P. J. Alling mused:
Which begs the question . . .
This seems to be my nitpick of the day.
To beg a question means to pretend the question doesn't arise,
not to call for an answer to the question.
- Original Message -
From: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Spider (was: Where's Cotty?)
P. J. Alling mused:
Which begs the question . . .
This seems to be my nitpick of the day.
To beg a question means
Hi,
Which begs the question . . .
This seems to be my nitpick of the day.
To beg a question means to pretend the question doesn't arise,
not to call for an answer to the question.
I'm with you, John - I actually won a bet on this the other day.
Unfortunately it's become common usage,
John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
P. J. Alling mused:
Which begs the question . . .
This seems to be my nitpick of the day.
To beg a question means to pretend the question doesn't arise,
not to call for an answer to the question.
Thanks for pointing that out. It's one of my pet peeves,
Bob,
Your knowledge of English usage and the language's history never fails to
astound me. Keep it coming :-)
regards,
Anthony Farr
-Original Message-
From: Bob W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Which begs the question . . .
This seems to be my nitpick of the day.
To
Quoting P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Which begs the question, if he'd never caught any how did the ranger
know...
Bob W wrote:
When we told the ranger back at the camp he just laughed, and said
this particular elephant amused himself by chasing tourists, but had
never caught any, and
Hi,
More likely that with no proper roof the car is often occupied by spiders
(Arachnids) and the driver frequently leaps out yelling Spider!.
LOL, there's little more disconcerting whilst driving than having a big hairy
huntsman spider run across the inside of your windscreen :-)
You've
Antti-Pekka Virjonen
Estera Oy Turku
www.estera.fi
www.computec.fi
-Original Message-
From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 7:24 PM
To: pentax list
Subject: Re: Where's Cotty?
On 18/4/05, Antti-Pekka Virjonen
From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005/04/19 Tue PM 11:59:45 GMT
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: Where's Cotty?
On 4/19/05, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Weapons of mass destruction do not actually destroy mass. The best they can
do is rearrange
On Apr 20, 2005, at 6:39 PM, Bob W wrote:
You've clearly never had a bull elephant jump out from behind a tree
and start charging at you...
That's certainly change-of-trousers-time... but how does an elephant
hide behind a tree? :)
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005/04/20 Wed AM 06:39:50 GMT
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: OT: Spider (was: Where's Cotty?)
Hi,
More likely that with no proper roof the car is often occupied by spiders
(Arachnids) and the driver frequently leaps out yelling Spider
You've clearly never heard of a Baobab tree either. God designed them as
elephant camouflage.
http://www.greatestplaces.org/book_pages/madagascar/baobab.html
The elephants sit in the shade behind them, waiting for unwary
passers-by.
John
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:18:02 +1200, David Mann
On 20/4/05, Rob Studdert, discombobulated, unleashed:
LOL, there's little more disconcerting whilst driving than having a big
hairy
huntsman spider run across the inside of your windscreen :-)
Even more disconcerting to find it is a big hairy huntsman.
Cheers,
Cotty
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On 20/4/05, David Mann, discombobulated, unleashed:
That's certainly change-of-trousers-time... but how does an elephant
hide behind a tree? :)
yeah, they have em up there in Big Sur.
Cheers,
Cotty
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||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com
On 19/4/05, Kenneth Waller, discombobulated, unleashed:
And blame it all on Cotty
I would have apologised in advance, but I was too pathetic.
Cheers,
Cotty
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||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com
_
On 20/4/05, Antti-Pekka Virjonen, discombobulated, unleashed:
Have they ordered the new Disco III for you yet? That sure is one
nice beast ;-).
Sadly I think the Disco III may be over my monthly lease budget. Frankly
even if it wasn't, the Disco seems to be moving a bit too upmarket. I'd
From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005/04/20 Wed PM 01:32:49 GMT
To: pentax list pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: Where's Cotty?
On 20/4/05, Antti-Pekka Virjonen, discombobulated, unleashed:
Have they ordered the new Disco III for you yet? That sure is one
nice beast
Hi,
LOL, there's little more disconcerting whilst driving than having a big
hairy
huntsman spider run across the inside of your windscreen :-)
You've clearly never had a bull elephant jump out from behind a tree
and start charging at you...
