[DeTomaso] A little Ford joke to ease the tension here!

[Dave Londry]

That was outstandingly bad!!!!
Proud ain't ya.

JJD1010 at aol.com wrote:
>      
> The Goldberg Brothers - The  Inventors of the Automobile Air Conditioner.  
> Here's a little factoid  for automotive buffs or just to dazzle your 
> friends. 
> The four Goldberg brothers,  Lowell, Norman, Hiram, and Max, invented and 
> developed the first  automobile air-conditioner.  On July 17, 1946, the 
> temperature in  Detroit was 97 degrees. 
> The four brothers walked into  old man Henry Ford's office and sweet-talked 
> his secretary into telling  him that four gentlemen were there with the 
> most exciting innovation in  the auto industry since the electric starter.  
> Henry was curious and  invited them into his office.  They refused and instead 
> asked that he  come out to the parking lot to their car.  They persuaded him 
> to get  into the car, which was about 130 degrees, turned on the air 
> conditioner,  and cooled the car off immediately. 
> The old man got very excited  and invited them back to the office, where he 
> offered them $3 million for  the patent.  The brothers refused, saying they 
> would settle for $2  million, but they wanted the recognition by having a 
> label, 'The Goldberg  Air-Conditioner,' on the dashboard of each car in which 
> it was  installed. 
> Now old man Ford was more than  just a little anti-Semitic, and there was 
> no way he was going to put the  Goldberg's name on two million Fords.  They 
> haggled back and forth  for about two hours and finally agreed on $4 million 
> and that just their  first names would be shown. 
> And so to this day, all Ford  air conditioners show – Lo, Norm, Hi, and Max 
> -- on the controls.    
> I can hear your groans from  here.  Control yourself!!!  Just forward  it.
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