Posted on 11/17/2006 1:20:37 AM PST by sully777
" In 1972, with the Phoenix album, they added Craig Frost on keyboards. "
Craig Frost is playing on the currant Bob Segar tour. Coming to Atl Dec 7. Can't wait!
Okay, Elmo may be satan spawn...but nothing can be worse than Barney.
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I still own one of those....
8^)
Bozo wasn't around when I was a kid but I do remember him.
He's been playing with Seger for a while.
ll buy if it can keep up with this one....
LOL I really did like those things. Probably just because they put my mother in a frenzy.
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I think I stole it from Yogi Berra. If I didn't, I should have.
Now
Life comes at you fast!
The Arizona Highway Patrol came upon a pile of smoldering metal embedded in the side of a cliff rising above the road at the apex of a curve. The wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it was a car. The type of car was unidentifiable at the scene. The lab finally figured out what it was and what happened. It seems that a guy had somehow gotten hold of a JATO unit (Jet Assisted Take Off -- actually a solid fuel rocket) that is used to give heavy military transport planes an extra "push" for taking off from short airfields.
He had driven his Chevy Impala out into the desert and found a long, straight stretch of road. (Not long enough.) Then he attached the JATO unit to his car, jumped in, got up some speed and fired off the JATO ! The facts as best as could be determined are that the operator of the 1967 Impala hit JATO ignition at a distance of approximately 3.0 miles from the crash site. This was established by the prominent scorched and melted asphalt at that location.
The JATO, if operating properly, would have reached maximum thrust within 5 seconds, causing the Chevy to reach a speed well in excess of 350 mph and continuing at full power for an additional 20-25 seconds. The driver, soon to be pilot, most likely would have experienced G-forces usually reserved for dog fighting F-14 jocks under full afterburners, basically causing him to become insignificant for the remainder of the event. However, the automobile remained on the straight highway for about 2.5 miles (15-20 seconds) before the driver applied and completely melted the brakes, blowing the tires and leaving thick rubber marks on the road surface. He, then, became airborne for an additional 1.4 miles and impacted the cliff face at a height of 125 feet leaving a blackened crater 3 feet deep in the rock. Most of the driver's remains were not recoverable; however, small fragments of bone, teeth and hair were extracted from the crater and fingernail and bone chards were removed from a piece of debris believed to be a portion of the steering wheel.
NOTE: Solid-fuel rockets don't have an 'off'... once started, they burn at full thrust 'till the fuel is all gone.
- July newsletter (year ?) of the Oregon Region SCCA
time to go. have a good weekend.
Tune in again next week!
Same Bat-time,
Same Bat-channel!
My mother refused to buy me one because she always claimed that I'd put my eye out. So instead we opted for a 30.06....
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