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#31
10-27-2004, 06:08 PM
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Please excuse me... I haven't quite recovered from the thought of a Lucas refrigerator.
Can you imagine waking from emergency surgery and having the physician tell you, "You're going to be all right now... we installed a Lucas pacemaker.”? 
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#32
10-27-2004, 09:22 PM
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Lucas:
On the 3000 Healey. What genis said let's make it Postive ground? On in their language, "positive earth."
Sticking point on fuel pump, Wire wheels that welded on to the hub's it not greased ever 1,000 mile's or so. And let's not forget the SU carburater getting in sync. And the comfortable seat's. Like the Italian's they can disign a good looking body, but mechanical marvel they are not. Oh yes the Jag E type, have to pull engine and tranny to do clutch. Charlie
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#33
10-28-2004, 01:33 AM
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Never fear
Lucas is doing the entire electrical system of the Maybach.
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#34
10-28-2004, 06:21 AM
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Just had a laugh reading through all of the posts, especially as I'm a Brit who works for a US company...I really love the topics on food.
Lets dispell one myth  ......30 years ago its true all we ate was over boiled vegetables, pie's, fish and chips, but those days have gone and Curry is now the nations favourite.Warm beer....can't beat the stuff.....especially when you see somebody from the States take their first mouthfull.....priceless Toilets: Our toilets are a straight drop into the water.....its those guys over in Germany who like the ledge. As for our friends in France, well two foot prints and a hole in the ground is still quite common....anyway enough of the toilet talk! Lucas: Yes they were rubbish, but hey that was 30 years ago Other things I have noticed: When my colleagues from the US come over, it never ceases to amaze them just how much beer is thrown down peoples throats in an evening down the pub Its also very funny listening to real good American friends who have been over here for a 3 year posting starting to use local colloquialism's, especially in a drunk context ie; I'm off me brains (drunk), pissed as a newt (drunk), off me tits (drunk), bladdered (drunk), bolloxed (drunk), mul'erd (drunk) etc etc etc And here's some lovely Cockney slang for you: Originating in London's East End in the mid-19th century, Cockney rhyming slang uses substitute words, usually two, as a coded alternative for another word. Adam and Eve = believe ('would you adam and eve it?') Alan Wickers = knickers (of more recent origin, as featured in the film 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels': "keep yer alan's on...") Apples and pears = stairs Aris (from Arstotle = Bottle, from Bottle and glass = Arse) Cobblers (cobblers awls, or cobblers stalls) = Balls ('you're talking cobblers') Brassic (boracic lint) = skint (penniless) Barnet (Barnet fair) = hair Basil (Basil Fawlty) = balti (curry) Boat (boat race) = face Bobble (Bobble hat and scarf) = laugh ("you're having a bobble", ie., you cannot be serious) Brahms (Brahms and Liszt) = pissed/drunk Brass Tacks = Facts ('let's get down to brass tacks') Bread (bread and honey) = money Bird (bird lime) = Time (prison) Bristols (Bristol Cities) = titties (breasts) Brown Bread = dead Buckshee = free Butchers (butchers hook) = look ('give us butchers..') Chalfonts (Chalfont St Giles) = piles (Haemorrhoids) China (china plate) = mate ('me old china') Cloud seven = heaven Crust (crust of bread) = head Ding dong = sing song (now evolved to mean argument or fight) Dipstick = prick (bet you never knew that was rhyming slang) Dog and bone = phone Douglas Hurd = third (third class university degree) or turd D'Oyly Carte = fart Duch (duchess of Fife) = wife ('me old Duch') Dunlop Tyre = liar Dustbin lids = kids Earwig = twig (understand, to catch on - now evolved to mean eavesdrop) Elephants (elephants trunk) = drunk IT goes on and on and on.....question is does it make any sense???.
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#35
10-28-2004, 08:22 AM
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About the toilet ledge.......I saw them in Cardif Castle, Whales I stayed at, and at the Royal Horseguards Hotel in London a number of years back, was there twice for a week. I never saw them in germany,, france or anyplace else.
God that was a disgusting experience............................ Outside of that I enjoyed England. I do love the British Ales and bitters..........Took to them immediately and still love them.
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