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You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Thu, 26 June 2003 11:21
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- The emissions test guy starts laughing as soon as you pull onto the rollers...
- You can't drive your car in the rain...
- Your 'significant other' is afraid to drive your car...
- You are afraid to drive your car...
- You spend more on tyres than on food...
- You look in a police car and see a photo of your car on the dashboard...
- You throw your underwear in the garbage rather than in the washing...
- You have to go to the track or airport to buy fuel...
- Your local mechanic names the new wing of his shop after you...
- You can cross Lake Eyre in less than 12 parsecs...
- You're tempted to wear your fire suit just to drive to the office...
- Red signal lights change to green as you're approaching then change back to red after you've gone...
- You arrive somwhere before you left...
- You get pulled over for doing 225 in a 60 zone but the cops will let you go if they can look under the bonnet...
- You remove the $2000 stereo system to save 2kg of weight...
- You get an annonymous phone call asking you if your are interested in being in the cannonball run...
- Without pushing the car, there is no possible way to sneak out of your neighbourhood at 6am...
- Your pets scramble for their hiding spots as soon as the garage door is opened...
- Family photos throughout the house are replaced with life-sized posters of your car...
- Fuel is delivered to your home in 205 litre drums...
- You carry earplugs in your car...
- The only spot on the car which recieves any regular cleaning is the windscreen...
- You find out that side mirrors don't hold up at speeds exceeding 250km/h...
- You spend more time on two wheels than most people spend over 100km/h...
- You watch the fuel gauge go down visibly as you cruise along the highway...
- The guys down at the street drags won't run against you without a 10-second start...
My favourite is the one in bold...
Whaddya reckon???
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Sydney
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Thu, 26 June 2003 11:37
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heheh funny cause its true... i think we can all relate to the driving in the wet one tho... it is fun at first but god damn it gets annoying after a while. 
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Eskilstuna, Sweden
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May 2002
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Fri, 27 June 2003 01:22
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You buy a Yamaha R1.
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I supported Toymods
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Perth
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Fri, 27 June 2003 01:25
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Thats not a horsepower addiction, thats an acceleration addiction. They don't make huge grunt, its that they weigh f**k all compared to a car!
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Eskilstuna, Sweden
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May 2002
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Fri, 27 June 2003 01:29
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Power per litre - is still very impressive.
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I supported Toymods
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Perth
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Fri, 27 June 2003 01:35
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But its not exactly a great deal of horsepower now is it? I mean, 111.8kW is a LOT for a 1 litre engine (which does have to rev to 10500rpm to reach it), but a great deal of horsepower it is not.
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Eskilstuna, Sweden
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May 2002
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Fri, 27 June 2003 01:42
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Whatever...........
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I supported Toymods
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Epping, Sydney
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Fri, 27 June 2003 05:57
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"You get pulled over for doing 225 in a 60 zone but the cops will let you go if they can look under the bonnet..."
I wish that happened to me more regularly 
I love them all! (and so many of them apply to me)
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Lost in the K hole
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May 2002
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Fri, 27 June 2003 06:52
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| Rolla Boy wrote on Thu, 26 June 2003 21:21 |
- Your pets scramble for their hiding spots as soon as the garage door is opened...
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Its funny 'cause its true
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Canberra
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April 2003
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Fri, 27 June 2003 07:04
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| Rolla Boy wrote on Thu, 26 June 2003 21:21 |
- You look in a police car and see a photo of your car on the dashboard...
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My favourite. That would be a massive freakout.
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On your mum!
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Fri, 27 June 2003 07:38
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Hehehe Ben. I've got my own solution to throwing your underwear away. Freeballing.
I like them all. Doesn't everyone get their fuel delivered in 44 gal drums?
In my mind it should read "how to tell if you are normal".
I wonder how my mum feels about the car posters instead of pictures of her and co.
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Sydney
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June 2002
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Sat, 28 June 2003 14:50
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how about when a u turn is only possible with alot of wheel spin and smoke
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Club Member
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Sydney, NSW
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Sun, 29 June 2003 09:55
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Jason, if you freball then you'd be throwing your pants away...
