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David Lieb 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.
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>>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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>Buster,
>GET OVER YOURSELF!
>Re-read your post. Since they ARE made in England and since ALL of England
>is IN (perfect subset) Great Britain, they are unarguably made in Great
>Britain. To quote the great Englishman, Michael Flanders, of Flanders and
>Swann musical fame, there is a very simple test involved. If England does
>something good, it is "Another victory for Great Britain"; if it messes
>something up it is "England fouls up again". Therefore, your insistence on
>trying to get us to call our LBCs "Little English Cars" is implying that
>they are disasters rather than the joys we all know and love. I also happen
>to know that there were quite a few workers at the Abingdon MG plant where
>our Spridgets were built who were Irish and commuted home for the weekends.
>So there ;-)
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>It also happens that the eyes of frogs are accurately described as
>"bug-eyed". Might as well cut out the middleman (ooh, do I hear Benny Hill
>theme music?) and call the car a Bugeye. If you do a little more research,
>you will find that our friends in Oz also call them "Bugeyes". Since there
>are more Bugeyes in Australia and the USA than there are in England, I would
>suggest that you take on the more reasonable crusade of converting your
>English friends.
>David Lieb
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