19th Century technology - 1, Rivian - 0

[Yossarian]

Thanks! Got the tire replaced yesterday at Discount, thankfully for only 50 bucks (I got the tires only in December). She's good as new.

PS I love your name

I have to admit that your story is not what I was expecting from the title of your post. I was sure that your Rivian had been done in by the deliberate and malicious antics of a coal-rolling oil burner.

I chose the most well-known character from what is arguably the best black comedy ever written in the English language as my screen name because I worried that no one would know the others. And I probably identify more with him than the others, except possibly Orr.

That said, I considered Major Major Major, whose father, Mr Major, named him that as joke, "passing up the lesser possibilities of "Drum Major, Minor Major, Sergeant Major, or C Sharp Major'" Of course, when Major Major was drafted, he was nearly immediately promoted to Major by an IBM machine with a sense of humor. His office policy is the stuff of legend, one that is eagerly adopted by incompetent middle managers the world over.

A close second may haven been the wildly inept Colonel Cargill, a businessman who, prior to the War, had a very lucrative career based on his unique capacity for failure, thus generating large tax-write offs for his clients. Immortalized by Heller as a "self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody."

Yossaian's philosophy is however, unassailable: "The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on . . ."

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And over 100 yrs ago some blacksmith hand forged spikes like that in the field, one every several minutes, all day long. And earned less than $3 a day.

 

[usulio]

I have to admit that your story is not what I was expecting from the title of your post. I was sure that your Rivian had been done in by the deliberate and malicious antics of a coal-rolling oil burner.

I chose the most well-known character from what is arguably the best black comedy ever written in the English language as my screen name because I worried that no one would know the others. And I probably identify more with him than the others, except possibly Orr.

That said, I considered Major Major Major, whose father, Mr Major, named him that as joke, "passing up the lesser possibilities of "Drum Major, Minor Major, Sergeant Major, or C Sharp Major'" Of course, when Major Major was drafted, he was nearly immediately promoted to Major by an IBM machine with a sense of humor. His office policy is the stuff of legend, one that is eagerly adopted by incompetent middle managers the world over.

A close second may haven been the wildly inept Colonel Cargill, a businessman who, prior to the War, had a very lucrative career based on his unique capacity for failure, thus generating large tax-write offs for his clients. Immortalized by Heller as a "self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody."

Yossaian's philosophy is however, unassailable: "The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on . . ."

None of this explains how Milo Minderbinder is able to DCFC in Sicily for $0.10/kWh and sell electricity in Malta for $0.50/kWh. And everybody has a share.

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