{"id":194,"date":"2004-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viermalvier.de\/archiv\/?p=194"},"modified":"2004-06-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T00:00:00","slug":"the-manufacturer-of-land-rovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.viermalvier.de\/archiv\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"the manufacturer of Land Rovers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not many people know that the manufacturer of Land Rovers attempted to market a computer.<\/p>\n<p>Why did they stop?<\/p>\n<p>They could not find a way to get it to leak oil! A Land Rover doesn\u00b4t leak oil, it marks it\u00b4s territory. Did you hear about the man whose Land Rover didn&#8217;t leak oil?<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/><!--more-->\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The factory took it back and worked on it until it did. Did you hear the one about the guy that peeked into a Land Rover and asked the owner &#8222;How can you tell one switch from another at night? They all look the same. &#8220; &#8222;He replied, it does not matter which one you use, nothing happens !&#8220; The Lucas motto: &#8222;Get home before dark.&#8220; Lucas is the patent holder for the short circuit. Lucas &#8211; Inventor of the first intermittent wiper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lucas &#8211; Inventor of the self-dimming headlamp. The three position Lucas switch &#8211; Dim, Flicker and Off. The Original Anti-Theft Device &#8211; Lucas Electrics. &#8222;I have had a Lucas pacemaker for years and have never had any trou&#8230; If Lucas made guns, wars would not start Back in the 70&#8217;s, Lucas decided to diversify its product line and began manufacturing vacuum cleaners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the only product they offered which did not suck. Q: Why do the British drink warm beer? A: Because Lucas makes their refrigeratorsAlexander Graham Bell invented the Telephone.Thomas Edison invented the Light Bulb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joseph Lucas invented the Short Circuit. Recommended procedure before taking on a repair of Lucas equipment: Check the position of the stars,kill a chicken and walk three times clockwise around your car chanting:&#8220; Oh mighty Prince of Darkness protect your unworthy servant..&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Not many people know that the manufacturer of Land Rovers attempted to market a computer. Why did they stop? They could not find a way to get it to leak oil! A Land Rover doesn\u00b4t leak oil, it marks it\u00b4s territory. Did you hear about the man whose Land Rover didn&#8217;t leak oil?<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.viermalvier.de\/archiv\/?p=194\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eure-geschichten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viermalvier.de\/archiv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viermalvier.de\/archiv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viermalvier.de\/archiv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viermalvier.de\/archiv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viermalvier.de\/archiv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.viermalvier.de\/archiv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viermalvier.de\/archiv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viermalvier.de\/archiv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viermalvier.de\/archiv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}