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'Meep meep' isn't completely correct, though I was Very close!..........

The Road Runner's "beep, beep" sound was inspired by background artist Paul Julian's imitation of a car horn.[19] Julian voiced the various recordings of the phrase used throughout the Road Runner cartoons, although on-screen he was uncredited for his work. According to animation historian Michael Barrier, Julian's preferred spelling of the sound effect was either "hmeep hmeep"[20] or "mweep, mweep."

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Mweep Mweep my have been the preferred spelling but it still sounded like a VW bettle horn..

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"Horn-dog" is a semi-mecha species of dachshund/trumpet hybrid.   (not from Wiki...)

                         Horn Dog | Ecraines

 

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Makers Mark really helps warm the soul on these cold winter nights.  
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Nights in White Satin was so long ago it sometimes seems like another lifetime, but other times those memories are as vivid as yesterday.

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Japan seems to be going down the questionable engineering road much of the rest of the world now favors, unnecessary complication that really doesn't make a product "better", just more prone to failure and more costly to repair.

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Repair or replace, Japan seems to favor the later as so many of their electronics don't have after the sale parts support.

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Support from the aftermarket is nonexistent for loads of late-model electronic bits, and some vehicles are configured specifically so you can't swap in used bits, so if a part is NLA from the OEM, you either re-engineer systems entirely (often cost-prohibitive even IF you can find anyone who has the skills), or in some cases, just junk an otherwise perfectly good vehicle.

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Vehicle maintenance would probably be quite interesting on George Jetsons "Space Car"

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Car things are being pushed to becoming as disposable as cheap offshore-made appliances and last-generation cellphones, but if you try to explain this to anyone who's not in the business, you get shouted down with "EVERYTHING NEW IS BETTER-LASTS LONGER-IS SAFER-MORE CONVENIENT-MAKES YOUR LUNCH-DOES YOUR LAUNDRY-PARALLEL PARKS ITSELF IF YOU HAVE ZERO PHYSICAL SKILLS-BLA BLA BLA" ad nauseam.

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nauseam is the feeling that overtakes me every time I have to attempt to take apart a new-generation throw away car that was designed and engineered to be slapped together very quickly on a mass production assembly line and then never have a component, beside the oil drain plug and possibly the oil filter, removed for service, replacement or repair, again

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Sentance is also about wind chill here is in the teen and we are expected to get 4 to 7 inches of snow a rare event.

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Event horizon is what I started out researching and when I crawled back out of the rabbit hole that consisted of all sorts of theoretical stuff like black holes and time travel over an hour had elapsed.

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Card I needed to get a good hand was the 2 of diamonds but I could see on Jill's face a smirk that indicated she was in good standing so I decided to fold.

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