Just a quick comment on the 'Gestapo HQ' in this e-mail. If you take each
and every letter in the term Mother-in-law and use all of them only once you
can rearrange the letters into "woman Hitler. Try it.
Ed Curtis
55 MGTF that went to its first MG show today.
neil.cairns@virgin.net wrote:
> Does anyone remember what I said about 're-learning things every 5 years
> or so?' Well.....
> Yesterday evening I took the MG Metro over the 16 mile
> journey to visit 'Gestapo HQ', ( my mother-in-laws in Newport Pagnell.)
> I drove and my wife looked at the scenery. The road is twisty but quite
> a fast one, and needless to say I enjoyed the little cars excellent
> handling, ( just like the Mini.) We shot through Woburn, Woburn Sands,
> then hit some really thick traffic at junction 14 just before Newport
> Pagnell. Here we just crawled the last mile or so, sharing the tarmac
> with thousands of commuters from that awful hell-hole, the new city of
> Milton Keynes. ( I bet even the USA has heard of that place!)
>
> Obviously the engine was very hot after its fast run, and as the MG
> Metro has a 15psi pressurised cooling system, it can run pretty hot. It
> is one of these modern sealed cooling systems as well, with an expansion
> tank.
>
> Well, as we crept along with huge Mercs, BMWs, Rover 800's, ect.,
> towering above us on all sides, ( rich b*****ds these Milton Keynes
> lot,) suddenly we were engulfed in a cloud of steam. I glanced down at
> the temperature guage, to see it was on normal, but our hot engines
> water was making a violent break for freedom, ( plus all that expensive
> anti-freeze.)
>
> I managed to get to the edge of the steel & plastic river carrying angry
> grey suited middle aged males, and opened the bonnet, ( hood.)
>
> ...........some time ago I had drained and flushed the cooling system,
> and the hose to the expansion tank had caught my eye. It needs a new one
> I had decided, but time and age had let me forget. Yep, the little car
> had now decided to remind me, as the hose had split by the hose clip on
> that tank!!
>
> The windscreen washer water was emptied into the header tank, and we
> crept the last mile to HQ.
>
> Don't you feel a prat when such things happen, and WHY do they happen on
> busy roads, not quiet ones; and WHY when visiting sceptical inlaws who
> think all old cars should be scrapped? The only thing missing was it was
> not p*****g down with rain.
>
> Neil
> ( I cut 2" off the end of the old hose to good rubber, refitted it to
> get home.)
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