26 Sep
2006
26 Sep
'06
2:03 p.m.
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:25:27 -0500
Mark Tapley <mtapley at swri.edu> wrote:
(1) I'm curious about the etymology - where does
the expression
"kreidlered" come from?
Once upon a time there was the legendary German
brand "Kreidler" of
motorcycles (mopeds). Kreidlers had the habit of faling for no reason.
You dissassembled your Kreidler in the hope to find somthing broken that
you could fix. Usually there was nothing broken to find. So you
reassembled it again without any specific repair applied and the
Kreidler worked again magicaly.
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Jochen
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