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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"Eugenio Mastroviti" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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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

In article <[email hidden]>,

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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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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Mark.

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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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

in message <[email hidden]>, Eugenio

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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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 Hairy on a
funny-looking engineless Thing <URL:
http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/images/gto/Mermaid.jpg> (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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Mark Tranchant [email hidden] opined the following...

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