Our thousandth member!

[Nick Armstrong]

yours is a good Montesquieu quote. He was of course French: no wonder therefore that also: "He goes so far as to assert that certain climates are superior to others, the temperate climate of France being ideal. His view is that people living in very warm countries are "too hot-tempered," while those in northern countries are "icy" or "stiff."

Nonsense to the extent that my experience (borne out this week by a call today with Paris where it is -4 but -20 with the wind chill) is that when it's cold in Paris, it is much more so (and more damply so) than here...

[Anna]

It's DEFINITELY how I imagine him!!

But with his leather bound pocket edition of Proust always in his hand .........

[vinteuil]

Vin, did your pulse never quicken as a lad, as the mileometer in the family Silver Ghost ticked up through the 900s... to clock over in a joyous burst of zeros to the clear blue sky of a new '1,000' or '10,000' ?

... but never anything as vulgar or m'as-tu vu as a Rolls-Royce: always a Daimler... The raised eyebrows when my wastrel brother acquired - a Lancia...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

a Lancia Delta was a favourite car ....



.... seems like a thousand years ago ......

[3rd Viennese School]

When I were a lad I used to like travelling in a Daimler down to the town!

Okay, so it was a double decker Maidstone and District bus, but you no wot I mean!

3VS

[vinteuil]

When I were a lad I used to like travelling in a Daimler down to the town!
Okay, so it was a double decker Maidstone and District bus, but you no wot I mean!

o, you was lucky! - I had to make do with a double decker Bristol Lodekka * [I think - further research may be necessary... ] of the Bath Tramways/Bristol Omnibus companies...

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Lodekka

[subcontrabass]

When I were a lad I used to like travelling in a Daimler down to the town!

Okay, so it was a double decker Maidstone and District bus, but you no wot I mean!

That would have been after my time of using Mud & Dirt buses. We had Leyland Atlanteans in my later years at school, following the special low-bridge version of whatever it was they had before.

[Nick Armstrong]

a Lancia Delta was a favourite car ....

A wastrel you say, vindetable? Sounds like a fine chap

Calum - I agree: this was the second car I ever owned, a Delta Integrale. Went like Samuel Scheidt off a shovel

[vinteuil]

A wastrel you say, vindetable? Sounds like a fine chap

...well. he acquired a Lancia. And then he left to go and live in Australia. Need I say more?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well there does come that certain moment with a Lancia ...

“I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her –after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barred–I would gather her in my arms with, at last, a mute moan of human tenderness (her skin glistening in the neon light coming from the paved court through the slits in the blind, her soot-black lashes matted, her grave gray eyes more vacant than ever–for all the world a little patient still in the confusion of a drug after a major operation)–and the tenderness would deepen to shame and despair, and I would lull and rock my lone light Lolita in my marble arms, and moan in her warm hair, and caress her at random and mutely ask her blessing, and at the peak of this human agonized selfless tenderness (with my soul actually hanging around her naked body and ready to repent), all at once, ironically, horribly, lust would swell again–and 'oh, no,' Lolita would say with a sigh to heaven, and the next moment the tenderness and the azure–all would be shattered.”

[cloughie]

o, you was lucky! - I had to make do with a double decker Bristol Lodekka * [I think - further research may be necessary... ] of the Bath Tramways/Bristol Omnibus companies...

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Lodekka

What a design of genius that was. A double-decker ( I almost put Double Decca) bus that could go under low bridges, with a central gangway upstairs instead of a channel which had the by-product of a part-lowered roof on the lower deck and the 'lower your head when leaving your seat' notice, which led to many bumped pates.

[Nick Armstrong]

a Lancia Delta was a favourite car ....



.... seems like a thousand years ago ......

New photo, Cal! Ah yes... that was one of the final "Evoluzione" versions of the Integrale: caused me anguished writhings after the 1988 8 valve pictured in my earlier post, but I resisted

[french frank]

I notice that yesterday the forum broke another record too: over 500 posts in one day (515 in fact). Is there something going on I should be told about?

[EdgeleyRob]

I notice that yesterday the forum broke another record too: over 500 posts in one day (515 in fact). Is there something going on I should be told about?

The forum is going from strength to strength thanks to your (and others) hard work.

[Domeyhead]

In recognition of the link between music and mathematics you should be lauding the 1024th new member. I'm sure you know why.