Taken for a ride

[Shog9 0]

I'll buy the 50Mph wheelchair story, but don't believe for a second that there are vehicles called "lorry" in Michigan... :rolleyes:

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...the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more...

[Sathesh Sakthivel]

:cool::cool:

Regards, Satips.:rose:

[Rajesh R Subramanian]

That was the ride of his life :-D

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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero

[Stuart Dootson]

Just a bit of localisation for us Brits, I'm sure - it is off the BBC website after all - what would you call it (they'd call it a wagon where I live, but I'm not sure all the people round here realise we don't use horses any more).

[Shog9 0]

We'd call it a "truck" or "semi" or possibly "semi truck". Maybe "tractor trailer", but probably not.

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...the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more...

[Lost User]

So he passed just in front of an 18 wheeler?

The tigress is here :-D

[Brady Kelly]

I'm busy whiling away time with Hubbard's Mission Earth, and was very surprised to read text in which a US author uses the word lorry to refer to lorries.

[Dan Neely]

He was a crazy whacked out cult leader. He doesn't count.

-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer

[Brady Kelly]

I don't care about your opinion of the man, I'm simply citing the use of the word lorry in American literature, much of which probably comes from crazy, whacked out people, if not genuine cult leaders.

[Brady Kelly]

Yes, I assume this happened while the 18 wheeler was stationary.

[Marcus J Smith]

Shog9 wrote:

We'd call it a "truck" or "semi" or possibly "semi truck". Maybe "tractor trailer", but probably not.

or the big scary things that try to run over me when I stop too fast...:~

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"Now, a man would have opened both gates, driven through and not bothered to close either gate." - Marc Clifton (The Lounge)