"JJD" <jefdrab@newsguy.com> wrote in message
news:88rrvvoq5frutcfnimukiquas301rgv9gb@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:24:08 -0600, "Jim Stewart"
> <stewart@ceet.niu.edu> wrote:
>
> >> >>>>>And they say the British Class structure is dead.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>Who says that?
> >> >>>
> >> >>>Foreigners, I would imagine. And poor people.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>>A popular, but unsubstantiated myth - have no truck
> >> >>>>with it. That's my advice.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>Trucks are too frightfully proletarian for this thread, Jeff.
Landaus,
> >> >>>broughams and coupes de ville, those are the sorts of transport for
a
> >> >>>pukka British chap.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> One has Jaguars.
> >> >
> >> >Jaguars are too frightfully proletarian also, having been taken over
by
> >> >the dreadful Ford chappie.  Best stick to Rolls Royce or Bentley -
oops,
> >> >they're now German aren't they?  How about Aston Martin and Lotus?
> >>
> >> Had the Asters out to 130mph last week, but that was just on one's
> >> driveway, so it's not a true indication.
> >>
> >So it was you I passed in my 72 Crown Vic. I thought it was the Geiko
> >Lizard.
> >
> Was I wearing a cravat and sporting a pipe?
>
> JJD
>
I thought there was a law against driving one without the requsite attire.
Was it a tartin cravat or a yellow one?