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Post by crankcase on Feb 16, 2017 13:20:53 GMT
That was a real Barnum and Bailey one - intriguing to see the change in wrestling styles through the ages. Didn't know Brian had done wrestling though!
Looks laughable now, of course, when you see what the Americans are doing.
I always think that however much fakery is going on, there's no denying being on the receiving end of this has got to be an experience to make your eyes water.
Hmm. This could be thread drift, incidentally, sorry all.
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Post by Humph on Feb 17, 2017 8:21:25 GMT
Straw poll request. Is my son's new car an "Eye-go" or an "Eh-go"? Subject of some dispute around the breakfast table this morning. I'm in the "Eh" camp by the way... Many thanks 😉
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Post by crankcase on Feb 17, 2017 8:43:17 GMT
Eh? I had one. Eye-go, for me, definitely. Dealer called it that too.
However, when I had one, dealer was much less sure about whether it was Pree-us or Pry-us.
I was thinking fondly of the old Aygo this very morning, by coincidence. I'm going to have to do something about cars withing a few months, and various ideas are beginning to coalesce.
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Post by Humph on Feb 17, 2017 9:34:35 GMT
Ok I guess so far anyway, the ayes have it...😬
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Post by Hofmeister on Feb 17, 2017 10:55:11 GMT
Its an Eye-go, stop trying to be noncy and poncy about it. Why on earth would you call a car an Eggo.
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Post by WDB on Feb 17, 2017 11:41:14 GMT
There was a TV advert years ago, for a perfume, that showed a shot of what may have been a Paris apartment building, with about sixteen shuttered windows. One would open to reveal a couture-clad woman who exclaimed "l'Egoïste!" before closing her shutters again. Then another, and another, until it ended with all sixteen open. Anyway, l'Egoïste it was. But it might so easily have been "l'Aygoïste". Think about that.
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Post by Humph on Feb 17, 2017 13:59:16 GMT
Well, I have to say, this is all very disappointing. What was meant to happen was that you would all unanimously declare that it is indeed pronounced "Eh-go" so that I could have shown this thread to him later as conclusive proof that he and his mother are wrong and that I am right.
Now look what you've done. 😕
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 14:13:27 GMT
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Post by crankcase on Feb 17, 2017 15:00:30 GMT
I've often wondered why the Toyota naming department thought that the ideal name for their somewhat iffy satnav system would be "Touch and Go", but there we are.
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Post by Humph on Feb 17, 2017 16:00:24 GMT
All very well of course but if they'd called it a Playgo, a Delaygo, a Staygo or whatever then all of them would be pronounced with the AY sounding like Eh wouldn't they. I knew I should've got him a Panda or C1, at least there wouldn't be all this unnecessary business.
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Post by tyrednexited on Feb 17, 2017 16:07:25 GMT
I knew I should've got him a Panda or C1 ...you mean a "P&A", or a "Kwon".........
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Post by Humph on Feb 17, 2017 16:10:11 GMT
Exactly !
Eye-go my bum 🙄
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Post by tyrednexited on Feb 17, 2017 19:35:08 GMT
Exactly ! Eye-go my bum 🙄 ...Or eye-go ma hairy erse.... (In the vernacular)
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Post by Humph on Feb 17, 2017 21:24:49 GMT
Indeed. Quite so.
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Post by tyrednexited on Feb 17, 2017 21:50:56 GMT
.... aye, that's an example of another word Jocks can't pronounce properly....😎
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