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[hidden email], "Teresa - ISOSHADO"
<teresa.cerana@i...> wrote:
>
> Straker's car is mentioned in yesterday's The Sunday Times:
>
> Driving
> Jeremy Clarkson
> "Leaves all fashionable pretenders in its wake"
>
> Here's the paragraph:
>
<< quote
Not a Jaguar, though, because somehow Jag has emerged from its recent
vacillations as the Tory party. <snip > Maybe because
it's cool to be green - there has to be some reason why
environmentalism is so popular because it's got damn all to do with
science - school-run mums are unwilling to tool around in a Commander
Straker Tonka toy.
unquote >>
I've always thought "Tonka toy" was shorthand for "sporty" 4x4s -
which, to be pedantic, wasn't wot Straker drove. But anyway...
Here's a link to the full article if anyone would like to read it. I
think the majority of people on this list don't live in the UK and
therefore will not be aware that Jeremy Clarkson is, I suppose, a UK
socio / cultural icon. (ROTFL) He writes on / presents tv programs
on cars and motoring though he branches out with more contemporary...
rants?... occasionally. He's provocative, extremely tongue-in-cheek
and (depending on your sense of humour) very funny. He has no time
for the "ecologically-correct" and recently received a banoffi pie in
his face for his views. I've explained all this so people who don't
know the Clarkson literary style will understand that his favoured
style of writing is to poke fun at more or less anything and is
probably stuffed so full of UK social / cultural references as to
make parts of it incomprehensible.
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12529-1836924,00.htmlMy view? Clarkson mentioned Straker. Wow! Seriously kewl!
Best,
Carly
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