Submitted by drew on
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Traffic Question 5:

What do you do when your car falls into a pothole?

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If you’ve driven in Moline, you know about the potholes. I think the high school has a special driver’s ed section about pot holes and what to do if you fall into one bigger than your car.

It’s not street driving, and it’s not off-roading... it’s called Moline-roading. Jeep offers a Moline-Roading package that comes standard with heavy duty suspension, lift package, and front and rear winches.

My daughter has her own version of The Wheels on the Bus... “go clunkety-clunk, clunkety-clunk, clunkety-clunk”.

The way the city fixes these is the pebble-pooper: it dumps in some gravel and then squirts in some tar. Theoretically, it hardens up and meshes with the road. It sort of works until next time it rains or snows. A few days after application, anyone driving on it sprays gravel and tar everywhere.

So to answer the quiz question... well, that’s left as an exercise for the student.

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Submitted by drew on

It seems there is plenty of interest about how to make RocketDock work with two or more docks or bars. Most answers say to use additional docking programs--one for each dock you want. Or use a commercial program that offers multiple docks. I think RocketDock is excellent except I want more than one. I finally figured out how to do it!

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