Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:43:57 -0700
Reply-To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: $100 Reward Results
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And nearly every career Air Force enlisted person I met pronounced the word mandatory as "mandantory." Let's hope Alistair has been spared that.
Stephen
On Friday, July 18, 2014 2:35 PM, "SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:
lol..
that's just one genre of course...
old military-based acronyms.
there are whole other realms of course.
NRE
SO
OSO
for example, and on and on.
( one means 'new relationship energy', one means Significant Other, and
the last one is Other Significant Other )
gets complicated when people start talking about their OSO's DW's
daughter .
( DW = dear wife ) lol.
still got a great 87 Syncro Doka with 1.9 AAZ TD engine for sale here in
So. Oregon .
runs fine ...needs various cosmetics like a headliner , etc.
asking price is $ 15,500 and I am pretty sure the owner would take 'any
decent' offer. Needs a new home for sure.
bfn ( bye for now )
Scott
On 7/18/2014 7:21 AM, Old Volks Home wrote:
> Clearly Alistair never served in the military where SOP was part of the
> daily lingo, ad nauseum.
>
> :)
>
> Jim Thompson
> 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
> 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
> 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
> 75 914 1.8 "Nancy"
> Full Timing From March 1999 To January 2012
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>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> Scott, Jim, whoever,
>>
>> You have to stop using jargon in your messages. What the heck is SOP?
>>
>> Soldiers on parade?
>>
>> Starboard or port?
>>
>> Strange old Protestant?
>>
>> Sherry or port?
>>
>> Sandwiches or pasta?
>>
>> Sunrise over Portland?
>>
>> The choices are endless.
>>
>> Alistair
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Jul 15, 2014, at 3:28 PM, "SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )" <
>> scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:
>>> there is ALWAYS RISK with just adding a bypass wire like that.
>>> perhaps you have already ..
>>> but until enough of the harness is revealed and inspected to be sure
>>> you've found ALL the melted/shorted stuff..
>>> you really can't be totally.
>>>
>>> I'd sure carry two fire extinquishers ( SOP on these old rigs ) ..
>>> and have a way to get batteries disconneted like Right Now.
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 7/10/2014 6:21 AM, Karl Wolz wrote:
>>>> What I Lind of expected (the bypass, that is).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Karl Wolz
>>>> Sent from my electronic umbilicus
>>>>
>>>>> On Jul 10, 2014, at 9:16 AM, "Stuart MacMillan" <stuartmacm@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>> Ric ran a new wire from the switch to the solenoid.
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