One Tough Pressure

In my youth, I was hell on wheels and got many tickets for many things. I will confess that I did violate many traffic laws, but I was also pulled over and cited many times for no valid reason. I swore that the local PD had a picture of my car in the briefing room and talked about me. Once when I was also pulled over for an expired tag, which I had forgotten to put on because I was replacing the engine and when I got it running I was so excited it slipped my mind. When I pulled out my registration for the officer, the new tag was stapled to the card. I asked him for a break since I had it right there, but he said no. I signed the ticket and before he got back to his car, I jumped out and placed the tag on my plate. This was considered an infraction/fix it ticket at the time and all I needed to do was get it signed off at the dept that I now have my tag and that would be it. No fine, no court etc. So I go to the station which was 5 minutes away and say that I want to get a citation signed off, and that it was only 15 minutes old. They called the watch commander out to question me and when he saw the time on the ticket, he requested that officer to return to the station. When he did, the WC grinded him on why he wrote a citation when I had the tag in my hand. He said that since their was no fine involved, that he just wasted time for nothing. I felt better that day knowing that even though I was wrong to forget the tag, that the officer looked like an idiot when he got spoken to in front of the offender.

Interesting list, I see that their are different versions of a particular language for different parts of a country. I was in Bamberg Germany which is Southern Bavaria, and it was said Frohe Weinachten, rather than Froehliche Weihnachten. They also used Frohes Fest which is Happy Holidays.

I do not wash vinyl siding, so those things did not stand out when I browsed their site.

CYA, I am to old for the California Youth Authority. j/k, I know what you meant.

I got lucky last year. I was stopped for speeding, (slowest vehicle in the end of the pack, so go figure that) and when I called the court to extend my court date, I found that I was not in the system. It is automated, so I entered both the citation and my Driver License numbers. "No entry by those numbers has been found, please try again" was the voice of the recording. I called a live person and asked what the deal was and they said that the officer must have forgotten to turn in the ticket, so please check back in a few days. I have been checking every week since February and no record is found. I am not sure what the statue of limitations is for a traffic ticket when the thing is almost a year old, but I check back every week just to see if some car wash attendant found it between the seats and it maybe got turned in. In California, if they issue a warrant for failure to appear on traffic charges, they do not come and get you, they just wait for the day when you get your license run for something else and pick you up then. My luck will be that in 10 years or so I will get stopped and they will say that I am being taken in for a 10 year old traffic warrant. That'll be the day.

Wow, talk about a plane that is stealth.

Remember those simple games of the past? Pac Man, Tetris, Space Invaders, Asteroids. Well here they are and for free too. Call me crazy, but these are some of the best games of all time, and after all those quarters I spent as a kid, they are free now. :bandplay: :wave: Have fun!! http://www.neave.com/games/

This is a long one, but it relates so well that I had to post it. Retro Games, Devices, Recall Electronic Youth Sun Dec 21, 3:14 PM ET Add Technology - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Franklin Paul NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Cindy Simmons and her husband get home from a hard day at the office, they cozy up and relax like many young couples -- by bombing enemy ships on "River Raid" using their classic Atari video game console. "It is just like being 11 years old again," said Simmons, 32, an on-air radio personality from Atlanta. "Except I didn't have 30 games then -- now I do." High-tech gadgets like digital cameras top many holiday wish lists, but old-school items such as "Pac-Man" video games and vintage televisions are finding an audience with tech-savvy consumers yearning for nostalgia. But even "thirtysomething" shoppers -- the first generation to grow up with personal "Walkman" music players and own a home version of "Space Invaders" -- are overwhelmed when confronted with Sony Corp. PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox consoles that also surf the Web and play DVDs, or pocket devices that can store 10,000 songs. "Devices and games are getting more complex. The learning curve is not what it used to be and or you're not as willing to spend the time to learn as you would years ago," analyst Danielle Levitas of research firm IDC said. "Also, every generation experiences nostalgia, reflecting on what they did in their free time when they were teen-agers." The trend is most evident with video games. Teens today enjoy them primarily on living room consoles that can, for example, simulate with stunning three-dimensional precision, a World War II battle scene. A single game, packed with maps and myriad weaponry, can take hours to learn and weeks to complete. By contrast, beloved games of late 1970s and early 1980s were no-brainers, where strategy meant little more than picking whether to chase and chomp the stationary picture of a strawberry or the red cone-shaped monster with the googly eyes. "The essence of these games was that they didn't go on for 40 hours. You can just pick up and figure out what was going on fairly quickly and then play," said Keith Robinson, president of Intellivision Productions, which is also selling a version of its 1980s games for new game consoles. RESURRECTING ASTEROIDS, SPACE ARMADA At eBay Inc.'s online auction site, more than 43,000 vintage gaming items are being offered for sale, including the classic brand names Atari, Colecovision and Commodore. Gross merchandise sales -- the value of goods sold via the site -- for Commodore alone are up 61 percent for the last three months. "This growth is related to the children of baby boomers wanting to recapture a piece of their youth in the early 1980s," eBay spokesman Hani Durzy said. Intellivision this year is offering "Intellivision Lives!" for PS2 and Xbox, resurrecting long-forgotten titles like "Shark! Shark!" and "Space Armada." Its Intellivision 25 direct-to-TV controller lets users without a console play 25 games by plugging a game controller into their TV or VCR. Similar game controller products are available from Atari, Activision and Namco, bringing "Dig Dug" and "Asteroids" from the era of Lionel Ritchie and Diane Keaton to that of Missy Elliott and Ben Affleck. Each game controller looks almost exactly like the original joystick-and-single-button model -- a relic compared to current models that often sport six buttons and two directional sticks. "People identify with the original Atari 2600 joystick," said Genna Goldberg of JAKKS Pacific Inc., which makes the three joystick games. "For many it was the first video game system they had as a kid." MORE THAN GAMES The nostalgia trend extends beyond games. For example, one of PalmOne Inc.'s most successful handheld computers is in its Zire line of no-frills versions whose features are more like that of its 1998 forefather, the Palm III. Data storage company Verbatim Corp. sells blank recordable computer CDs whose face resembles a vinyl album. The "Digital Vinyl CD-R," which looks like an old, groovy 45-rpm record, is marketed as "a great way to save delicate LP collections" and urges buyers to "grab a blast from the past." Dave Riedel and Mike Scott, principal partners at Telstar Electronics in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sell 1950's style 21- and 24-inch "Predicta" televisions. Each is as eye-catching for its design and hand-polished wood as a 50-inch plasma screen is for its flatness. Riedel says buyers of the TVs, which come cable-ready with a remote control and sell for up to $3,300, understand today's advanced technology, but want something more unique. "They don't need a big TV in order to have a satisfied life," he said. "And they are not afraid to embrace technology -- a majority of our sales are assisted by our Web site." According to IDC's Levitas, this nostalgia market is still a niche category, "but one that should have legs and evolve with the aging population." (The PluggedIn column appears weekly. Comments or questions on this one can be e-mailed to franklin.paul(at)reuters.com.)

