Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!

The Valance of Iron is +2 except when it's +3.

Boys have a penis and girls have a vagina.....

China has only one time zone

Reno is west of Los Angeles

First foreign country due south of Detroit is Canada

The first word spoken from the moon was "Contact"

The belly radiator of a P51 Mustang generated forward thrust by the Meredith Effect.

The earth weighs six sextillion, six hundred sixty quintillion tons. I learned that in about the fourth grade, and every week or so some kid would come up and ask me how much the earth weighs, as if it's actually useful knowledge. Or just to prove I was a dork.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

Dallas, Texas is closer to Chicago, Illinois than it is to Los Angeles, California.

flashguy

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

Roger Miller says yer wrong.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
You can install a 302 cam in a 351 motor, but you have to change the firing order to match.

That little fact kicked my ass bigtime after I rebuilt the 351 in a buddy's van and put a RV grind cam in it. Speed shop sorta forgot to tell me it was a 302 cam and that 302's and 351's had different firing orders. I'm a SBC guy, they're all the same.

Try again. The firing order is determined by the crankshaft. If you put an incorrectly ground (way wrong) cam in your engine, it doesn't change the firing order. it just means your valves are open when they are not supposed to be, or closed when they are supposed to be open.

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Originally posted by bubbatime:

Try again. The firing order is determined by the crankshaft. If you put an incorrectly ground (way wrong) cam in your engine, it doesn't change the firing order. it just means your valves are open when they are not supposed to be, or closed when they are supposed to be open.

I don't know what to tell you. I put an RV cam in a 351 and it wouldn't start. I checked with the shop I got the cam from, changed the plug wires to a 302 firing order and it ran.

The article quoted below is for Chevies, but I would assume the same theory applies to Fords:

The traditional firing order for Chevy small and bigblocks in automotive applications has always been 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2, which is determined by the crankshaft rod pin layout.

Each cylinder has a companion in the firing order.

This companion cylinder will reach TDC at the same time as its counterpart, one on the power stroke and one on the exhaust stroke.

These cylinders (paired as 1 & 6, 2 & 3, 4 & 7, and 5 & 8) can be interchanged in the firing order without altering the crankshaft.

Source

The longest palindrome in Finnish is Saipuakaupias - meaning soap-seller.

Of the world's ten most venomous creatures, all ten live in Australia.

Those little pimples on a golf ball actually help to streamline it, and make it travel further.

The chance for us to be seen and heard by another civilisation elsewhere in this galaxy is not getting better year by year, instead, it is getting substantially less. Initially, our communications were carried out with long wave radio frequencies, but since the latter part of the last century, the increasing use of microwaves and LOS communications -even via satellites like GPS] is limiting their extra-solar propagation to the point where, pretty soon, only a laser will be detectable.

Or a long/medium wave frequency radio transmission. Again.

tac

Count the number of cricket chirps in a 15-second period, add 37 to the total, and your result will be very close to the actual outdoor Fahrenheit temperature.

The picture of the cowboy on the left side of the Wyoming license plate was an actual Wyoming cowboy by the name of Stubb Farlow.

In WWII, the Italian armed forces were the only troops in the war wearing boots with rubber soles, and the first to do so in the world. Vibram boot soles, named for the inventor Vittorio Brimani, have been quite popular since.

Similarly, in Germany Adolph and Rudolf Dassler were shoe makers in the 1920's. They designed the first modern athletic shoe. When the Berlin Olympics rolled around, they knew they had a chance to make their name. They approached Jesse Owens as he exited a bus upon arrival in Berlin and made a deal with him. He wore their shoes to win his events. Fast forward a bit, and the war breaks out. Adolph joins the SS and allegedly becomes a party member, Rudolph doesn't. Postwar, they become rivals over this, with Adolph starting his own brand based off his nickname "Adi" and the first part of his last name, Dassler and Adidas was born. Rudolph named his company Puma, and they settled to seperate parts of their hometown of Herzogenaurach, which is divided by a river. To this day, there's a rivalry reflecting the brother's falling out during wartime with the two football clubs in the town each having chosen a respective brand label: Puma on one side of the river and Adidas on the other.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
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Thanks for the Adidas/Puma story, that's neat!

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Originally posted by tacfoley:
The longest palindrome in Finnish is Saipuakaupias - meaning soap-seller.
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tac

In Spider Robinson's book "The Callahan Touch", every chapter title is a palindrome. Notably, the chapter in which Nikola Tesla visits the bar glories in the title, "I, Madam, I Made Radio. So I Dared. Am I Mad? Am I?"

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Originally posted by zoom6zoom:
In Spider Robinson's book "The Callahan Touch", every chapter title is a palindrome. Notably, the chapter in which Nikola Tesla visits the bar glories in the title, "I, Madam, I Made Radio. So I Dared. Am I Mad? Am I?"

I have most of Spider's Callahan series and didn't notice that, so I immediately grabbed my copy and...nope, no palindromes, at least not in my copy.

So, knowing that's EXACTLY the sort of thing he'd get up to, I started checking my other Callahan books and found the palindrome chapters in "Callahan's Legacy"

Not that it matters a whit, but just wanted to note that. Good to find another Spider Robinson Fan.

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Originally posted by snwghst:
The sum of the square root of 2 angles of an isololes triangle equals the square root of the third

Are you stating this correcty?

The statement certainly is not true for an equilateral triangle, where all angles are 60 degrees, or Pi/3 radians.

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

You’ve obviously never had a purple nurple.