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Re: NYPD slams Triumphs

To: Dave Massey <105671.471@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: NYPD slams Triumphs
From: George Richardson <gprtech@frontiernet.net>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:36:05 -0500
Cc: Tim Gaines <mtgaines@mail.presby.edu>, TRIUMPHS@autox.team.net
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How do we know that he wasn't talking about a motorcycle?

Dave Massey wrote:

>Message text written by Tim Gaines
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>>You mean, Triumphs ARE reliable; only fictional ones aren't?  Or is it
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>that Medavoy is a fictional character and therefore knows squat about
>Triumphs?  Just what is it that's fiction, Dave?  I need to know!  ;-) 
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>Well, yes.  Yes I'm saying that Triumphs are reliable.  About as reliable
>as any 30 year old car.  Probably more so.  What's not reliable is the
>expectation that Hollywood script writers will forgo a catchy line for the
>sake of truth and accuracy.
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>I guess I should be happy they spelled Triumph right.  (They DID spell it
>right, didn't they?)
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>(I also wonder how many of the watching public caught on to what he was
>saying)
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George Richardson
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