What type of car do you drive, a white one?

Were you making a statement or posing a question with your uhmmming.

 

no question, just all this pho and tripe talk is making me hungry.

That is all,
Anton

 

Yes, the bright colors do tend to fade faster than more muted colors,
no matter the maker. Red was a popular Mercedes color, and it would
turn dull after 10 years on the road. I suspect that leasing companies
might select less bright colors because they would appeal to a wider
audience on resale. Fading after 3 to 4 years on lease should not be
noticable.

 

Hey! That wasn't you this afternoon in the Wyncote murder-suicide,
complete with police SWAT team hours-long siege standoff was it?

I was heading down 309 late this afternoon on my way home, and south
of the turnpike and in the distance I could see two helicopters
hovering. Always a bad sign. I thought it was a bit odd in that they
were hovering rather higher than normal, but I guess that was to stay
out of range of any stray rounds. I just prayed that it wasn't *yet
another* clueless upside-down-and-on-fire twat without the skills to
do the high speed 309 thing, and I was positively rewarded with a
relatively quick exit via Washington Lane.

So, was it you? I guess if you answer this, then it wasn't.

 

Of course, there is no Washington Lane exit from 309. So, what fantasy
are you playing at?

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA

 

My mistake, I meant Greenwood Ave. Greenwood runs kind of parallel to
Washington, which hits the *continuation* of 309, after it's called
Ogontz Ave, as you well know.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/16137882.htm

So, any SWAT action on your street?

ObligatoryBMWContent: The fixing lugs on the little one inch square
cover for the towing hook in the front bumper of my e39 were busted by
the tow-truck gorilla, and now it won't stay in. I suppose that BMW
is going to charge me $30 for a new one. It's a small piece of
self-colored injection molded plastic that would, if it were a part of
a washing machine or something like that, probably cost 25¢.

 

I recall seeing faded red w123's...

Ximinez

 

No no, you habe to post Mercedes and Volvo refs at the very least

If you refer to cooled engines you will swat several birds with one stone
(to mix my metaphors).

DAS

For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling

 

You are not from "around here", are you?

That address is almost in LaMott, about as far from us (just under 2
miles) as you were at the closest point on 309, assuming you were ever
on 309. That they are both served out of the 19095 (Wyncote) Post
Office is not relevant to how the residents feel and speak about their
location and place-name. Those who live in that section will call
themselves as living in Cedarbrook, LaMott or Wyncote depending on
whether they are appealing their taxes, bragging about history or
bragging for artificial status. They all pay taxes to Cheltenham
Township in any case.

Trust the Inquirer not to know these subtle differences.

Greenwood cuts off 309, but again, goes *nowhere* near Washington Lane.
309 ends at Cheltenham Avenue, Washington Lane comes off Cheltenham a
couple-four blocks ABOVE where it crosses Ogontz.... which joins the
base of 309.

I am still not sure what you are playing at?

Note that Mapquest shows several intersections that do not exist and
misses a few that do. So, if you were to program your GPS unit for the
intersection of Chelten Hills Drive and Washington Lane, you would be
in for a very long drop.

Peter Wieck
Wyncote PA

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA

 

Thank god, no. I have just been living around here for a few years,
and I pass through sections of Cheltenham on my daily commute.

My commute also takes me past Jenkintown station. You're familiar
with that? And the Lukoil gas station just across the road? OTOH, if
it really bothers you, I'll deny that I drive through there nearly
every day...

You seem very touchy about what neighborhoods people live in. I'm not
playing at anything, just making a joke about there being a
murder-suicide, a SWAT team and news helicopters in your neck of the
woods that, thankfully, did not impact my journey. That's all,
honestly. Calm down.

Well, if *you* drove 309 at all regularly, you'd be aware of the
massive reconstruction that's been going on there for the past year or
more, and you would understand why map databases have not yet caught
up.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming...

 

These are long-standing errors. I am privileged to be able to commute
all 9.8 miles 100% on back roads, although 309 is a quick alternate for
the first/last leg of the trip depending on conditions.

