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5pnt9ltrluv
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7/22/2002
19:23:32
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For the love of God....NOS is a company that makes nitrous kits people. It is n2o, nitrous oxide, or nitrous. "Fast and the Furious" really, REALLY stuck it in people's heads.
A kid pulled up to me and said he had NOS in his truck. I said "Really, looks like an NX kit to me." He stared at me, puzzled.
Please, let's all band together and stop calling it NOS.
Powerdyne w/ 6#, True dual Flowmaster 40's, MSD 6BTM w/ Blaster SS coil, Taylor 8mm, Flowmetrics 50mm t- body, JBA headers, Autolite 3923's, 180 degree T-stat, , Ported 1.92 R/T heads, 4bbl M1, 24# injectors, Crower 1.7 Roller Rockers, Hotchkis 2/3 w/ Nitro shocks, GTS hood
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CW
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7/22/2002
19:48:46
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NOS :-P
LOL
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WallyR
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7/22/2002
20:00:43
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Don't you just love the power that Hollywood has over the general public??
Technically, it's N20 (2 is subscripted).
Wally
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Chalres
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7/22/2002
20:05:38
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But I couldn't be a cool kid if I actually knew what I was talking about and called it nitrous oxide. JK :) I agree and I think it sounds really stupid to call it NOS.
just my $1.05
Charles
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bbarnes
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7/22/2002
20:11:16
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We all (or at least I do) know that NOS is a brand name, and that it really is nitrous oxide, but are to lazy to type out nitrous oxide instead of simply NOS, where we know that everyone knows what we mean without going all out and typing nitrous oxide...
I agree to stop being so lazy and start calling it by what it really is, nitrous oxide, instead of NOS.
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SuperBee
Dodge Dakota
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7/22/2002
20:23:45
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NAAAAWWWZZZ
lol
i think it sounds gay as well
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Big59er
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7/22/2002
20:36:31
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I just say NOS because im lazy, like barnes said, and I take for granted that people understand more of what im talking about. Its like everyone calling any type of air intake a "RamAir". RamAir is an actual performance company. You just call em ramairs because its the name everyone has become acustomed too.
I for one, would feel the need to re-evaluate my priorities if I were that upset over someone refering to it as NOS. Same goes with people who mispel words... You get the general idea of what they're saying, take it and run.
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SinCity R/T
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7/22/2002
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X-ford
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7/22/2002
21:29:49
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N O S RULE THIS FREAKING PLANET!!!!!!!!!
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durtydog
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7/22/2002
21:36:15
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yeah but i wanted a dell!!!!!!!!!!!!
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7/22/2002
22:07:06
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5pnt9ltrluv:
when are you gonna go on the bottle? man
that thing moves now, it would be untouchable
if....
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sandman
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7/22/2002
22:33:42
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Sincity, did you send me some e-mail? I saw too e-mails from sincity but deleted them. I thought they sounded like a porn site spam message! I never opened them.
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wusses
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7/22/2002
23:27:26
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i think your all a bunch of babies if you have nothing better to do than complain about how what word people use to talk about nitrous oxide,ooh they call it NOS why dont you cry about it.
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Hersbird
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7/22/2002
23:36:44
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Do you need visegrips to install a N20 system? Or can you just use velcro?
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Waltherone
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7/23/2002
00:03:42
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lol that has always bothered the hell outta me--I betcha if we all start sayin things like "i got JBA on my truck" when all we're talkin about is spark plug wires, JBA will become a 'cool' brand.
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SDakotaDude
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7/23/2002
00:27:21
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Lets piss off all the ricers and get huge N2O decals and slap them all over our Dodges.
F*CKIN RICERS, nothin beats eatin a bowl of ricers for breakfast in the mornin.
Just cuz their car sounds like it's constantly farting doesn't mean that little 4-bangin pile o' crap is gonna have a chance against 8 cylinders of american muscle that are pushin 300hp at the wheel.
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Waltherone
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7/23/2002
02:04:21
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*wonders how the discussion turned to ricers*
:)
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Big59er
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7/23/2002
03:17:21
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Waltherone, because ricers are all about the JBA, THE JBA!!!
hehe :P
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mwillis61
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7/23/2002
05:55:12
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I'm in my 40's and where I grew up we called it NOS. NOS= Nitous Oxide System
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yates-in-de
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7/23/2002
06:28:52
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DITTO on the NOS=Nitrous Oxide System, I'm 40.
It's kind of like the generic term (are you ready) WINDOWS. MICROSLOP copyrighted a generic name just like the company (ready) NOS. I started playing with computers a long time before MICROSLOP named their O.S. WINDOWS and for geeks all over the world the term WINDOW or WINDOWS reffered to the box frame that was produced by some programs as a SHELL. Like DOS had a long time before it became MS-DOS. Most games of the time were written to produce a SHELL that was referred to as a WINDOW, to segregate the game play from the other programs that was running.
People have done the same thing with us OLD FARTS and took our generic term NOS and Copyrighted it. If calling all Nitrous Oxide Systems NOS offends you, then I will apologize for future insults to you, 'cause I will always call them NOS.
And I will not be insulted when you call an O.S. WINDOWS that should have never recieved the copyright for it. (they had to buy out the compitition to get it copyrighted and pay off the guy at the copyright office)
Later,
My VW Killer
Lynn
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Topless 68
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7/23/2002
08:53:19
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Its all how people have become accumstomed to a few things....
Kleenex is a brand name, but hardly anyone calls it tissue....its "Can you get me a Kleenex?"...not 'get me a tissue'....
I for one have always called N2O, nitrous...
Anyone remember the Molson Canadian commercial with Joe...
Its the same sort of thing...."A Chesterfield IS a Couch"...ahhaa...i love that!!
My name is Matt...and, I am CANADIAN!!!
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QUADMAN
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7/23/2002
08:54:18
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I'm 30 and where I come from we just call it nitrous or "sprayin".
OPINIONS ARE LIKE....WELL, YOU KNOW THE REST!!
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WallyR
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7/23/2002
09:14:44
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Yates,
Good point. At least around here it was always referred to as N.O.S. or just nitrous. I blame Fast and Furious for the widespread use of "NOS", spoken as a word. Same thing with Coca-Cola. How many times have you seen someone go to a vending machine with Dr.Pepper on it, purchase a root beer but claim they just "got a coke"? Same thing, different day.
Wally
BTW, did you "cut your teeth" on a TRASH-80 or a Commodore 64??
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yates-in-de
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7/23/2002
09:28:08
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A Tandy Suitcase, you know green screen 256k mem, 1 meg H/D 5 1/4 floppy monitor built in, keyboard flops down and used telephone cord for conection.
And 'bought crapped my pants to be able to get a 4 meg h/d and up grade it. Life was good, and I only paid $385 for that 4 meg drive. cheap, just freakin' cheap.
My VW Killer
Lynn
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MikeD
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7/23/2002
09:46:16
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If me and my buddies meet a new car...we ask em if their car is on drugs. ;)
~Mike~
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OnTheBottle
Dodge Dakota
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7/23/2002
10:07:23
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HA!! Chemical dependence for the 21st century...
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SinCity R/T
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7/23/2002
10:15:11
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I don't send out unsolicited e-mails to anybody on the lists unless it's asking for website information or links. More than likely it's someone's computer that is infected with the Klez virus - it shadows random names from people's address books and inserts the name into the 'from' field in the e-mail so you think the mail came from someone else than it really did.
If you right-click on these e-mails and examine the properties of the mail, you'll see the actual author in the mail's details. Because my e-mail address has been added to a lot of address books, I get spammed with infected messages daily... I'm a network administrator so my systems are loaded up with the best anti-virus programs so they all get nipped in the bud.
SinCity R/T
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Demon-Xanth
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7/23/2002
10:48:05
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Just be glad that we left the phrase "hit the turbo" in the '80s. I was a kid and ignorant then, now I realize how STUPID that phrase was.
And iirc, MS does NOT have a registered trademark on the name "Windows", but that doesn't stop them from sueing a company and out lawyering them until they're broke. (they pirated a french company's software and when the company sued forced them into bankruptcy via. legal bills).
...and if you wanna call NOS something else, just call it "laughing gas" and see how many people give you funny looks :)
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yates-in-de
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7/23/2002
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In 1995 MICROSLOP did get the WINDOWS Name registered as a trademark, not necessarily a copyright. That was after buying out the company that was fighting them on the registration of the name WINDOWS as a trademark.
Later,
and by theway folks the only flamin here is MS. Thanks
My VW Killer
Lynn
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7/23/2002
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I was talkin to a couple of guys (late 40's) at
the track a couple of weeks ago. they had a
110 m/hr viper (1/8th mile) bone stock+
exhaust & headers, with 250 shot of nitrous (2
stage)....much respect to guys that go all out
with the bottle.
"bottle fed beast"
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MikeD
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7/23/2002
13:20:31
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Respect? haha Don't you think more respect would be earned if they were doing that w/ that Viper naturally aspirated?
Thats the thing I always thought was funny, people get so much recognition for how fast their car went, then you ask them what they had to make it so fast...150, 200, 250 shot of nitrous. Anyone can buy a bottle of juice and strap it onto their car and it'll pretty much make anything fast. But you know you've accomplished something when you can say you've beat the best all motor and see the look on the guy's face when he finds out your not running nitrous or a blower. It takes fine tuning to make an engine go just as fast w/o nitrous or power adders...now those guys are who deserve the recognition. ;)
~Mike~
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