hey guys, looking through latest issuue found an error: the Shelby GT500 has a 5.4L, not a 4.6L.
hey guys, looking through latest issuue found an error: the Shelby GT500 has a 5.4L, not a 4.6L.
lol, with all of the different packages available, I'd be a bit confused, too.
Damn, you're right, that one slipped by.
You're both wrong. It has a 330 cubic inch V-8. Here, on this board, we speak 'Merican. We don't speak no Chi-nese what with thems liters and stuff.
Seppuku was originally reserved only for samurai. Part of the samurai honor code, seppuku was used voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, as a form of capital punishment for samurai who have committed serious offenses, and for reasons that shamed them. Seppuku is performed by plunging a sword into the abdomen and moving the sword left to right in a slicing motion.
You are no samurai!
You know, I don't care how bad I felt about something, I just don't think I'd make it past the "plunging a sword into the abdomen" step.
Margie
John Brown wrote:Seppuku was originally reserved only for samurai. Part of the samurai honor code, seppuku was used voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, as a form of capital punishment for samurai who have committed serious offenses, and for reasons that shamed them. Seppuku is performed by plunging a sword into the abdomen and moving the sword left to right in a slicing motion.You are no samurai!
Hontoni? Watashi wa 侍-nai?
Come on, John. One shattered heart is enough right before Christmas. Let me skewer myself with pride.
Next you'll tell me I'll never be a brazillionaire. 
1.426 gallons
Disembowelment seems stupid. Couldnt you slice your own throat?
There is now honor in suicide; You screwed up mister samurai, face up to it!
Joey
I forgive you.
As a reviewer of the play Jesus Christ, Superstar once wrote "Let he among you without sin, stone the first cast".
Lessee, screwed up the Esprit side/bottom bar in the last issue, screwed up the Rustang displacement in this issue... I'm seeing a pattern here. Is someone trying to get a position with a national media organization? What, Grassroots Motorsports not good enough for us, eh? Wanna work at CBS instead?
Tom, Scott and the rest of the gang would have to intentionally mislead the readers in order to be considered at CBS. 
I think seppuku would be a bit drastic, not to mention irreversible. Make the punishment fit the crime: y'all could always seek atonement by flaying yourselves with old spark plug wires. 
That would be one hell of a party; once the stories are written by their respective authors, the proofreading and fact-checking duties are shared by several members of the editorial staff. Ultimately, I consider myself responsible for anything that goes awry, so I volunteered my intestines. So far, no takers.
What's wrong with the Lotus from Page 60 of the December issue, anyway?
Tom Heath wrote: What's wrong with the Lotus from Page 60 of the December issue, anyway?
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/qualifications-to-be-included-in-budget-supercars/5600/page1/
On the Esprit side (bottom?) bar, a few minor corrections: There were about 10,000 made, not 3,000. The first year of the Stevens Esprit is 1988, not 1990. http://www.espritfactfile.com/ and http://www.lotusespritworld.com/ have more info than you'll probably want to know.
ITT: Anoraks.
Well said, thanks for the info. Always good to hear that our readers are thorough.
Coincidentally, there's a Lotus Esprit Turbo shell (badly broken.) in my backyard for the moment. It's in a holding pattern waiting to be picked up by its owner, but just looking through it is an interesting exercise. I've never seen plywood used for so many mounting brackets. Except where it's broken, it doesn't look like wood.
I have no idea what you're talking about. 
Tom Heath wrote: Big letters, too!I'm going to commit seppuku now. Dang.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku
Wiki said: seppuku was used voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, as a form of capital punishment for samurai who have committed serious offenses
Capital punishment, and an honorable way to commit suicide?
joey48442 wrote: Disembowelment seems stupid. Couldnt you slice your own throat? Joey
It was a cultural thing. The idea was that if you had the intestinal fortitude (sorry, a really bad pun) to plunge a knife into your stomach and then slice across your stomach and be prepared to calmly die, you had proven your honor despite having let your master die, or being defeated on the battlefield. It showed you were prepared to die a long, excruciating death in order to punish yourself for failing. Slicing your throat would have been a relatively quick death. Ironically, another samurai would typically decapitate the one committing suicide very soon after starting the act of seppuku, sometimes even before the act of slicing across the stomach was complete, so despite being an act that is supposed to be a long painful death was actually a very quick, though still painful, death.
At least that's how I understand it.
I see. You're good at this.
Actually I'm pretty sure it was more like: "Have fun cleaning up THAT mess, berkeleyers. Peace."
Caught another one.
Page 156 RallyCross Rumble
".. the Oct. 24-35 event."
Duh, October now has 4 more days in it. Halloween rocked so hard that we needed to add days to make it all fit.
BTW, it was 5.4 when I originally wrote it.
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