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Old 04-20-2017, 02:02 PM   #21
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Or pronouncing the French word, foyer, as foy-yer instead of foy-yay.
Or calling it poutine instead of absolutely disgusting! Yea, I know, no class.
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Or calling it poutine instead of absolutely disgusting! Yea, I know, no class.
I thought the correct pronunciation for poutine was YUMMY.
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Hi: Donna D... Would you like cheese curds and gravy with your fries? LoL Alf
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Old 04-20-2017, 02:33 PM   #24
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Old 04-20-2017, 02:34 PM   #25
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Is it "wash" or "warsh"?
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Old 04-20-2017, 02:45 PM   #26
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I thought the correct pronunciation for poutine was YUMMY.
Oh well,what can I say. Some people also think haggis is delightful. Give me a good cut of beef and don't pollute my French fries.
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If you wish to find out where the leak is I recommend taking a bowl and filling it with water, put some dish-soap in it. Take a washcloth and pat the tire all over including around the valve stem where it comes out of the rim. Look for bubbles sometimes it takes a while for a real slow leak. I also usually remove the valve stem cap and although this sounds gross I put spit on my finger and wipe the stem to see if it bubbles. In this case you probably can use the soapy water. Make sure to wipe around where the rim meets the tire. I sometimes just use Windex to spray down the tire instead of mixing up the soapy water. As a retired mechanic I can tell you there is no better way to find a slow leak than soapy water. Just make sure you have enough soap in the water and that it isn't too hot out so the water doesn't evaporate before it bubbles. You can do this while the tire is on the trailer, but if you can't find it it is best to take it off.
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I think you guys are confusing colloquialism https://www.bing.com/search?q=colloq...APMCS1&PC=APMC with the King's english.
A Maryland native will talk different than another state and within that state, like Baltimorese is a further dialect. I can tell Pennsylvania from Maryland and where in Maryland one is from by their dialect. In Baltimore we say "ambiance" and "Plice" for ambulance and police. See here for more examples- Hey HON! The Bawlamerese Lexicon
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Old 04-20-2017, 04:02 PM   #29
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Its like suggesting the use of pronunciation of "rowt" for route instead of "root". The classic song is "Route 66" pronounced "root". Can you imagine Chuck Berry singing it any other way? However, for some reason these days, "route" is now pronounced "rowt" as in how wide receivers run their "rowts" waiting for the QB to pass to them. Not sure where this comes from, but I squirm.

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Well, then there is Brett Favre who can't even pronounce his own name.
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Old 04-20-2017, 08:10 PM   #31
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Boots

Once the tire got fixed and swapped out for the spare we could have called it good. But oh no I couldn't leave it alone.
We used to fix tires that were badly damaged. In these days they would go to the landfill. We would use a commercially produced patch that was about 4x 6 inches and about a quarter of an inch thick. We cleaned the damaged area, slathered it with some adhesive and slapped the "BOOT" on it. Then we had a C shaped clamp that had a heating element that we would tighten down on the boot and Vulcanize" the boot to the inside of the tire.
I can't even imagine how far out of balance that tire was when remounted. But they would last a couple thousand more miles. So that was my reference to a boot when fixing a leaky tire.
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I had totally forgotten about the old boots, but now that Dave mentions them I do recall them being used. And yes, most of those tires should have been tossed. Loren
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I had totally forgotten about the old boots, but now that Dave mentions them I do recall them being used. And yes, most of those tires should have been tossed. Loren
That's right, I remember now. We'd go out to my friend's farm; in his shop barn (not the hay barn) was an old manual tire changing stand/bead breaker, that we'd use to repair dune buggy tires... with the boot kit.
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