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Were you snowed in????? As Nelson would say to Bart, "HA HA!!"
Enjoy, and Happy New Year!
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(Transcribed from Car & Driver magazine, February 1996 issue, page 29)
Ten Things That Would Be Different If Microsoft Started Building Cars:
1. A particular model year of car wouldn't be available until after that =
year instead of before it.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a =
new car.
3. Occasionally your car would just die for no reason, and you'd have to =
restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you =
bought Car 95 or Car NT. But then you'd have to buy more seats.
5. Sun Motorsystems would make a car that was powered by the sun, twice =
as reliable, and five times as fast - but it would only run on 5 percent =
of the roads.
6. The oil, engine, gas, and alternator warning lights would be replaced =
with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.
7. People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars, =
forgetting completely that they had been available in other cars for =
years.
8. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft gas.
9. The U.S. government would be *getting* subsidies from an automaker, =
instead of giving them.
10. New seats would force everyone to have the same-size butt.
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