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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    "The Dawns Here are Quiet"- or - "Fashion Models at War"
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    What's your favorite, most psychologial-impressive movie scene??

    I wouldn't have thought of this scene, but I'm glad you did. As a mechanical engineer who became one as a result of being a hot-rodder since I was 13, I have done exactly what Jake Holman did on more than one occasion. I have often introduced myself to a new engine or car and gently laid hands...
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    What's your favorite, most psychologial-impressive movie scene??

    For a different reaction to the Statue of Liberty scene: I had been reading and watching science fiction for about fifteen years by the time the movie came out, so it was more of a mildly positive reaction, not at all shocking or disturbing. A good ending that fits the plot, but not...
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    Colorized photos of war in the Pacific

    There is more color footage and photos from the Pacific for two main reasons. The color film of the time was VERY slow and needed a lot of sunlight, of which there tends to be more in the Pacific than in northern Europe. Also, the Marines were more liberal in the use of 16mm cameras (Kodak...
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    Weapons in the Movies

    I took it that they were there on some sort of clandestine mission and not a substantive military unit (Rommel, etc.). Also, I may be misinterpreting it... need to see it again...
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    Old gas stations

    The "ASA" rating on original Kodachrome film (pre-WWII) was roughly ASA 8-10. That is *extremely* slow, which is why it took so much light to get a color image (still or movie). (The America Standards Association (ASA) film rating system was promulgated in late 1943 - what we now call ISO.)...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I saw that show, also, and I think it was a movie (shown on TV), not a regular TV show in the mode of "Dragnet" or "The Untouchables". The problem is that I can't remember the name of the movie or who was in it. I believe the plot involved the Mob and criminality involving jukeboxes, as...
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    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    Part of the reason you thought he was funny may be because you are from Chicago. As a born Southerner, Claghorn's voice was annoying and sounded like someone from Boston who was faking (or trying to fake) a Southern accent.
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    Old gas stations

    Here's the important part: We Corvette owners don't care a hoot what "real sportscar drivers" say or think.
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    Name the Actor...

    Jackie Gleason on bass\Cesar Romero on piano I recognized the actors but did not know the movie. I had to look it up so I won't say it. Let someone else get credit for that.
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    Name the Actor...

    Charley Chase I always wanted to be in an organization which had an "Exhausted Ruler".
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    Name the Actor...

    Movie: "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" Actor: Michael James Gubitosi
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    Alright! Confession Time! What's YOUR "Guilty Pleasure?"

    As an engineer, one of my more enjoyable duties in life is to make fun of physicists. However, I wasn't aware that there was a stereotype that they (or scientists in general) had no sense of humor. (Engineers look down on physicists because they are too theoretical. Physicists look down on...
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    Alright! Confession Time! What's YOUR "Guilty Pleasure?"

    I'd like to file a "friend of the court" brief advocating that no further prosecution be considered. If "B and B" was actually about the lives of two idiot slackers, prosecution would be justified. The fact that is a well-thought-out parody/satire of two idiot slackers actually takes it out of...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    If you watched the Watergate hearings as a kid, you're not old yet. We watched them each night as young adults and relived them the next day at work. We called ourselves "The Watergate Wallowers".
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    9mm or 45cal

    Concerning the British and frontal assaults, don't forget the first day of the Somme Offensive - July 1, 1916. ~58,000 British casualties in one day, ~20,000 killed.
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    Old gas stations

    The white Chevy in left-center is a '62 - no doubt. I had one, as did my brother.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I haven't looked it up, either, but here's the answer I would give if one of my students in Automotive Components class asked that question: Gasoline is a blend of several liquid hydrocarbons. Some are more volatile than others and this is significant as altitude increases (lower atmospheric...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I don't doubt what you're experiencing, but would contend that the problem is something else than octane rating. Octane rating is a measure of a fuel's ability to resist preignition and detonation (Pinging and knocking). Those issues are not really related to startup and idle. Octane rating...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Can you explain that last statement? You should be able to set the spark and timing the same with 87 octane as with 70. Octane rating effectively sets upper limits for those items, not lower.

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