Volvo uses a straight 5 in many of it models (I believe most of them actually but I’m not 100 percent sure).
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I’m not saying skin color doesn’t change over time; what he said was that black babies come out of the womb looking exactly like white babies. He had a charming anecdote about being at the hospital when a black father freaked out on his wife who had just given birth because the baby was white, which he took as a sign that his wife had cheated on him. But, my science teacher explained to him black babies are always born that way, and they all had a good laugh as the baby changed color before their eyes. :rolleyes:
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Well they do come out looking kind of gray. Probably less of a lie and more of an exageration. Most of the newly hatched babies seem to get to their natural color pretty quick.
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Well an odd number of cylinders is still uncommon, except for radial engines (which are in banks of odd number of cylinders)
Brian
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The most common engine in Volkswagens for the last 2 years is an inline five-cylinder 2.5 liter engine.
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Volvo uses a straight 5 in many of it models (I believe most of them actually but I’m not 100 percent sure).
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Volvo 5 cylinder engines
850 1992 to 1997
S/V/70 1998 to 2000
C70 1998-2004
New C70 2005- current
New V70 2001 to current
S80 (Non North America) 1999-2005
S60 2001-current
S80 2003-2005
Other cars with a 5 cylinder
Accura built one in the early 90’s (I don’t recall the model name)
VW built a bunch in the 80’s and 90’s.
Not me but friend. Her teacher told her class that fraternal twins occured when two sperm entered the egg at the same tame. My friends mother was a midwife (actually our mothers were both midwives, that was how we knew eachother) and had explained all the inner workings of the female repoductive system to her daughter. When she tried to explain to the teacher that that simply wasn’t possible, she got in trouble. I forget how. :rolleyes:
We had a good laugh about it though, because my sisters and I are fraternal triplets, and the thought of THREE sperm getting into an egg at the same time was even crazier then two. I think we were all nine or ten years old at the time.
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Well an odd number of cylinders is still uncommon, except for radial engines (which are in banks of odd number of cylinders)
Brian
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I was thinking of Mercedes inline 5 cylinder. And Suzukis inline 3 cylinder.
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-Vowels in English comprise a, e, i, o, u, y, and sometimes w. Yeah, if you’re Welsh!
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There’s worse and less accurate things that you could be told, though it is, admittedly, a little inaccurate. Of course the letters themselves only represent sounds, which in turn are vowels, semi-vowels, or consonants. “w” usually represents a semi-vowel /w/, while “y” can represent both a semi-vowel (as in “yet”) and a true vowel as in “very”. So your teacher was on more solid ground here than with the termites-are-not-animals thing. I’d actually call this less ignorant then the usual aeiou listing.
“You can’t add apples and oranges.”
But if you have one apple and two oranges, don’t you have three fruits? For that matter, if you have two oranges and three chairs, don’t you have five objects? Seems to me that any objects can be added.
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Bearing in mind that I went to Catholic school during the 60s, it shouldn’t be surprising that the nuns told us that only Catholics can go to heaven. This, of course, upset me because I had non-Catholic friends and it didn’t seem fair that they would go to hell just because their parents didn’t know that they *had * to be Catholic.
Small wonder I’m lapsed now…
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Of course only Catholics go to Heaven, it’s the place where they get to feel guilty for eternity. 
Why would non-Catholics even WANT to go to Catholic Heaven?
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As for me, I was told that Caesarean sections (“kejsarsnitt” in Swedish, direct translation is “Emperor’s cut”) were called that because the wives of emperors had them so they wouldn’t have to go through the pain of childbirth. My tiny little self of course accepted this uncritically, and it wasn’t until I was much older that I realized that major surgery in a pre-germ theory, pre-anaesthetic era isn’t exactly preferable a natural childbirth.
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Not only that, but it’s almost certain Gaius Julius Caesar was not delivered by C-section as is commonly believed – because it is a matter of historical record that his mother, Aurelia, lived to a ripe old age. The procedure probably is actually named for a Roman law, the Lex Caesarea, promulgated by some other statesman from the family of the Julii Ceasares, providing that a woman dying in the last months of pregnancy could be cut open in a last-ditch effort to save the baby. The first recorded instance when the mother survived a C-section was in the Sixteenth Century, when a Swiss pig-gelder named Jacob Neufer used his handy gelding tools on his wife after the doctors had given her up; Frau Neufer not only survived, but went on to bear several more children by vaginal delivery. Those Swiss keep everything so clean . . . (That fun fact is in The American Way of Birth, by Jessica Mitford.)
