Semlin,
The closest I've been to jolly England is the Bahamas and I was born and raised in Texas (don't mess with Texas either.) I would fail your test if I had a clue of what you were talking about.
My "tie" to the UK is the same as many of us; they were instrumental in developing this country and they left us alone once we kicked their butts out. :G For that, I am eternally grateful as you should be.
I'm told, but cannot confirm, that I am a DAR and Mom has some documents that take the family lineage back to England during the time of the signing of the Magna Carta. Whoopee. :
The Beowulf nym was picked about 10 years ago during the early days of BBS's (e.g. CompuServe) I've used it off and on since then.
The use of British car terms comes from a few years spent with a 1958 Jaguar XK150 drop head coupe. It never ran (not for me anyway) but I spent a lot of time reading the FSM and trying to get it together. That's about the time I refused, on principle, to ever own another multi-carburated vehicle. It's fuel injection for me from now on. I liked their terminology and, in a tiny effort to keep this a global forum, I sometimes use the British terminology... It makes Jim feel at home. :G
As for British QC, let's don't rile Jim; he could bring up the Ford Pinto and Firestone tyres. We have our share of automobile skeletons that we'd rather not remember.
But I digress....
-B-
The closest I've been to jolly England is the Bahamas and I was born and raised in Texas (don't mess with Texas either.) I would fail your test if I had a clue of what you were talking about.
My "tie" to the UK is the same as many of us; they were instrumental in developing this country and they left us alone once we kicked their butts out. :G For that, I am eternally grateful as you should be.
I'm told, but cannot confirm, that I am a DAR and Mom has some documents that take the family lineage back to England during the time of the signing of the Magna Carta. Whoopee. :
The Beowulf nym was picked about 10 years ago during the early days of BBS's (e.g. CompuServe) I've used it off and on since then.
The use of British car terms comes from a few years spent with a 1958 Jaguar XK150 drop head coupe. It never ran (not for me anyway) but I spent a lot of time reading the FSM and trying to get it together. That's about the time I refused, on principle, to ever own another multi-carburated vehicle. It's fuel injection for me from now on. I liked their terminology and, in a tiny effort to keep this a global forum, I sometimes use the British terminology... It makes Jim feel at home. :G
As for British QC, let's don't rile Jim; he could bring up the Ford Pinto and Firestone tyres. We have our share of automobile skeletons that we'd rather not remember.
But I digress....
-B-
oesn't "DAR" stand for "Daughters of the American Revolution". How can you be one of those? :-/
They still are. 