I hate it when they hide behind trees. 8-)
Which begs the question, if he'd never caught any how did the ranger know...
Bob W wrote:
Hi,
LOL, there's little more disconcerting whilst driving than having a big hairy
huntsman spider run across the inside of your windscreen :-)
You've clearly never had a bull elephant jump out
Keith Whaley wrote:
Graywolf wrote:
You, know what, you are very authoritive about everything. And mostly
you do not know what you are talking about. I had made the decision
not to reply to any of your posts in the past. I forgot. I will not do
so in the future. Kids!
For others who may be
Cesar wrote:
mike wilson wrote:
Cotty wrote:
On 18/4/05, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed:
So, how do you like your Ford, Cotty (grin)?
Ain't no damn Ford badge on my motor, tosh!
The new ones have Jaguar motors, though.
(The old ones use a Buick).
You're talking about the V8s - I
That's a chickenshit word, it isn't apt, it doesn't apply and is not
appreciated. No call for using thqt sort of language at all!
Oh goody - a neat little war brewing and I'm in the subject line. Can I
just add that I think it's all a load a horse shit? (D'oh - I was saving
that for Brooksy..)
As we are on the subject of inept use of language, I am surprised at you
parrotting that American schoolboy howler: I could care less.
What you mean is that you couldn't care less.
Thus is language debased, even by those who would seek to criticise others.
John
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:31:03
frank theriault wrote:
On 4/18/05, Keith Whaley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Just for that, you don't get to look at a scan of my '58 Guiletta
roadster.
keith whaley
Oh sure, punish all of us because those two can't play nice together! LOL
Oh, don't worry... I'll get that transparency scanned
Cotty wrote:
That's a chickenshit word, it isn't apt, it doesn't apply and is not
appreciated. No call for using thqt sort of language at all!
Oh goody - a neat little war brewing and I'm in the subject line. Can I
just add that I think it's all a load a horse shit? (D'oh - I was saving
that
On 4/19/05, Keith Whaley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
No, a spider is a body style. A lightweight convertible sporting vehicle.
See Pinin Farina who designed the first one for Alfa in the Guilietta
series startiing in 1955.
Many others make one today, not the least of which is Ferrari...
On 4/19/05, Keith Whaley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I apologize for the language herewith. It was an ill-considered and
stupid reaction by me, and I hereby declare a unilateral truce.
Always ready to take the high road (in your Spider), eh Keith? lol
--
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.
Cotty wrote:
Oh goody - a neat little war brewing and I'm in the subject line. Can I
just add that I think it's all a load a horse shit? (D'oh - I was saving
that for Brooksy..)
Oh double goody -- one of my least favorite things (a PDML flame war)
sparked by my favorite marque (Alfa-Romeo). Life
frank theriault wrote:
On 4/19/05, Keith Whaley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I apologize for the language herewith. It was an ill-considered and
stupid reaction by me, and I hereby declare a unilateral truce.
Always ready to take the high road (in your Spider), eh Keith? lol
Age brings with it a
Actually, it's very selfish to apologise. It makes you feel good and the
other guy bad. :-)
John
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 06:45:23 -0700, Keith Whaley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
frank theriault wrote:
On 4/19/05, Keith Whaley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I apologize for the language herewith. It was
From: Stephen Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS: Kudos to the list member who coined the term Pentaxalfisti ;-)
Sounds like a particularly unpleasant sexual practice to me.
-
Email sent from www.ntlworld.com
virus-checked by McAfee
visit
Actually, it's great fun.
John
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:01:24 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Stephen Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS: Kudos to the list member who coined the term Pentaxalfisti ;-)
Sounds like a particularly unpleasant sexual practice to me.
has to be pronounced spy-der or
the like.
So the speeder became a spider? Just my guess.
Bye,
Dario
- Original Message -
From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: Where's Cotty?
On 4/19/05, Keith Whaley [EMAIL
...
PS: Kudos to the list member who coined the term Pentaxalfisti ;-)
...
In French PentaxAlfiste !!
Michel
On Apr 19, 2005, at 4:29 AM, John Forbes wrote:
As we are on the subject of inept use of language, I am surprised at
you parrotting that American schoolboy howler: I could care less.
What you mean is that you couldn't care less.
