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Subject:White smoke: No help on your problem, but...
From:Fitz-Randolph, Douglas
Date:Tue, 4 Jun 2002 11:41:32 -0400

When I was a kid in NJ, when a car blew a head gasket and was billowing
white smoke, we used to say the car had "picked the pope"... a reference to
the smoke signal system employed by the cardinals when they're sequestered
in the Vatican to elect a new pope. I dunno - I think it's funny...

Doug Fitz-Randolph
Freeport, ME
'90 Syncro

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