"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:37:18 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

I had a Bobcat wagon (Mercury's Pinto equivalent). I'd still like to meet
the moron who designed the threaded ring that held the stick shift onto
the
transmission.

ROTFLMAO!!!

That was a wonder of engineering wasn't it?

In all fairness, it's harsh to expect knowledge to be transferred easily in
a country as large as ours. Sometime between 1960 and 1965, my friends and I
discovered that you could melt toy soldiers with heat from various sources.
Should we assume the Ford engineers also knew plastic could melt?