Thus is language debased, even by those who would seek to criticise
On Apr 19, 2005, at 5:40 AM, frank theriault wrote:
No, a spider is a body style. A lightweight convertible sporting
vehicle.
See Pinin Farina who designed the first one for Alfa in the Guilietta
series startiing in 1955.
Many others make one today, not the least of which is Ferrari...
Yes.
On 19/4/05, Keith Whaley, discombobulated, unleashed:
I apologize for the language herewith. It was an ill-considered and
stupid reaction by me, and I hereby declare a unilateral truce.
deflating sound
;-)
Cheers,
Cotty
___/\__
|| (O) | People, Places, Pastiche
||=|
Cotty wrote:
On 19/4/05, Keith Whaley, discombobulated, unleashed:
I apologize for the language herewith. It was an ill-considered and
stupid reaction by me, and I hereby declare a unilateral truce.
deflating sound
;-)
Glad you explained!
I thought that deflating sound coming from you was an
So when Bush and Blair say They have weapons of mass destruction, they
are simply employing a sarcastic elision of They have no weapons of mass
destruction.
You may possibly be right. But I think a lot of misunderstandings could
be avoided if we eschewed sarcastic elisions and just said
And what about spelling Giulietta instead of Guilietta?
After all, it's not Afla Romoe :-)
Dario
Delightfully British automobile. Morgan came out with a 3 wheel car in about 1910 had a V-Twin motorcycle engine mounted crosswise in front of the radiator between the front wheels. They produced that same basic car until well into the 1950's. Do to British tax laws it was concidered a motorcycle
On Apr 19, 2005, at 8:31 AM, John Forbes wrote:
So when Bush and Blair say They have weapons of mass destruction,
they are simply employing a sarcastic elision of They have no weapons
of mass destruction.
No. When those yokels said They have weapons of mass destruction they
meant We intend to
You don't read much real in-depth news, do you, Godfrey...
You believe all the liberal press and people like Barbara Boxer and
Chucky Shumer and Ted Kennedy tell you, right?
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Apr 19, 2005, at 8:31 AM, John Forbes wrote:
So when Bush and Blair say They have weapons of
On Apr 19, 2005, at 12:14 PM, Keith Whaley wrote:
You don't read much real in-depth news, do you, Godfrey...
Obviously, you know nothing about what I read or don't read. You came
up with that condescending and idiotic tirade on the basis of some
joking about understanding the English language.
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Apr 19, 2005, at 12:14 PM, Keith Whaley wrote:
You don't read much real in-depth news, do you, Godfrey...
Obviously, you know nothing about what I read or don't read. You came up
with that condescending and idiotic tirade on the basis of some joking
about
On 4/19/05, Dario Bonazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Italian pronunciation for spider is something resembling the English one
and not like speeder.
Yes, we'd pronounce spider more or less like speeder, but since it was
supposed to be an English word, it's pronounced like Englishmen are supposed
Quoting Dario Bonazza [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I don't know the strange reason for thinking spider to be the English word
for a light convertible car.
Maybe:
1) Someone said it's called speeder.
2) Someone else wrote it as spider (which is the Italian spelling for
pronouncing it as English
On Apr 19, 2005, at 4:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More likely that with no proper roof the car is often occupied by
spiders
(Arachnids) and the driver frequently leaps out yelling Spider!.
Hmm. I have found more arachnids in my Land Rover than I've ever found
in the Alfa Spider.
Godfrey
- Original Message -
From: Keith Whaley Subject: Re: Where's Cotty?
Which is not to say I believe everything was done right. It wasn't. But,
there were extenuating, non-foreseeable circumstances for most of the
known screw-ups. Most of what has happened was right-headed. It happened
- Original Message -
From: John Forbes Subject: Re: Where's Cotty?
So when Bush and Blair say They have weapons of mass destruction, they
are simply employing a sarcastic elision of They have no weapons of mass
destruction.
Weapons of mass destruction do not actually destroy mass
]
wrote:
- Original Message - From: John Forbes Subject: Re: Where's
Cotty?
So when Bush and Blair say They have weapons of mass destruction,
they are simply employing a sarcastic elision of They have no weapons
of mass destruction.
