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makes me think of this......
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????? - IS that anything like Chevron with F310?
Shell with Nitrate?
What are we talking about???

- Doug
 
Mostly about what used to be referred to as" Madison Avenue", Doug.

And I thought Shell was hawking <span style="font-style: italic">nitrogen</span> as their star additive.

The "Truth in Advertizing" thing gone for a chop.
Darwin went to a print ad and we have now a good answer to the riddle.

On the "official" website they have: "<span style="font-style: italic">tridion</span> safety cell" in print. Say it fast three times and it still sounds like tritium to me. :smirk:


...and another good reason to stay well away from the silly things.

BTW: Who wants to bet the voice-over changes to: "TRI-dee-on" sometime soon?
 
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Ever read the hype in modern car ads?
Just HOW stupid are people?

- Doug
 
I don't know for sure...but they're buying FIATs again after the last fiatsco.
 
And the shill hawking "The Olde Brooklyn Lantern"... in the narrative, the talent proclaims it to be made of "GENUINE METAL".

WoW! I figger'd that stuff was either outlawed or sooo rare and expensive they'd call it Unobtanium. :crazy:
 
Speaking of Fiats, new commercial I saw shows them driving off piers, cliffs, etc into the ocean. Next shot, they're driving out of the water ontoa beach in the US. Just to be sure everyone understands across the bottom it says, "simulation, do not attempt". Personally, I would never have known I couldn't drive off a 100 ft cliff and 3500 miles across the bottom of the ocean without them telling me it wasn't real....
 
"I would never have known I couldn't drive off a 100 ft cliff and 3500 miles across the bottom of the ocean without them telling me it wasn't real...."

Everyone knows that you have to have a Lotus Esprit S1 to be able to go under water and drive up on a beach.
 
waltesefalcon said:
"I would never have known I couldn't drive off a 100 ft cliff and 3500 miles across the bottom of the ocean without them telling me it wasn't real...."

Everyone knows that you have to have a Lotus Esprit S1 to be able to go under water and drive up on a beach.
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"The name is Bond, James Bond." :cowboy:
 
MikeP said:
Speaking of Fiats, new commercial I saw shows them driving off piers, cliffs, etc into the ocean. Next shot, they're driving out of the water ontoa beach in the US. Just to be sure everyone understands across the bottom it says, "simulation, do not attempt". Personally, I would never have known I couldn't drive off a 100 ft cliff and 3500 miles across the bottom of the ocean without them telling me it wasn't real....
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But the coyote and the road runner do it all the time, you mean I can't run off a cliff and walk away at the bottom??!! Next you'll tell me there is no Easter bunny or tooth fairy!! :cryin:
 
MikeP said:
Speaking of Fiats, new commercial I saw shows them driving off piers, cliffs, etc into the ocean. Next shot, they're driving out of the water ontoa beach in the US. Just to be sure everyone understands across the bottom it says, "simulation, do not attempt". Personally, I would never have known I couldn't drive off a 100 ft cliff and 3500 miles across the bottom of the ocean without them telling me it wasn't real....
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Kind of an interesting commercial if you factor in Fiat's traditional relationship with rust. certainly accounts for it.
 
Silverghost said:
MikeP said:
Next you'll tell me there is no Easter bunny or tooth fairy!! :cryin:
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If there was, I'd vote for 'em as they both have a great track record for delievering what's promised. :thumbsup:

...and DAT aint aimed for, about or at NOBODY! :wink: jus' da truf... :whistle:

Was jus' tinkin' 'bout dat da udda day Cap'. :yesnod:
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JPSmit said:
Kind of an interesting commercial if you factor in Fiat's traditional relationship with rust. certainly accounts for it.
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I always though Fiats were made from compressed rust just to save on the conversion time from steel to rust...
 
dipblu said:
They want you to confuse "tritium" with "titanium" which is aircraft metal and is very, very strong.
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More than one A-10 driver will agree.

Well, "tridion" is what the company touts. Hard to correlate that with "titanium" in pronunciation methinks.

Titanium has many more applications than just aircraft parts. Porsche has even made lug nuts with it. :wink:

I've a "raw" piece of it here on my desk for a paperweight, too.
 
Lots of Boeing planes have titanium "hard points", engine attach points etc and the new 787 has a huge number of titanium fasteners to eliminate corrosion.
BillM
 
DrEntropy said:
Porsche has even made lug nuts with it. :wink:

I've a "raw" piece of it here on my desk for a paperweight, too.
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That's interesting. The 360 Modena the the team had used aluminum ones. Weren't cheap either, $100 a pop.

Dad told me of this magical metal when he worked "in the field" as a pipfitter. He said the stuff they used costs $1000 an inch (80's money) and was tougher than anything he'd ever seen; sad you could gring on it all day and barely touch it.


Th' stuff's retention properties are incredible too. I have a wedding ring made of it. :laugh:
 
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