Things not to say when pulled over. I did not realize my radar detector was not plugged in. You must have been doing 140 mph to catch up with me. Ah Man!, Your not going to search the trunk are you? How long will this take? Your wife is expecting me. Could you hold my beer while I look for my license? I just had pork for dinner, what a coincidence. I will trade you donuts for a warning. Go ahead search the car, I sold all my crack three blocks ago.

That was one of 27 cars on scene, along with 2 K-9's, a Sheriff's Helicopter, and the Swat Team's Armor vehicle. They searched the neighborhood, for 5 hours and the suspect still got away.

It wasn't me, I didn't do it. Call my Parole Officer and he will vouch for me.

The best way to avoid all this is just be a responsible driver and obey all the posted signs. Nothing worse then looking over your shoulder and seeing this.

What about them? Those are still around. I don't recall skates with keys, I must have been deprived. I haven't seen a big wheel or the 4 wheel "Mean Green Machine" with laterals for controls in years though.

Using a smaller size tip is only applicable to pressure type unloaders, so if you plan on doing this with a machine, make sure that you do not get a flow type unloader. Running the engine at 3/4's of full throttle can be a trouble maker. Not only is the flow going down, but the pressure as well. If the unit has a generator on it, it will not work correctly to provide enough juice for the burner, not to mention the charging system if it is electric start. The charging issue is even more important on a 12 volt unit, especially if it is a hot unit. Best suggestion is to always run the engine at full rpm, and adjust pressure with different size tips. If you need to adjust flow, then I would suggest adding a valve to bypass water. This keeps the engine and pump running as they were designed to. Also keep in mind that most of us are running air cooled engines, and anything less than full throttle can cause some problems there also.

Frogger and Defender would be a great addition to the site I mentioned. I am sure it is just a matter of time.

You mean like this?

Looks like everyone covered it. Thank you for all the detailed replies over the years and good luck. You know where to find us, if you ever get bored.

$.50 for a game, highway robbery has begun. That Wally setup sounds like a good deal, and the price is right because not to many people want to spend money on those games, with all the new technology that is out. Arcade games have gone downhill over the years, not even Chuck E Cheese has a good selection anymore and the malls around here have taken the arcades out as it tends to attract the wrong crowd for their image.

How much they cost depends on condition and who has it, but where to get them is a better question. Start with the recycler, and video game vendors. Most kids today are bored with our simple games and they are not big money makers in the arcades. If you have an arcade near you that would also be a good start.

I am saving oh so many quarters! Where was this 20 years ago?

You wanna try it, I have an old homelite trimmer motor. May work as part of it, but it will drive everyone crazy as you play with the throttle. :vroom: :vroom:

Just take it for the idea and make one yourself, but bigger. Imagine that engine on your big tank. Gotta spend money to make money!!

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Welcome to the board Aaron!!

Fire hose in the Car