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Re: Enthusiasts & "Bloody" Anoraks

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Subject: Re: Enthusiasts & "Bloody" Anoraks
From: john donohoe <gt6driver@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 08:24:45 -0700 (PDT)
I'm with you John: Cat #1 all the way!

John Donohoe

--- John Macartney <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk> wrote:
<snip> 
> Category #1 - "Enthusiasts" are people who love, own
> and comprehensively maintain a now
> defunct car make. They also have a substantial
> interest in beer, women (of any age) good
> food and the pleasures of life as a whole - though
> not necessarily in that order
> Category #2 - "Committed enthusiasts" are an
> advanced form of the above group with their
> passion erring more to the car than the
> multitudinous pleasures of the flesh
> Category #3 - "Anoraks" (the garments worn by train
> spotters) are really only interested
> in the car of their choice, and
> Category #4 - "Bloody anoraks" are those who eat,
> sleep, drink, work their particular
> model and make of car above all others. What's more,
> they'll drive any sane person over
> the precipice of total madness talking about it and
> are best avoided by those in
> categories 1 and 2. Category #3 people can usually
> put up with Category #4 individuals for
> prolonged periods of suffering.
> 
> I won't allocate anyone on this list into any of the
> above four except to say that I think
> I come into category #1
> 
> Jonmac

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