In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:16:35 -0800, T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Hi All,

Now this is funny!

9:50
They Tried to Conquer Earth on a Monday Morning?Biggest Mistake in
Galactic History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF4IRlxN0-c

Maybe not all THAT off topic!

:-)

-T

You know, right, when there is a narrator like that and no or almost no
video, it didn't really happen.

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On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:36:53 -0500, micky wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:16:35 -0800, T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Hi All,

Now this is funny!

9:50 They Tried to Conquer Earth on a Monday Morning?Biggest Mistake in >>Galactic History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF4IRlxN0-c

Maybe not all THAT off topic!

:-)

-T

You know, right, when there is a narrator like that and no or almost no video, it didn't really happen.

Yes, although I've heard much worse. Unexplained pauses between words that people say together, like:
"good (4 second pause) morning" (and the second word may be on a different line), fake film scratches (that are much more annoying that real ones),
and odd translations like "3:00 PM" becoming "three (garbled mess) PM". I
saw one "video" about a boy flying a plane, where "yoke" can a common
word, but half the time the captions said "yolk". BTW, there were no eggs
in that last one.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send
peace, but a sword." -- Jesus, Matthew 10:34

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In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:14:49 +1100, Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On 23/01/2026 2:16 pm, T wrote:

Hi All,

Now this is funny!

9:50
They Tried to Conquer Earth on a Monday Morning?Biggest Mistake in
Galactic History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF4IRlxN0-c

Maybe not all THAT off topic!

:-)

-T

Sort of like .... but different .... back in the 60/70's, the Production >Date of your Car/Fridge/T.V./etc mattered.

If the device was made on a Monday, it was likely to be a bit shoddy, as
the production line Workers would have been recovering from the Week-end.

Well, I didn't know then about day of the week, and didn't know how to
tell what day it was even if I'd known about the issue, but my brother
bought a new 1965 Pontiace Catalina convertible in the fall of '64, and
had loads of trouble with it, some troubles he didn't even notice.

There was a bad connection between the battery cable and the starter, so
often the car wouldn't start. Sears found it and fixed it for free in
10 minutes.

The fresh air vents in the kick panels were always closed and the wires
that were meant to open them had neve been connected to the doors.

The hose was missing from the vacuum to the vacuum advance on the
distributor (so he couldn't pull away from a stop without lurching. I
thought he didn't know how to drive until he went to Viet Nam and gave
me the car. I had it for months before I was standing on something and
looking at the engine and noticed the hose was missing.

The curved driver's window never had the bending-screw on the window
channel tightened so the channel was stright and the curved window
couldn't go in the channel and it wobbled. Even after I fixed that, at
the top it was 3/4" from the roof.

and the steering wheel was designed upside down and then mounted upside
down so that it looked right but the turn signals turned off if you
turned the wheel a mere 90^ and then turned back to less than 90.

I liked having a free car that was only 3 years old, but I said I would
neve get another one like it. When I had to get another one and there
were not many convetibles available, I ended up with the very same
model, just 2 years newer. The first 8 digits of the VIN were he same.

And I had the second one for 7 years and it had NOTHING wrong with it.

If the device was made on a Friday, it was likely to be a bit shoddy, as
the production line Workers would have been looking forward to the Week-end.

Thursday was another bad day as the workers may have been looking
forward to getting PAID.

So the best quality devices were usually made on Tuesday or Wednesdays!

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On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:39:41 -0500, micky wrote:

[snip]

Well, I didn't know then about day of the week, and didn't know how to
tell what day it was even if I'd known about the issue, but my brother
bought a new 1965 Pontiace Catalina convertible in the fall of '64, and
had loads of trouble with it, some troubles he didn't even notice.

There was a bad connection between the battery cable and the starter, so often the car wouldn't start. Sears found it and fixed it for free in
10 minutes.

That reminds me of the multiple problems I had with my first car (1980 Plymouth Horizon). One was a continuing coolant leak. I had taken it to multiple mechanics, who found nothing wrong. The leaks continued. They had used a pressure tester that replaced the radiator cap. The last one
finally figured out that the problem might be there. It was. That problem
that had gone on for years was fixed with a new radiator cap ($5 part).

I had to get a lot of jump starts before finding the problem was the glove compartment light switch had gotten stuck and never went off.

That engine (IIRC 1.7L 4) was underpowered and died frequently. Also,
wouldn't go over 50MPH without vibrating excessively.

[snip]

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"Some people like to travel by train because it combines the slowness of
a car with the cramped public exposure of an airplane."

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On Tue, 1/27/2026 4:25 AM, Daniel70 wrote:

On 27/01/2026 5:24 am, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:39:41 -0500, micky wrote:

[snip]

Well, I didn't know then about day of the week, and didn't know how to
tell what day it was even if I'd known about the issue, but my brother
bought a new 1965 Pontiace Catalina convertible in the fall of '64, and
had loads of trouble with it, some troubles he didn't even notice.

There was a bad connection between the battery cable and the starter, so >>> often the car wouldn't start.ÿÿ Sears found it and fixed it for free in
10 minutes.

That reminds me of the multiple problems I had with my first car (1980
Plymouth Horizon). One was a continuing coolant leak. I had taken it to
multiple mechanics, who found nothing wrong. The leaks continued. They had >> used a pressure tester that replaced the radiator cap. The last one
finally figured out that the problem might be there. It was. That problem
that had gone on for years was fixed with a new radiator cap ($5 part).

I had to get a lot of jump starts before finding the problem was the glove >> compartment light switch had gotten stuck and never went off.

AH!! So the light IS SUPPOSED TO GO OFF WHEN YOU CLOSE IT. Good to know. ;-P

Some switches in cars have three positions, and putting the switch
in the "Always On" position is how the battery gets drained. You use
the Always On position, when you put your kids in the trunk :-)
That must be what that switch is for.

On modern cars, when the car shuts down, the audio system starts
drawing 5 amperes from the battery. And that's another favored
mechanism for a failure, is a "phantom load out of the blue".
You would think all the accessory power would be through a
key switch, but modern cars don't necessarily have that any more.
(Some are push button start.)

Paul

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