AUTO TRIVIA

The very first self-propelled car was built in 1769, when Nicolas Cugnot, a French military engineer designed a steam powered road-vehicle.
German engineer Karl Benz is credited with the first prototype of the modern car built in 1885.
1865 - The Red Flag Act
Initial progress in the development of cars saw stiff opposition from horse-driven coach companies. In the mid-1800s, turnpike charges (similar to toll charges) for the "early cars" that were then plying on road, were steeply hiked. In 1865, the British government introduced the 'Locomotives on Highways Act' (Red Flag Act). It was intended to regulate the use of heavy traction engines pulling large loads. The Act limited speeds to 6.4 kms per hour in the country and 3.2 in towns. It also required that every road locomotive must have three attendants - one to steer, one to stoke and one to walk 50 metres ahead of the vehicle, bearing a red flag, signaling the driver when to stop. The legislation discouraged further developments of steam vehicles. A subsequent Act passed 13 years later in 1878 did away with the red flag, but nevertheless the vehicle still had to be preceded by a man on foot to warn drivers of horse-driven coaches.
The first practical "four-stroke" engine was patented by the Otto and Langen Company of Deutz, Germany in 1876.
Gottlieb Daimler designed the first modern petrol-driven internal combustion engine for the car in 1886.
Charles and Frank Duryea were the first to successfully produce the first car in the United States of America in 1893.
The first American President to ride an automobile was William Mckinley. He was brought in an ambulance on being fatally attacked by his assasin in 1901.
The Model-T,  the first "people's car", was introduced by the Ford Motor Company in 1908.
The Model-T was nicknamed the 'Tin Lizzie' because it used lightweight sheet steel for the body. The model was also the first to record a sale of 1 million vehicles in 1922.
What's in a name?
Alfa-Romeo is named after Nicola Romeo, while the "Alfa" stood for Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili, or Lombardy Automobile Works Company.
Aston-Martin is named after Lionel Martin, who won races on Aston Clinton hill, near Aylesbury, England.
Chevrolet is named after Louis Chevrolet.
Daimler is named after the inventor Gottfried Daimler.
Ferrari is named after Enzo Ferrari.
Honda is named after the founder of the company - Soichiro Honda.
Lancia is named after Vincenzo Lancia.
Maserati is named after the Maserati brothers, Carolo, Bindo, Alfieri, Ettore, and Ernesto.
Emil Jellinek was the Austro-Hungarian consul in France, who had the rights to sell Daimler's cars in Austria, Hungary, France and USA. Mercedes was the name used by Jellinek to sell Daimler's cars, and was in fact the name of his daughter. In 1902, Daimler registered the name "Mercedes" as their car trademark.
Opel is named after Adam Opel.
Peugeot is named after Armand Peugeot.
Porsche is named after Ferdinand Porsche.
Rolls-Royce has been named after their founders - Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.
Skoda is named after Emil Skoda.
Toyota is named after the founder of the company - Sakichi Toyoda. The family changed the nake to Toyota since "Toyoda" needs ten characters in Japanese but "Toyota" only eight. And eight is the Japanese lucky number!
BMW was founded as Bayerische Flugzeug Werke in 1916 to make aero-engines. The name was subsequently changed to Bayerische Motoren Werke in 1922.
FIAT was originally founded as Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino by Giovanni Agnelli in 1899.
The name Volkswagen literally translates into the 'people's car' in German. 
Truck major Volvo was founded by Gustaf Larson and Assar Gabrielsson in 1925. The word stands for "I roll" in Latin. 
Trivia snippets
The parking meter was invented by Prof. H.G. Thueson and Gerald A.Hale of Oklahoma State University.
The world's first numberplates were issued in 1893 in France by the police.
The first car owner in India was one Mr. Foster of M/s. Crompton Greaves Company, Mumbai 1897.The first Indian to own a car was Jamshedji Tata of Mumbai in 1901.
Acknowledgments: cybersteering.com
Have a laugh...
What do the following acronyms stand for -
ACURA - Asia's Curse Upon Rural America
AUDI -  Another Ugly Deutsche Invention
BMW -  Bought My Wife / Brings Me Women / Broke My Wallet
CHEVROLET -  Can Hear Every Valve Rap On Long Extended Trips
DODGE -  Drips Oil, Drops Grease Everywhere / Dead On the Day Guarantee Expires
FIAT - Failure in Italian Automotive Technology
FORD - Fast Only Rolling Downhill
GM - Garbage Motors / Gluteus Maximus
HONDA - Hallmark Of Non-Destructable Automobiles
HYUNDAI - Hope You Understand Nothing's Driveable And Inexpensive...
MOPAR - Many Odd Parts Arranged Randomly / Miscellaneous Oddball Parts Assembled Ridiculously
SUBARU - Screwed Up Beyond All Repair Usually
TOYOTA - Too Often Yankees Overprice This Auto
VOLVO - Very Odd Looking Vehicular Object
PORSCHE - Proof Of Rich Spoiled Children Having Everything

