-2011, 03:40 PM   #1107 (permalink)
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...You stop mid step while walking past the shipping dept because you noticed a large, unfolded, unstapled, non holed sheet of cardboard, and the shipper says," It's all yours. What you building today?" , before you utter a sound.

...Your friend in the body shop walks from his bay to where you are working( almost 100 yards) to give you two aluminum 20" half circle cutouts that he just made while cutting in a truck rear body panel, and says," I thought you might want these for your car." (Basjoos front wheel skirts, here I come!)

...You actually put a tail on your car!!!!!
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Old 10-19-2011, 07:41 PM   #1108 (permalink)
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while at work you get use to the question, "who's car is that?"
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Old 10-25-2011, 05:57 AM   #1109 (permalink)
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After having read 111 pages it surprises me that nobody mentioned:

YKYAEM when you actually use the phrase "A good tank".

Maybe all you foreigners do it all the time? I have never heard it in Sweden anyway.
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Old 10-25-2011, 12:44 PM   #1110 (permalink)
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YKYAEM when you actually use the phrase "A good tank".

Maybe all you foreigners do it all the time? I have never heard it in Sweden anyway.
Neither have I in Belgium.

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