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How 1 Al LIE CAAAAAREAS If you want your fast food fast you should know how to order in luncheonette lingo the language of waiters and waitresses It's boring to say "I'd like two scram bled eggs on toast with a cup of black coffee to go" Next time you're at the counter try placing the same order this way: "Gimme Adam and Eve on a raft and wreck 'em Draw one in the dark and make it 43 for my friend to walk' The waitress will get your point She's been using the following short-order shorthand for years: Gee Ace with Tommy: grilled cheese with tomato sandwich BLT: bacon lettuce and tomato sandwich stretch one: a coke red stretch: cherry coke a smear: with butter burger burger with french fries burger and make it cry: with onions Grade milk a bowl: today's soup one in: a chocolate ice cream soda two looking at you: two eggs sunny-side up black cow: chocolate milk draw one: coffee draw one in the dark: black coffee 49: make the food extra good to walk: take-out order ESE Ajar What you keep jam in Band-aid Fund for needy musicians Beechnut Someone crazy about beaches Cabbage The age of a taxi Denial Egyptian river Hatchet What a hen does to an egg Nothing Balloon with the skin peeled off Politics A parrot that has swallowed a watch Raisins Worried grapes Plumber A drain surgeon oll a POINEIMIIIMMIONIIIII PIIIIMIMII ACIVPII-EmENT Don't Miss the Star Wars Issue of ir7-111 wow :310 otr Magazine! sions which are the most dangerous With a side collision the hit car spins and the stunt driver avoids getting Itie full force of the hit 'When we were filming The French Connection" Alex remembered "a stray car wandered into the scene It caused the crash car to hit my car before it was supposed to Luckily the otherdriver didn't panic He hit my car at the pivot point causing me to spin out of the way No one was hurt that time In fact it looked so good we kept it in the picture" Stunt people are paid quite a lot of money but as Alex Stevens said 'They earn every bit of it but there are some stunts that aren't worth doing no matter what the pay is A producer wanted me to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge He asked how much I'd charge I told him $20000 and a 00000 insurance policy for my knew I wouldn't live through it! Of course I turned downthe job but he found a young inexperienced stunt man to do it Unfortunately he tried it and was killed "That's why I always say if I don't think I can getup and do the stunt over again I Won't do it the first time" So that's how stunt drivers live to tell about their stunts: they're smart enough to say "no" every once in a while iii Lit: EkTsf QQ0 I A )13 El -1 IWO Pg a Car chases have been a big part of movies ever since the first movies were made Who drives the cars that collide with each other and sometime hurtle through the air? Specially trained men and stunt them Dynamite spoke with Alex Stevens who is the head of the East Coast Stunt Men's Association He is a top stuntman who has appeared in nearly every film made in New York in the past 20 years He told us that stunt driving like any other stunt is the combination of the skill and timing of the stunt person plus the careful preparation of the equipment and some fancy editing and special effects I Before any stunt can be filmed alot of planning is done The stunt man discusses the effectwith the director" Alex explained "It's up to the stunt man to decide what's possible and what isn't" 4 In car crashes for example the stunt man has to calculate mathematically how fast the car must go in order to hit another car at just the right momerit If the calculations are just off it can mean serious injury for the drivers The point where the cars hit has to be worked out very carefully also Drivers usually try to plan crashes where one car hits another's side They try to avoid head-on colli- Car chase movies evei were made' collide with hurtle throt trained drivel Dynamite who is the Stunt Men's stuntman wh every film past 20 yea' driving like combination the stunt pc preparation some fancy fects Before an of planning i discusses thi Alex explain man to decii what isn't" In car cra stunt man ha 'Gaily how fas to hit anothel ment If the off it can mc drivers The has to be Iv( also Drive crashes whe side They tr There's a flying saucer toy in the Star Wars issue of WOW Magazine! 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