re: motoring quote

[sgi!pwcs.StPaul.GOV!phile@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Philip J Ethier)]

> The relation to British cars is up to the
> reader to determine.  I suspect,
> though, that the "technical lucubrations"
> that Aldous refers to were no
> doubt the 1925 equivalents of
> Slick-50 and Redline... :-)
>
>  -- Scott

No, Scott those are technical lubrications.  A lucubration in this
context is probably a  "studied or pretentious expression in speech or
writing" (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary).  Or are you subbing
for Norm Crosby?   :-)


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