Well, Jay, you really touched a nerve - with your talk about sighting a
white SIV on the Avenue of the Stars - I was walking back to my car (that
obscene '75 T-Bird) from the HongKong Bank having exchanged the last of my
Hong Kong currency for genuine spendable cash - when Lo and Behold - outside
another bank - in the 'handicapped' space - complete with handicapped tag
hanging on the rear-view mirror - was - a Series IV GT - in moonstone white
- and looking positively virginal! Victoria is a relatively small town but
I had not seen this Alpine before - so I thought I would just wait a while
and catch the owner/driver to exchange a little 'Alpine' chat. As I waited
I began to think about "Morte D'Arthur' - the poem by Tennyson - in which he
says
'So flash'd and fell the brand Excalibur:
But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm
Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful,
And caught him by the hilt, and brandish'd him
Three times, and drew him under in the mere'
Somehow I doubt that a mere Alpine could aspire to the lofty level of
Excalibur - but after all - this one was clothed in 'white'.
I waited for quite a while for the owner to come out of the bank - but then
I began to worry - what was this jerk doing 'lurking' around a bank door -
smoking up a storm - was he the 'getaway' driver standing by his trusty
Alpine to roar off with the loot? So I went off home (in the obscene
T-Bird) before he showed up.
I still have no idea who owns/drives that beautifull white GT. But I will
find out - and tell you all!
HNY to one and all
At 05:05 01/02/97 EST, you wrote:
>Mike Fischer writes:
>
>"I develop computer models and do work in computational
>fluid dynamics (including galaxy formation in the early universe)."
>
>Now there is a concept that blows the mind. Did anyone read about the
>two galaxies colliding out there at millions of miles per hour? Talk
>about a bad day. Just visualizing the solar systems and planets crossing
>through their paths is wild. Makes you feel kind of insignificant.
>
>Alpine content:
>
>I just saw a white Series IV/V drive by on Avenue of the Stars, 26 floors
>down! Wow. Thanks for listening to that. You relieved my wife of having
>to act interested if I told her about it tonight. I had to tell someone.
>
>Jay Laifman
>Pircher, Nichols & Meeks
>Los Angeles
>
>
>
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