Всё понятно.
Чего ты не смог восстановить?

+ В последнем слове две опечатки, а не одна.

Всё смог, только поначалу затормозил. Верно насчёт последнего слова, да.

Не уверен насчет faxing the cat, но сил думать уже нет.

винить малину, разумеется.

Vaxing the hat?

Так требовали, вроде, по одной очепятке в слове...

Так а тут сколько?

От исконного варианта - по две.

Так я ж имею в виду, что это возможная расшифровка такая, т.е. другой как бы исходный вариант. Ничем не хуже, между прочим!

aw, shut...

That's the part that hung me up as well. I'm pretty sure "waxing the car" is intended.

Steve
http://www.languagehat.com/

I was almost sure of it as well, until I got elcour's version: "fixing"

Except that one is far more likely to wax one's own car than to "fix" it, unless one happens to be a mechanic or serious auto buff.

Thus it a near stony!

I near stony?
O near stony?

Here (select to see):

He had to reach the shop before closing time.
Walking hurriedly along, he checked his watch. Only one minute now, even less...
And it was all his own fault. Had he left earlier, there would not be such a rush. He had been _faxing the cat_ and not noticed that the time was passing so quick.
He picked up pace, then saw the shop over on the corner. The lights were lit. Against all the odds, it was still open!
He ran even faster, dashed over the road—
—and made it.
But the door was locked.
"Ah, shit!" he exclaimed.

Not sure about "faxing the cat," either. "Waxing the car" sounds probable.

BTW, I would've thought it should be "picked up THE pace" and "against all___odds" (w/o THE).

Yeah. He had to change the idioms to maintain the typo-in-every-second-word shtick. It does look a bit unnatural this way... not a big deal though.

It's "fixing the car"

Krem