Miata Mailing List: September 1999, Message #243

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Dennis, those anti-podeans in Oz stand nearly upside down on the
earth's surface.  How can we expect them to recognize the difference
between equinox and equinox -20?????

Sheesh, give the poor suckers a break!  :-)

Ron Veenker
Bowling Green KY

veenkr-@wku.edu wrote: 
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/miata/?start=70234
> Ah, Jeff, I know the seasons are reversed in the bottom half of the 
> world, BUT they are still based on the equinox & solistice dates. So 
> your Spring equinox and our Autumn equinox are the same date, o/a 
> Sept 22. Does OZ have different official and traditional season start 
> dates? Here in these U.S., the traditional summer start date is the 
> Memorial Day weekend near the end of May with the traditional end 
> date being Labo(u)r Day, the first Monday in September. The official 
> dates are around 22 June & 22 Sept, respectively.
> 
> 
> 
> At 6:45 -0400 9/2/99, Jeff Gehrig wrote:
> >It could probably only happen on the first day of spring! I was
waiting to
> >make a turn yesterday and looked in my rear view (actually we say
rear
> >vision) mirror and there it was  a black '69 Cadillac Convertible
and no,
> >there certainly aren't many of those here. The driver, a pretty
young lady,
> >wearing 60's sunglasses and a leopard skin print scarf to keep her
locks in
> >place, I couldn't see much below her shoulders but I'll bet she was
wearing
> >"pedal pushers". I couldn't help thinking that there had to be a
camera car
> >somewhere, that it was a promotional stunt for something but no, I
think she
> >was just out, as was I, enjoying the first day of spring and a
magnificent
> >day it was too, bettered only by today.
> >    How could anyone, at any time, drive a car that wasn't
convertible?
> >
> >Jeff Gehrig
> >MX5 Club NSW #169
> >'99 Grace Green
> >Oz TeamVoodoo
> >Team Grandpa
> >http://mx5.com.au/nsw
> 
> 
> 
> Miataly,
> Dennis
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