Weapons of mass destruction do not actually destroy
On 4/19/05, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Weapons of mass destruction do not actually destroy mass. The best they can
do is rearrange it.
You sure?
Don't nuke-u-lar weapons convert some mass into energy?
Not that I'd know...
cheers,
frank
--
Sharpness is a bourgeois
On 4/19/05, John Forbes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a silly phrase. But Godfrey will tell you that mass is a sarcastic
elision of masses of people.
Unless of course they're designed for an attack on the Catholic church.
But why bother, when you've got Ratzinger?
YES!
The Rat-man got in!
- Original Message -
From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: Where's Cotty?
On 4/19/05, John Forbes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a silly phrase. But Godfrey will tell you that mass is a
sarcastic
elision
frank theriault mused:
On 4/19/05, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Weapons of mass destruction do not actually destroy mass. The best they can
do is rearrange it.
You sure?
Don't nuke-u-lar weapons convert some mass into energy?
So do chemical weapons - just a
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
More likely that with no proper roof the car is often occupied by spiders
(Arachnids) and the driver frequently leaps out yelling Spider!.
OK, I like *this* answer!!
On 20 Apr 2005 at 9:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More likely that with no proper roof the car is often occupied by spiders
(Arachnids) and the driver frequently leaps out yelling Spider!.
LOL, there's little more disconcerting whilst driving than having a big hairy
huntsman spider run across
Quoting Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hmm. I have found more arachnids in my Land Rover than I've ever found
in the Alfa Spider.
Maybe you left a couple of Spiderbait CD's in the Freeloader?
http://www.spiderbait.com.au/
On Apr 19, 2005, at 4:58 PM, John Forbes wrote:
It's a silly phrase. But Godfrey will tell you that mass is a
sarcastic elision of masses of people.
Bite me.
Is that enough sarcastic elision for you?
Godfrey
On 4/19/05, frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now that this thread has run the gamut from cars to politics to
weapons of mass destruction, I think we should now turn our sights to
religion. After that, guns and abortion. Let's just get all our
flame-outs on this one thread, shall
On 4/19/05, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After a week-long hiatus, I stumble into this thread. Yippee! Here's
my take on the whole mess: There ain't nothing looks better than a
silver print. Nothing. So stick yer digital.
Please take your photography talk elsewhere.
I've had a big hairy huntsman scuttle across the roof lining above my
head, while at the same time I was fumbling for a Harbour Bridge toll.
Eventually I herded it out of the passenger window and took it for a al
fresco ride down the Eastern Distributor :-)
The solution for a spider inhabited
On 4/19/05, frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/19/05, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After a week-long hiatus, I stumble into this thread. Yippee! Here's
my take on the whole mess: There ain't nothing looks better than a
silver print. Nothing. So stick yer
I've had a Disco Td5 (aut.) for a year now and
I just love her! ;-)
Antti-Pekka
Antti-Pekka Virjonen
Estera Oy Turku
www.estera.fi
www.computec.fi
-Original Message-
From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
Land Rovers are my vehicle of
On 18/4/05, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed:
So, how do you like your Ford, Cotty (grin)?
Ain't no damn Ford badge on my motor, tosh!
The new ones have Jaguar motors, though.
(The old ones use a Buick).
You're talking about the V8s - I have a 2.5 litre four cylinder diesel
that is
Message-
From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 9:22 AM
To: pentax list
Subject: Re: Where's Cotty?
On 18/4/05, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed:
So, how do you like your Ford, Cotty (grin)?
Ain't no damn Ford badge on my motor, tosh!
The new
Cotty wrote:
On 18/4/05, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed:
So, how do you like your Ford, Cotty (grin)?
Ain't no damn Ford badge on my motor, tosh!
The new ones have Jaguar motors, though.
(The old ones use a Buick).
You're talking about the V8s - I have a 2.5 litre four cylinder diesel
Mike, the US gallon is smaller than the Imperial gallon.
90p a litre equates to US$6.47 per US gallon, or £4.10 per Imp gallon.
John
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:31:02 +0100, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Cotty wrote:
On 18/4/05, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed:
So, how do you like
On 4/17/05, Gianfranco Irlanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I was 9 yo my father followed my mother's advice (probably
first and last time...) and bought a 2nd hand Lancia Beta saloon
(almost brand new, I guess it was less than 2 years old). A
great car, very comfortable, and with that nice
John Forbes wrote:
Mike, the US gallon is smaller than the Imperial gallon.
