I let a friend my 400+ or- Hp truck to a friend, and had a hard time getting it back, he entirely tooooo much fun for gas drivin guyOo. :--) :--)
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loaned my truck to a buddy, he couldn't believe how well it ran. He has always been anti diesel. Well what does he come driving up in. F*rd POSD. (had to have crew cab). wake up dodge, there is a market. In his own words. "would way rather have th cummins motor, but i need the real 4 doors"
History always repeats itself. 1st. gen. trucks did not get a club cab for several years. 2nd gen. trucks introduced with no club cab. 3rd gen trucks not a "true crew". If DC had a "true crew" with the 305 Cummins hit the dealerships today, you would have to call the police for crowd control. Oo.
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be careful about loaning your truck out. In Tennessee where I'm from, if you loan out your vehicle and the driver wrecks it, YOU as the owner are liable and they can walk away. You'll never be able to sue them to get your money back.
Gary Force Acura did this to my dad's Acura NSX.
Just wanted to keep your nice ride nice.
be careful about loaning your truck out. In Tennessee where I'm from, if you loan out your vehicle and the driver wrecks it, YOU as the owner are liable and they can walk away. You'll never be able to sue them to get your money back.
Gary Force Acura did this to my dad's Acura NSX.
Just wanted to keep your nice ride nice.
azcummins, thats what insurance is for, and here in NY it is mandatory, and if you got the balls of a big brass monkey to drop 35+large on a truck, then you can afford another G for insurance, but the loaning was a both a courtesy and a lesson for him, he couldn't believe that a inline 6 cyl could turn 1000 lbs of usable torque, he is now going through withdrawl, not walkin straight, shaking,,uttering uniteligable sentences, it is now a matter of time before he to joins our ranks
Story about brass monkey... .....
The full expansion of the phrase is "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" and is extremely common throughout the English-speaking world, often reduced to the form you give, no doubt in polite company. The origin is unknown. All I can report is that variants of it were first recorded in the USA in the early part of this century. There is some suspicion, because of a citation from 1835, that the phrase may in fact be at least of this age.
There is a story, often repeated, that the phrase originated in naval warfare at the time of the Napoleonic wars, if not before. It is said that the stack of cannon balls alongside each gun, arranged in a pyramid on a brass plate to save space, was called a monkey. In very cold weather, it is related, the cannon balls would shrink and balls would fall off the stack.
Though monkey was a term used in this context and era (the boys bringing charges to the guns from the magazine were known as powder monkeys and there is some evidence that a type of cannon was called a monkey in the mid seventeenth century), there is no evidence for the word being applied to a pile of cannon shot.
The explanation sounds like a story that's been woven around a term already well known and is full of logical holes: would they pile shot into a pyramid? (hugely unsafe on a rolling and pitching deck); why a brass plate? (far too expensive, and unnecessary: they actually used wooden frames with holes in, called garlands, fixed to the sides of the ship); was the plate and pile together actually called a monkey? (no evidence, as I say); would cold weather really cause such shrinkage as to cause balls to fall off? (highly improbable, as all the balls would reduce in size equally and the differential movement between the brass plate and the iron balls would be only a fraction of a millimetre).
Fun story, though.
The full expansion of the phrase is "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" and is extremely common throughout the English-speaking world, often reduced to the form you give, no doubt in polite company. The origin is unknown. All I can report is that variants of it were first recorded in the USA in the early part of this century. There is some suspicion, because of a citation from 1835, that the phrase may in fact be at least of this age.
There is a story, often repeated, that the phrase originated in naval warfare at the time of the Napoleonic wars, if not before. It is said that the stack of cannon balls alongside each gun, arranged in a pyramid on a brass plate to save space, was called a monkey. In very cold weather, it is related, the cannon balls would shrink and balls would fall off the stack.
Though monkey was a term used in this context and era (the boys bringing charges to the guns from the magazine were known as powder monkeys and there is some evidence that a type of cannon was called a monkey in the mid seventeenth century), there is no evidence for the word being applied to a pile of cannon shot.
The explanation sounds like a story that's been woven around a term already well known and is full of logical holes: would they pile shot into a pyramid? (hugely unsafe on a rolling and pitching deck); why a brass plate? (far too expensive, and unnecessary: they actually used wooden frames with holes in, called garlands, fixed to the sides of the ship); was the plate and pile together actually called a monkey? (no evidence, as I say); would cold weather really cause such shrinkage as to cause balls to fall off? (highly improbable, as all the balls would reduce in size equally and the differential movement between the brass plate and the iron balls would be only a fraction of a millimetre).
Fun story, though.
KKaiser, I had a weimeraner named Kaiser, you can borrow my bike, but since I don't know you , you must leave 20K as a deposit, if you'd like to borrow the wife though, there is no deposit required
mearle you have to much free time
BBM is derived the song written by the amasing John Prine
He's got balss like a big brass monkey
wacked out wierdo,and love bug junkie
payday comes, and he's singin like a loon,
later that evenin he's a howlin at the moon
not verbatim
mearle you have to much free time
BBM is derived the song written by the amasing John Prine
He's got balss like a big brass monkey
wacked out wierdo,and love bug junkie
payday comes, and he's singin like a loon,
later that evenin he's a howlin at the moon
not verbatim
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