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"Doc Smartass" |
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16 Jun 2007 09:48:33 PM |
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OT: Time Capsule Car unburied after 50 years |
'57 Fury and some memorabilia from June, 1957, all revealed for the first
time in half a century:
http://www.buriedcar.com/photo_gallery_new.htm
Poor car is in bad shape, but a lot of the swag looks good.
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Doc Smartass, BAAWA Knight of Heckling
aa # 1939
Help Prevent Projectile Stupidity
Duct-Tape a Fundie's Mouth Shut Today!
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| User: "Geoff" |
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| Title: Re: Time Capsule Car unburied after 50 years |
18 Jun 2007 07:58:09 AM |
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Doc Smartass wrote:
'57 Fury and some memorabilia from June, 1957, all revealed for the
first time in half a century:
http://www.buriedcar.com/photo_gallery_new.htm
Poor car is in bad shape, but a lot of the swag looks good.
I wonder who won the contest guessing Tulsa's 2007 population?
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| User: "J Forbes" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Time Capsule Car unburied after 50 years |
16 Jun 2007 11:37:01 PM |
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Doc Smartass wrote:
'57 Fury and some memorabilia from June, 1957, all revealed for the first
time in half a century:
http://www.buriedcar.com/photo_gallery_new.htm
Poor car is in bad shape, but a lot of the swag looks good.
funny you should mention this...I'm here in Tulsa, we drove 1100 miles
to get here to see them pull this car out of the ground. Fun stuff!
see my trip report, updated daily
http://www.selectric.org/mommy/trip200706/index.html
Jim
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| User: "Doc Smartass" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Time Capsule Car unburied after 50 years |
01 Jul 2007 09:04:16 PM |
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J Forbes <jforbnospam@selectric.org> wrote in
news:1182055021.122268.166280@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:
Doc Smartass wrote:
'57 Fury and some memorabilia from June, 1957, all revealed for the
first time in half a century:
http://www.buriedcar.com/photo_gallery_new.htm
Poor car is in bad shape, but a lot of the swag looks good.
funny you should mention this...I'm here in Tulsa, we drove 1100 miles
to get here to see them pull this car out of the ground. Fun stuff!
see my trip report, updated daily
http://www.selectric.org/mommy/trip200706/index.html
I get the feeling you're a Prowler guy ;)
--
Doc Smartass, BAAWA Knight of Heckling
aa # 1939
Help Prevent Projectile Stupidity
Duct-Tape a Fundie's Mouth Shut Today!
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| User: "J Forbes" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Time Capsule Car unburied after 50 years |
01 Jul 2007 10:34:48 PM |
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Doc Smartass wrote:
J Forbes <jforbnospam@selectric.org> wrote in
news:1182055021.122268.166280@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:
Doc Smartass wrote:
'57 Fury and some memorabilia from June, 1957, all revealed for the
first time in half a century:
http://www.buriedcar.com/photo_gallery_new.htm
Poor car is in bad shape, but a lot of the swag looks good.
funny you should mention this...I'm here in Tulsa, we drove 1100 miles
to get here to see them pull this car out of the ground. Fun stuff!
see my trip report, updated daily
http://www.selectric.org/mommy/trip200706/index.html
I get the feeling you're a Prowler guy ;)
uhhhh....yeah....right....
Jim
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| User: "Doc Smartass" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Time Capsule Car unburied after 50 years |
02 Jul 2007 06:55:36 PM |
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J Forbes <jforbnospam@selectric.org> wrote in
news:1183347288.539410.179010@o11g2000prd.googlegroups.com:
Doc Smartass wrote:
J Forbes <jforbnospam@selectric.org> wrote in
news:1182055021.122268.166280@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:
Doc Smartass wrote:
'57 Fury and some memorabilia from June, 1957, all revealed for the
first time in half a century:
http://www.buriedcar.com/photo_gallery_new.htm
Poor car is in bad shape, but a lot of the swag looks good.
funny you should mention this...I'm here in Tulsa, we drove 1100
miles
to get here to see them pull this car out of the ground. Fun stuff!
see my trip report, updated daily
http://www.selectric.org/mommy/trip200706/index.html
I get the feeling you're a Prowler guy ;)
uhhhh....yeah....right....
Looked like a helluva fun drive, all around.
--
Doc Smartass, BAAWA Knight of Heckling
aa # 1939
Help Prevent Projectile Stupidity
Duct-Tape a Fundie's Mouth Shut Today!
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Time Capsule Car unburied after 50 years |
17 Jun 2007 01:55:33 AM |
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In article <Xns9951DE05D4691askifyouwantit@216.77.188.18>,
Doc Smartass <gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote:
'57 Fury and some memorabilia from June, 1957, all revealed for the first
time in half a century:
http://www.buriedcar.com/photo_gallery_new.htm
Poor car is in bad shape, but a lot of the swag looks good.
