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Cheleker
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jimarnett
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Last Post: 10-11-08
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I haven't seen it yet, but it does sound awful. And I have to ask, "WHY?" Why do they think Nationa Public Radio listeners will watch a cartoon on TV? (Now, "The Simpsons" I can understand, but "Click and Clack"?) The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. -Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)
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Cheese~
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Last Post: 11-25-08
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I heard that they are merely animating some segments from previously aired radio broadcasts. I also heard that it is awful! R Prez, Mini Owners of America, Los Angeles
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One of these days I'm gona phone in & ask about my oil leak or which way the fan goes on....etc. We should start a thread - "What Mini Question would you like Click & Clack to answer?" M. 
My mind's made up - don't bother me with
facts!
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zip-tph
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Last Post: 12-01-08
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Gotta agree that this sounds like a bad idea... Click 'n Clack are most entertaining unscripted.... Can't see how that can be done in a cartoon format. But this is as good a time as any for the "Andy Letter". Sums up quite a few posters on this and other message boreds... Dear Click and Clack,
I am writing to offer profound thanks to you for resolving an important philosophical question that has been heatedly debated for the last twenty years.
The rumination began on a construction site one summer in the early 1970s, as my friend Jamie and I were working our way through college. The question we raised and have agonized over, lo these many years, is one that I've never read about in any philosophical treatise, and yet I have found it has applied to countless situations and conversations overheard in bars, repair shops, sporting events, political debates, etc., etc., etc.
Posit the question: Do two people who don't know what they are talking about know more or less than one person who doesn't know what he's talking about? (Pardon the un-PC masculine pronoun, but I have found this to be, most predominately, a male phenomenon.)
In your recent conversations regarding electric brakes on a cattle carrier, I believe you definitely answered this query and have put our debate to rest. Amazingly enough, you proved that even in a case where one person might know nothing about a subject, it is possible for two people to know even less! One person will only go so far out on a limb in his construction of deeply hypothetical structures, and will often end with a shrug or a raising of hands to indicate the dismissability of his particular take on a subject. With two people, the intricacies, the gives and takes, the wherefores and why-nots, can become a veritable pas-de-deux of breathtaking speculation, interwoven in such a way that apologies or gestures of doubt are rendered unnecessary.
I had always suspected this was the case, but no argument I could have built from my years of observation would have so satisfyingly closed the door on the subject as your performance on the cattle carrier call. To begin your comments by saying, "We'll answer your question if you tell us how electric brakes work," and "We've never heard of electric brakes," and then indulge in lengthy theoretical hypostulations on the whys and wherefores of the caller's problem allowed me to observe that you were finally putting this gnarly question to rest.
I am forever indebted to you for the great service you have performed! I'm truly impressed that it took so many years of listening to your show to finally have this matter resolved. Sincerely,
Andy R. P.S. If you say hello to Jamie in Ojai, California, you'll save me a long distance phone call.
P.P.S. If you read this on the air, can you at least send me one of your cheap audio cassettes, so one day my grandchildren will know I accomplished something in my lifetime.
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Cheleker
Total Posts: 7739
Last Post: 12-01-08
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PBS is going to try out Car Talk on TV...in animated form. Weds, 8 PM. I get the feeling this might be as bad an idea as AMC's remake of The Prisoner, but I have to watch.
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Posted: Jul-10-2008 07:11PM
Edited: Jul-09-2008 09:32AM
