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Re: Bugeye Group..... Tell me why

To: bugeye@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Bugeye Group..... Tell me why
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:13:03 -0500
Cc: Spridgets@autox.team.net
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I can't tell you why. In fact, I not only draw a blank with LBC, but 
where the h--- did the terms square body and box Sprite come from? Did 
Sponge Bob have a Sprite? Were Sprites dropped into cereal boxes for 
awhile? Should we call Midgets with imnpact bumpers eraser bodies?

jay fishbein
wallingford, ct

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b-evans@earthlink.net wrote:

>Tell me why people own classic cars insist on calling them "LBC" or 
>"Little British Cars"?  Let's get it straight folks, they are LEC's or 
>Little English Cars.  They were not made in Wales, they were not made in 
>Scotland, they were not made in Northern Ireland, they were not made in 
>the Channel Isles.  They were made in ENGLAND!
>
>Tell me why people who own what are now known as "Mark I" Sprites use 
>English terms such as bonnet, hood, cheerio, etc., still refuse to call 
>the cars by their ENGLISH name:  Frogeyes?  That is FROGEYE, as in 
>frogs, as in Kermit!  After all, they are far more loveable than a flie 
>or mosquito!  Or cockroach!




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