Re: Role of ignition condenser in a distributor?

From: Jim Thompson (thegreatone_at_example.com)
Date: 09/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:56:45 -0700

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:49:09 GMT, Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote:

>In article <0sc8l0dopocvkubu3u9meglbgesc6scp4k@4ax.com>,
> ~^Johnny^~ <nospam@gyrogearloose.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:39:19 GMT, Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote:
>>
>> >Unless, of
>> >course, you're at Radio Shack, where you'll get a look that's not just
>> >puzzled, but positively bovine in its utter lack of anything resembling
>> >the spark (Errr... no pun intended) of intelligence.
>>
>>
>> Be nice!
>
>Be nice, my ass.
>Too damned many people in this world are "being nice" in an effort to
>avoid offending the tender sensibilities of some worthless waste of
>humanity, when what's needed is a good solid smack upside the head with
>a dose of reality.
>
>> A lot of RS stores have gone to Hell in a hand basket, but I resent
>> the stereotype, nonetheless.
>
>Resent it all you like. Your resentment means *EXACTLY NOTHING* to me,
>as my view is dead-on accurate: If you walk into pretty much any Radio
>Shack today, you cannot find anyone with even the amount of electronic
>know-how needed to point you at the capacitor rack, let alone give you
>any useful information to decide why "This one is the one you want,
>rather than that one." You'll find a shitload of salesdroids that'll try
>and sell you a cell-phone when what you want is a 33K resistor, but
>beyond that, you're walking into an intellectual wasteland.
>
>Most of them wouldn't know a capacitor from a resistor from a pimple on
>their ass. Of course, this assumes that the store you walk into even
>*HAS* a capacitor rack. It's getting to the point where Radio Shack
>should seriously consider renaming itself to "Cell phone and satellite
>TV shack" to reflect their true business.
>
>Radio Shack:
>You've got questions, we've got blank stares.
>
>Despite being something of a cliche, it's dead-on accurate in the huge
>majority of RS stores.
>
>And no, I don't care whose feelings I hurt by saying so. Get over it. If
>you don't want to be seen as "the imbecile behind the counter", you've
>got two options: Learn something, or get the hell out. But don't expect
>any touchy-feely "spare your poor sensitive feelings" bull*** from me.
>I call 'em as I see 'em, and if you don't like what I'm seeing, you need
>to change what it is I see. At Radio Shack, I see morons. Don't like
>that? Then change it - Get yourself at least rudimentary education in
>the field you're supposedly working in, so that when I come in with a
>question, you've got an actual answer, instead of a blank stare or a
>line of bull*** that's so obvious even a blind man couldn't miss seeing
>it.
>
>Izzat clear enough for you to understand, "Johnny"?

There was an RS "droid" who really cracked me up trying to convince me
that a gold-anodized antenna was required to receive color signals ;-)

                                        ...Jim Thompson 

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