Shame about the car. I wanted to see them get it running.
--
John #1782
"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be
white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."
- Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuit Order.
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| User: "Don Martin" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Time Capsule Car unburied after 50 years |
17 Jun 2007 08:48:26 AM |
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:55:33 -0700, johac
<jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote:
In article <Xns9951DE05D4691askifyouwantit@216.77.188.18>,
Doc Smartass <gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote:
'57 Fury and some memorabilia from June, 1957, all revealed for the first
time in half a century:
http://www.buriedcar.com/photo_gallery_new.htm
Poor car is in bad shape, but a lot of the swag looks good.
Shame about the car. I wanted to see them get it running.
A good undercoat and heavy wax job might have helped when they were
putting it in.
Through a jaundiced eye darkly--rheum with a view.
The Squeeky Wheel
http://home.comcast.net/~drdonmartin/
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Time Capsule Car unburied after 50 years |
17 Jun 2007 06:12:55 PM |
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In article <grea73do3hed6arccdal65b6h2funudi6q@4ax.com>,
Don Martin <drdonmartin@comcast.net> wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:55:33 -0700, johac
<jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote:
In article <Xns9951DE05D4691askifyouwantit@216.77.188.18>,
Doc Smartass <gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote:
'57 Fury and some memorabilia from June, 1957, all revealed for the first
time in half a century:
http://www.buriedcar.com/photo_gallery_new.htm
Poor car is in bad shape, but a lot of the swag looks good.
Shame about the car. I wanted to see them get it running.
A good undercoat and heavy wax job might have helped when they were
putting it in.
True. Or perhaps they could have found a more watertight place to store
it.
Through a jaundiced eye darkly--rheum with a view.
The Squeeky Wheel
http://home.comcast.net/~drdonmartin/
--
John #1782
"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be
white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."
- Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuit Order.
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| User: "John Baker" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Time Capsule Car unburied after 50 years |
17 Jun 2007 03:54:32 AM |
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:55:33 -0700, johac
<jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote:
In article <Xns9951DE05D4691askifyouwantit@216.77.188.18>,
Doc Smartass <gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote:
'57 Fury and some memorabilia from June, 1957, all revealed for the first
time in half a century:
http://www.buriedcar.com/photo_gallery_new.htm
Poor car is in bad shape, but a lot of the swag looks good.
Shame about the car. I wanted to see them get it running.
I don't see why they couldn't have sealed it in some sort of vault
before they buried it.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Time Capsule Car unburied after 50 years |
17 Jun 2007 06:14:06 PM |
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In article <0it9735aj1hmjku4uvcbknmv2fvtptme3p@4ax.com>,
John Baker <nunya@bizniz.net> wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:55:33 -0700, johac
<jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote:
In article <Xns9951DE05D4691askifyouwantit@216.77.188.18>,
Doc Smartass <gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote:
'57 Fury and some memorabilia from June, 1957, all revealed for the first
time in half a century:
http://www.buriedcar.com/photo_gallery_new.htm
Poor car is in bad shape, but a lot of the swag looks good.
Shame about the car. I wanted to see them get it running.
I don't see why they couldn't have sealed it in some sort of vault
before they buried it.
Really. Packed it in a waterproofed shipping crate or something.
--
John #1782
"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be
white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."
- Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuit Order.
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| User: "J Forbes" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Time Capsule Car unburied after 50 years |
17 Jun 2007 09:26:41 AM |
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John Baker wrote:
I don't see why they couldn't have sealed it in some sort of vault
before they buried it.
That's the interesting part, they DID seal it in a vault, and put
special wrapping on it. I guess they didn't understand how difficult
it is to seal up something that's underground...concrete is porous,
Tulsa gets floods, and I understand a water main broke near the vault
about 10 years ago.
Also they didn't have the plastics technology 50 years ago that we
have today. And I get the feeling that many people considered the
whole thing was kind of a joke...we knew we'd all be nuked by the
Russians long before 2007
Jim
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| User: "The Chief Instigator" |
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17 Jun 2007 10:26:12 AM |
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J Forbes <jforbnospam@selectric.org> writes:
John Baker wrote:
I don't see why they couldn't have sealed it in some sort of vault
before they buried it.
That's the interesting part, they DID seal it in a vault, and put
special wrapping on it. I guess they didn't understand how difficult
it is to seal up something that's underground...concrete is porous,
Tulsa gets floods, and I understand a water main broke near the vault
about 10 years ago.
