[TR] headlights dimmer

Michael Marr mmarr at notwires.com
Mon Oct 29 11:11:04 MDT 2012


All my American-born kids are familiar with the term "wanker" also.

Mike


From: Frank Fisher
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 11:35 AM
To: John Macartney ; Michael Marr ; William Pugh ; Andrew Uprichard
Cc: triumphs at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] headlights dimmer


for some reason im getting the giggles when the british TV shows im getting
have some one proclaim "tosser"
old but not used a lot here in the US


From: John Macartney <flywheelcoventry1 at yahoo.co.uk>
To: Michael Marr <mmarr at notwires.com>; Frank Fisher <yellowtr3 at yahoo.com>;
William Pugh <anabil007 at comcast.net>; Andrew Uprichard
<auprichard at uprichard.net>
Cc: "triumphs at autox.team.net" <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [TR] headlights dimmer



If we're into Brit Brit vernacular, deprecating terminology for people could
employ terms such as "dipstick" or being "a 99 carat plonker"

Jonmac From: Michael Marr <mmarr at notwires.com>
To: Frank Fisher <yellowtr3 at yahoo.com>; William Pugh <anabil007 at comcast.net>;
Andrew Uprichard <auprichard at uprichard.net>
Cc: triumphs at autox.team.net
Sent: Monday, 29 October 2012, 16:18
Subject: Re: [TR] headlights dimmer


  You know my son-in-law?  Oh, wait a minute, he is dips**t, not dipswitch...

  Mike


  From: Frank Fisher
  Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 10:45 AM
  To: Michael Marr ; William Pugh ; Andrew Uprichard
  Cc: triumphs at autox.team.net
  Subject: Re: [TR] headlights dimmer


  I have a friend by that name !!!
  Do you know him?
  Frank



  From: Michael Marr <mmarr at notwires.com>
  To: William Pugh <anabil007 at comcast.net>; Andrew Uprichard
  <auprichard at uprichard.net>
  Cc: triumphs at autox.team.net
  Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 7:46 PM
  Subject: Re: [TR] headlights dimmer


  Dipswitch.

  --------------------------------------------------
  From: "William Pugh" <anabil007 at comcast.net>
  Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 7:38 PM
  To: "Andrew Uprichard" <auprichard at uprichard.net>
  Cc: <triumphs at autox.team.net>
  Subject: Re: [TR] headlights dimmer

  > Dipper ???
  >
  >
  > On Oct 27, 2012, at 2:59 PM, "Andrew Uprichard"
<auprichard at uprichard.net>
  > wrote:
  >
  >> OK, so we had boots, bonnets, outer sills and more, but can you remind
me
  >> what I called the dimmer switch in my previous (Ireland, Scotland) life
?
  >>
  >> Andrew Uprichard
  >> 29 years in the UK, 25 in the USA
  >>
  >>
  >
  >
  > "Life is too short to drive boring cars"
  >
  > Bill Pugh
  > 1957 TR3 "Casper"p;
  > TS16765L
  > Wallace, CA
  > anabil007 at comcast.net
  >
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