Paragraphs, man, paragraphs!
>Hang about there...you say what now? Neither of my series trucks does
>this. Although there is an interesting squeaking sound that apparently
>comes from the rear suspension, but only when the truck is stationary,
>and the occupants are not moving. It is a long drawn out squeak, kind
>of like when the improperly torqued down cap of a 2-liter plastic soda
>bottle is trying to pass a bubble, and you hear it and go "what the
>hell is that?" to yourself, or to whoever else happens to be within
>earshot of said escaping bubble's symphonic release. Then you realize
>there's a 2-liter plastic soda bottle on the table in front of you or
>perhaps somewhere else in the room, or in the next room, and after
>checking in the torque specifications section of the manual ha ha you
>apply the necessary additional rotation to the 2-liter plastic soda
>bottle's previously improperly torqued cap. Which has the immediate and
>oh so final seeming effect of seemingly foiling the bubble's escape,
>although I suspect that it may actually continue escaping, albeit more
>quietly, due its detection by those who would seek to prevent said
>emancipation. If you don't know the sound I'm talking about, then you
>probably don't drink soda out of 2-liter plastic bottles. However, this
>is all very long winded and besides the point, which was, and remains,
>that if your Rover's bushings are banging around in tthe shackles,
>there is something wrong, and just because they've clunked (or banged
>or popped or made any other noises that could remotely be indicative of
>metal to metal contact then non-contact then contact again, etc.) since
>new does not mean that something is not wrong. Can you ignore it and
>not have any long term or expensive or just troublesome problems down
>the road (said road being both figurative as well as literal)? Yes.
>Should you? That is up to you. Would I? What do you care? My parents
>owned a Pontiac Phoenix, which had the same body as a Chevy Citation,
>that they bought new in 1980. It stalled at almost every stoplight, or
>so it seemd to my wandering 11-year-old mind, as my mind's wanderings
>were constantly interrupted by streams of muttered parental anglo-saxon
>at every occurence of the stalling, and the car was in the shop
>repeatedly for weeks on end as the dealer tried to sort out the cause
>of the problem. So just because a problem/symptom/feature exists since
>the date of purchase of the vehicle, it doesn't mean that it doesn't
>demand attention or perhaps even fixing or repairing of some sort.
>Although I suspect the response to this from Marin- should he choose to
>respond to such an inane, unrelated-anectdote-filled and roundabout
>criticism of a seemingly hardly assailable logic, i.e., that of
>ignoring the clunk in the suspension of a Series Land Rover, would be
>that if the Land Rover stalled every time he drove it, he would have
>had them fix it, or fixed it himself, and that my bringing that up as
>an example was a terrible excuse for a parallell, in fact, more like a
>perpendicular, and that seeing as I was only 11 in 1980 which makes me
>only 31 now, that I am young and ignorant or something to that effect.
>Although now I am putting words in the mouth, or on the screen if you
>will, of others which I didn't really set out to do, as much as it may
>have seemed so due the apparent confusion over the central point of
>Marin's message that I seem to have had, which now that I am aware of
>it makes me wonder why I bothered to type this thing in the first
>place, or rather, why I continued to type it after realizing the flawed
>nature of my argument and its related parental-Pontiac anectodte.
>Which, by the way, for those who are curious- and to those I say "Go
>outside and get some fresh air because there is no reason on god's
>green earth that you should care about this,"- the point where I
>relaized the frivolity of my complaint was before I started the very
>pointless- as I have pointed out repeatedly- comparison between one of
>the sounds my Land Rover's suspension makes and the sound of a bubble
>trying to escape from a 2-liter soda bottle. I would be interested to
>hear from other owners who have experienced the same sound, the one
>from the suspension, not the soda bottle. Although if you'd like to
>tlak about the soda bottle sound, or any other sound or really anything
>at all then please feel free to do so. As a matter of fact, if you've
>read this far and haven't wanted to strangle me, I'd really like to
>hear from you. If you do want to strangle me, I assure you it wouldn't
>be worth the airfare to get here. Or the half gallon of gas if you're
>in my area. Or Metro fare. Or the rubber or other material off the
>soles of your (very nice I'm sure) shoes.
>
>later
>daveb
>
>=====
>They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.
>
>David Foster Wallace
>
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