Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Small Practical Usenet-Related Question - Keep Thunderbird From Dropping Out Date: 17 Mar 2026 00:49:29 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <10p8v64$1vi0v$12@dont-email.me> <10pa24l$2dmau$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net W6XAsu6Li+DSNUm9qW/BogIpTtXFk6gQ3NrJ0Uv3AFfriZOZ2j Cancel-Lock: sha1:uCp3/rPMaFgOzZksaJcMI6LEVHc= sha256:gXWdQV0YFZ3hagd5Y5Y7hJ3mOfuKXFgRmIPN0KQFcUo= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:83167 On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:02:45 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Oh, so they're doing it too? It wasn't that long ago when "Audi" > was said to stand for "Accelerates Under Demonic Influence". I missed that era. I had a 100LS. I can't blame the car but it certainly wasn't geared for the national 55 mph speed limit crap. 55 was only meant to be briefly encountered on the way to a real cruising speed. > > Driver's nightmare: being stuck in a traffic jam in front of an Audi and > behind a Pinto. Rumour had it that the Pinto's gas tank would explode > if rear-ended; I once saw one that had stenciled across the back: > "Tailgaters annoy me." At the time the joke was a woman hit the trifecta if she drove a Pinto, used tampons, and smoked More cigarettes. Mores had more tar and nicotine than most cigarettes on the market, and there was an outburst of toxic shock syndrome from contaminated tampons. I don't know what hygenic products she used but my lead girl drove a Pinto and smoked Mores. She didn't find funny.