Hard decision - choosing a bike
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From: S'mee on 8 Feb 2010 21:36 On Feb 8, 12:21 pm, "Bob Myers" <nospample...(a)address.invalid> wrote: > Twibil wrote: > > On Feb 6, 8:39 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older > > Gentleman) wrote: > > >> I did like the old Brit habit of naming bikes after aircraft: > >> Spitfire, Hurricane, Meteor, etc. > > >> I wish the Germans had had the courage to do the same. Imagine > >> riding a BMW Stuka[1]. > > >> [1] Yes, I know it's an acronym, but still. > > > Since the original Stuka was slow, not very agile, outdated, and > > vulnerable to practically anything else in the air, I suspect the BMW > > marketing deewb who suggested the idea would be looking for employment > > as a janitor mach schnell. > > > Perhaps a "Wuerger" (shrike) model named after the FW-190 might be a > > better bet......particularly if the first production run were prone to > > overheating. > > Maybe they could name a bike after the V-2; imagine how > popular those would be in London.... Yeah right...how many people would know what the A-4 was?
From: S'mee on 8 Feb 2010 21:36 On Feb 8, 12:24 pm, .p.jm.(a)see_my_sig_for_address.com wrote: > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:21:33 -0700, "Bob Myers" > > > > > > <nospample...(a)address.invalid> wrote: > >Twibil wrote: > >> On Feb 6, 8:39 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older > >> Gentleman) wrote: > > >>> I did like the old Brit habit of naming bikes after aircraft: > >>> Spitfire, Hurricane, Meteor, etc. > > >>> I wish the Germans had had the courage to do the same. Imagine > >>> riding a BMW Stuka[1]. > > >>> [1] Yes, I know it's an acronym, but still. > > >> Since the original Stuka was slow, not very agile, outdated, and > >> vulnerable to practically anything else in the air, I suspect the BMW > >> marketing deewb who suggested the idea would be looking for employment > >> as a janitor mach schnell. > > >> Perhaps a "Wuerger" (shrike) model named after the FW-190 might be a > >> better bet......particularly if the first production run were prone to > >> overheating. > > >Maybe they could name a bike after the V-2; imagine how > >popular those would be in London.... > > >Bob M. > > I think they would bomb. You'd be wrong...
From: Twibil on 8 Feb 2010 22:25 On Feb 8, 6:36 pm, "S'mee" <stevenkei...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > Maybe they could name a bike after the V-2; imagine how > > popular those would be in London.... > > Yeah right...how many people would know what the A-4 was? Lots! But they'd all have different opinions... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-4_Skyhawk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_216 http://www.ador.state.al.us/withholding/a-4.pdf http://www.audiusa.com/us/brand/en/models/a4_sedan.html http://venturebeat.com/2010/02/06/apple-a4-cooler-battery/ http://www.v2rocket.com/ http://www.whitehouse.gov/OMB/circulars/a004/a-4.pdf http://www.a4menubuilder.com/ http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm http://www.documents.dgs.ca.gov/dsa/pubs/IR_A-4_rev06-17-09.pdf
From: Bob Myers on 9 Feb 2010 13:58 S'mee wrote: >> Maybe they could name a bike after the V-2; imagine how >> popular those would be in London.... > > Yeah right...how many people would know what the A-4 was? Well, me, for one - at least assuming you mean the A-4 that would be appropriate in this context. But I'm pretty sure most Londoners knew it as the "V-2" (Vergeltungswaffe, or "vengeance weapon", 2). They already had such fond memories of the V-1 "buzz bomb." Bob M.
From: S'mee on 9 Feb 2010 15:16
On Feb 9, 11:58 am, "Bob Myers" <nospample...(a)address.invalid> wrote: > S'mee wrote: > >> Maybe they could name a bike after the V-2; imagine how > >> popular those would be in London.... > > > Yeah right...how many people would know what the A-4 was? > > Well, me, for one - at least assuming you mean the A-4 that > would be appropriate in this context. But I'm pretty sure most > Londoners knew it as the "V-2" (Vergeltungswaffe, or "vengeance > weapon", 2). They already had such fond memories of the V-1 > "buzz bomb." Not my fault herr schicklegrubber and the public couldn't get the name straight... Just like saying it is not a can opener it's a P38. I mean really! Some peoples children. |