"Gather Ye Rose Buds"

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Dplass
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#61

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boharr wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:17 am Terrific puzzle, whimsy. But now we need one on baseball or cars or the like. I mean if I can spend umpteen minutes trying to figure out what the heck a Coreopsis is, well then surely others could spend that amount of time determining who the last guy who hit .400 was or that a 409 is simply a bored and stroked ???
According to https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/ins ... vy-409-v8/ the 409 wasnt necessary bored and stroked though they can be.
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#62

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Dplass wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:49 am
boharr wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:17 am Terrific puzzle, whimsy. But now we need one on baseball or cars or the like. I mean if I can spend umpteen minutes trying to figure out what the heck a Coreopsis is, well then surely others could spend that amount of time determining who the last guy who hit .400 was or that a 409 is simply a bored and stroked ???
According to https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/ins ... vy-409-v8/ the 409 wasnt necessary bored and stroked though they can be.
The 409 was basically a bored and stoked 348. Chevy didn't quite do it that way when they made the 409, but one could.
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boharr wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:52 am The 409 was basically a bored and stoked 348. Chevy didn't quite do it that way when they made the 409, but one could.
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#65

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boharr wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:52 am
Dplass wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:49 am
boharr wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:17 am Terrific puzzle, whimsy. But now we need one on baseball or cars or the like. I mean if I can spend umpteen minutes trying to figure out what the heck a Coreopsis is, well then surely others could spend that amount of time determining who the last guy who hit .400 was or that a 409 is simply a bored and stroked ???
According to https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/ins ... vy-409-v8/ the 409 wasnt necessary bored and stroked though they can be.
The 409 was basically a bored and stoked 348. Chevy didn't quite do it that way when they made the 409, but one could.
True. My LBC has a 2L inline 6 so 409 cid is huge.
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#66

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boharr wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:17 am Terrific puzzle, whimsy. But now we need one on baseball or cars or the like. I mean if I can spend umpteen minutes trying to figure out what the heck a Coreopsis is, well then surely others could spend that amount of time determining who the last guy who hit .400 was or that a 409 is simply a bored and stroked ???
Oh, I disagree.

If you need to know what a coreopsis is, you can just ask your roommate or someone who gardens. But to find out who the last guy who hit .400 was you have to find someone who follows football or basketball or something. And, realistically, how likely are you to run across someone like that in your average workweek?
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I've a buddy who I can ask anything and 9,999,999 times out of 10,000,000 will have hundreds, if not thousands of answers, most of them on point and correct.

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