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- Bountiful, land of rocks
Lighten the mood
- Thread starter rholbrook
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- Smithfield Utah
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- Stinkwater
And they both forget the toothpaste.
rholbrook
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- Kaysville, Ut
rholbrook
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- Kaysville, Ut
Tonkaman
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- West Jordan
@rholbrook Im picking up on a trend here… is your wife oppressing you? do we need to have an intervention? 😂
Those are hilarious!
Those are hilarious!
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- Never Far From Nowhere
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- Grand Junction, CO
I think about the Roman empire and their influence almost daily...
The U.S. Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.
That’s an exceedingly odd number.
Why was that gauge used?
Because that’s the way they built them in England, and English expatriates designed the U.S. Railroads.
Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that’s the gauge they used.
Why did ‘they’ use that gauge then?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?
Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that’s the spacing of the wheel ruts.
So, who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since. And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels.
Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
Therefore, the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot.
In other words, bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification, procedure, or process, and wonder, ‘What horse’s ass came up with this?’ you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses.
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- Stinkwater
Aww, man. If Heather thought about the Romans more she could have called you on the caesar salad ... that's named for a Mexican chef, not Julius.
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- Never Far From Nowhere
Sure, but his name is due to Julius's long term influence. Rome is everywhere!
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- Grantsville, Utah
The older version of that is “none about giving BJ’s” so that is way watered down 🤣
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- Grantsville, Utah
I wouldn’t trust her with either.
Thursty
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- Green River
Trate D
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I will own an assault regal one day!
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- Bountiful, land of rocks
They have climbing in price the last 5-8 years
Trate D
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Yes they have. Almost had one about 5 yrs ago. But I just couldn’t do the deal at the time!
Thursty
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- Green River
They have always been a bucket list car for me and I vowed to own one some day back when a good, low mile example went for $20k. I’ll never own one now unless I get something like the Grand Trashional from Hot Rod Garage or the Bland National that VGG is working on.
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- Smithfield Utah