More News of the Weird  
 
The Chicago Tribune reported in March that dozens of blind students in Chicago public schools are nonetheless required to take driver education classes. One sightless but otherwise optimistic student told the Tribune she resented the requirement because it made her uncharacteristically dwell on something that she cannot do. [Chicago Sun-Times, 2-11-06]
 
Life Imitates a GEICO Commercial: A teenager lost control of his car in Kettering, Ohio, in March, and smashed into a house, causing major damage. According to police, he had swerved to avoid hitting an albino squirrel (which, unlike in the commercial, did not survive). Another squirrel caused a four-car collision in March in Mount Pleasant Township, Pa., but no injuries were reported. Neither human was cited by police. [WHIO-TV (Dayton), 1-12-06] [York Daily Record, 3-14-06]
 
"Reeking" As a Career Field: Homeless New Jersey man Richard Kreimer said in February that he had settled, on undisclosed terms, part of his most recent lawsuit, against a transit company and two drivers, for having denied him rides because of his foul odor. Kreimer's history includes a $150,000 settlement in 1991 with the public library in Morris County, which had tried to keep him out because of the odor, and, by his count, $80,000 in additional lawsuit-related income (though some went for legal expenses). Kreimer dropped another foul-odor lawsuit in February, against a transit company and a train station in Summit. [Press of Atlantic City, 2-18-06; Newsday-AP, 3-2-06]
 
Police in Milford, Texas (just south of Dallas), arrested a man in February who had fled a traffic stop, and in the ensuing chase, saw him tear open and toss out bag after bag of a substance (but some blew back in the car). When finally stopped, said police chief Carlos Phoenix, the man was "literally covered in marijuana" from the blowback. [San Francisco Chronicle-AP, 2-6-06]
 
Matthew John Wyman, told to recite the alphabet at a roadside DUI stop in West Roxbury, Mass., in November, asked the officer if he could please substitute a math problem instead (Answer: No). [Boston Herald, 11-23-05]
 
In December, Terry Dresdow of Milwaukee became the latest person to have his car stolen and retrofitted by the thief with fancy equipment, and then to get his car back after the thief was caught. His 1989 Chevrolet Caprice, which cost him $1200 used, now has a top-of-the-line stereo system, deluxe spoked wheels, and keyless entry. [Canadian Broadcasting Corp., 2-3-06] [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12-8-05]
 
An 81-year-old school crossing guard was accidentally struck and killed by a 70-year-old crossing guard who was driving to his own post (Park Ridge, N.J., October). [The Record ( Hackensack, N.J. ), 10-26-05]
 

In a September road-rage incident in Salt Lake City , a woman sped by in a blocked-off lane to get around a 25-year-old motorist on Interstate 15, then rolled down her window and screamed at him. The man, according to a report in the Deseret Morning News, made an "obscene hand gesture." The woman then pulled out a .357-caliber revolver, shot off the tip of his middle finger, and sped away, outdistancing the man but later crashing into a barricade. [ Deseret News, 9-24-05]
 
Car salesman Philip Vandergraff, 35, was arrested in September on a battery charge after an incident at a Ford dealership in Atascadero, Calif. According to customer Jeff Walston, the two were haggling over a car purchase, and when Walston offered $5,000 less than Vandergraff's price, Vandergraff punched him in the face. [San Luis Obispo Tribune, 9-28-05]
 
