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It has no "purpose", Chet. Tell ya what...think of it this way: You know those '64 Impalas ya sometimes see that some people put those REALLY dinky little wheels and tires on along with that hydraulic suspension setup so they can make their really "charp Cheby" bounce up and down like some friggin' kangaroo? (...well, it's the very same principle in action here....Cabron!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Wow, "cabron" is a little strong, dontcha think? 
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Wow, "cabron" is a little strong, dontcha think?
Evidently it's been a while since you've been to East L.A., huh John?  'Cause, for the last couple of decades the following here has pretty much been the recognized definition of the word, "Cabron":
-Spanish: goat · Greeting among close friends—limited to Mexico --> a term of endearment
(...ya see, THIS is exactly what happens when someone such as yourself moves their primary domicile FROM a place of "rich cultural interactions", TO a place that's pretty much "White Bread City", dude!!!...ya lose touch with all that...and I think I know JUST how much you regret all this too!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Look it up on Urban Dictionary.
And F California. The day after my dad passes away I hope the San Andreas fault lets go and turns the Mojave into beach front property.
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Look it up on Urban Dictionary.
Yep, that's what I did. That particular definition is a bit farther down on this Wiktionary page here:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cabr%C3%B3n
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And F California. The day after my dad passes away I hope the San Andreas fault lets go and turns the Mojave into beach front property.
Yep, again, as I'm pretty sure you "might have" expressed this sort of sentiment about the "Golden State" at least a few other times around here in the past!
(...hence my closing statement above about my thinking that you "might not" hold that many regrets about moving away from all those "rich cultural interactions" there!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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yeah i think the seat was an 'i wanna' but the fact that the engine mount went *its up is nutz.
That is likely the fault of the owner but, it is a weakness of the Dyna and tour lines with the rubber mounted engine. If you slow the idle too much to get that "bathump...bathump" sound the engine rocks around excessively on the rubber mounts. If the rider also spends an extended amount of time with the engine idling, the mounts take a terrible beating. Softails don't have that problem 'cause the engines are hardmounted and have balance shafts.
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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Sounds like a design flaw if a slow idle will destroy your engine mounts.
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Look it up on Urban Dictionary.
And F California. The day after my dad passes away I hope the San Andreas fault lets go and turns the Mojave into beach front property.
i have too many friends in CA to +1 this...but they hate it there too.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Yeah, I thought about that. I'll have to warn everybody when my dad dies. They'll have 24 hours to get out. But just my friends, the rest of my family can stay there.
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CA would be nice enough if they'd only get rid of all the politicians, lawyers, judges and other criminals.
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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I won't argue that California isn't a beautiful state. I know. I lived there for 14 years. But beautiful things are often ruined by too many people. The best thing about Montana and the reason it's relatively unspoiled by comparison, is winter. For those of us who can stomach a little snow and cold, we get a paradise the rest of the time.
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CA would be nice enough if they'd only get rid of all the politicians, lawyers, judges and other criminals.
Hey GB...and this would be different from any OTHER place on this planet because WHY EXACTLY???!!! 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I LOOOVE Montana, I travel there all the time, but it's been twisted, as far as personal liberties, by politicians as much, if not more, than most states. Whenever I hear a politician tell me he's against government intervention I know he's trying to control my life.
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For those of us who can stomach a little snow and cold, we get a paradise the rest of the time.
I hear ya!!
Live to love, love to live.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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I LOOOVE Montana, I travel there all the time, but it's been twisted, as far as personal liberties, by politicians as much, if not more, than most states. Whenever I hear a politician tell me he's against government intervention I know he's trying to control my life.
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...and this would be different from any OTHER place on this planet because WHY EXACTLY???!!!
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Ironically, a lot of what's wrong with Montana now is because of Californians.
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Just like a lot of what's wrong with PA is because of NYers.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
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Western North Carolina > Floridians (or, as they are called around here, Floridiots)
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I won't argue that California isn't a beautiful state. I know. I lived there for 14 years. But beautiful things are often ruined by too many people. The best thing about Montana and the reason it's relatively unspoiled by comparison, is winter. For those of us who can stomach a little snow and cold, we get a paradise the rest of the time.
AND that is exactly why I love Oklahoma.. ..if you can stomach the intense heat in the Summer and the dreary, wet, sometimes Artic winters then that 6wks in the Spring and 4wks in the Fall is paradise....and perfect rideing weather 
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I won't argue that California isn't a beautiful state. I know. I lived there for 14 years. But beautiful things are often ruined by too many people.
Yep, like too many people from Montana, and Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Oklahoma, Mexico, Vietnam, Russia, Armenia, etc, etc, etc. 
(...and exactly the reason I'm here in Arizona now...'cause...THERE'S TOO MANY FREAKIN' PEOPLE IN MY BELOVED CALIFORNIA NOW...THAT'S the bottom line...you got THAT right, John!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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" AND that is exactly why I love Oklahoma.. ..if you can stomach the intense heat in the Summer and the dreary, wet, sometimes Artic winters then that 6wks in the Spring and 4wks in the Fall is paradise....and perfect rideing weather"
And that is exactly why I loathe Tunbridge Wells …..if you can stomach the intense grey cloud in the summer and the dreary, wet, sometimes arctic winters then that 6 days in the spring and 4 days in the Fall is…erm mediocre riding weather.
