Chrysler 300 vs. Dodge Magnum?

That's Texan for "I agree with your previous statement, which implied the negative." You should feel honored. Steve wrote to you as he would have any of his friends or relatives in Texas, which makes you an honorary Texan, at least for the duration of this thread. Don't fight it, Dori my dear, it's rather invigorating.

:-P

--Geoff (watching for inbound starters)

Dori A Schmetterling wrote: >>Both GM and Ford have, as you know, vast operations outside the US, but >>>> you don't see a lot of Cadillacs here. >

DAS: What do you mean "nope"? As you said, you only "ocasionally" get Opels made in Germany (or Vauxhalls made in England for that matter) in the US.

Sorry- it was a poorly worded agreement with you, as in "Nope, you sure don't see many Cadillacs over there, you get Opels (or Vauxhalls) instead." My bad.

By the way, whatever you do with your newsreader makes it really difficult to keep a thread coherent. When I just hit "reply," the only thing that copies in is "your "see below" and then there's nothing below. I had to go back and cut/paste the dialogue above, and the attribution is one level off now. Just a comment.

I'm really getting the feeling I've been hanging around here WAY too long and a few people know me WAY too well.

Good translation of the Texanese, by the way. :-p

That's because Dori has the standard "-- " signature delimiter, which most newsreaders assume is the end of the material to be quoted, but puts the content of the message below that.

Perce

On 01/25/05 02:49 pm Steve tossed the following ingredients into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

I prefer European and even Japanese styling over most American cars. Although the Catera is an "Americanized" Opel, I'd prefer just about any Europen version of a European car to an "Americanized" version. It's been many years since I was in Greece (almost nine years) but I recall seeing many cars whose styling I liked - Seat, Skods, Fiat, Citroen, etc. You just don't get those kinds of cars here. That said, I was a sucker for the 300C, I fell in love with it the moment I saw it.

Oh, good. I admit I reread Steve's answer several times to work out the meaning of "Nope" in this case. Murphy's Law #1 struck: If you have a 50% chance of getting it wrong, you will get it wrong...

And, Steve confirmed what you said in his reply to you. I am, indeed, honoured.

Funny I did not learn that meaning, even though I was watching, for quite a while, that cartoon series about the Texan propane salesman (I forget the name).

DAS

Dunno. Sorry for inconvenience, as they say. I am just using simple old OE... nothing fancy.

Re Texan "nope", see my reply to Geoff just above (as seen in my newsreader).. :-)

DAS

Would it help if I took it out?

DAS

Either remove the "-- " (may be added automatically by your newsreader software if you specify a signature to be used automatically) or put the body of your message above the sig.

Perce

On 01/26/05 06:39 am Dori A Schmetterling tossed the following ingredients into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

That is odd. The body of the message is usually above the signature, unless I intersperse my comments ('bottom-post') with the previous poster's.

Here I manually removed the double dash. I just checked. It looks like it's put in automatically.

DAS

For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling

To each his own. I'll never find anything more attractive than a late

I prefer the original to an "xxxx-ized" version in general. But in the case of the Catera, it was poor mechanical performance as much as styling that unhinged it. It comes up fairly regularly with some of the GM folks on rec.autos.tech.

That's pro-PANE and pro-PANE accessories....

"King of the Hill," created by Mike Judge (a part-time Texan himself).

Its always amazed me that KoTH is so successful outside Texas and throughout the world. A solid 60% of the show is "inside" jokes that I wouldn't think should make any sense to a non-Texan.

Well, whatever you did differently WORKED. This message (quoted below) shows up with proper attribution when I hit "reply" (Mozilla 1.6, by the way).

Dori A Schmetterl> That is odd. The body of the message is usually above the signature, unless

Yes, KoTH and proPANE....memories...

I wouldn't know how it plays in the non-English-speaking world -- especially if dubbed, which is common in France and Germany, e.g. -- but there is a large amount of 'general' humour which I certainly enjoyed. I am sure I got some of the US 'inside' jokes, and maybe even some of the Texan ones, but I am equally sure I missed a fair bit. I watched it quite regularly. Much more fun than the Simpsons, I think.

DAS

Test 1 of 2: double dash not removed.

DAS

Test 2 of 2: Double dash manually removed. Does this look different from Test 1?

DAS

For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling

With the "-- " left in, everything from that point on (and including that sig. delimiter; i.e., everything after "DAS") is ignored when replying.

I know that some users of the Mozilla browser (and its derivatives) have asked for an option to have something other than "-- " as a sig. delimiter but have been told that it is the standard: one can choose not to use an automatic signature at all, or one can enter one's own signature and delimiter manually, but the programmers are unwilling to enable automatic insertion of a nonstandard one.

Perce

On 01/26/05 04:51 pm Dori A Schmetterling tossed the following ingredients into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

That's what *she* said. 8^)

Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my adddress with the letter 'x')

LoL

DAS

For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling