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    Image of Brian Brian
    01:56 PM

    In reply to Henry Ford Did Not Invent The Assembly Line
    Wait, what? So the story I've always heard about Ford being inspired by visiting a Swiss watch factory is false? Or did you mean that Olds was the first to do the assembly line thing for automobile manufacturing?

    /confused
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    01:09 PM

    In reply to Henry Ford Did Not Invent The Assembly Line
    Pink Floyd is the greatest rock band of all time?

    Pfft! Lemmy=God. Everyone knows that.
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    Image of OldeEnglishD OldeEnglishD
    02:14 PM

    @scroggzilla raids again: Motorhead FTW! Good call
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    Image of theeastbaykid theeastbaykid
    01:06 PM

    In reply to Henry Ford Did Not Invent The Assembly Line
    Olds invented the assembly line, but it was covered in such bad plastic and marketed so poorly that no one noticed.
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    Image of KillerBRacer KillerBRacer
    01:35 PM

    @theeastbaykid: Ha-ha-ha!!
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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    12:50 PM

    In reply to Henry Ford Did Not Invent The Assembly Line
    Blasphemy! I knew that, of course I lived across the river from the Olds plant for years. My father and my grandfather both worked for Olds. We used to have a Motor Wheel plant and drop forges and all kinds of stuff. Now we have "lofts" and lots of empty lots and factories. Bummer.

    I have a bike, you can ride it if you like...
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    Image of skaycog skaycog
    12:32 PM

    In reply to Henry Ford Did Not Invent The Assembly Line
    Oh, no! I shall cry myself to sleep tonight. I think my Christmas is ruined now.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    12:23 PM

    In reply to The Christmas Truck: One Dream, 3,000 lights
    There's no way this could happen in England.
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    12:14 PM

    In reply to Henry Ford Did Not Invent The Assembly Line
    Before I refreshed and started reading this page, I had the Another Brick in the Wall Part II (Education) solo going off in my head. That's right, I said before. XD

    Synchronicity --- [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    12:38 PM

    @bmoreDLJ: And I was into the 3rd track ("Mother") of Lazy's Floyd - A Chillout Exprience. Coooool.
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    Image of Jon Jon
    01:04 PM

    @beercheck: As close as I can come to synchronicity here is that I was listening to A Momentary Lapse of Reason on my drive home yesterday.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    02:08 PM

    @Jon: Close enough. Now, if anyone else has moved on to The Hives' Black and White album today.... There's something big happening.
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    Image of Ash78, cube farmer Ash78, cube farmer
    12:05 PM

    In reply to Henry Ford Did Not Invent The Assembly Line
    By 1899 an investor by the name of Sam Smith stepped in

    Any relation to the Jalop contributor/assistant?

    Or the beer guy?
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    12:14 PM

    @Ash78, cube farmer: I thought the beer guy was Sam Adams.
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    Image of Franzouse Franzouse
    12:31 PM

    @pauljones: nah, ya'll confused, it's Sam Adams Smith
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    01:08 PM

    @Franzouse: I prefer Sam Jackson beer myself.
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    Image of oddfish oddfish
    01:37 PM

    @discontinuuity is tentatively testing the waters of Murlopnik Weekend before plunging again into the fridgid waters that are Jalopnik proper: Good motherfucking choice, motherfucker.
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    Image of Steve_in_NC Steve_in_NC
    12:02 PM

    In reply to Henry Ford Did Not Invent The Assembly Line
    Success determines history.
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    11:44 AM

    In reply to The Christmas Truck: One Dream, 3,000 lights
    Just the other night here in Miami, I saw a '90s Cadillac Seville covered in multicolored LEDs to the same effect as this truck. Very striking in the dark.
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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    11:31 AM

    In reply to The Christmas Truck: One Dream, 3,000 lights
    I so hope that thing has the lighted valve stem covers on it. Moar lights...
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    10:43 AM

    In reply to The Christmas Truck: One Dream, 3,000 lights
    So a $200,000 Lamborghini catches on a fire, but this does not? Finally, justice for the little guy.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10:28 AM

    In reply to The Christmas Truck: One Dream, 3,000 lights
    SAAAAAALUUUUUUUUUUUTE!*
    The ONLY way this could be more awesome--and it's already awesome beyond awesome--would be to have the signal lights connected, so the right or left side would blink appropriately. That is the only possible addition I could think of.

    *HeeHaw reference for all you young hipsters.
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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    10:21 AM

    In reply to The Christmas Truck: One Dream, 3,000 lights
    I'm seeing more SUVs with lights decorating their roof racks. Battery-powered LED strings make it easy to set up. I might do it to our Freestyle to wow our kids (5 and 2).
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10:25 AM

    @Jeb_Hoge: I'll keep an eye out for you here in the R.
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    Image of Steve_in_NC Steve_in_NC
    10:18 AM

    In reply to The Christmas Truck: One Dream, 3,000 lights
    The light parade in Ida Michigan.

    45 min south of Detroit.

    The bestest ever.
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    Image of Steve_in_NC Steve_in_NC
    10:23 AM

    @Steve_in_NC:
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    Image of ozyran ozyran
    10:27 AM

    @Steve_in_NC: Now that's just creepy looking. Kind of like Halloween meets Friday the 13th at Elm Street for Christmas creepy.
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    Image of Steve_in_NC Steve_in_NC
    10:30 AM

    @ozyran: I think Tim Burton is driving it.
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    Image of Kamen Rider Kamen Rider
    10:39 AM

    @Steve_in_NC: Looks like the abominable snowman ate a bunch of X-mas cookies and shit that bus out!
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    Image of Steve_in_NC Steve_in_NC
    10:47 AM

    @Kamen Rider: The upload a pic function is FAIL. So this is it.

    maybe this link ?
    [www.christmasinida.com]
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10:47 AM

    @Steve_in_NC: Looks a little ectoplasmic to me.
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