At 10 p.m. on Oct. 19, Ralph Parker, 93, in his Chevrolet Malibu, eased up to a tollbooth on Interstate 275 in St. Petersburg, Fla., inattentive to the fact that there was a dead body lodged in his windshield (the result of a collision about three miles away). According to police, Parker was off by about 10 miles when asked where he was and by two months on the date, and he thought the body had just fallen from the sky. Parker's son, 66, said he was aware his father had been deteriorating mentally, yet Parker's driver's license was renewed last year through his age 99, based on Florida's lax renewal policy (toughened for the state's 54,000 age-80-and-up drivers only by a vision test). (By contrast, for example, Florida requires 16 hours' training every two years for its licensed cosmetologists.) [ St. Petersburg Times, 10-21-05]
 
A well-to-do couple (the husband owns a surveying company) were convicted in Manchester ( England ) Crown Court in October of creating an elaborate scheme to avoid two camera-detected speeding tickets and were fined the equivalent of about $20,000, almost 200 times the cost of the tickets. Stewart and Cathryn Bromley had offered an alibi, explaining that the driver of their car was a (fictitious) Bulgarian friend, and Cathryn made up a postcard "from" the man "to" the Bromleys that incriminated him, and then actually traveled 1,400 miles to Bulgaria to mail it with an authentic postmark. [ Manchester Evening News, 10-14-05]
 
All four of the Seminole County, Fla. (suburban Orlando), judges who hear drunk-driving cases have routinely tossed out all challenged breath-alcohol readings since January (a total of more than 700), according to a September Orlando Sentinel story, because the judges believe the defendants should be given access to the machines' computer code. (Without the readings as evidence, about half the DUI defendants go free.) The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says the machines are accurate and that, anyway, manufacturers protect the codes as trade secrets. [ Orlando Sentinel, 9-9-05]
 
In Homosassa, Fla., near Tampa, Ralph Padgett, 73, was arrested in October and charged with running down (on his riding lawn mower) estranged neighbor David Ervin, who was also on a riding lawn mower. [ St. Petersburg Times, 10-9-05]

The bodies of Kentucky State Reformatory inmates Avery C. Roland, 26, and Michael Talbot Jr., 24, were found in a nearby landfill the day after they went missing in July; a Department of Corrections official said they had probably hidden inside a garbage truck without realizing that, to prevent escapes, the prison requires that garbage be compacted twice before it leaves the grounds. And four days apart in July, two 19-year-old men (in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and Louis ville, Kentucky ) fell to their deaths while car-surfing at high speeds. (According to a witness, the Sheboygan man's fatal fall came shortly after he yelled to his driver, "Is that all you got?") [WLEX-TV ( Lexington, Kentucky )-AP, 7-15-05] [WLKY-TV ( Louis ville ), 7-12-05] [WBAY-TV (Green Bay, Wisconsin ), 7-8-05]

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BUMPER STICKERS....

