From: f4ax@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: RE:  Who gets to buy a sports car?
Date: 27 Jul 92 10:09:41 EDT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Cornell University

 >> From article <1992Jul21.004845.13968@fivegl.co.nz>, by derek@fivegl.co.nz (De
rek Tearne):
>>>
>>> Rust is like Aids - it transfers itself to your car if the other car 
>>> penetrates the paint... and once you've got rust it will _never_ go away.
>>> 
>> How do you get this?  You claim that if I put a rusty piece of
>> iron next to an unrusty one for a couple of hours, that the clean
>> one will somehow be infected?  The oxygen that is already bound
>> to the iron in the rust will somehow jump off and move over to
>> the other piece?  Why?
>> 
> 
> Jeeeeeeeeeez!!!
> Some people are just so clueless.  I think that the whole thing was
> not to be taken literally, but for the potentiality of damage caused
> by scratch or dent which removes paint.  The metal will begin to rust
> and it creates a weak spot in your paint.  Even if you cover it up with
> touch-up paint, that's probably one of the first places the car is going
> to rust again in the future.  Eats the car up from that point out.  Do
> you get the analogy, do you know what an analogy is???  You must be one
> of those people who had a 4.0 average in school but suffered the eternal
> "F" in common sense.
> 
>       GET A CLUE!
>       -Jason
 
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>OF COURSE I know what an analogy is, you silly ass.  The point was that
>I believe the analogy to be *false*.  You need 50% relative humidity
>to get the hydrates of iron oxide that make the iron porous so that
>rusting can proceed.

Exactly what I was saying.  You know all the numbers, but didn't get the 
point of the message.

>This is, your car does not start to rust away the
>instant you scratch the paint. 

Well, no duh!!  Any moron knows that. This makes the analogy of aids all the
more logical.  You don't get aids the instant you get the HIV virus either.
It takes a little while (like years) to develop.  You didn't see anyone else
flame this guy for his message.  They all got the point.

>Since you like analogies so much, I
>have a simile of my own, which, if you don't find true, I expect not
>to hear about:
>        A posting from a .EDU is like an expulsion of intestinal
>        gasses: it is loud, and of no weight; it is emitted from
>        an anal orifice; it is noisesome to all except its author,
>        who, in time, moves on.

Well, actually I kind of like this one.  I may use it in the future.  Who did
you steal it from?  Though, I don't think you can generalize it to all .EDU
postings, but it does well describe what one usually encounters whenever he/she
listens to when speaking to an AT&T operator.  Hey, maybe that's what you
worked up from!?  Or perhaps you went to a school that didn't even qualify as 
being good enough to earn an .EDU extention or didn't go to school and daddy
gave you a job.  Hmmmm.  I don't know, and I really don't care.

-Jason

Some people just think statistics and numbers answer everything.  It's a shame
what has happened to common sense in the 90s.

BTW--I already knew I was a silly ass, but that's a hell of a lot better than
being a dumb ass like you!!  GET A CLUE AND GET A LIFE!!  Furthermore, quit
wasting time burning up bandwidth when you are supposed to be at work.  It's no
wonder AT&T is always ripping off the public!  Their employees sit on their
asses (well, some of them--since I know some people must work there) and 
read news instead of doing what they're being paid for.
And you can flame me all you want--I don't give a sh*t!  I'm an arrogant
b*st*rd either way!!