Al
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Now where the ****** am I?
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Welcome to England, Al 
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I moved from Colorado to Western North Carolina 26 years ago and found heaven. Six months out of the year we do have the Floridians slowing to 10 mph (among other delightful driving habits) any time the road has the slightest curve in it but there are a few bills in the works to make tourist season truly tourist 'season'. We get to shoot them.
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Hey Chet..question... In any of these Bills presently before your legislature, might there be any provisos in 'em which might state somethin' like: "The bluer the hair, the higher the bounty"??? (...oh, no particular reason I asked...I'm just a little inquisitive like this sometimes, ya know)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Welcome to England, Al
When I moved here from Scotland at the tender age of many moons ago, I recall getting out the car in South London and thinking 'My my-its tropical here'
-and when I go home now I think I'm in the Arctic....
oh well......
Al
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Hey Chet..question...
In any of these Bills presently before your legislature, might there be any provisos in 'em which might state somethin' like: "The bluer the hair, the higher the bounty"???
(...oh, no particular reason I asked...I'm just a little inquisitive like this sometimes, ya know)
So, you've seen them? Actually, I didn't realize there were any other kind.
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Hey Chet..question...
In any of these Bills presently before your legislature, might there be any provisos in 'em which might state somethin' like: "The bluer the hair, the higher the bounty"???
(...oh, no particular reason I asked...I'm just a little inquisitive like this sometimes, ya know)
So, you've seen them?
Oh yeah, trust me here, Chet...as you can imagine, with the mostly sunny days and warm weather of Arizona all year long, just like Florida we have more than our fair share of those azure-haired folks 'round here too!
In fact, that was one of the very first things I had to adjust to when we moved here to AZ. In CA, if the speed limit was 35, everybody's goin' 44. But HERE, if those signs say 35, everybody's doin' 33!
(...oh, and that there's no lane-splitting allowed here also...which, of course, DOUBLED my exasperation with all the blue-haired cagers around here too!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I moved from Colorado to Western North Carolina 26 years ago and found heaven. Six months out of the year we do have the Floridians slowing to 10 mph (among other delightful driving habits) any time the road has the slightest curve in it but there are a few bills in the works to make tourist season truly tourist 'season'. We get to shoot them.
Gol Dang it! I ain't never takin' that yella' North Carolina DMV sticker off my van now - even though it did expire back in 2006.
And BTW we're called Floridiots! You'd 'a knowed that if'n you wuz'nt such a newcomer youself. 26 years Hmmmpphhh. That ain't nuthin! Hell, I was drinkin' 'shine out of Rabun County afore that.
It is nice country though. I just got back from Flat Rock/Hendersonville/Statesville yesterday (brought our son and grandaughter home) and will be back up there in another week or two.
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That was some Georgia 'shine, then, unless they've moved Rabun County.
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Smokey, make sure you don't group all us floridians as floridiots. What you call floridiots are actually damn Yankees. You know what the difference between a Yankee and a damned Yankee is don't you? A Yankee comes to visit FL then goes back home. While a damn Yankee comes down then stays.
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Yeah, well Brian, just remember those Damn Yankees down there will NEVER get the best of ya IF ONLY you remember the following little rule: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPj0hoVpYSg&feature=related(...sorry, I couldn't resist)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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In NC there's another term...'halfbacks'. They move from New York to Florida and only make it halfway back...to North Carolina.
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In brutal honesty, there are tons of born and raised Flor...whatevers that relocate to Western North Carolina and build gated communities where such things were never heard of before. What often happens is they will grossly overpay for a home using south Florida beachfront homes as a price basis and then can't understand why a 1700sqft home can't bring them $500,000 in resale.
For us, the trick is to make the original overpriced sale...but not in our own neighborhood, as we don't want unsellable homes around us.
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BTW, I used to live in NW Florida. Best part of the state, IMHO.
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BTW, I used to live in NW Florida. Best part of the state, IMHO.
Yep Chet, but NOW you live in North Carolina and have....HEARRRRR-RRRR-RRRR-RRRRT, miles and miles and miles o' hearrrrrr-rrrr-rrr-rrrt!
(...hey, you know me...once there's a song in my..ahem.. HEART, I juuuust CAN'T STOP!!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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You wouldn't recognise the Pace/Milton area.
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BTW, I used to live in NW Florida. Best part of the state, IMHO.
I spent 18 months in Pensacola back in the mid 1970's. Both my wife and I loved it.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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You wouldn't recognise the Pace/Milton area.
Really? I lived in Milton for a while. I was in primary flight training at Whiting Field. There wasn't much back then...but it was a long time ago.
In fact, flight training back then consisted of feather wings attached by wax and the NATOPs manual just said not to fly too close to the sun.
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LOL, they've gone a little high tech since then. They give you an altimeter and some sunglasses now.
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