On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:03:33 +0200, andrel wrote:

> Even if I did, why do you suppose
> that I (i.e. anybody in this group) knew that, which I didn't?

Well, I'd never heard of it before, but the joke had some context ("down 
the hill") which made me think of a car.  That plus my best guess at the 
pronunciation identified it as a play on words.

> It could be something similar to Ford Prefect not working as a joke in
> the US and Macintosh not in Europe. I mean we might have a thread with a
> regional audience.

Maybe, but there's nothing that I'm aware of that prohibits such a thread 
in these forums.....

Jim

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