Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihlpg!jcjeff From: jcjeff@ihlpg.UUCP (Richard Jeffreys) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Ford Prefect Message-ID: <708@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 23:56:02 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.708 Posted: Tue Jun 25 23:56:02 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 04:41:17 EDT References: <3139@garfield.UUCP> <8490@ucbvax.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 29 [ DON'T PANIC! ] >>> In Hitchhikers, it says that Ford Prefect had mistakenly >>>chosen his name to be "especially inconspicuous". What is it >>>about the name that makes it overly conpicuous? It's a little >>>strange, but not THAT strange. Is this some British joke that >>>I'm not aware of? >>> Jeff Sparkes > I seem to recall reading somewhere that the Ford Motor Company used to > sell a model in Great Britain called....you guessed it...the Ford Prefect! > -- Jim Lewis "Prefectly" correct Jim. Ford UK did produce the model known as the Prefect, but it was (I belive) discontinued way back in the early sixties. I never liked the design of them anyway. I liked them even less, when one decided to turn right, just as I was overtaking it. They were quite solid and tended to cause quite a mess when they collided with Toyotas. My father wasn't too happy; it was his Toyota :-( -- [ It's not the end of the world....no it's not; If it's the end of the world, well so what ? - Marti Webb ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ || From the keys of Richard Jeffreys ( British Citizen Overseas ) || || employed by North American Philips Corporation || || @ AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ || General disclaimer about anything and everything that I may have typed || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------