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Re: kaput!

To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: kaput!
From: Mark Snowdon <racer45@bellsouth.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 18:25:41 -0700
Organization: Snowdon Racing
References: <199904221959.OAA07533@mail.ala.net>
Reply-to: Mark Snowdon <racer45@bellsouth.net>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Keith Turk wrote:
> 
> now son.. your not much of Hick speaker are you.... we may need a southern
> interpretation....
> 
> Hey Ya'll talk right now ya heeer....
> 
> Keith Turk
> 
> ----------
> > From: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
> > To: 'Herb_Goede@amsinc.com'; spridgets@autox.team.net
> > Subject: RE: kaput!
> > Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 12:46 PM
> >
> > My very dear Herbert,
> >
> >       I thank you for pointing up our digression into phraseology of
> > questionable origin. It is indeed imperative that we maintain stringent
> > standards of linguistic rectitude, lest substandard Germanic or Asiatic
> > terminology find it's way into our discourse. Unceasing vigilance is
> called
> > for in maintaining the highest levels of clarity and propriety.
> >
> > Excruciatingly Yours,
> >
> > Phillip J. Vanner
> > MCMLXI MG Midget
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com [SMTP:Herb_Goede@amsinc.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 11:43 AM
> > To:   spridgets@autox.team.net
> > Subject:      kaput!
> >
> >
> >
> > List,
> >
> > Although BMW has purchased the Rover Group I do not believe that the term
> > Kaput is appropriate for use in reference to an LBC - especially when it
> is
> > a Lucas item such as turn signals.  As owners of LBCs we must endevour to
> > use the correct terminology in our discussions.  This is not limited to
> > such common terms as hood, bonnet and spanner.
> >
> > In the future I believe that we should all endevour to use more
> appropriate
> > descriptions such as "my bloody turn signals are cocked up" or "the
> splines
> > on my wires are buggered" .  (To our friends in the UK, please correct me
> > if I am incorrect in my British phraseology.  You can also help out by
> > supplying more common phrases so we don't get redundant.)
> >
> > Those of you using Japanese transmissions, alternators, etc. will have a
> > little more difficult time.  You will first need to determine the country
> > of origin for the failing part before uttering the appropriate expletive.
> >
> > Herb
> >
> >

Ya that's it Keith, y'all keep us straight down here, you no turning,
engine twisting,Hee-Haw looking chebby loving salt flatter.

Mark Snowdon

ps. won't be able to see your Camaro run that weekend, will be driving
my new ride, a Nascar Pure Stock Camaro. Oops, that makes me a Hee-Haw
looking, chebby loving oval tracker, oh well, we all have crosses to
bear.

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