jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
> Ed McCarrick <edmccarrick@yahoo.com> wrote:
> : Hey Mike,
>
> : I took a little ribbing, what seems like like eons
> : ago, at the BBQ for bringing my ranger. It turned out
> : I had some parts broken and I had a landmark named
> : after the incident :-) Maybe if you're lucky you'll
> : become part of DML history and have something named
> : after you truck too.
>
>
> Truth be told, however - doing something which subsequently
> causes a feature or action at the BBQ to be named after you is
> *usually* not healty for your vehicle. ;-)
>
> I'm sure I could come up with more examples given some time,
> but "Ranger Gulch" and "Adam Style" pop immediately to mind. ;-)
> Both of those items started rather early in BBQ history, I think
> maybe we are more jaded now. For example, I find it rather
> remarkable that as of yet, no feature name or adjective has
> resulted from Christine's little bath a couple of years ago.
> Ok, we have "Sonar O'Reilly", but that's rather tame - I would
> have thought that by now, we would have at least verbed his name
> - for example "I'm gonna Tom that puppy right into the lake!".
> Who knows, something more might happen, sometimes it takes a
> while. ;-) Anyway, the point I am trying to make is that if
> someone can work all year round just to get their truck ready for
> the BBQ, practically performing a complete drivetrain swap mere
> hours before the event, and then sink it over its roof in a pond
> prior to being able to do any offroading at all and nothing really
> comes of it, imagine the scale of blunder which would be required
> to have a feature named after your truck at this point! ;-)
>
Odd for me to suggest a name for my own blundering landmark...but how
about "Terrible's Pond" ? hehe
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