Yowsa! Why the Mini-slamming? My wife loves 'em, and I think they're
actually kinda nifty as well. Is there something I should know?
Regards,
J
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> From: Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>
> To: Wizzrd1001@aol.com
> Cc: mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: I think it was preordained....
> Date: Tuesday, July 29, 1997 12:49 PM
>
> Wizzrd1001@aol.com wrote:
>
> > I've noticed much talk about the younger generation getting into the
LBC
> > boat, I for one am big time. When I was born in 1981, my dad had a TR6
> > (ahh!!) anyways, when my little sister came along, he was forced to
sell,
> > needed to buy a house... Anyways, prior to the TR6, he had owned 2
MGBs, and
> > had driven an MGC a fair amount. He promised my mom when he sold the
TR6,
> > that when I was old enough to drive, he was going to buy another MG,
well, I
> > turned 16, and wouldn't you know it, McB's behind my house has a 741/2
MGB GT
> > for sale, with a sweetly bored out engine in it, well, I learned how
to
> > drive a tisck in that car, and I love it, so do all of my friends.
> > <snip>
> > Enjoy those cars!!! And leave a couple to be restored for the younger
> > guys, (especially a Mini cooper) :)
> > Ian Wisbon
> > 74 1/2 MGB GT
>
> Oh, Ian, for a while there you were spewing such heartfelt and rational
prose.
> And then you went and spoilt it with your stated asperation for a Mini
Cooper.
> My Gawd, Lad, what do you wanna go down that path for?
>
> As you are a naive young man I am compelled to warn you that owner's of
Mini
> Coopers will never procreate or, at most, have little chance of offspring
smart
> enough to wash a windscreen and scratch at the same time.
>
> If you ever have asperations of a sexual nature which could involve
someone in
> addition to yourself, you must never admit ownership of an Austin Mini
(Cooper
> or non). For a mini-driver, the only possible relationship that could
lead to
> coitus would have to be prefaced with some large monetary exchange and/or
a
> debilitating amount of mind-numbing beverages.
>
> Careful, Lad, or your gene pool will go septic.
> --
> Bob Allen, Kansas City, '69CGT, '75TR6, '61Elva(?)
> "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!'.... until you can find a
rock."
>
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