Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Oil Leaks and British Machinery: OFF-TOPIC
From: dmorton@journalist.co.uk (David Morton)
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:32 +0000 (PST)
 
Tom A writes:

>  I once met a nuclear engineer from Canada. he went for a study tour of
> a
> british Nuclear power plant. walked in, saw the sign." Lucas
> Electrical" on
> the control panel and concluded the tour very quickly. he was a former
> Morgan/Triumph/MG and Jaguar owner. He claims that it was the scariest
> sign he
> has ever seen!!!!

I can understand why he'd think that, I always liked the Yank joke which
went:

"why do the British drink warm beer?"

"Because they have Lucas refrigerators."

Which is pretty mild compared to the things we say about 'merkins when
they're not listening :-)