[ale] [WAY THE HELL OFF TOPIC] -- but accurate

Sean Kilpatrick kilpatms at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 16:34:06 EDT 2014


Uh, NORTH of El Paso, maybe.

There isn't hardly any of Texas left WEST of El Paso.  Go west out of El 
Paso and you are looking at the Rio Grande and on the other side is 
MExico.

Sean



On Friday, August 15, 2014 03:30:59 pm Jim Lynch wrote:
> On 08/15/2014 02:10 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > If the highest speed limit in the US is 75mph, why do cars have
> > speedometers that typically go to 120mph. Like my wife's (long
> > gone) Dodge Omni had a max speed of about 90mph (tested - downhill
> > with a tailwind) but the speedo topped at 120. My Porsche reads to
> > 165. I have yet to find it's top end - I need a track for that:-) 
> >  (once it's back on the road - old cars have old parts that are
> > hard to find)
> > 
> > The smart-assed physicist in me thinks 75 is total bogosity.
> > The_REAL_ speed limit is "c":-)
> 
> Actually there is a stretch of I-10 in west Texas where the posted
> limit is 80.  It's west of El Paso a ways.
> 
> Jim.
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