I think underwear is cheaper than pants ...
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Balranald
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May 2002
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Sun, 29 June 2003 12:54
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On the way to the Melbourne GP I saw a psyco PAC PERFORMANCE RX3 on the side of the Calder HWY with the bonnet up and a cop checking out everything. It was a great sight.
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Sun, 29 June 2003 12:57
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yeah he was probably getting defected.
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UK at moment
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May 2003
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I supported Toymods
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I supported Toymods
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Tue, 01 July 2003 06:17
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GT - every time you post I nearly piss my pants.
I've seen that sig elsewhere, and on other forums, but it stillcracks me up
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Tue, 01 July 2003 08:51
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| Ed's sig |
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.
It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood.....
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Speaking of sigs, WTF is going on here?
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I supported Toymods
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Tue, 01 July 2003 09:06
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sounds like bad euro 80s power metal, or possibly some other song
no offence if it's meaningful and heartfelt
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Lost in the K hole
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May 2002
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Tue, 01 July 2003 11:33
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errr...
"A tale of two cities" - Charles Dickens
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I supported Toymods
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Tue, 01 July 2003 11:42
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Ahhhhhh, I don't read fiction books. I recognised the first line as being similar to when Montgomery Burns had the 1000 monkeys on 1000 typewriters to write a great novel, but that's where the familiarity ended.
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Tue, 01 July 2003 11:50
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Ohhhh! We could have seen a monkey!
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I supported Toymods
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Tue, 01 July 2003 12:21
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I was close 
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I supported Toymods
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Tue, 01 July 2003 12:32
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Yeah, right.....
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Toymods Social Secretary
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Wed, 02 July 2003 01:14
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at least it wasnt "A tale of two titties"
by Farles Mickens, with four M's and a silent Q!
rotflmoa - Ed, you just cracked up the entire Mail Orders team here at Jaycar with that new signature!
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Wed, 02 July 2003 01:21
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you nerds
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I supported Toymods
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Perth
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Wed, 02 July 2003 01:21
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No seriously, its wicked
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Toymods Social Secretary
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Wed, 02 July 2003 02:10
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Ed - we work at JAYCAR. How can we NOT be nerds?
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I supported Toymods
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Wed, 02 July 2003 02:11
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He's got you there dude...
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Wed, 02 July 2003 02:17
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'check mate'
'wow, always thinking two moves ahead'
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Toymods Social Secretary
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Wed, 02 July 2003 02:19
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would you like some resistors with that?
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Wed, 02 July 2003 02:26
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yuk yuk yuk *snort* yuk yuk yuk
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I supported Toymods
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Wed, 02 July 2003 02:29
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Just back to the sig for a sec:
What if you were moving rapidly away from the sign but still looking at it? The sign would be redshifted to infra red and therefore invisible to the naked eye.
Food for thought. 
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Toymods Social Secretary
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Sydney
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Wed, 02 July 2003 02:35
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but it you had a QC-3321 CCD camera watching the sign, you WOULD see it!
And really, we arent that bad. Not like dick smith or anything.
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c'town, NSW
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May 2002
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Wed, 02 July 2003 03:18
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I supported Toymods
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Epping, Sydney
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Wed, 02 July 2003 05:31
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about time someone started quoting monty python around here!
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Toymods Social Secretary
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Sydney
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Wed, 02 July 2003 07:35
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"rule no 2. NO POOFTERS!"
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Wahroonga
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Sun, 06 July 2003 04:39
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- You look in a police car and see a photo of your car on the dashboard...
Dam man thats a good 1.
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Eastern Sydney
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Thu, 07 August 2003 08:18
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'allright,let's keep it simple then shall we? How about cheddar?"
Justin...
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Hornsby, N.S.W
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Re: You Know You Have A Horsepower Addiction When...........
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Thu, 07 August 2003 12:18
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The emissions test guy starts laughing as soon as you pull onto the rollers
the other justin 
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