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Hughlysses
Posted on Monday, November 03, 2014 - 03:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Of the NPR show "Car Talk". These guys still crack me up in re-runs, but it just won't be the same knowing he's not around any more.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/03/360 340663/car-talk-co-host-tom-magliozzi-dies-at-77?u tm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=artslife
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Reepicheep
Posted on Monday, November 03, 2014 - 04:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

So sad. Been a rough month for people I don't know personally but that I like and respect.
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Mtnmason
Posted on Monday, November 03, 2014 - 11:48 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

"Click and Clack. The Tappet brothers"

My dad would listen to them in the car when I was too young to get all their jokes. He would laugh out loud and I did too later on.

Perhaps the only truly wonderful thing to come from npr.
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Chauly
Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2014 - 11:05 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Tom was "Click Tappet".
I used to hang out at their garage back in the 70's in Cambridge. "Hacker's Heaven", later "The Good News Garage". Hacker's was a rent-a-bay/tools place. I was inspired to work for Lamb Lotus as a summer job; I lasted three weeks! It almost ruined my motorheadedness and hobby...
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