speed tuning

[Leslie W Bartlett]

Leslie Bartlett M. Mus
16315 Laluna Drive
Houston, TX 77083
281-495-8541
lesbart@juno.com

On Fri, 14 Feb 1997 20:21:42 -0500 (EST) JIMRPT@aol.com writes:
>Andre;
>In a message dated 2/14/97 7:29:33 PM, you wrote:
><<Would you be so kind to explain in detail what        F***
>means?
>I am so curious!>>
>
> Although you wrote this to Barrie in response to his post I am sure
>that the
>Staid English reserved nature, as displayed so well by Barrie, will
>prevent
>him from answering this question. So although it is rather
>presumptuous of me
>to attempt to reply for him, I think I know exactly the four letter
>word that
>he referred to. Actually it was developed as a technical term by 'red
>neck'
>technicians in the South of this country.
> The word of course is "FRAM", verb/adjective/noun, rather
>interchangably.
>"FRAM"-meaning to strike a hard blow or make a decisive movement
>toward
>something. 'I frammed home the hammer shank into the hammer butt."
>Fram has many uses and many of them are rather idiomatic, such as that
>damn
>frammer! ,or this frammer won't fit!
>see also; Frammed, Frammer, Frammee, Framming, and in the most often
>heard
>usage in politics "I don't Framming believe it !"
> As to "Bonkers" and "Framming" just remember you can 'fram' with a
>'bonker'
>but you can't 'bonk' with a 'frammer', unless you break your 'bonker'-
>then
>it becomes that "framming bonker"!
> Andre I do hope I have cleared up this momentary confusion for you.
>:-)
>And Barrie I do hope you will forgive my interceding here. ;-)
>Jim Bryant (FL)
>P.S.I was inspired to this by Horace so any blame or adverse comments
>should
>be sent directly to him.  hgreeley@leland.Stanford.EDU (Horace
>Greeley)
>
>Frankly, this is incredible!  I'll certainly save it. Bravo for your
marvelous job of clarifying.

Leslie Bartlett
>