Bringing a car back home from the mechanic today (a rant for another
time) and took <sarcasm> America's Favorite Highway (translation I-95)
</sarcasm> for part of the trip. The ramp I used to enter the road is
fairly straight and definitely long enough to get up to highway speed

Talk about poorly thought out! Some neighbors were upset that
traffic was going too fast, thought about speed bumps, then got
the city to approve a big painting in the intersection. Hope no one
needs to use their brakes, or turn in this intersection. Good thing

I tried to resurrect the old thread (started back on Jan 2 IIRC).  I
could still read it but no replies can be made there.  Last post there
was on Jan 6.
The trial for the road rage incident where the perp killed momma by

Here's an article about a run-of-the-mill traffic accident. Notice the
subtle differences in how the collision is described by the Orange
County Register, a conservative newspaper, and compare it with the
sorts of descriptions given by liberal rags like the Arizona Daily

Here we have a pickup truck which is parked perpendicular to the curb
instead of parallel to it, effectively blocking one entire side of the
street:
http://i6.tinypic.com/4i5s7lg.jpg

Anybody see this?  Cop pulls over a guy for a broken windshield, of
course he has no license.  While the cop is going about his business, I
happened to look away from the TV for a second....  We hear this lockup
of some tires, and another car plows into a bicyclist who apparently

Can someone explain the correct way to change gears with a manual shift?
That is, what is the precise sequence of foot movements for efficient
gear-changing with minimal wear on the gearbox?
Thanks in advance.

"The Rifleman" <survivor@northland.co.uk> wrote in message news:...

Reading Car and Driver, I came across this article.
Town Without Pity
After 62 years of feeding off traffic-ticket money, the mean-spirited
village of New Rome, Ohio, faces an attempt to vote it into

I have a Honda Accord 1999 EX Model. I face a strange problem. When i
turn the car engine on usually the A/C and Heating panel light does not
turn on. I try pushing mode button, temprature knowb, a/c button
recirulation button but none of them have any effect and the lights do

This question came up in a friend's letter to the editor in my hometown
newspaper.  He had inquired with the state patrol about what the speed
limit was on county gravel roads; the response was that it's the same
as on the highways.  The writer cited an incident in which someone was

This article points out that consumers may be short changed by fuel
pumps that do not compensate for fuel sold above 60 degrees, which is a
historical standard.  Gasoline volume expands with higher temperature
(density goes down), but your engine gets its energy from mass, not

Being Awake And Staying Awake - versus - Being Told "You Need Sleep!"
                                                   7 September 2006
                                                 {HRI note 20060907}
'

I have an '89 Olds car with 4 Goodyear Aquatred tires on it.
I need to replace the front pair of tires as the car will not pass
state inspection because of tread depth.  I want to just replace the
front tires as the rear tires are still in good shape, tread-wise.

At the Post Orifice this morning there was this 20something standing
in front of the "Stamped Mail" slot. She had a handful of letters she
was mailing (at least 20 envelopes). She was depositing them into the
slot ONE AT A TIME. After each one, she would pause for a second or