does anyone remember the old shell with platformate ads from the 60's?
i'm not sure if these commercials were on the up and up. they probably weren't. but i can tell you that air pressure in your tires has a 100% effect on gas mileage.
the air pressure in my bicycle will very slowly go down as i happily pedal my way around the city. it goes down so slowly that you don't notice anything from day to day until one day a light goes on your head that things ain't right. time to squeeze the tires. sure enough they've lost a little air. after filling them up the difference is like night and day. i have a few little hills that i'll coast down and see how far the black addder will roll. the rolling distance with hard vs soft tires is substantially greater.
hard is good ;)
i love you properly inflated sons of bitches.
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I suppose hard means less energy loss from squishing and scraping. But is there such a thing as too hard?
I remember that commercial; that's why I put a big scoop of "Platformate" on my cereal every morning to help me make it through the day.
I don't recall that old ad and I worked part time in a Shell station in the 60's. Of course I never watched much TV in the 60's.
Remember the old Exxon ads with Tony the tiger? How do you get a tiger in your tank?
Kick it in the gas hole.
But is there such a thing as too hard?
Sometimes, mostly relating to race cars and such.
I'm fond of hard too..I don't remember that commercial but I do like that guys voice..
I'm more than wiling to 'lend a hand' with the hard stuff.
I can't believe I said that..
gb - i don't like my ice cream too hard.
robert - platformate, the wonder drug! maybe it could eliminate the trade deficit.
billy - i remember the tiger tails we got at the gas station. you weren't cool with out a tiger tail sewed to your ball cap.
yellowdog - god bless you, i think billy would like a helping hand.
granny is naughty! Ain't it wonderful? SMILE
Interesting that the black cars are get bad mileage and the white ones get good mileage. Also in the closing monologue the mention "good gas from this clean white pump."
They also didn't tell you about the other difference. All the black cars had the emergency brakes on and were kept in second gear. I remember that add and also the tiger tails. We used to put them on our bikes. Exxon was known as Esso back then.
B.P.,
Met you over at The Swash Zone.
I have tell you that Billy Pilgrim is one of my favorit literary characters in all fiction.
I'm so thrilled to find that he's got a blog!
"If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice."
Poh-tee-weet!
yellowdog - god bless you, i think billy would like a helping hand.
She doesn't like Billy, bless that bitches heart. I like her but we just can't get along.
It's okay, something tells me that her tits are too big for my liking.
Hell, a skinny little guy like me with a hernia that should be on the bottom couldn't even give her a good eight second ride.
She'd squash my sorry ass. Hehehehe
Big tits are a sure sign of over inflation, hahahaha
charlene - kinda like an old western with the good guys in the white hats.
mr wit - i'm thinking they let half the air out of the black car's tires. we still have esso stations. lucky us.
shaw - welcome to the monkey house. i'm relaxing in a barcalounger on my way to see montana.
billy - be nice.
It's funny you mention tire pressure. We got a flat on the way to Thanksgiving and my STBX went on and on about tire pressure. And it made perfect sense.
billy - be nice.
Um, can't I also be honest?
That commercial's just a BIT before my time.
I wonder how much further the cars with platformate went.
When I was a kid and we'd run out of gas my pops would just release the Trunk Monkeys and they would push the car to the nearest gas station.
One tragic day we ran out of gas and pops opened the trunk and the Trunk Monkeys were dead, I had forgotten to feed them. That's when we could have used some Platformate!
I remember that propaganda.
As Mr Nit Wit said,there was no Exxon then, part of what became Exxon was Esso or Enco. Actually Humble Oil Company as I recall.
Did I win?
billy - to be nice or to be honest, that's a question that's plagued mankind for centuries. you decide.
tex - talk to billy about monkeys, he wrote the book on them.
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