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echo: tech
to: Charles Angelich
from: Joe Nicholson
date: 2003-11-16 23:15:00
subject: Color TV (was music)

-=> Quoting Charles Angelich to Roy J. Tellason <=-

 CA>> Not unlike mandatory 'fins' (ala the late 50's and early
 CA>> 60's) being installed onto all existing automobiles
 CA>> because the gov says so with no justification whatsoever. 
 
 RJT> Huh? What the heck are you talking about here? 

 CA> Tailfins ala '59 Chevy etc. A useless appendage that actually
 CA> could lift the Chevy rear wheels off the road at around 100mph.

 Those fins are what started Ralph Nader on his safety kick
 after a few people were actually "stabbed" by them.  They
 are now totally, 100%, absolutely illegal on newer cars.

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