On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Will Zehring wrote:
> Well, there's been a lot of loose talk the past few days about giving names
> and/or genders to cars, nurturing men of the '90s, and whether or not the B
> drives like a guided missle cruiser. I don't know much about that last one
> Read on: In my mis-spent youth, I had a '76 Mercury Capri (remember? the
> sexy european?). One winter's saturday some ten+ years ago, I drove it east
> from Boston, on twisty, snowy highways in western Massachusetts; it was a
A car you can drive east from Boston should have a boat-type name. And if
it gets you to western Massachusettes by going east from Boston then I
would suggest the names Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria, since they were
vessels intended to get to the east by going west.
Ray
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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