An ode to the envious !,

[Nobbynumbnut]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

my hairdresser drove a Carrera Cabriolet. His husband drove a Cayenne.
They thought my Boxster S was too impractical.

For the record, the overwhelming amount of commentary that I receive is incredibly positive."you have my dream car", "nice Porsche sir" being the two most common. But then again this America and from my dealings with British people, it seems they are far more judgmental of each other than we are here. They seem to judge everything about each other, the way they speak "accent is too regional", where they were educated, the way they dress "....so not posh" and just about everything else. It has too be the most class obsessed culture I've dealt with while working in NYC for nearly two decades.

Crikey,
This was only meant as a bit if fun. Didn't expect the deep social commentary!!

Pleas accept my apologies for King George and congratulations on the independence.

Regards

Nobby

[litespeedp]

"All in good fun for everyone" That's my poem and I stand firm.

After my trips to my beloved London,this Yank knows that Nobby will agree that any fun Porsche is better than what "white van man" drives!

[Johnny Danger]

I have the same hair stylist as Bruce Willis and not a word is ever mentioned about my boxster ?

[coreseller]

Originally Posted by Johnny Danger

I have the same hair stylist as Bruce Willis and not a word is ever mentioned about my boxster ?

The wifey and I just finished watching "Looper", pretty decent flick. Given Bruce Willis' current hairline, a blind monkey could handle his "hairdressing".

[Johnny Danger]

Originally Posted by coreseller

The wifey and I just finished watching "Looper", pretty decent flick. Given Bruce Willis' current hairline, a blind monkey could handle his "hairdressing".

Looper takes a backseat to Hooper any day !

[Perfectlap]

Originally Posted by Nobbynumbnut

Crikey,
This was only meant as a bit if fun. Didn't expect the deep social commentary!!

Pleas accept my apologies for King George and congratulations on the independence.

Regards

Nobby

All right gouvernor

Say you dont sound like this fellow when you read that poem aloud do ya?

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[Mark_T]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

All right gouvernor

It would appear that Perfectlap might also benefit from Randall's tutelage in the grammatical arts!

[Perfectlap]

Originally Posted by Mark_T

It would appear that Perfectlap might also benefit from Randall's tutelage in the grammatical arts!

period English. I think the British at one point were trying to class up their lot by making their words Frenchier. Like for instance "colours" when "colors" was working just fine ever since they stopped speaking barbarian.

[Nimbus117]

The English language is a fairly recent one and is a mixture of several languages after many invasions as well as colonisations (note there is no 'z' in this word).

I think that you will find that 'colour' was originally spelt this way, the original occupants of the US had a completely different word for when they were discussing things in their wigwams.

The immigrants who occupy the country now didn't know how to spell and forgot to take a dictionary hence 'color' and a heap more incorrectly spelt words.

[dbear61]

Originally Posted by Nimbus117

The English language is a fairly recent one and is a mixture of several languages after many invasions as well as colonisations (note there is no 'z' in this word).

I think that you will find that 'colour' was originally spelt this way, the original occupants of the US had a completely different word for when they were discussing things in their wigwams.

The immigrants who occupy the country now didn't know how to spell and forgot to take a dictionary hence 'color' and a heap more incorrectly spelt words.

Don't you mean, "incorrectly spelled words"?

So with some of the terminology differences, Amreican cars have a trunk and a hood, while British cars have a boot and a bonnet. Does the Boxster "frunk" in America translate to a "froot" in England?

DBear

[Nimbus117]

'Incorrectly spelt' is correct here although 'Incorrectly spelled' is the norm in American English.

We call the roof the hood in the case of a convertible. The frunk is the still the bonnet and trunk is the boot.

We have a sister company in Detroit that rebuild the engines and provide race support in Indycar. We design, develop & manufacture them in England (for Chevrolet). Anyway, we are busy teaching your fellow countrymen who work with us how to spell and speak English and have them pass it on to others.

Hope to get your dictionaries corrected shortly so we are no longer divided by a common language. I fear we will have as much luck as getting you guys to put the steering wheel on the correct (right) side.