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Tritons still blow plugs? I thought they took care of that in 02...
Nov 11th... 02 to be precise
From 4 threads to 8...
What is the FTE Folding Team?
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/590493-fte-folding-home-part-2-a.html
 
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Saab has been, and always will be an oddball car. They have been, in my opinion, an over priced car from way back when. Why GM would buy a total loser is beyond me. GM did not kill Saab. Saab killed itself. GM just happen to be there when it did.
 
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Gm bought SAAB as a knee-jerk reaction when Ford bought Volvo.
 
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What is the FTE Folding Team?
They practice folding towels...There is going to be a competition next month against the Chevy, Dodge, Toyota, and Honda website teams. They are judged on speed, style, form, and function.

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You guys were up way too late for me last night. I was just getting in on the spelling bee Lol.

No the new front end style ain't for me. The best light-truck manf'r will buy a new design team next year i hope.

and Praise Neptune (I'm an old sailor) the Tritons went to 8 threads for plugs. That info was sloshing around in my brain somewhere, from reading y'alls posts before.

If GM sheds Pontiac, my wife won't be a happy camper with her new Vibe car.

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Protein "Folding", or assembly, is the computer simulation of how proteins form themselves. We're trying to figure out how to correct the diseases caused by mis-assembled proteins. It's a distributed computing project that runs on our machines at the lowest priority using the spare cycles. This 'puter is on 24/7 anyway, this gives it something to do other than being beat on by my nuclear knuckles.

To quote the Folding@Home project: "Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines. Before proteins can carry out their functions they assemble themselves, or "fold." When proteins do not fold correctly, i.e. mis-assemble, there are serious consequences of many well known diseases such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.
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Thomas Krapper is Kool, for inventing the throne in my favorite reading room.
 

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Thomas Krapper is Kool, for inventing the throne in my favorite reading room.
Just think how much life would stink if it wasn't for that invention
 
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Old 04-28-2007, 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by thorseshoeing
They practice folding towels...There is going to be a competition next month against the Chevy, Dodge, Toyota, and Honda website teams. They are judged on speed, style, form, and function.

Tim
Oh! I thought they were folding FTE T-shirts to be sent out to Subscribers & customers.

RexB, I wouldn't worry about GM canning Pontiac. Your Vibe is nothing more than a rebadged & recladded Toyota Matrix with a lower price (good thing). You wouldn't have any problems if they went under.

Thomas Crapper DID NOT invent he flush toilet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper
 

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Old 04-28-2007, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Monsta
Oh! I thought they were folding FTE T-shirts to be sent out to Subscribers & customers.

RexB, I wouldn't worry about GM canning Pontiac. Your Vibe is nothing more than a rebadged & recladded Toyota Matrix with a lower price (good thing). You wouldn't have any problems if they went under.

Thomas Crapper DID NOT invent he flush toilet.
Found the Thomas Crapper ref when perusing "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader."

Guess I better stick with Military-Automotive-US History

Oh well...
 
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Originally Posted by RexB


\. Y'all getting excited over how nobody can spell
its when someone claims they CAN spell, but can't.
 
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Originally Posted by Ford_Six
Just think how much life would stink if it wasn't for that invention
Lol, we'd be in a worse world of $#!t, back to champer pots & latrines

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RexB, I wouldn't worry about GM canning Pontiac. Your Vibe is nothing more than a rebadged & recladded Toyota Matrix with a lower price (good thing). You wouldn't have any problems if they went under.
Roger 'dat It's brand new, a very good car so far (sans an old powertrain defect in the original '03 model.) Comfy, peppy, 32mpg mixed. Assembled at the Fremont CA NUMMI plant. Toyota/GM is actually insourcing the Fremont manufacture of a new right-hand drive version of the Vibe to ship back to Japan and sell. Good news for plant workers here, the UAW needed some (good news).

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Originally Posted by RexB "\. Y'all getting excited over how nobody can spell"
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its when someone claims they CAN spell, but can't.
Now who would do that?


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Found the Thomas Crapper ref when perusing "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader."

Guess I better stick with Military-Automotive-US History. Oh well...
Naw, you're doing fine as usual. Lately, we miss your posts in the WA chapter. If you can put up with us going OT.
 

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Originally Posted by 93RangerXL4x2
might as well just focus on one truck. GMC = Gods Mechcical Curse, im joking I like GM.
Is spelling a lost art?

Or are new words being invented?
 
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Old 04-29-2007, 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by NumberDummy
Is spelling a lost art?

Or are new words being invented?
Both, as always

But that kind of misspelling reminds me of an IT-whiz, outstanding computer builder and all around near-genius. A fifteen-year-old who still takes his iPod/Blackberry/WebPhone into class and text messages all day on the forums instead of paying attention. Bright but bored. Spelling escapes him, although we still voted him the most likely among our small group to be the first to make a million $ in a single year. We'll see, I wish him luck.
 

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