Glen,
I think we can blame Keith for tossing some wood on the topic fire before he
left for a race ... Maxton? "He do like ta stir up the stuff!"
I'm anticipating the Awards dinner tomorrow night after the BYU-Utah
football game. That just may be a lot more fun than the game this year.
The fast time trophies, bronzes of the #115 Larsen Cummins liner, are all
ready to go. One goes to Mike Nish and one goes to the trophy sponsor, Mike
Chapman of Chapman Cylinder Heads. If any of you are interested in having
one for yourself contact me and I'll send the information and a photo or
else give you the lowdown of the sponsorship package. Jeff Decker bronzes
are going for very big bucks right now and this is only the second
automobile he has done ... everything else is bikes or wooden speed boats.
Wes
on 11/21/03 4:55 PM, Glen Barrett at speedtimer@charter.net wrote:
> What the heck started this thread, Sure can tell race season is over and the
> snow bound racers are bored and unable to go outside and play with the toys.
> KT is still trying to cook in the microwave and make fake rocks, Wes is
> freezing his butt off going to BYU to watch foot ball, and out here on the
> left coast we are just having fun and the only thing we have to shovel is
> the BS that is flowing. Oh well it's still fun.
> Glen
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Want1937hd@aol.com>
> To: <rbuck@aros.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 3:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Topic's of discussion (Ps and Qs)
>
>
>> In a message dated 11/21/03 12:33:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> rbuck@aros.net
>> writes:
>>
>>> I've heard a completely different answer to that. (My grandfather told
> me,
>>>
>>> about 45 years ago) It refers to moveable type as used in newspaper
>>> printing before typesetting machines. When viewed head-on the reversed
>>> images were very easy to get confused...so it was fairly easy for a
> young,
>>> inattentive typesetter to set up a rack of type that resulted in
> something
>>> like, "Mind your qints and puarts." Hence the admonishment to mind them
>>> (or keep them straight...or reversed...or something) while putting the
> type
>>> into place.
>>>
>>> Ray
>>>
>>
>> Ray, I heard that one too, but how come they didn't have the same problem
>> with lower case b's & d's? What I want to know is why I can mixup both
> b's&d's
>> and p's&q's using a KEYBOARD? Maybe my right index finger is just getting
> tired.
>> Bob in connecticut
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