1 (seen on the back of a biker's T-shirt) If you can read this, the bitch fell off...
2 (seen on the back of a biker's vest) If you can read this, my wife fell off...
3 100,000 sperm and YOU were the fastest?
4 186,000 miles/sec: Not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
5 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.
6 2 rules to success in life. 1. Don't tell people everything you know.
7 24 hours in a day ... 24 beers in a case ... coincidence?
8 3 kinds of people: Those who can count and those who can't.
9 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
10 5 days a week my body is a temple. The other two, it's an amusement park.
11 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
12 A $1000 stereo will protect a $.20 fuse by blowing first.
13 A bad day fishing is still better than a good day working.
14 A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
15 A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.
16 A belly button is for salt when you eat celery in bed.
17 A clear conscience is usually a sign of a poor memory.
18 A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.
19 A computer program will always do what you tell it to do, but rarely what you want to do.
20 A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
21 A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
22 A consultant is someone who takes the watch off your wrist and tells you the time.
23 A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.
24 A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
25 A flying saucer results when a nudist spills his coffee.
26 A fool and his money are soon flying more airplane than he can handle.
27 A fool and his money are soon partying.
28 A gross ignoramus - 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus.
29 A hangover: the wrath of grapes.
30 A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round and round and reciprocating parts going up and down - all of them trying to become random in motion.
31 A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000 word document and calls it a "brief."
32 A little boy asked his father, "Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?" And the father replied, "I don't know son, I'm still paying.
33 A little Gray Hair is a small price to pay for this much Wisdom.
34 A male pilot is a confused soul who talks about women when he's flying, and about flying when he's with a woman.
35 A man places an 'ad' in the classified: "Wife Wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."
36 A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
37 A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the ass...
38 A person who smiles in the face of adversity probably has a scapegoat.
39 A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
40 A programmer is someone who solves a problem you didn't know you had in a way you don't understand.
41 A psychologist is a man who watches everyone else when a beautiful girl enters the room.
42 A schoolteacher is a disillusioned woman who used to think she liked children.
43 A short cut is the longest distance between two points.
44 A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.
45 A statistician is someone who is good with numbers but lacks the personality to be an accountant.
46 A topologist is a man who doesn't know the difference between a coffee cup and a doughnut.
47 A)bort R)etry I)nfluence with large hammer.
48 Ability is a good thing but stability is even better.
49 According to my calculations, the problem doesn't exist.
50 ACCORDIONATED (ah kor' de on ay tid) adj. Being able to drive and refold a road map at the same time.
51 After all is said and done, usually more is said.
52 After eating, do amphibians have to wait one hour before getting out of the water?
53 After silence, music comes closest to expressing the inexpressible.
54 After things go from bad to worse, the cycle will repeat.
55 Agenda for the day, let dog in, let dog out, let dog in, let dog out, let dog in.
56 Aim low...reach your goals...avoid disappointment.
57 Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive.
58 All I ask is to prove that money can't make me happy.
59 All Men Are Animals, Some Just Make Better Pets
60 All men are idiots...I married their king.
61 All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
62 Always drink upstream from the herd.
63 Always remember you fly an airplane with your head, not your hands. Never let an airplane take you somewhere your brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.
64 Always remember you're unique...Just like everyone else.
65 Always take a good look at what you're about to eat. It's not so important to know what it is but it's critical to know what it was.
66 Always try to be modest and be proud of it.
67 Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
68 An accountant is someone who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
69 An actuary is someone who brings a fake bomb on a plane, because that decreases the chances that there will be another bomb on the plane.
70 An auditor is someone who arrives after the battle and bayonets all the wounded.
71 An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
72 Answer: Eight. Twelve if the light bulb is cross-threaded.
73 Any man who can see through women is sure missing a lot.
74 Any pilot who relies on a terminal forecast can be sold the Brooklyn Bridge. If he relies on winds-aloft reports he can be sold Niagara Falls.
75 Any tool dropped while repairing your rod will roll underneath to the exact center of the car.
76 Anyone can give up smoking, but it takes a real man to face cancer.
77 Anyone can restore a car, it takes a real man to cut one up.
78 Anyplace you wake up on top of the dirt, is a good place to be.
79 Anything not nailed down is mine. Anything I can pry up is not nailed down.
