1962 Honda Safety Guide

That's the legal dept happy then.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

Not I, though I do recall with fondness the manual for the original
RD350LC which exhorted owners not to drink the battery acid, and then
solemnly printed a recipe (involving milk) for some concoction to drink
should you be foolish enough to ignore the manual.

I suppose they had an idea, even then, of the sort of people who were
likely to buy the bikes.

 

The Older Gentleman said...

<waves>....like a spacker

 

I know I've posted it before, but from a manual for a 1970s Cossack
Urinal, owned by a friend at Uni:

If the xxx (big ends, IIRC) are damaged, consult your local Cossack
dealer. If there is no local Cossack dealer, consult your local
blacksmith".

 

My '82 GPz550 manual had an exhortation against incinerating the forks.

 

I remember that one. They also had a sticker "Do Not Incinerate" on the
forks themselves.

 

Sadly, this is bollocks. Apparently it originated as a space-filler in "The
Autocar" in IIRC 1906, and was knocked out by a couple of journos in seconds
flat. I first read it in the memoirs of the bloke who was American
Ambassador to Japan immediately prior to WW2. He said it was posted in the
Tokyo equivalent of the driving license test centre. It's still very funny,
though!

I had bought the book in a second-hand shop, hoping it would give informed
insights into the diplomatic ping-pong of the 30s. In fact, he was a
24-carat numnutz, and quite the most tediously self-satisfied, humourless,
Puritan and pompous ass you could ever wish not to meet. There was
virtually nothing about international relations; more about what he had for
breakfast.

 

I'll not be surprised if he had dry toast and coffee.

If more people had sausage, two eggs, bacon, fried slice, beans,
tomatoes, tea and a Tunnock's Caramel Wafer for breakfast there would
far fewer wars.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

"Pig Wars"

 

ITYM "Trough Wars"

#;-)>>

 

ISC

 

I'm thinking they'd all be in coronary care and not fighting each other.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

I was wondering why someone'd only eat half a breakfast before
fighting.

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|_\_____/_| ..62661../..14297.../..3157./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
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\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17
'^'

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Grimly Curmudgeon

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Now available (praise be to the Allah) with dark chocolate. Truly, the
food of champions.

 

Shitabrick. I didn't know that. Oh dearie me, my life will not be
complete until I can sample one of them. Oh dear ...

 

<fx: runs to the store>

Shut! Bugger!

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19