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Article #54637Re: What was the commotion on Kenilworth Friday?
From: Eric Youngdale
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 18:28
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 18:28
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In article <1098@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU> collins@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU (Skip Collins) writes: > >By the way, what has happened to Dr. Gridlock in the Post? His column has >been missing for months now. In place of his column each week, is a >small notice saying "The Doctor is Away." His is one of the most interesting >columns in the paper, especially for those of us who live and die by >the morning traffic reports. I have a consipracy theory. A few months ago he was really coming down hard on Chrysler because the transmissions in some of the mini-vans were only good for about 10K miles. There were letters from people who had had up to 6 or 7 transmissions in a van, and they were swearing that they would buy Japansese next time. I wonder if some GM dealers threatened to pull the plug on all of their advertising in the Post. This may sound far fetched, but I know that in other cities, newspapers have been unwilling to run columns like Dr. Gridlock for fear of offending the local dealers. The real reason why Dr. Gridlock is away is probably far less interesting. -Eric -- Eric Youngdale eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101049,fc71460d829a6884 X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-07-20 05:58:42 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!dtix!mimsy!ra!tantalus!eric From: eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale) Newsgroups: dc.general Subject: Re: What was the commotion on Kenilworth Friday? Message-ID: <3064@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Date: 20 Jul 92 18:28:18 GMT References: <18JUL199221243472@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1992Jul19.165341.21043@umbc3.umbc.edu> <1098@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU> Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil Lines: 25