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Episode #1207
title: “Washer Fluid Dynamics”
airdate: 2012-02-18
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Sleeping in the Garage Department
time: 2:10
Kate from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hair from her muffler tailpipe
time: 5:10
Oliver from Mill Valley, California
#car[1994,Toyota] pickup truck (Tacoma started in 1995, so is it 1994 Toyota Hilux?)
Head gasket blew and his friend repaired it.
After the repair they had a bolt left over - from where?
Banjo bolt?
time: 11:30
London from Montezuma, Colorado
time: 16:30
#puzzler hint
music
ads
time: 17:45
Answer to last week’s puzzler (#1206)
time: 20:10
winner Beverly Levine from Greensboro,
North Carolina
time: 21:35
Andrew from Groton, Massachusetts
1995 Subaru Legacy station wagon
Windshield washer only washes the bottom window half
time: 29:20
Joyce from Ellicott City, Maryland
Husband (meditation teacher) calm in person, aggressive driver (mix of Mario Andretti and Tony Soprano)
Women joining men as jerk drivers
time: 35:00
#puzzler upcoming
Music
Break
time: 35:35
Mathematical #puzzler
Gold rush, stumble out of saloon
Game of chance, colored cards
time: 39:15
Achala Chatterjee from Huntsville, Alabama / Riverside, California
Bottom of car scrapes on sloped driveway
Scrapes exhaust system
time: 45:05
Matthew from Savannah, Georgia
14 years old
Difficulty washing car
time: 51:00
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