90p a litre equates to US$6.47 per US gallon, or £4.10 per Imp gallon.
As he was talking about Land Rovers, I assumed Imperial.
John
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:31:02 +0100, mike wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cotty wrote:
On Apr 17, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Gianfranco Irlanda wrote:
Wooohooo!!
A Lancia fan!
:-)
Yessir. I lusted after a Lancia Fulvia Zagato Coupé for years, it was
parked in front of a house on the way to the train station every time I
passed. The day it disappeared I was heartbroken ... only to
On 18/4/05, Antti-Pekka Virjonen, discombobulated, unleashed:
Cotty, the Td5 is five cylinder, right? (to correct your typo ;-)
Btw, ain't the Td5 a BMW design (or maybe it is a Land Rover design
from the BMW time)?
You are entirely correct A-P, the Td5 is a 5 cylinder diesel. It resides
in the
On 18/4/05, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed:
When did you last buy fuel? It's just under 90p a litre up here, which
translates to much closer to £5 per gallon in my book. 8-) I suspect
double that is not so far away 8-((
D'oh! Pardon me. Brain fart. Yeah, £5.
Cheers,
Cotty
On 18/4/05, John Forbes, discombobulated, unleashed:
90p a litre equates to US$6.47 per US gallon, or £4.10 per Imp gallon.
Look, you guys slug it out - I'm going to lie down for a bit.
Cheers,
Cotty
___/\__
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||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com
No, I am thinking of a plywood monocoque sports car from the late 50's, early 60's. I thought they were TVR's but could be mistaken.
As for Morgans, I probably know more about them than most people who own them.
I was fasinated buy them (both the 3-wheelers, and the 4-wheelers) when I was
You, know what, you are very authoritive about everything. And mostly you do
not know what you are talking about. I had made the decision not to reply to
any of your posts in the past. I forgot. I will not do so in the future. Kids!
For others who may be interested, the AR Guilietta Super Spyder
You should hear the Jeep guys when I call theirs Plymouths (grin).
graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
Idiot Proof == Expert Proof
---
Cotty wrote:
On 17/4/05, Graywolf, discombobulated, unleashed:
So, how do you like your Ford, Cotty (grin)?
Ain't no damn Ford
Graywolf wrote:
You, know what, you are very authoritive about everything. And mostly
you do not know what you are talking about. I had made the decision not
to reply to any of your posts in the past. I forgot. I will not do so in
the future. Kids!
For others who may be interested, the AR
Quoting Graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
every one I ever drove (about 5 of them, none of them new when I drove them)
had a bulky shift into second gear, up or down, hence my comment.
That's twice now I've seen a gearshift described as bulky, surely you mean
balky?
Bulky - of large size for its
Gee, missus grundy, im sorry. i want dod it agane.
Bulky: 3. Clumsy to manage; unwieldy.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition
copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from
INSO Corporation; further reproduction and
That's delightfully snide of you, oh Graywolf. And total bullshit.
No such car is listed in the definitive Alfa Romeo: Tutte Le Vetture
Dal 1910 by Luigi Fusi. There were certainly performance variants of
the Guilietta Spider ... in 1956/1957 there was the Guilietta Spider
Normale, with one
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
That's delightfully snide of you, oh Graywolf. And total bullshit.
No such car is listed in the definitive Alfa Romeo: Tutte Le Vetture
Dal 1910 by Luigi Fusi. There were certainly performance variants of
the Guilietta Spider ... in 1956/1957 there was the Guilietta
On 4/18/05, Keith Whaley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Just for that, you don't get to look at a scan of my '58 Guiletta
roadster.
keith whaley
Oh sure, punish all of us because those two can't play nice together! LOL
FWIW, the Alfa Romeo site calls it a Spider (they should know). As I
Quoting Graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
As for Morgans, I probably know more about them than most people who own
them. I was fasinated buy them (both the 3-wheelers, and the 4-wheelers)
when I was younger. I liked the flat grill +4 of the 50's best.
Until this thread, I'd never heard of Morgan
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Where's Cotty?
