Date:         Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:28:12 -0400
Reply-To:     ed donnen <spliced.surprise@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         ed donnen <spliced.surprise@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Demons VI
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Rust Demons VI-Nomenclature

 Every group has its own special use for words.  It wasn’t until I joined
this list that I learned I drove a DOKA.  Now I'm taking an auto body class,
and I have to re-learn words.  Dolly used to mean a four wheel platform to
move furniture about, now it means a heavy, polished, curved bit of metal
you back sheet metal against whilst you pound the other side with a body
hammer.  A cheese grater?  Used to be a surform tool for rasping wood.  Now
a cheese grater is used when body putty is half cured to remove the lumpy
bits.  And when did paint stop being called paint?  Now it's called
undercoat.  And what I thought was undercoat is called primer. And an Air
File actually uses sand paper. Fixing a dent is like planting a tree- dig a
$10 hole for a $1 tree.  A one inch dent might take a smear of body filler 8
to 10 inches in length.

Wed. Night class:
I pulled my tail light assembly to try another angle at getting into my
engine bay.  There was so much rust in there I was taken aback and affronted
at the same time, which made for a bit of a squeeze in the middle I can tell
you.  There were insect tents in every nook and cranny, an entire
civilization living and dying right in my tail light assembly.  Generation
after generation wondering what those flashes of red and yellow lights were,
appearing at random intervals.  Also some pockets of water, which got me
thinking...How can stagnant water be unhealthy when with microscopic
inspection you can see it is teaming with life.  All that life means it must
be healthy, right?
Final count- Two more panels cut out, and I didn't catch my truck on fire
even once this week!

ed-going like 60, windows down, yelling, "Eat My Rust"