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Post #208,697
by CRConrad
5/26/05 12:28:34 PM
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New Hey, don't be too hasty to turn him down...
He is -- or would be -- quite a catch financially: according to [link|http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/apr02/rich.html|Comedy's richest people], he has (or had, in 2002) a fortune of \ufffd60million.

Sure, he's "an engineer" also in the sense that [link|http://www.rowanatkinson.org/articles/00022.htm|he likes cars]; he [link|http://www.classicdriver.com/uk/magazine/3500.asp?id=11351|collects vintage cars], [link|http://www.carkeys.co.uk/columns/david_finlay/477.asp|races vintage cars], [link|http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-car-page.php?carno=1206|sells vintage cars], [link|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/1430754.stm|crashes hugely expensive cars] (see especially the note at the bottom), [link|http://www.mgcars.org.uk/cgi-bin/gen5?runprog=mgoc&a=&p=emg/emg100203.html|races some more vintage cars], and [link|http://www.octane-magazine.com/default.asp?ItemKey=5568&DisplayTitle=&NewsOpened=1|writes for car magazines] -- fuck, if I didn't have my Anki, *I* might try to catch him! ;-)

Oh, except [link|http://mpelembe.mappibiz.com/archives_05/Rowan_Atkinson.html|he's taken already]: "...personal fortune of more than 60 million, a beautiful wife, two delightful children, stunning homes in Oxfordshire and Chelsea..." [emphasis added]. So, OK, no mr Bean for you (or me! :-), then.



   [link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
Post #208,756
by Ashton
5/26/05 8:57:20 PM
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New Hmmm.. Great Minds. Again.
Morris Minor!

Ergo - Rowan and I have something in common - my first Brit 'car' - the '52 side-valve 897? cc thingie (or was that 803, and the larger is for first OHV). Indestuctible engine and the gutlessness may well have enhanced my survival chances.

{chortle}
Somehow, the typical Porsche people - and I wish them no ill - are not, I feel, my kind of people. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one.

..and he co-drives with Stirling Moss!
..OK, so it was in a Mk VII Jaguar. Still.
(whom I saw in action at Monte Carlo. Pity, never owned a BRG-color car. Yet.)