Until this thread, I'd never heard of Morgan automobiles.
Any relation to the horse, do you know?
So named because they wouldn't start reliably so you always wanted a couple
of horses to tow you home, I am sure
On Apr 18, 2005, at 7:09 PM, Keith Whaley wrote:
Inept?
That's a chickenshit word, it isn't apt, it doesn't apply and is not
appreciated. No call for using thqt sort of language at all!
It is perfectly apt and describes my opinion of Graywolf's use of the
language perfectly.
===
inept
adj 1:
mike wilson wrote:
Cotty wrote:
On 18/4/05, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed:
So, how do you like your Ford, Cotty (grin)?
Ain't no damn Ford badge on my motor, tosh!
The new ones have Jaguar motors, though.
(The old ones use a Buick).
You're talking about the V8s - I have a 2.5 litre
All is not lost, Joe. We still make ONE interesting car:
http://www.tvr-eng.co.uk/intro.html
John
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:15:55 -0600, Joseph Tainter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I always thought that British cars up through the 1960s and even early
1970s were the most fun and interesting cars in
On 16/4/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed:
Land Rover has been owned by Ford for some years now. They're seem to
be doing quite well ... Ford's pushed their marketing nicely and there
are a ton of them on the road in my area.
Land Rovers are my vehicle of choice. Since 1985,
On Apr 17, 2005, at 2:12 AM, Cotty wrote:
Land Rovers are my vehicle of choice. Since 1985, I've owned:
[snip ... a bunch of them]
...
(and as a nod to Godders, when a Disco goes in for a service, they give
me a Freelander for the day - nippy, solid, but the 'A' posts are too
wide!!)
When the
On 17/4/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed:
I don't
believe the US gets any of the diesel engined models.
GODDERS! Go find a TD5 Disco and you'll have an awesome machine. The
Freelander runs the TD$ as you know, boy if you could get a Freelander
TD5.
Cheers,
Cotty
On 17/4/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed:
A custom-built Alfa Romeo Spider is my other car ... ;-)
http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/vehicles/fs-3468.htm
Lovely. Who built it?
Cheers,
Cotty
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On 17/4/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed:
At least with that setup, your quality issues are reduced to how well
you understand how to edit an image in Photoshop.
I'm 'simplest/best' approach, me. Never did like the darkroom either. If
I could afford two employees, one would be
On 17/4/05, Cotty, discombobulated, unleashed:
Freelander runs the TD$
LOL.
TD4 of course.
Cheers,
Cotty
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Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
[...]
A custom-built Alfa Romeo Spider is my other car ... ;-)
http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/vehicles/fs-3468.htm
Lovely machine!
My Alfa spyder was a Guiletta and was a '58!
Absolutely loved that car! If only they made one today...
I'll have to scan that one and
And this is my Alfa 156 Sportwagon, as seen from my bedroom window:
http://www.dariobonazza.com/provv/imgp0095x.jpg
Dario
- Original Message -
From: Keith Whaley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: Where's Cotty?
Godfrey
On Apr 17, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Cotty wrote:
A custom-built Alfa Romeo Spider is my other car ... ;-)
http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/vehicles/fs-3468.htm
Lovely. Who built it?
I had it built from a wrecked '78, a rusted out '82, and a good '79
chassis that was abandoned in a parking lot for two
Keith
Presumably yours had the 2 litre twin-cam?
Those lovely 4 cylinder twin cams were wonderful engines. I still have an
old 75/Milano with the 3 litre V6 (parked doing nothing), and it's
marvelous, but I had three cars with the twin cam 4s, and they were truly
memorable.
John
On Sun, 17
On Apr 17, 2005, at 9:51 AM, Cotty wrote:
I don't
believe the US gets any of the diesel engined models.
GODDERS! Go find a TD5 Disco and you'll have an awesome machine. The
Freelander runs the TD$ as you know, boy if you could get a Freelander
TD5.
Not much I can do about getting a TD engine
On 17/4/05, Dario Bonazza, discombobulated, unleashed:
And this is my Alfa 156 Sportwagon, as seen from my bedroom window:
http://www.dariobonazza.com/provv/imgp0095x.jpg
Dario
Bella!
Cheers,
Cotty
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