Things learned the hard way.

[Rurudyne]

At least you were only suggesting using them on your can rather than (this post has been terminated to avoid ... well, just to "avoid").

 

[Rurudyne]

... and I may have been a bit goofy but I did know "leaves of three let them be" ... I wasn't THAT goofy.

 

[Angélique]

The same goes for bunnies, both species could even be one's reincarnated great-grandmother, or so . .

Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit, in 1969 Live from Woodstock...​

One pill makes you larger, and one makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you, don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call
And call Alice, when she was just small
When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice, I think she'll know
When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead
And the white knight is talking backwards
And the red queen's off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head, feed your head​

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Quote from the text below the video:​

Grace Slick's Lyrics are based on her early life as a child, being read the books of Lewis Carroll's 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass... hence the references to the hookah-smoking caterpillar, the White Knight, the Red Queen, and the Dormouse.

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Quote from Wikipedia → White Rabbit (song) → History:​

"White Rabbit" was written and performed by Grace Slick while she was still with The Great Society. When that band broke up in 1966, Slick was invited to join Jefferson Airplane to replace their departed female singer, Signe Toly Anderson, who left the band with the birth of her child. The first album Slick recorded with Jefferson Airplane was Surrealistic Pillow, and Slick provided two songs from her previous group: her own "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love", written by her brother-in-law Darby Slick and recorded under the title "Someone to Love" by The Great Society. The Great Society's version of "White Rabbit" was much longer than the more aggressive version of Jefferson Airplane. Both songs became top-10 hits for Jefferson Airplane and have ever since been associated with that band.

 

[Angélique]

Oh, maybe better not invite Gracie for a regular tea, since she's a real high tea lady . .

Grace Slick ca. 1967 - - 2010​

Slick and Tricia Nixon, former President Richard Nixon's daughter, are alumnae of Finch College. Slick was invited to a tea party for the alumnae at the White House in 1969. She invited political activist Abbie Hoffman to be her escort and planned to spike President Richard Nixon's tea with 600 micrograms of LSD. The plan was thwarted when they were prevented from entering after being recognized by White House security personnel, as Slick had been placed on an FBI blacklist. Slick later speculated that she only received the invitation because it was addressed to "Grace Wing" (the singer's maiden name), and that she never would have been invited if the Nixons had known that "Grace Wing" was the anti establishment singer Grace Slick.

Excerpt from: Slick, Grace; Andrea Cagan (September 1, 1998). Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir. New York: Warner Books. pp. 189–94. ISBN 978-0446523028.

 

[PAR]

If you use a small drill bit, twisting it by hand, directly over the big black mark left on your thumbnail, after bashing it with a hammer a few days earlier, it'll relive the pressure and pain. I've done it countless times and even once on the other half, who absolutely didn't trust me, until the pressure dropped.

 

[Angélique]

Thanks Paul, good tip, but who hammered on her nail . . . . ?

 

[PAR]

She's not afraid to get to work and pound on things occasionally.

 

[Angélique]

That's the best scenario Paul . .

 

[Wynand N]

"Things learned the hard way..."

Assumption is always the mother of all screw-ups.

 

[Angélique]

 

[hoytedow]

Hahahaha!

 

[ImaginaryNumber]

That outboard explosion seems staged to me. The people intentionally threw themselves off the boat. But it was enjoyable

 

[Angélique]

I don't think the explosion was staged, in an effort firing it up at 0:31 a guy seems to be spraying ether in the air intake, but far too much, hence a huge back fire occurred, they jump overboard as a precaution because they don't know what's happening and what's yet to come, one failed to jump immediately but definitely tried, then he stayed on board because the ordeal seemed to be already over. It looks to me like some buddies on another boat filming their starting problems.

They're definitely not members of these forums though, otherwise they would have known to use just a little . .

→ thread Restarting Old Engines → post #21 & #23 ↓​

 

[fallguy]

Angel - he said 'bug spray' and later 'redneck ether'.

Staged, but funny.

 

[Angélique]

Yes below the vid it says ‘‘That's what happens on a fishing boat when you use a mosquito spray instead of starting fluid.’’, so I shouldn't have said ‘‘ether’’, but any flammable spray will work as a starting fluid, the problem here in my view was just using to much of that Redneck starting fluid, that is if mosquito spray is flammable, does anybody know if this is so . . ?

↓ as an aside from the previously linked post #23...

What I've heard or read somewhere, and not tested, is that silicone spray lubricant used in the same way works just as well for starting, and is safer for the engine.