The BAD PARKING thread [vol3]

[nonsequitur]

Mr Snrub said:

mp3manager said:

nonsequitur said:

The worlds most famous Beetle. Apart from Herbie of course.

Or the green Bullitt Beetle.

Isn't the registration supposed to somehow prove Paul died and was replaced by a lookalike?

Yes. Paul would have been 28 (I)F he had lived.

[nonsequitur]

mp3manager said:

nonsequitur said:

The worlds most famous Beetle. Apart from Herbie of course.

Or the green Bullitt Beetle.

Indeed. Appears in almost every shot of the car chase.

[Mr Alan]

nonsequitur said:

Mr Snrub said:

mp3manager said:

nonsequitur said:

The worlds most famous Beetle. Apart from Herbie of course.

Or the green Bullitt Beetle.

Isn't the registration supposed to somehow prove Paul died and was replaced by a lookalike?

Yes. Paul would have been 28 (I)F he had lived.

Just spent 10 minutes reading about it, what a load of old toss. It claims the plate is "LMW" which apparently says Linda McCartney weeps. How John is a priest in white, ringo a mourner, George a gravedigger etc etc

[Vipers]

Mr Alan said:

Just spent 10 minutes reading about it, what a load of old toss. It claims the plate is "LMW" which apparently says Linda McCartney weeps. How John is a priest in white, ringo a mourner, George a gravedigger etc etc

Much like they said TWAIN meant "Technology Without an Interesting Name" that was BS as well.

[Mammasaid]

Vipers said:

Mr Alan said:

Just spent 10 minutes reading about it, what a load of old toss. It claims the plate is "LMW" which apparently says Linda McCartney weeps. How John is a priest in white, ringo a mourner, George a gravedigger etc etc

Much like they said TWAIN meant "Technology Without an Interesting Name" that was BS as well.

That's a backronym, however. It was called twain originally as in 'never the twain shall meet' however it was capitalised to make it distinctive, and hence someone gave it an acronym retrospectively.

[P5BNij]

Escort3500 said:

Beetle drivers, pah

Trivia alert...! Taken around 11am on 8/8/69, later that day Charlie Manson's mob committed their atrocious crimes in California.

[AMG Merc]

Apparently said Charlie is not to well in prison. How sad - not.

[nonsequitur]

Mr Alan said:

nonsequitur said:

Mr Snrub said:

mp3manager said:

nonsequitur said:

The worlds most famous Beetle. Apart from Herbie of course.

Or the green Bullitt Beetle.

Isn't the registration supposed to somehow prove Paul died and was replaced by a lookalike?

Yes. Paul would have been 28 (I)F he had lived.

Just spent 10 minutes reading about it, what a load of old toss. It claims the plate is "LMW" which apparently says Linda McCartney weeps. How John is a priest in white, ringo a mourner, George a gravedigger etc etc

A little silly perhaps, but it gained a lot of credence at the time, and was a big story.

[Vipers]

Mammasaid said:

Vipers said:

Mr Alan said:

Just spent 10 minutes reading about it, what a load of old toss. It claims the plate is "LMW" which apparently says Linda McCartney weeps. How John is a priest in white, ringo a mourner, George a gravedigger etc etc

Much like they said TWAIN meant "Technology Without an Interesting Name" that was BS as well.

That's a backronym, however. It was called twain originally as in 'never the twain shall meet' however it was capitalised to make it distinctive, and hence someone gave it an acronym retrospectively.

Not sure if you twigged I was referring to some software, I forgot to mention that, doh.......

P.S. Your on to something, just found this:-

Definition: TWAIN is a software protocol that goes between your computer and your camera, scanner, or whatever imaging device you're using. It helps ensure that your computer can understand and display the data being sent by the imaging device. It's not an acronym, but, according to the TWAIN Working Group, was taken from "and never the twain shall meet," from Rudyard Kipling's poem "The Ballad of East and West." The Working group notes the word reflected "the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers."

Edited by Vipers on Thursday 2nd March 14:07

[Mammasaid]

Vipers said:

Mammasaid said:

Vipers said:

Mr Alan said:

Just spent 10 minutes reading about it, what a load of old toss. It claims the plate is "LMW" which apparently says Linda McCartney weeps. How John is a priest in white, ringo a mourner, George a gravedigger etc etc

Much like they said TWAIN meant "Technology Without an Interesting Name" that was BS as well.

That's a backronym, however. It was called twain originally as in 'never the twain shall meet' however it was capitalised to make it distinctive, and hence someone gave it an acronym retrospectively.

Not sure if you twigged I was referring to some software, I forgot to mention that, doh.......

P.S. Your on to something, just found this:-

Definition: TWAIN is a software protocol that goes between your computer and your camera, scanner, or whatever imaging device you're using. It helps ensure that your computer can understand and display the data being sent by the imaging device. It's not an acronym, but, according to the TWAIN Working Group, was taken from "and never the twain shall meet," from Rudyard Kipling's poem "The Ballad of East and West." The Working group notes the word reflected "the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers."

Edited by Vipers on Thursday 2nd March 14:07

Yeah, working in IT I'm bombarded by TLAs, FLAs, etc.....TMI FFS.

[driverrob]

Today, at our very busy surgery:

[Easternlight]

Another surgery, I think it may have been the doctors car!

[Hoofy]

Easternlight said:

Another surgery, I think it may have been the doctors car!

Well, I'm not sure I'd want a prostate exam from someone who can't feel when one tyre is off the kerb.

[BertieWooster]

Another one from Munich...

[Alfa2Evora]

Wrong on so many counts.

Mind you, even parked perfectly between the lines it would deserve to be on here for the sheer effrontery of leaving that somewhere in public view.

[problemchild1976]

maybe if people took more care getting out of their cars this wouldn't happen

i saw a lady today get out of her car and slam her door into the car next to her.

i asked her how she felt about causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage to someone's car and she just shrugged and walked off.

I told her i'd be telling the owner when he returned and she came back and drove off!!

JJ

[johnwilliams77]

problemchild1976 said:

maybe if people took more care getting out of their cars this wouldn't happen

i saw a lady today get out of her car and slam her door into the car next to her.

i asked her how she felt about causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage to someone's car and she just shrugged and walked off.

I told her i'd be telling the owner when he returned and she came back and drove off!!

JJ

Pretty common. Downside of parking across two spaces is that someone might damage your car for being inconsiderate.

[csd19]

problemchild1976 said:

tickious said:

THIS is how all bad parking pics should be taken

JJ

That's a great one for the "council" thread too.

stty Golf with crap black alloys and blacked out badges - check
'tard chav in trackies - check
Across 2 disabled spaces - check
And finally, outside B&M - check

[SmoothCriminal]

csd19 said:

problemchild1976 said:

tickious said:

THIS is how all bad parking pics should be taken

JJ

That's a great one for the "council" thread too.

stty Golf with crap black alloys and blacked out badges - check
'tard chav in trackies - check
Across 2 disabled spaces - check
And finally, outside B&M - check

Apparently the chav was asked to move because someone needed the space and the tt posed for the picture and walked off.

Nobber of the highest order.

[Hol]

Alfa2Evora said:

Wrong on so many counts.

Mind you, even parked perfectly between the lines it would deserve to be on here for the sheer effrontery of leaving that somewhere in public view.

So many cockwomble points.