John, On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:03:57 -0500, John Ferrell wrote: > Idle comments... >...< > SIDE QUESTION: Is there any alcohol in Bud Lite? I've heard it said that some American beers have so little alcohol that they could have been sold legally during the Prohibition - but I don't know which ones. > Noisy TV's: There is now a remote device marketed that runs the gamut of > remotes to turn off TV's that have become annoying. Now that would be handy! I'll look out for one next time I'm Stateside... > I got over my fascination with Jags with a 1954 sedan while I was a college > student in 1959... until then I was certain all things British were > superior! Oh, same age as me! (The car, not your good self...) 1954, that must have been the Mk.VII I think (split screen?)? That certainly wasn't a good example. Jaguar have had a very patchy history, with some models being excellent (the S-type, for example) and others being complete dogs (the 420G, say). I'd love to own an S-type, but it seems that most of them ended their days flying over cliffs at the end of car-chases in 1970s television drama programmes... :-) The thing that the USA is certainly better at than us: mass production. A hand-built British car can hold its own against anything the World can throw at it, but most things off a production line here, frankly, make me ashamed. Not that we actually make any significant number of cars any more - most of it has gone abroad, following takeovers of virtually all of our car mass-market manufacturers. And what *have* BMW done to the Mini??? Cheers, Howard Winter St.Albans, England -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist