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Talk about your inconsistent hyphens...Anna-Strophic  
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I think my poetic license just expired!
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Geoff, who is a mechanic, says that the gas nozzle release device is a "vacuum break".
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I suspect Bingley digests all fragments.
Are you suggesting that I no longer have the sylph-like figure of my youth? If so, you're quite right, and it probably is due to digesting too many fragments.
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Newfoundland is most definitely NOT the same as TorontoI KNOW! but what makes you think I'm from (shudder) TORONTO?! Please! gaaaaahhhhhhh! I'm from Kingston (it's slightly less bad). Maybe nozzle locks, vacuum whatsits or whatever, are an Ontario phenom? I remember filling up at a station in Brockville (getting closer to you, Bean, by a very little bit! ) and not only was there no nozzle lock, but you had to flip a metal plate from one side to t'other in order to get the petrol flowing. I had not encountered this before (have only been filling up a car - mine own! - since 1998!) so I stood there at the pump, with the nozzle in the gas tank, wondering why nothing was happening when I squeezed the trigger (hey, maybe it should've been called a trigger lock!) - until...the station attendant got on the intercom to the pump island and told me what I had to do. Just a very little bit embarrassing....When are They going to standardise petrol pumps, anyway?!
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When are They going to standardise petrol pumps, anyway?!
About the time we all agree that it is standardized gas pumps.
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what makes you think I'm from (shudder) TORONTO?!
Well, since you don't actually say where you're from, and you've mentioned Stratford and Toronto (or is it their film festival?) in other posts, Toronto seemed like a good representative city of what the rest of us call "Southern Ontario". It's all the same weather, anyway (which I believe is what affects their choice of not using flow-locks in most of the country - apparently they fail much more readily in the cold).
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I've been in Britain for 18 months now, and I've yet to find either a petrol station which provides anything remotely resembling "service" or one that has nozzle locks on its pumps. It's very much a "take it (yourself) or leave it (as if we care)" society ...
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Wot the 'ell, Juan? Whence all this expertise at gas pumping? New Jersey is, far as I know, the only state where there are no self-service gas stations, it being agin the lawr to pump yer own. What was the point of that, by the way? Saving jobs?
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