Local Craigslist ad said this...

[WBear2GCR]

For real:

scosche capacitor - $60

i have a .5 ferret 1500 watt capacitor barley used looks great.


Fyi, fwiw, and buyer beware...

                    _-_-bear

[WQ9E]

Makes sense to me.  The ferret was a 1.0 before he got across the cap and half of him was blown away.

With enough barley (properly processed) almost anything looks great.

Growing  up in the deep south you learn to interpret these things  

I will never forget a sign in front of one of stores between the coast and where I went to college in Hattiesburg, it proudly proclaimed: "cold beer ratchere"  translated-Cold beer right here.  A little further down was a shop advertising freshly cracked pecans and scrap metal.  I never was brave enough to stop there even after having a couple of cold beers ratchere.

[K5UJ]

There was Pete's One-Stop (THE LINE) at the county line on the way east to Oxford MS from I55.  "Have we got cold beer?  Hush yo mouth!"  If I'm not mistaken, Pete and Pete's are both gone now.  A little background for Yankees:  Lafayette (pronounced Lah-faa-ette) county where the University of Mississippi is located had a law banning the sale of cold beer.  Warm beer yes; cold beer no.  Pete made a nice nickel right across the county line (I simply bought warm beer and iced it).  Not sure if that ban is still in place or not.

Then there was the road sign near where my mom used to live down that way:  "No Parking on Levy"  In all honesty my mom had to point out what was wrong with it, I'm embarrassed to admit 

Rob

[k4kyv]

Maybe those Mississippians are not as dumb as some might think. Beer is at its best at about 12º C.  Cellar temperature. No need to refrigerate it.


...more beer was brewed, but by far fewer companies. Beer had been transformed from a craft product, made on equipment little more sophisticated than that found in a kitchen, to an industrial commodity manufactured in sophisticated factories.

The real problems began when brewers began to realise that as they served their beers colder and colder they could also make them blander and blander without their customers complaining or even appearing to notice. As blander also means cheaper, this was good news for those trying to maximise their profits.

Increasing homogenisation had another effect; the difficulty in differentiating between rivals products by their flavour left the consumer open to the influence of other factors, such as advertising. This happened first in the USA, where nationally-distributed lager brands began to appear at the turn of the century. Refrigeration allowed the beer to be transported longer distances and it also meant that the product had less chance of offending anyone. Beer was marketed as a cool refresher rather than as a drink to savour.

By the 50's, American beer was pale, thin, almost tasteless and freezing cold. The parallel development of the soft drinks industry, spurred on by some of the same technological advances, strengthened the public perception that drinks had to be ice-cold to be refreshing.

This trend first ran its course in the USA, then Australia and in the last decades has started everywhere in the world, even in such heartlands of beer tradition as Germany. It's something which should greatly concern anyone with an interest in appreciating the flavour of what they drink.

The Big Chill - beer can be too cold

[N0WEK]

Personally I'm not a beer drinker, just don't like the taste, but I can understand the reasoning for why we have piss-weak American beer.

There is the old joke about why the Brits like warm beer....their refrigerators are built by Lucas (Sir Lucas, the prince of darkness to the Brit sports car crowd).

[W3RSW]

Don't get me started on Lucas electrics in my MGB in the 60's.

But in all honesty, the first thing to go was the mechanical speedometer cable, followed by the clutch spring (hit you in the crotch at very nearly the often quoted 30,000 miles.)

The first 'electric' to go was the fuel pump, up under the rear fender and as easy to replace as a flat tire, provide you carried a spare.   They could be easily rebuilt, so maybe it's just a state of mind, especially if you loved being a mechanic like a lot of Brits.

[WA1GFZ]

The best one I heard was years ago a friend was sent to UK to work with Lucas on a project we interfaced. They were all weird about letting him see their schematics. He finally got real pissed and told them. Why do you think I could everwant any of your information, you guys can't even cool beer.

Seems it was some sort of deicer system if I remember

[W3RSW]

I guess you already saw Don's (k4kyv) expose of the great beer cooling scam today.