Not so much touchy at all, as responding in an equally leaden way to
your post. For all that you might think of this area, we are still able
to leave our doors unlocked and get deliveries dropped on the porch
without worry. Of course any stranger on the block would not get 50
steps without some neighbor generally politely asking after their
bona-fides. Lemme see... we have 21 adults, 15 children, 6 cats, 9 dogs
and 3 turtles on the block. No trouble finding sitters. Age of
residents is ~75 to new-born. We lost our oldest resident (91 then)
four years ago.

Cheltenham is one of the oldest suburbs in the region, the foundations
of the oldest residences were laid in 1682, some seven years before the
Wynn house in Wynnfield. LaMott was a terminus of the Underground
Railroad, hence the friendly-but-pointed rivalry between the two
Historic Districts (Wyncote & LaMott) and who lives where. "Cedarbrook"
is kinda-sorta where the old quarry (and the township leaf-composting
facility) is and along Cheltenham Avenue (the city line) and so
referenced humorously at tax-time... run-down property, funny smells
and all that. And, of course, our train stations were designed by
Horace Trumbauer, not that upstart Frank Furness... and so forth.

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA

 

Come now, that would not happen.

*Relatively* safe you may be, but I know that block. It is on a busy
street with traffic lights at one end of it, overlooking a large train
station car park It is not some old fashioned rural village.

 

You do reach. And you do speculate pretty wildly.

No, it is not a rural village. But safer based on 24 years on the block
than our rural summer house up in Columbia County.


Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA

 

I don't see where I did either, but hey - maybe that's just me.

I really don't think it's a good idea to leave your doors unlocked
though.

 

The dogs certainly do.

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA

 

That's one of the problems with dogs.

I have a small flap in the back door that lets my two cats come and go
as they please while at the same time allowing *me* to keep the doors
locked. The downside is that they sometimes bring small to medium
sized mammals into the house and then bloodily slaughter them, but I
digress...

"Cats rule, dogs drool." Dogs are just too much damned trouble,
IMHFO, and cats have bags more personality anyway. Women have always
known this, and it's one of the few things that they're actually right
about.

How's that? Or am I reaching and speculating wildly again?

 

We keep two cats and two dogs. If not known-to-family, 30 - 100 pounds
= breakfast. 100 pounds or larger = all day. Our neighbors' dogs and
cats feel much the same. We/they all know each other, and the "Pack" is
naturally wary of strangers.

As to cats:

The larger cat (for now) has brought home up to his own size and weight
(16#) in prey... with specific reference to a young raccoon brought in
more-or-less intact then chased up stairs, into the bathroom and
finally dispatched in the bathtub. Animal Control still does not
believe what they saw. He is FAST! The young one is not quite allowed
out yet, but he looks to be much larger eventually, as he is 12 pounds
at 11 months.

When we were in Saudi, the big cat learned to catch rats.... which,
until the underlying problem was found and solved (a void in the
concrete under the recyling corral), he would lay out two or three per
night at our kitchen door. Saudi was also the only place he ever
expressed any interest in birds, as Turtle Doves were a major pest in
that area... we were the only villa around without any bird crap, he
averaged 2-5 per week. Gekkos were candy, although he only chased those
if they were inside. In any case, even after 12 years of predatory
behavior he has come through all his encounters without a scratch on
him. But for damned sure, his rabies and other shots are current. Since
we have been back (two years come February) he has not even looked at a
bird.

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA

Not only that, but he wears a bell and always has.

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA

 

Well, I could tell you many tales of when I lived in exotic foreign
parts, and of local habits of keeping animals both as "pets" and for
food, as well as the variety of meat available from local butchers and
farmers. I have always said that I will eat anything that moves
slower than I do. I still say it.

But, I think this has gone far enough.

 

My goodness. Mind-numbing micro-detail. Can I have a number for the number
of drainage points per yard for said stretch or road and the angle of the
camber?


Which reminds me of Ball's Law

The Angle of the Dangle
Is proportional to the Thrust of the Bust
And inversely proportional to the Mass of the Ass
Provided that
The Heat of the Meat between the two feet remains constant.

DAS

For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling

 

And here I was thinking Menudo was a really bad boy band from the 80's....

Sneaks
'68 T1