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A third told us airplanes flew by “floating on a cushion of air”.
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Well, they do. The Bernoulli effect makes the air pressure on the wing’s lower surface higher than the air pressure on the upper surface.
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For me, the bitterest lie was that Marie Antoinette said “Let them eat cake.” (Probably because I lost a mark on a test for contradicting this bald-faced lie, with cited sources. Slanderous bastards.)
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I had a French teacher in Seventh Grade who told us that. Didn’t learn the truth until much, much later.
On a related note, I was talking to a friend about a mutual friend who recently got his US citizenship. For some reason, we were talking about the American Civil War. I said something along the lines of, “So most people believe that the cause of the war was slavery.”
My friend said that our friend was being briefed on the citizenship exam and one of the sample questions was about the causes of the Civil War. The soon to be American started talking about tariffs, economic differences and the like. The briefer said, “Yeah, but just stick with slavery.”
Sgt Schwartz
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This may not have been so much a “lie” as a situation of “we don’t yet know what the fuck we are talking about”. Back when I was in Jr. High – probably around 1982 or so – somebody came in to the classes to do a presentation on AIDS.
According to Wikipedia, it looks like the name “AIDS” was coined right around then, so I guess the study and understanding of the disease was still in its early years.
However, in this “presentation”, they told us that AIDS was caused by (or had something to do with) the use of an illegal drug called “poppers”, and the reason that it was mostly spreading in the homosexual community was that these were the most common users of this (I presume recreational) drug.
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Believe it or not, some people still believe something of the kind. Alternative-health guru Gary Null insists HIV is merely an “opportunistic infection” of AIDS patients and the disease is actually caused by lifestyle habits which weaken the immune system – such as doing lots of drugs, staying up all night dancing, having sex very frequently; as men in urban gay scenes used to do back in the '70s when the disease first appeared. I heard him say that on a talk show once.
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On a related note, I was talking to a friend about a mutual friend who recently got his US citizenship. For some reason, we were talking about the American Civil War. I said something along the lines of, “So most people believe that the cause of the war was slavery.”
My friend said that our friend was being briefed on the citizenship exam and one of the sample questions was about the causes of the Civil War. The soon to be American started talking about tariffs, economic differences and the like. The briefer said, “Yeah, but just stick with slavery.”
Sgt Schwartz
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The briefer was right. All other causes of the war went back to slavery one way or another. E.g., high tariffs favored the industrialized North at the expense of the agrarian South – but the South was agrarian mainly because the institution of slavery froze out industrial development.
OK, OK.
I was aware of 3 cyl engines, but did not know of 5.
And apparently 3 and 5 are more common than I thought.
Brian
Also, it may have been more ture when Omegaman was in school. Were there many 3/5 cyl engines 15 years ago?
Brian
“I love you.”
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The briefer was right. All other causes of the war went back to slavery one way or another. E.g., high tariffs favored the industrialized North at the expense of the agrarian South – but the South was agrarian mainly because the institution of slavery froze out industrial development.
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Well, damn, BrainGlutton, I have been searching the 'net for something I could use to support my argument that the Civil War was not about slavery. I was taught that it was something to use to rally the troops, so to speak. I have belived for the last quarter century that slavery was a secondary cause of the war and that the agrarian economy and the tariffs were the most important cause of the war. I even read through the Declaration of Causes of Seceding States and saw slavery was cited in all.
I hate admitting that I am wrong, but I actually believed, deeply what I was taught.
Ignorance fought for today. 
Sgt Schwartz
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Also, it may have been more ture when Omegaman was in school. Were there many 3/5 cyl engines 15 years ago?
Brian
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Wasn’t the Geo Metro a 3 cyl? (mind you I’m a total girly-girl when it comes to knowing anything about cars so it’s likely I’m totally wrong about this)