[Leica] Clarkson's international incident.

[r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)]

... and also got himself a lot of, I suspect much desired, publicity,  
much like the recent Kanye West/Taylor Swift brouhaha here.

Regards,

Dick



On Sep 16, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

> .A decade or so ago Jeremy Clarkson made headline news and sparked  
> off an
> international incident by warning car fans not to walk their dogs past
> Hyundai dealerships for fear that the Korean salesmen would barbecue  
> and eat
> their mutts. It was his backhanded way of suggesting that the  
> Hyundai cars
> were dogs. The Foreign Office made profound apologies to the Korean
> Government, saying that the commentator didn't mean that the Koreans  
> would
> literally eat dogs. Rather it was simply Monty Pythonesque humor. He  
> meant,
> they said, that the car business is full of dog eat dog competition.  
> Have a
> little mustard with that apology.
>
> Larry Z
>
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