[O-cha]

Originally Posted by MFGJR

Perhaps “masculinity” was a poor choice of words—“gear headed to the point of obsession/stupidity” or something is probably more on point... i.e., yeah, the guy with 100 weedeaters wins!

Wish I could find the original Peter Egan column online; he’s a terrific, sentimental and sometimes whimsical writer and “dumb as hell” isn’t something one would usually attribute to him. (If that was instead aimed at me, well then that’s a different story altogether…)

So the guy with a lawn care business that doesn't even know the difference between supercharger and a turbocharger is the biggest gearhead? I fail to see how 100 weedwhackers = gearhead. Even having lots of legitimate toys doesn't make you a gearhead.

Again, it's a stupid measurement, of a measurement that is stupid to begin with; Stupid^2

Being a good writer doesn't mean your ideas can't be stupid.

[Efthreeoh]

Well just to set the record straight, it's a Stihl HT-101 Pole Saw, not an air pump. Had one bothered to check, the Stihl 4-Mix engine is pretty neat and has a connection to BMW. Back in the '30s BMW made an aircraft engine that was a 4-stroke cycle but used 2-stroke fuel pre-mix in order to avoid the complications of using an oil sump in an aircraft application. A Stihl engineer saw the engine in the BMW museum in Germany and developed the engine type for various Stihl products. Thought some of the gear-heads would find it interesting.

But I digress...

[Clifton]

Originally Posted by ENINTY

Well just to set the record straight, it's a Stihl HT-101 Pole Saw, not an air pump. Had one bothered to check, the Stihl 4-Mix engine is pretty neat and has a connection to BMW. Back in the '30s BMW made an aircraft engine that was a 4-stroke cycle but used 2-stroke fuel pre-mix in order to avoid the complications of using an oil sump in an aircraft application. A Stihl engineer saw the engine in the BMW museum in Germany and developed the engine type for various Stihl products. Thought some of the gear-heads would find it interesting.

But I digress...

Funny that you assumed I was talking about you. Sometimes the shoe just fits I suppose...but I digress....