80 Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.
81 AQUADEXTROUS (ak wa deks' trus) adj. Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.
82 AQUALIBRIUM (ak wa lib' re um) n. The point where the stream of drinking fountain water is at its perfect height, thus relieving the drinker from (a) having to suck the nozzle, or (b) squirting himself in the eye (or ear).
83 ARACHNOLEPTIC FIT (n.) The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
84 Are dog biscuits made from collie flour?
85 Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.
86 Ask me about microwaving cats for fun and profit
87 Asking what a pilot thinks about the FAA is like asking a fireplug what it thinks about dogs.
88 As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.
89 At the feast of Ego, everyone leaves hungry.
90 Atheism is a non-prophet organization
91 AUDI - Accelerates Under Demonic Influence.
92 AUDI - All Un-informed Drivers Insulted.
93 AUDI - All Unnecessary Devices Installed.
94 AUDI - Always Unsafe Designs Implemented.
95 "Auntie Em: Hate you, hate Kansas, taking the dog. - Dorothy"
96 Aviation is not so much a profession as it is a disease.
97 Ax me about Ebonics
98 Backup not found: A)bort, R)etry, M)assive heart failure?
99 Backups? We doan *NEED* no steenking baX%^~,VbKx NO CARRIER
100 Bad command or file name. Go stand in the corner.
101 Ban the bomb! Save the world for conventional warfare.
102 Baroque: When you are out of Monet.
103 BATTERY ELECTROLYTE TESTER: A handy tool for transferring sulfuric acid from a car battery to the inside of your toolbox after determining that your battery is dead as a doornail, just as you thought.
104 Be nice to your first officer, he may be your captain at your next airline.
105 Be nice to your kids... they'll choose your nursing home.
106 Bear in mind that a man does not have to be a bigamist to have one wife too many.
107 Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder ...
108 Beauty is only a light switch away.
109 BEELZEBUG (n.) Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at 3 in the morning and cannot be cast out.
110 Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
111 Beer is proof that God Loves us and wants us to be happy.
112 BEER: It's not just for breakfast anymore.
113 Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?
114 Being an airline pilot would be great if you didn't have to go on all those trips.
115 Best diet: Eat as much as you want, but don't swallow it.
116 Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
117 Black holes are where God divided by zero.
118 Blessed are the censors; they shall inhibit the earth.
119 BMW - Big Money Works.
120 BMW - Bought My Wife.
121 BMW - Brutal Money Waster,
122 Body by Nautilus; brain by Mattel
123 Boldly Going Nowhere
124 Born again pagan.
125 Born free... taxed to death.
126 Borrow money from pessimists. They don't expect it back.
127 Boy: A noise with dirt on it.
128 Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
129 BOZONE (n.) The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
130 Bright as Alaska in December.
131 Broad-mindedness; n, the result of flattening high-mindedness out.
132 Budget: A method for going broke methodically.
133 Bumper sticker in the year 2100: DISCO STILL SUCKS
134 BUICK - Big Ugly Indestructible Car Killer.
135 Bureaucrat, n.: A person who cuts red tape sideways.
136 BURGACIDE (burg' uh side) n. When a hamburger can't take any more torture and hurls itself through the grill into the coals.
137 BUZZACKS (buz' aks) n. People in phone marts who walk around picking up display phones and listening for dial tones even when they know the phones are not connected.
138 California raisins murdered! Cereal killer suspected.
139 Can you be a closet claustrophobic?
140 Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly car payment is due.
141 CARPERPETUATION (kar' pur pet u a shun) n. The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string or a piece of lint at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.
142 CASHTRATION (n.) The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
143 CATERPALLOR (n.) The colour you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.
144 Cats - the other white meat
145 CAUTION - Driver legally blonde!
146 Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
147 Chaos, Panic, Disorder, my work here is done!
148 CHEVROLET - Can Hear Every Valve Rap On Long Extended Trips.
149 CHEVROLET - Cheap, Hardly Efficient, Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time.
150 Children are often spoiled cause nobody will spank Grandma!
151 Cigarette; n, A fire at one end, a fool at the other, and a bit of tobacco in between.
152 Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult
153 Clones are people, two
154 Close your eyes and press escape three times.
155 COLE'S LAW: Thinly sliced cabbage
156 Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good.
157 Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
158 Constipated People Don't Give A Crap.
159 Corduroy pillows: They're making headlines!
160 Could you drive any better if I shoved that cell phone up your rear end?
161 Cover me - I'm changing lanes
162 Cowboy foreplay - Git in the pickup!
163 CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 16-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A large motor mount prying tool that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end without the handle.
164 Dam right I'm good in bed! I can sleep for days!
165 Dance - The vertical expression of horizontal desire.
166 Dear Lord, if you can't make me skinny, please make my friends Fat.
167 Death to all fanatics.
168 DECAFLON (n.) The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
169 Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm
