Date:         Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:46:50 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Manual trans -- note to self:
Comments: To: Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com>
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At 05:21 PM 11/18/2010  -0500, Mike S wrote:
>At 04:38 PM 11/18/2010, David Beierl wrote...
>
>>c) If you absolutely insist on doing this, DON'T DROP THE PLUG.
>
>Is "Beierl" Dutch?
>
>Sorry, but I would have laughed had I been there. Do you use the
>foul-smelling, black-stain-causing mineral stuff, or the
>translucent, slightly sweet smelling synthetic stuff?

I didn't get a faceful, so the humor was much easier to see.  It's
not mine, but it's the dino oil.  Didn't smell as sulfurous as I
expected, but enough.  I'm chiefly bummed about the welding jacket
which I'd forgotten I was wearing.  Have to get it dry-cleaned I suppose.

Beierl in my case is misspelled from Baerl which I'm told means
'Bavaria' in Plat-deutsch.  There is a Beierl who's a famous pursuer
of Hitler history, and I think most Beierls live in Switzerland.

I believe my paternal great-great grandfather was Bavarian.  He came
to Buffalo and started a brewery -- Simon Pure Beer.  My mother's
people were here for the Revolutionary War, dunno on what side.

Yours,
David