- 1. kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 10:42:50 -0600
- Although BMW has purchased the Rover Group I do not believe that the term Kaput is appropriate for use in reference to an LBC - especially when it is a Lucas item such as turn signals. As owners of
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01195.html (8,242 bytes)
- 2. RE: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: Andrew.Griffith@ReadRite.com
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 10:20:06 -0700
- I agree explicitly! And I might add that when a fellow Lister inquires about a remedy for a new problem, rather then ending our response with the standard "Good Luck" I suggest the encouraging phrase
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01197.html (9,210 bytes)
- 3. RE: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:46:02 -0500
- My very dear Herbert, I thank you for pointing up our digression into phraseology of questionable origin. It is indeed imperative that we maintain stringent standards of linguistic rectitude, lest su
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01200.html (9,333 bytes)
- 4. Re: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:11:31 -0500
- now son.. your not much of Hick speaker are you.... we may need a southern Hey Ya'll talk right now ya heeer.... Keith Turk -- called is appropriate splines
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01208.html (10,317 bytes)
- 5. Re: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:37:52 EDT
- << (To our friends in the UK, please correct me if I am incorrect in my British phraseology >> jiggered, knackered, tits up, u/s, bust, just plain .............
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01211.html (8,053 bytes)
- 6. RE: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: "Elliott, Patrick" <PElliott@attws-wr.swest.attws.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:13:53 -0700
- Fubar, snafu, the list goes on.. << (To our friends in the UK, please correct me if I am incorrect in my British phraseology >> jiggered, knackered, tits up, u/s, bust, just plain .............
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01214.html (8,883 bytes)
- 7. Re: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: Lancer7676@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:02:45 EDT
- << I do not believe that the term Kaput is appropriate for use in reference to an LBC >> Ok Ok Herb! Then Kaput is a VW term?? 8^) --David
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01218.html (8,197 bytes)
- 8. Re: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: Lancer7676@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:05:45 EDT
- << "Keep your Pecker up", which means "Keep your chin up". >> And what of the "Spotted Dick"? --David
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01219.html (8,388 bytes)
- 9. Re: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug Ingram" <dougi@home.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:12:02 -0700
- On the other hand, let's not forget our successes in keeping these cars "I managed to get the brakes sorted" "That Midget is in good nick!" Doug Ingram Victoria BC (That's B for BRITISH Columbia) 195
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01221.html (10,000 bytes)
- 10. Re: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:48:37 -0400
- Jap tranny= Rice box! And just look out for one of those Brits looking to "knock you up in the morning!" (Knock on your door) -- Frank Clarici Toms River, NJ Bugeye Sprite 67 Sprite 59 A40 http://www
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01224.html (8,510 bytes)
- 11. RE: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: "Nevard, Chris" <Chris.Nevard@bskyb.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:39:05 +0100
- gawd blimey, luvaduck, bollocks, bollocked, up the Kyber, smashin', spondulacks, nicker, bob, geezer, arse over tit, up and over, guff, sod, quickie, I say, don't you know......... Infact Austin Pow
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01258.html (9,902 bytes)
- 12. Re: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:59:00 EDT
- << "Spotted Dick"? >> In England this is a kind of pudding you eat. Daniel1312
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01293.html (8,509 bytes)
- 13. Re: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: "Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott" <toobmany@bigpond.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 21:25:47 +1000
- For those (poor, misguided souls) of you who have incorporated Japanese parts into your Spligets (the Japanese car industry was founded on producing British cars under licence) there is a phrase - "t
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01321.html (9,605 bytes)
- 14. Re: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: Nory P <nory_midget@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 08:49:51 -0700 (PDT)
- Don't knock it 'til you've tried it. Have to file that one away for when my "virtually indesctructable" Datsun tranny bites the big one in 20 or so years...... == **The above address is for list purp
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01328.html (8,989 bytes)
- 15. Re: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Snowdon <racer45@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 18:25:41 -0700
- Ya that's it Keith, y'all keep us straight down here, you no turning, engine twisting,Hee-Haw looking chebby loving salt flatter. Mark Snowdon ps. won't be able to see your Camaro run that weekend, w
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01334.html (11,271 bytes)
- 16. Re: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: TYPE79@ix.netcom.com
- Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 19:11:31 -0500 (CDT)
- Crash, Interesting point. Along those line, would I be better-off installing something like GM or Ford rubber floor mats rather than carpets in my Bug-i? Would that earn points equal to original floo
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01340.html (8,645 bytes)
- 17. Re: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 21:38:40 -0400
- Yea, Me too!! Like my mitsubitchi alternator, it has a LUCAS sticker on it so that makes it "belong" in my Bugeye along with my smoothcase 5 speed. -- Frank .....with a 1/2 rice pocket rocket.
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01344.html (10,093 bytes)
- 18. Re: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: "Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott" <toobmany@bigpond.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:28:00 +1000
- I'm not trying to preach to the converted (intentional pun), they're your cars and you can do with them as you will, but in twenty years time will you be able to get parts for the Datsun gearbox as y
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01353.html (9,406 bytes)
- 19. Re: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: JustBrits@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 10:33:18 EDT
- Jay: insert *English ....... << Ford rubber floor mats rather than carpets in my Bug-i? Would that earn points equal to original floor mats or to put it another way, more points than carpets? >> I wo
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01359.html (8,159 bytes)
- 20. Re: kaput! (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 12:10:38 -0700
- What about me? I sent my smoothcase transmission back to England for a NOS rebuild. Chinese gears in England? Mike MacLean-60 Sprite
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01368.html (10,598 bytes)
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