170 Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.
171 Did you know that beating your head against the wall uses 150 calories an hour?
172 DIMP (dimp) n. A person who insults you in a cheap department store by asking, "Do you work here?"
173 Diplomacy is saying "nice doggy" until you can find a big rock.
174 DISCONFECT (dis kon fect') v. To sterilize the piece of candy you dropped on the floor by blowing on it, somehow assuming this will remove all the germs.
175 Do cemetery workers prefer the graveyard shift?
176 Do fish get cramps after eating?
177 Do hungry crows have ravenous appetites?
178 Do married people live longer than single people or does it just SEEM longer?
179 DO NOT wash this car! It is undergoing a scientific dirt test
180 Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives?
181 Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as "4's"?
182 Do they ever shut up on your planet?
183 Do you know the punishment for bigamy? Two mothers-in-law.
184 Do you want to talk to the man in charge, or the woman who knows what's going on?
185 DODGE - Damn Old Dirty Gas Eater.
186 DODGE - Drips Oil, Drops Grease Everywhere.
187 Does fuzzy logic tickle?.
188 Does the reverse side also have a reverse side?
189 Does Time pass? Yes, it does. How else can you explain Visa bills?
190 Doing the job right the first time gets the job done. Doing the job wrong 14 times gives you job security.
191 Don't annoy the crazy person.
192 Don't be sexist. Broads hate that.
193 Don't be Stupid, we have Politicions for that.
194 Don't drink and drive, you might hit a bump and spill your drink.
195 Don't follow me, I'm lost.
196 Don't get even -- get odd! :¬<thorn>
197 Don't hit me. My lawyer's in jail.
198 Don't laugh, it's paid for.
199 Don't laugh, your daughter might be in this car.
200 Don't like my driving? Then quit watching me.
201 Don't piss me off! I'm running out of places to hide the bodies
202 DON'T STEAL! The IRS dosen't like the competition.
203 Don't you hate it when life doesn't follow the manuals?
204 Donated his body to science before he was done using it.
205 DOPELAR EFFECT (n.) The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when you come at them rapidly.
206 Dosen't play well with others.
207 DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against that freshly painted part you were drying.
208 Driver carries no cash! He's married.
209 Dynamic linking error: Your mistake is now everywhere.
210 E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool that snaps off in bolt holes and is ten times harder than any known drill bit.
211 Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines
212 Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese
213 EARTH FIRST - We'll log the other planets later.
214 EARTH FIRST! We'll strip-mine the other planets later.
215 Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.
216 Earth was interesting, and worth the money I paid for it.
217 Eat a live toad first thing in the morning, and nothing worse can happen to you the rest of the day!
218 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway
219 Eat Well, Stay Fit, Die Anyway
220 ECNALUBMA (ek na leb' ma) n. A rescue vehicle which can only be seen in the rear view mirror.
221 EIFFELITES (eye' ful eyetz) n. Gangly people sitting in front of you at the movies who, no matter which direction you lean in, follow suit.
222 EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 2X4: Used for levering a motorcycle upward off a hydraulic jack.
223 ELBONICS (el bon icks') n. The actions of two people maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater.
224 ELECELLERATION (el a cel er ay' shun) n. The mistaken notion that the more you press an elevator button the faster it will arrive.
225 ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning steel Pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age, but it also works great for drilling mounting holes in fenders just above the brake line that goes to the rear wheel.
226 Eleven tons of hair stolen. Police combing area.
227 Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery.
228 Entropy isn't what it used to be
229 Error: Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue.
230 ESCHEW OBFUSCATION. (means avoid confusion/overcomplication)
231 Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
232 Every solution breeds new problems and every problem costs money.
233 Everybody repeat after me... "We are all individuals."
234 Everyone already knows the definition of a 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away. But very few know the definition of a 'great landing.' It's one after which you can use the airplane another time.
235 Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.
236 Everyone is born lefthanded, you turn righthanded after you commit your first sin.
237 Everyone should believe in something, I believe I'll have another Beer.
238 Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
239 EXTRATERRESTAURANT (n.) An eating place where you feel you've been abducted and experimented on. Also known as ETry.
240 Fail-safe systems tend not to fail safe.
241 Families are like fudge .. mostly sweet with a few nuts.
242 FAUNACATED (adj.) How wildlife ends up when its environment is destroyed. Hence FAUNACATERING (n.), which has made a meal of many species.
243 Feel safe tonight ... Sleep with a cop.
244 Fell out of the family tree.
245 Few women admit their age, few men act it.
246 FIAT - Feeble Italians Attempt Transportation.
247 FIAT - Fix It Again, Tony.
248 Fight Crime: Shoot Back!
249 Finger me, I have a .plan...
250 First guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!" Second guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive."
251 First Law of Economics: You can't sell product to people without money.

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