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- From: library@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Riddell)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: People who say they'll do you a favour (favor)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.115715.9599@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 11:57:15 GMT
- References: <9211171602.AA08728@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.224622.4640@igor.tamri.com>
- Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
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- Originator: library@merlin.comlab
-
- In article <1992Nov17.224622.4640@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
- >In article <9211171602.AA08728@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk> library@prg.oxford.ac.uk
- >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.
-
- >>Peeve: being so technically incapable that I find the courtesy light inside
- >>the car too complicated to fix!
- >
- >What's a courtesy light? We USAns have two kinds of ligts in our cars:
- >map lights and high-beams-from-hell, which we use to blind obstinate
- >slowpokes and send them over cliff edges to a fiery death...
-
- 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!
-
- Yet another cultural barrier crushed. Nation shall speak unto nation.
-
- Gordon
-