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Re: senior poster

Posted By: Joona I Palaste, on host 195.197.251.180
Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2004, at 07:00:46
In Reply To: Re: senior poster posted by Howard on Wednesday, March 3, 2004, at 05:41:28:

> > I and my father once went to a gas station in Espoo, Finland. My father needed to have his car's sparkplugs checked, and wanted to buy new ones just in case. So he asked the staff to check the sparkplugs.
> > Turned out no one of them had even *HEARD* of a "sparkplug". This on a gas station, for cars. Amazing.
>
> Maybe they use a different term, such as "igniters."

The whole incident happened, of course, in Finnish. I translated it to English for the benefit of you readers.
Finnish has only one term for "sparkplug" or "igniter" so the whole question is moot.

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Message:	> > > I and my father once went to a gas station in Espoo, Finland. My father needed to have his car's sparkplugs checked, and wanted to buy new ones just in case. So he asked the staff to check the sparkplugs. > > > Turned out no one of them had even HEARD of a "sparkplug". This on a gas station, for cars. Amazing. > > > > Maybe they use a different term, such as "igniters." > > The whole incident happened, of course, in Finnish. I translated it to English for the benefit of you readers. > Finnish has only one term for "sparkplug" or "igniter" so the whole question is moot.
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