At 17:45 3/30/2000, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
>Beware use of this word. strictly speaking any normal car has three
>accelerators:

You're peeing up a rope, Andrew.  In US usage the throttle is the
accelerator, period.

>If you don't believe it, ask a physicist. It's just another abused word.
>Another abused term is shock absorber (which are your springs, not the
>hydraulic dampers). There are heaps of others!

Ditto here.  You guys call them dampers, we call them shocks, nobody cares
about the physics until they put their physicist hat on.

:)
david

David Beierl - Providence, RI
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