Wahaaaay!

Tony Raven said:

Me and my Brommie soundly thrashed a Lamborghini round
Marble Arch this afternoon. I will own up to the advantage
from a lot of grid locked traffic though.

Tony

Heh

I overtake a Bentley coupe' almost every day near
Hampstead 🙂

Eugenio

P.S. Is there a generic English term for "sporty" car
models? In Italian we borrow the French term...

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Quoted message said:

Tony Raven said:

Me and my Brommie soundly thrashed a Lamborghini round
Marble Arch this afternoon. I will own up to the
advantage from a lot of grid locked traffic though.

Tony

Heh

I overtake a Bentley coupe' almost every day near
Hampstead 🙂

Eugenio

P.S. Is there a generic English term for "sporty" car
models? In Italian we borrow the French term...

Oh Dear - Red rag to a bull that one.

Que lots of comments about Pen*s Extensions from the anti
sports car brigade.

I think you'll find the term is 'sports cars' :-) - Not sure
a Bently coupe gets in though :-)

Russ

Tony Raven said:

Me and my Brommie soundly thrashed a Lamborghini round
Marble Arch this afternoon. I will own up to the advantage
from a lot of grid locked traffic though.

Tony

Just realised why there was traffic chaos and so many people
out and about on Oxford Street - Formula 1 comes to London

Tony

Tony Raven <[email hidden]> wrote in news:2l0a81F6nvjbU1@uni-
berlin.de:

Quoted message said:

Me and my Brommie soundly thrashed a Lamborghini round
Marble Arch this afternoon. I will own up to the advantage
from a lot of grid locked traffic though.

Did that once to a Lotus Esprit in Edinburgh. Sitting at the
lights on George Street, Lotus man had the window wound
down, revving his engine, trying to look cool. As the lights
were changing I bent down and said "Race you" then slowly
pootled away as he was stuck there for the next few light
changes due to gridlock. Ah, the simple pleasures :-)

Graeme

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 19:44:21 +0100, Tony Raven <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Me and my Brommie soundly thrashed a Lamborghini round
Marble Arch this afternoon. I will own up to the advantage
from a lot of grid locked traffic though.

Did it have Monaco plates?

I burnt up a Lamborghini with Monaco plates on Blackheath
last Sunday. However, I was helped by the fact that it
was parked.

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 23:13:33 +0100, "Russ" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I think you'll find the term is 'sports cars' :-) - Not
sure a Bently coupe gets in though :-)

Shoorly not! There must be an apostrophe there somewhere. If
it's multi sports (eg referring to rally cars and speedway
cars), then *sports' cars* is the term to use, however, if
just one sport then *sport's cars* will suffice. :-)

Gonzalez said:

Shoorly not! There must be an apostrophe there somewhere.
If it's multi sports (eg referring to rally cars and
speedway cars), then *sports' cars* is the term to use,
however, if just one sport then *sport's cars* will
suffice. :-)

Yes, like cros's bike.

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Me and my Brommie soundly thrashed a Lamborghini round
Marble Arch this afternoon. I will own up to the
advantage from a lot of grid locked traffic though.

Did it have Monaco plates?

I burnt up a Lamborghini with Monaco plates on Blackheath
last Sunday. However, I was helped by the fact that it
was parked.

You da man!! ;-)

I found bombing it round London on a bike can be a
real buzz.

Nick

Tony Raven said:

Me and my Brommie soundly thrashed a Lamborghini round
Marble Arch this afternoon. I will own up to the advantage
from a lot of grid locked traffic though.

I blew the doors off a 550 Maranello in Bishopsgate this
morning. Helped that the driver was being interviewed by
Plod for having the temerity to pass through their Ring of
Plastic...

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Eugenio Mastroviti said:

P.S. Is there a generic English term for "sporty" car
models? In Italian we borrow the French term...

Sort-of. The generic term Wankmobile covers them together
with city-4x4s and a few others.

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Dave Larrington said:

Tony Raven said:

Me and my Brommie soundly thrashed a Lamborghini round
Marble Arch this afternoon. I will own up to the
advantage from a lot of grid locked traffic though.

