Rover

ROFLMAO! Sheer brilliance :-)

In message , M Wrench writes

Reminds me of the pastiche...

I drove a Landrover for many a year And I spent all my money on petrol and gear. But now I'm returning with gold in great store and I'll drive a Landrover, no never no more

etc...

I went to a garage I used to frequent and I said to the owner, 'my chassis is bent'. I asked for a new one, he answered me nay saying 'cretins like you come in here every day'

(can't remember any more)

Can we all have a go?

Comes a Rover, struggling struggling, trying hard to breast the rise. Sits the driver after guzzling, looking out with bleary eyes.

Comes a rattle then a knocking, motor dies with weary wheeze. Now he's out, now he's under. Water dripping on his knees.

Comes a copper searching searching, scrutinise from front to rear. Stands the driver, lurching lurching, trying not to smell of beer.

There's quite a bit more, but I wont bore you with the rest. Fact is I don't know if I can remember it all. It was a very early effort at humorous verse. Mike.

Except that it has little to do with *Rover* per se - you could substitute any two syllable car make for Rover* in the first line without any detriment to the sentiment.

• e.g. Honda, Audi, Citroen, Renault, Vauxhall, Bentley, etc., etc.

Set Square ( snipped-for-privacy@privacy.net) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Unless you're French, in which case it's three syllables.

Cee-troy-enn

If you translate the whole thing into French, you'll probably have to change a lot of other things to make it scan!

Agreed, but I thaught it quite appropriate for the urd n/g. :-) Mike.

Also from my inbox, but less good:

FIRM CALLED ROVER

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They're doing over a firm called Rover That nearly closed down before Chinese won't buy it, Labour deny it New working methods? Staff wouldn't try it No use complaining, it's not remaining This time closing its doors. They're doing over a firm called Rover That nearly closed down before.

~Mike~

Icedog continued.

They tell us they won't honour warranties new. If you buy a s**te MG you'll just have to stew. The same goes for Rovers, so if it breaks down Best buy new knickers 'cos yours will go brown

And its no more Rover....

R.I.P.

As usual, some wanker blames the workforce. 'Nuff said.

Dave, you probably know of the chap anyway, but I would recommend anyone interested in this sort of thing to put the name W. Edwards Deeming into Google and see what it comes up with.

Ron Robinson

"R.N. Robinson" wrote in message news:d40kkv$tc$ snipped-for-privacy@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...

Actually it works better if you spell his name right - only one 'e'

Ron Robinson

Do you mean W. Edwards Deming?