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That's an officially cool car!
But is it really from 1971?
According to the german wikipedia the company was founded in 1979.
I can't find any english wikipedia entry.
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Thanks. She started life in 1971 as an MGB and was rebuilt [in 1981 IIRC] as a NG TA, but kept her original paperwork hence she's a '71. We bought her in 2006 and love her to bits, now we're waiting for some good weather again so we can take her out.
veni bibi saltavi
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OIC.
I will have to admit I'm more than just a bit envious.
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iirc age is derived from the donor car, so even if the kit was built this year the new car is given the identity(reg plate, age, exclusion from taxation) from the donor vehicle
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I see, I wasn't aware that it was working that way. Makes sense though.
Thanks for clarifying.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: to rhyme with dodge Or todge(r).
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[ˈnɒɟ][^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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chriselst wrote: If you cannot be bothered signing off with you name Because you aren't sure who it is from?
chriselst wrote: I'm in a grumpy mood today. Why did the superhero flush the toilet?
Because it was his doody.
You're welcome.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: Because you aren't sure who it is from?
It's respect innit.
Love from Chris x
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: Love from Chris x I see your point. Big difference. I shall amend my ways.
James.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Well said. Feel better now?
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chriselst wrote: I hate ones that have a fax number like it's the 1990s. Don't know about other countries, in Germany a fax has the legal status of a letter, an email has not. So I let my customers send me faxes(?) as purchase orders.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Sascha Lefèvre wrote: So I let my customers send me faxes
I cannot remember the last time I saw a fax machine (yes, yes, I know you can fax from a computer).
I had a job, many years ago, where we had a central server that faxed a summary of stuff each morning to around a hundred customers around the country.
People liked the faxes because they could walk in, pick up the fax, and read the summary whilst making the coffee, generally getting ready for the day ahead.
We wanted to save money on all the faxing.
All these customers had their own server, we wanted to transfer the data and let them print if the wanted or view on screen.
They liked the faxes.
So I transferred the data to the local server, and then made it fax the fax machine that it was often sat next to.
Moved the cost of the faxes from us to the customers.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Never heard of digitally signed documents?
We have a special server for our customers that enables to upload documents - or fill one online - and sign it digitally...It has legal status of letter...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Most of my customers would be challenged to send me a signed document on their own and I CBA to set up such a server
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Actually we were happy to set up such server and get rid of the fax machine - our customers had serious problem to decide when and what to send on fax so we had a huge warehouse for paper and toner only...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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What about the ones that end with: Sent from .... (e.g. my fancy mobile phone)
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Ah yes, people who can't change the default on their phones. Good catch.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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They're really annoying
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Sent from Chris's Smart Fridge
veni bibi saltavi
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Agree with you on everything apart from
chriselst wrote: I hate people who cannot be bothered typing their name at the end because they just let the standard sig handle it.
You know who it's from before you open the e-mail so why do they have to sign off? Are you going to forget by the time you get to the end? I'm a team-lead of a team that consists of members in 3 differnt Countries and deals with departments in another 2, so I receive/reply to around 100-150 e-mails a day so it would bug the hell out of me to do this (that's what the sig is for).
A bug-bear of mine is if I'm in an e-mail chain with 1 other person and they insist on starting each individual message with "Hi Scott". E-mail chains between two people should follow this format.
Hi Scott
Hi Neil
<reply to="" message="">
and then any further messages should just be the body of reply with no "Hi Scott/Neil"
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PompeyThree wrote: and then any further messages should just be the body of reply with no "Hi Scott/Neil"
Agree entirely there, establish the formalities in the first exchange and then they are not needed from then on. I just think the formalities should contain the senders name at the bottom that first time too.
Even worse when they bother typing Regards or some such and then let the sig pick up the rest. There is no regard there.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Hi PompeyThree,
Only the first email instance should say Hi. The rest can start with the person's name to let them know where to start off next. No need to Hi them every time.
Bassam
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I hate it when people sign their name and then their email signature provides their name again. This is redundant, anachronistic, and pointless. This "double signing" is annoyingly grating to me, and I'm not sure why as it seems like only a minor issue. For example,
Regards,
Bob Smith
Bob Smith
Big Company Ltd.
33 Big Street
phone 3141592653589
Please don't do this!
// mght ToDo: // Put Signature Here
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chriselst wrote: I hate ones that include the email address like the email doesn't know where it's come from. Strangely enough that's the one thing I really want on emails.
It's not rare than I need to share documents/projects online with colleagues and inevitably this is done by email address within the online application.
So invariably it ends up with me finding an email the person sent and trying to extract their email address or trying to do the same from the Outlook address book(working in Cambridge means that many people have foreign names either because they are not British or because their parents were called Featherstonhaugh - pronounced Fanshaw).
Because of the 'everything is connected' attitude of some software designers it's sometimes blinking difficult to extract something as simple as an email address from a contact.
[Edit 'of' changed to 'or']
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 1-Mar-16 8:48am.
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I could not agree more with the second part.
AND
I also hate emails address in emails.
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