Wish Billy'd spent some of his bucks for a McLaren - and then rilly tried autistic-powered balls-out 'driving' in That sucker. (Gawd knoze what his other, commercial 'drivers' are like.) Naaah.. added to his other qualities: chicken-shit, too.
     Look!! Another engineer for me! - (bionerd) - (48) - May 25, 2005, 03:46:43 PM EDT
         hey, this guy can actually fix things! fake it -NT - (boxley) - May 25, 2005, 03:51:44 PM EDT
         Now, now - (imric) - (1) - May 25, 2005, 04:16:20 PM EDT
             ...but the money does! -NT - (ChrisR) - May 25, 2005, 07:37:45 PM EDT
         How many do you need to consume a month? -NT - (gdaustin) - (11) - May 25, 2005, 07:02:22 PM EDT
             s/a/per/ -NT - (Silverlock) - (10) - May 25, 2005, 09:37:05 PM EDT
                 s/ a / per /; # Your substitution had a bug :-P -NT - (ben_tilly) - (9) - May 25, 2005, 09:42:08 PM EDT
                     Don't even know the language the "s/" thingie is from - (Silverlock) - (4) - May 25, 2005, 09:49:53 PM EDT
                         It appears in several, including Perl - (ben_tilly) - (2) - May 25, 2005, 10:09:29 PM EDT
                             Gotcha - (Silverlock) - (1) - May 26, 2005, 07:27:47 AM EDT
                                 s/all the a's/the first a/ - (Steve Lowe) - May 26, 2005, 09:56:05 AM EDT
                         Started in sed - (broomberg) - May 26, 2005, 10:24:32 AM EDT
                     Err: s/\\ a\\ /\\ per\\ / # I WOT -NT - (folkert) - (3) - May 25, 2005, 11:18:57 PM EDT
                         Why escape the spaces? -NT - (static) - (2) - May 26, 2005, 12:56:11 AM EDT
                             I use sed. -NT - (folkert) - (1) - May 26, 2005, 07:38:42 AM EDT
                                 That's the shell's behaviour, not sed's - (ben_tilly) - May 26, 2005, 03:08:24 PM EDT
         Give it a shot -NT - (broomberg) - May 25, 2005, 07:03:40 PM EDT
         Hey, Rowan Atkinson was an Engineer. Luck! :-) - (Another Scott) - (4) - May 25, 2005, 07:15:33 PM EDT
             Great. The man of my dreams is Mr. Bean? - (bionerd) - (3) - May 26, 2005, 09:10:07 AM EDT
                 Maybe more like Black Adder? -NT - (SpiceWare) - May 26, 2005, 11:40:09 AM EDT
                 Hey, don't be too hasty to turn him down... - (CRConrad) - (1) - May 26, 2005, 12:28:34 PM EDT
                     Hmmm.. Great Minds. Again. - (Ashton) - May 26, 2005, 08:57:20 PM EDT
         View it as a game... - (ben_tilly) - (2) - May 25, 2005, 08:24:49 PM EDT
             Okay, I'll give it a shot - (bionerd) - (1) - May 26, 2005, 09:22:41 AM EDT
                 I'll need a report then :-) -NT - (ben_tilly) - May 26, 2005, 03:09:01 PM EDT
         Well, it is possible for an engineer . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (4) - May 26, 2005, 01:39:22 AM EDT
             Cant control who I'm matched with - (bionerd) - (3) - May 26, 2005, 09:21:29 AM EDT
                 No wonder you're getting engineers. - (Andrew Grygus) - May 26, 2005, 11:59:44 AM EDT
                 I put them to bed with a song - (admin) - (1) - May 27, 2005, 11:14:17 PM EDT
                     You sound a lot like me! - (bionerd) - May 28, 2005, 10:08:06 AM EDT
         Oh give him a try -NT - (tuberculosis) - May 26, 2005, 02:23:38 AM EDT
         That's friendly - (warmachine) - (17) - May 26, 2005, 05:10:05 AM EDT
             You havent been following my lack of success with engineers - (bionerd) - (16) - May 26, 2005, 09:32:26 AM EDT
                 My arms aren't that long - (broomberg) - (15) - May 26, 2005, 10:26:21 AM EDT
                     Ditto the wife thing. - (bepatient) - (14) - May 26, 2005, 10:27:44 AM EDT
                         Whattaya mean bet - (broomberg) - (13) - May 26, 2005, 10:44:05 AM EDT
                             I don't do AC...I like the "sure thing" bets. Sue me :-) -NT - (bepatient) - (1) - May 26, 2005, 10:55:16 AM EDT
                                 You're DC? - (jbrabeck) - May 26, 2005, 12:35:59 PM EDT
                             Hmmmm..... - (bionerd) - (10) - May 27, 2005, 08:06:45 AM EDT
                                 *chuckle* You got way more than a 'passing grade'. -NT - (imric) - May 27, 2005, 08:23:32 AM EDT
                                 It's a digital thing; think 'IQ' - (Ashton) - (8) - May 28, 2005, 04:59:50 AM EDT
                                     I read what you wrote - (bionerd) - (7) - May 28, 2005, 10:12:42 AM EDT
                                         Better get used to it. - (inthane-chan) - (6) - May 29, 2005, 11:08:57 PM EDT
                                             Re: Better get used to it. - (n3jja) - (5) - May 29, 2005, 11:17:45 PM EDT
                                                 Oops - double submit - read other -NT - (broomberg) - May 29, 2005, 11:39:59 PM EDT
                                                 Close - (broomberg) - (3) - May 29, 2005, 11:38:06 PM EDT
                                                     Balls-A-Poppin was the first of the multi-ball machines IIRC -NT - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:42:18 AM EDT
                                                         The Batman machine was, imho, just about perfect. - (pwhysall) - (1) - May 30, 2005, 12:09:12 PM EDT
                                                             My favorite was the Addam's Family - (broomberg) - May 30, 2005, 06:25:55 PM EDT

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