I blew the doors off a 550 Maranello in Bishopsgate this
morning. Helped that the driver was being interviewed by
Plod for having the temerity to pass through their Ring of
Plastic...

You mean you rode into an opening door?

AC

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Mastroviti (') said:

Tony Raven said:

Me and my Brommie soundly thrashed a Lamborghini round
Marble Arch this afternoon. I will own up to the
advantage from a lot of grid locked traffic though.

I overtake a Bentley coupe' almost every day near
Hampstead 🙂

I remember once overtaking an e-type jag that didn't want to
be overtaken on a country road with no other traffic. Mind
you, that was coming down the Kirkstone Pass, so I had
plenty of gravity assist... what surprised me was that I did
it by comprehensively out-cornering him. However, he may not
have been a very good driver and it is a _very_ twisty road.

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distractions.

Dave Larrington said:

I blew the doors off a 550 Maranello in Bishopsgate this
morning.

Quite right, too - a Ferrari being an Italian job, you're
only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.

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Simon Brooke said:

I remember once overtaking an e-type jag that didn't want
to be overtaken on a country road with no other traffic.
Mind you, that was coming down the Kirkstone Pass, so I
had plenty of gravity assist... what surprised me was that
I did it by comprehensively out-cornering him. However, he
may not have been a very good driver and it is a _very_
twisty road.

I once overtook an XJ6 while descending the west side of
Hartside, a feat which caused the driver to pull over,
lift the bonnet and peer earnestly at the oily bits
beneath. After all, there /must/ have been something wrong
for his prunkwagen to be overtaken by a madly grinning
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(only without the BoB)

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Nick Kew said:

Sort-of. The generic term Wankmobile covers them together
with city-4x4s and a few others.

Most of my colleagues are wondering what incredibly funny
bit of firewall configuration I just came across.

Eugenio

Mark Tranchant said:

Gonzalez said:

Shoorly not! There must be an apostrophe there somewhere.
If it's multi sports (eg referring to rally cars and
speedway cars), then *sports' cars* is the term to use,
however, if just one sport then *sport's cars* will
suffice. :-)

Yes, like cros's bike.

Yeeeks!!! no! No! NO!

The apostrophe goes after the second *s*. It is optional to
put in a third *s* after the apostrophe.

e.g. *Jesus' last meal* and *Jesus's last meal* are
equally correct.

However, *Saint Thomas' Hospital* should always be spelled
without the final *s* because there were two Saints called
Thomas after whom the hospital has been named. (Why it's not
spellled *Saint Thomases' Hospital* or *Saints Thomas'
Hospital*, I don't quite know.)

Gonzalez said:

Mark Tranchant said:

Gonzalez said:

Shoorly not! There must be an apostrophe there somewhere.
If it's multi sports (eg referring to rally cars and
speedway cars), then *sports' cars* is the term to use,
however, if just one sport then *sport's cars* will
suffice. :-)

Yes, like cros's bike.

Yeeeks!!! no! No! NO!

That whooshing sound you hear has nothing to do with
bicycle's, it's a joke whipping straight past you... ;-)

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Quoted message said:

Gonzalez said:

Shoorly not! There must be an apostrophe there
somewhere. If it's multi sports (eg referring to rally
cars and speedway cars), then *sports' cars* is the term
to use, however, if just one sport then *sport's cars*
will suffice. :-)

Yes, like cros's bike.

ITYM "'cros's bike."

Jon

Jeremy Collins said:

Gonzalez said:

Mark Tranchant said:

Gonzalez wrote:

>Shoorly not! There must be an apostrophe there
>somewhere. If it's multi sports (eg referring to rally
>cars and speedway cars), then *sports' cars* is the term
>to use, however, if just one sport then *sport's cars*
>will suffice. :-)

Yes, like cros's bike.

Yeeeks!!! no! No! NO!

That whooshing sound you hear has nothing to do with
bicycle's, it's a joke whipping straight past you... ;-)

O