"JJD" <jefdrab@newsguy.com> wrote in message
news:vc8svvco3rfi9r5n019041i810dcu4hlio@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:11:51 -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?
> >>
> >I thought there was a law against driving one without the requsite
attire.
> >Was it a tartin cravat or a yellow one?
> >
> Neither, obviously!  One is not given to wearing ostentatious cravats.
> Powder blue, or beige show the nature of a proper chap.
>
> JJD

Oh, then it must have been the Geiko.
They have a hard time being green....

Jim