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- From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
- Subject: Re: People who say they'll do you a favour (favor)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.021505.27968@igor.tamri.com>
- Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
- References: <9211171602.AA08728@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.224622.4640@igor.tamri.com> <1992Nov18.115715.9599@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 02:15:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.115715.9599@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- library@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Riddell) writes:
- >>>My car needs a bit of work done to it. A garage quoted 1500 pounds for a new
- >>>engine. I blanched at that. Took it away from the garage because a guy at
- >>>work said he had a mate who could help.
- >>
- >>Holy heck, that's heavy. How many of you did it take to lift it? :)
- >
- >Lifted it! Lifted it! Are you pulling my chain, Don.
-
- Nope, I'll leave it to Madonna to do that.
-
- >I suppose it would be what you there critters would call a map light. But we
- >Brits being a kinder, gentler set of folks call they courtesy lights. Maybe
- >because they come on automatically when one opens a car door to let someone
- >see where they are about to sit. See courtesy!
-
- Courtesy? Heh. We don't get that here...
-
- >Yet another cultural barrier crushed. Nation shall speak unto nation.
-
- Right. The only problem is that they usually say dumb things like "This is
- my Line of Death, cross it at your peril!".
-
- don
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