I liked that line in that movie 'IQ'. Went something like this...
"Well....the British would rather spend 8 hours gluing wood to a dashboard than working to get the electrical system right" That one gave me a small chuckle. Course, I drive a French car as my daily driver, and I have an Italian car as my kick around on nice days car....so what do I know. BTW...I'm semi-living in Northridge, CA now with my French daily driver car. Home of the USMA. At 22:46 2002-10-13 -0700, Bill Potts wrote: >The other joke concerns the traditional British affinity for warm beer. > >"Why do the Brits drink warm beer?" > >"Lucas refrigerators." > >Bill Potts, CMS >Roseville, CA >http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 22:32 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:22692] Re: England and the Continent > > >In a message dated 2002-10-13 07:17:40 Eastern Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > >I think the perception--here in the US--that England is somewhat backward >economically is due to the dreadful reputation of older British cars (vs. >e.g., Mercedes and BMW). There was a great cartoon years ago in Playboy >magazine: the first British astronauts were about to blast off in their >capsule, and one looked up on the bulkhead, where there was a plaque >affixed reading "Electrics by Lucas". > > >I had a 1963 MG 1100. Six volts, positive ground, some weird nut system >that neither wombat nor metric wrenches would fit. The electric system was >always blowing up (including having the electric fuel pump fail, at night, >on two different dates, on both the Golden Gate Bridge and the San >Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge); a friend gave me two thoughts on that: > >1. "Lucas, Prince of Darkness." >2. "Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, Alexander Graham Bell invented >the telephone, and Lucas invented the dead short." > >Carleton