Also they didn't have the plastics technology 50 years ago that we
have today. And I get the feeling that many people considered the
whole thing was kind of a joke...we knew we'd all be nuked by the
Russians long before 2007
As someone who spent all but six months of his first decade in Tulsa, I can
remember that feeling, too...especially the second month of second grade, when
JFK and Khrushchev were rattling swords at each other over those missiles in
Cuba. (Unfortunately, it looks like the religious circus freaks have done a
better job at hijacking Tulsa, but at least Oral isn't on all three channels
every Sunday any more. ;-)
--
Patrick "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (patrick@io.com) Houston, Texas
chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2006-07 Houston Aeros) AA#2273
LAST GAME: San Antonio 4, Houston 2 (April 15)
NEXT GAME: October 2007, date/place/opponent TBA
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| User: "John Baker" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Time Capsule Car unburied after 50 years |
17 Jun 2007 01:17:37 PM |
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On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:26:41 -0700, J Forbes
<jforbnospam@selectric.org> wrote:
John Baker wrote:
I don't see why they couldn't have sealed it in some sort of vault
before they buried it.
That's the interesting part, they DID seal it in a vault, and put
special wrapping on it. I guess they didn't understand how difficult
it is to seal up something that's underground...concrete is porous,
Tulsa gets floods, and I understand a water main broke near the vault
about 10 years ago.
Also they didn't have the plastics technology 50 years ago that we
have today. And I get the feeling that many people considered the
whole thing was kind of a joke...we knew we'd all be nuked by the
Russians long before 2007
I wasn't old enough in 1957 to even be aware of the Russians or nukes,
but I remember well the paranoia of the early '60s. The Cuban Missile
Crisis is as fresh in my mind today as when it happened.
It turned out that Russian nukes really weren't all that reliable and
Russian military might was largely bluff and bluster, but we didn't
know that at the time.
Jim
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Time Capsule Car unburied after 50 years |
17 Jun 2007 11:29:02 PM |
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In article <3cua739u08j7fq9mp5aec4au5e1oo5d28i@4ax.com>,
John Baker <nunya@bizniz.net> wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:26:41 -0700, J Forbes
<jforbnospam@selectric.org> wrote:
John Baker wrote:
I don't see why they couldn't have sealed it in some sort of vault
before they buried it.
That's the interesting part, they DID seal it in a vault, and put
special wrapping on it. I guess they didn't understand how difficult
it is to seal up something that's underground...concrete is porous,
Tulsa gets floods, and I understand a water main broke near the vault
about 10 years ago.
Also they didn't have the plastics technology 50 years ago that we
have today. And I get the feeling that many people considered the
whole thing was kind of a joke...we knew we'd all be nuked by the
Russians long before 2007
I wasn't old enough in 1957 to even be aware of the Russians or nukes,
but I remember well the paranoia of the early '60s. The Cuban Missile
Crisis is as fresh in my mind today as when it happened.
1957 was scary enough because of Sputnik. That the Soviets could put an
object in space meant that they could reach any part of the globe with
their missiles. Our ICBMs and space program were still in the
development stage. There was all this talk about the 'missile gap' and
the fear that Russia could launch a preemptive strike.
It turned out that Russian nukes really weren't all that reliable and
Russian military might was largely bluff and bluster, but we didn't
know that at the time.
True, but the paranoia was real.
Jim
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John #1782
"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be
white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."
- Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuit Order.
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| User: "Sean C" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Time Capsule Car unburied after 50 years |
17 Jun 2007 11:39:22 PM |
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In article <Xns9951DE05D4691askifyouwantit@216.77.188.18>, Doc Smartass
<gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote:
'57 Fury and some memorabilia from June, 1957, all revealed for the first
time in half a century:
http://www.buriedcar.com/photo_gallery_new.htm
Poor car is in bad shape, but a lot of the swag looks good.
You maniacs! You blew it all up! ***** you! ***** you all to Hell!
--Sean C
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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17 Jun 2007 12:09:06 AM |
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One fine day in alt.atheism, Doc Smartass
<gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> bloodied us up with this:
'57 Fury and some memorabilia from June, 1957, all revealed for the
first time in half a century:
http://www.buriedcar.com/photo_gallery_new.htm
Poor car is in bad shape, but a lot of the swag looks good.
Unimpressive. This stuff should have been buried for a few million years,
not 50.
--
Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
Convicted by Earthquack.
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| User: "J Forbes" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Time Capsule Car unburied after 50 years |
17 Jun 2007 12:14:34 AM |
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Uncle Vic wrote:
One fine day in alt.atheism, Doc Smartass
<gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> bloodied us up with this:
'57 Fury and some memorabilia from June, 1957, all revealed for the
first time in half a century:
Unimpressive. This stuff should have been buried for a few million years,
not 50.
50 years is just right, because people who remember when the car was
new are still around to see what happened.
Most people don't get it....those that do, are here in Tulsa
Jim
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