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Is it just me, or does anyone else want to beat the shit out of the "Think
with your dipstick, Jimmy" guy on the Castrol commercials?
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TV is still a vast wasteland.

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Mail From: David Booker <(email redacted)>

Yes he's annoying, but do you know what absolutely makes me cringe every time
I see it? The 2010 Ford Fusion commercals where they say "We speak RPMs" How
could a CAR company not have anybody who realizes how STUPID it is to speak of
RPM as something that is singular. RPM is plural by definition. Revolutions
per miute. AAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!!

David Booker


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From: Wm. Severin Thompson <(email redacted)>
Subject: [Spridgets] Castrol dipstick guy
To: "'(email redacted)'" <(email redacted)>, "'Spridgets'"
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Date: Saturday, April 11, 2009, 3:49 PM


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> How
> could a CAR company not have anybody who realizes how STUPID it is to speak
of
> RPM as something that is singular. RPM is plural by definition.
Revolutions
> per miute. AAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!!
>


1000 RPM is a figure. (Or, is it a rate?)
2000 RPM is a figure.
If you wish to speak of both figures, could you not say RPMs?

You have varying torque at different RPMs?
Or, do you have varying torque at different RPM?

Suppose you have a clock second hand. Is it turning 1 RPM? Would
that be 1 revolutions per minute? Or, revolution per minute?

You may be right.

I hate when someone offers a "free gift". If it is a gift it is by
definition free, right?
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Mail From: Michael Rowe <(email redacted)>

We solved this problem 30 years ago - no TV. In this deprived environment,
we produced two National Merit Scholars. Who would'a thunk it?

Michael Rowe
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Mail From: "GUY DAY" <(email redacted)>

>Suppose you have a clock second hand. Is it turning 1 RPM? Would
>that be 1 revolutions per minute? Or, revolution per minute?
One revolution per minute
Two (plural) revolutions per minute.
The time is a defining singular factor, the rate or revolutions is (or
should that be 'are'?) plural if it is more than one.

If you make the minutes plural you need to define the plurality to estabish
the rate.

Thankfully the advert doesn't run across here. And if I hadn't had a couple
of Glenmorangies I wouldn't have replied !

Guy R Day




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From: "derf" <(email redacted)>
To: "David Booker" <(email redacted)>
Cc: "Spridgets" <(email redacted)>
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Castrol dipstick guy


>> How
>> could a CAR company not have anybody who realizes how STUPID it is to
>> speak
> of
>> RPM as something that is singular. RPM is plural by definition.
> Revolutions
>> per miute. AAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!!
>>
>
>
> 1000 RPM is a figure. (Or, is it a rate?)
> 2000 RPM is a figure.
> If you wish to speak of both figures, could you not say RPMs?
>
> You have varying torque at different RPMs?
> Or, do you have varying torque at different RPM?
>
> Suppose you have a clock second hand. Is it turning 1 RPM? Would
> that be 1 revolutions per minute? Or, revolution per minute?
>
> You may be right.
>
> I hate when someone offers a "free gift". If it is a gift it is by
> definition free, right?
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--- On Sat, 4/11/09, Michael Rowe <(email redacted)> wrote:
> no TV. In
this deprived environment, we produced two
> National Merit Scholars. Who
would'a thunk it?

We had one semi-finalist and one finalist in my household
and plenty of TV ;-). If we'd have tuned out maybe we'd have won...

Of
course, the fact that we're discussing this on an internet chat list is rather
ironic...

Ron
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Mail From: "Ed's Shop" <(email redacted)>

<<Is it just me,>>

NOPE!!!

<<or does anyone else want to beat the shit out of the "Think
with your dipstick, Jimmy" guy on the Castrol commercials?>>

Are you first or can we have a group stomping, Flounder????
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Mail From: Hal Faulkner <(email redacted)>

You watch the commercials?????
Get a TIVO
Hal

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Wm. Severin Thompson <(email redacted)
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It is a little violent and aggressive.
I would hate to get whapped with a metal switch. ...bill in oregon
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Mail From: Frank <(email redacted)>

Hal Faulkner wrote:
> You watch the commercials?????
> Get a TIVO
>
You guys watch TV?
Get out and fix your Spridget!
Or if it's fixed, drive it.

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Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ
My own Fleet of Sprites
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Mail From: WFO Herb <(email redacted)>

The point of advertising is having the 'viewer' remember your product,
right.

Take the two pigs setting at the dinning room table, what product are they
selling? I sure can't tell you.

I'm currently working with a company (that soon), everyone of you guys will
hear about...and remember the name and what it stands for or does. You'll
see.

Herb

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> Is it just me, or does anyone else want to beat the shit out of the "Think
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Mail From: Larry Macy <(email redacted)>

I have 2 TV's, one is a 42" plasma that only does movies, the other is
a 27" CRT that works only on HGTV as a night light. So I have no idea
what this Jimmy thing is, or really what a commercial is =.

Larry
78 Midget that goes, just won't stop

On Apr 11, 2009, at 10:34 PM, Frank wrote:

> Hal Faulkner wrote:
>> You watch the commercials?????
>> Get a TIVO
>>
> You guys watch TV?
> Get out and fix your Spridget!
> Or if it's fixed, drive it.
>
> --
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
> My own Fleet of Sprites
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I just have a HD LCD that only does movies and don't have 'telly' at all.
Still, since I'm on the other side of the Atlantic ocean I guess this is a
moot point?

Weslake-Monza 1330

In a message dated 12/04/2009 12:00:29 GMT Daylight Time,
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I have 2 TV's, one is a 42" plasma that only does movies, the other is
a 27" CRT that works only on HGTV as a night light. So I have no idea
what this Jimmy thing is, or really what a commercial is =.

Larry
78 Midget that goes, just won't stop
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