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From our foreign correspondent.
The whole of western France was at a near-standstill yesterday as hundreds of thousands of green pilgrims jammed the roads at the saint's divinely-ordained speed limit of 30kph (c.18mph) in the annual gathering at his birthplace... '*
The saint's car can be seen in the background of one picture and in the other worshippers were rewarded with an ectoplasmic, shimmering vision of the saint himself, only visible by the virtuous...
*Any suggestion the chaos was caused by the nation rising up in revolt against cuts to over generous pension rights, is a vicious slur.
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Grande surprise - Zéro, il est de retour!
Est-ce qu'il a vraiment disparu?
Last edited by: ChrisPeugeot on Fri 24 Sep 10 at 13:19
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I'm tempted to report this. Stop trying to evade the swear filter.
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>> Zéro, il est de retour!
How do you do the accents CP? Cut and paste, or is there a way I don't know about?
Really gets on my nerves that, although the circumflex has been officially abolished I think and young French people seem to leave accents out too. US cultural hegemony and plain text perhaps in an unholy collusion.
How do you do them though? I've never been able to do italics either on this site or HJ's although I often think I need them.
On reflection though perhaps all these special effects are a false advantage. Steam telex, all uppercase and numerals 0-9 with a minimum of other punctuation - stop, comma, quote/apostrophe, double quote, dash, query, shriek - had a certain stern authority about it. Made everything look like an urgent official telegram.
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To do italics or bold you need to enter the HTML markup for it. Difficult to type because it will just turn on the italics or bold. So instead of my use of { and } use < and >:
{i} italic {/i}
{b} bold {/b}
The first part turns it on and the use of /i and /b turns it off. And its not a {} its <>.
Last edited by: rtj70 on Fri 24 Sep 10 at 23:00
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Thank you very much indeed, rtj. Now all I need is accents and I will, er, sort of do something.
Really thanks though. Never could get it to work before.
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To get accents you can use the Alt key.
Alt130 typed on the number pad, not the top line, gives é .
Others given here
tools.oratory.com/altcodes.html
Last edited by: Crocks on Fri 24 Sep 10 at 23:42
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Crocks got there before me! Just to be clear, you hold down the Alt key while typing the numerals on the right-hand key pad. When you release the Alt key the character will appear.
www.questgems.com/alt_codes.htm
gives even more symbols, including such things as ☺♥♫ € ♂ ½ ©.
www.alt-codes.net/
is not comprehensive, but clearly set out.
Voilà!
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Thanks to both. I will struggle though with this Mac which doesn't have a numerical keypad on the right. Doubtless there is some way round...
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"The saint's car can be seen in the background of one picture"
What a con. I was expecting a white XJS.
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You never know, maybe he's the real Simon Templar. He'd probably look a bit like that now. You know, sort of lived in...
:-)
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Seems to be an aged Jason King.
The zapata moustache has gone, but I can I detect some huge folded over cuffs?
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I know, I was hoping for a Volvo P1800
Instead it's some kind of faux American Pope mobile.
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Yes, the same kind of thing Lud drives...
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Funny that, you would think they were one and the same...
(We are doing well with the three elipses rule)
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Thread drift
Here is a nice P1800s for sale, hellishly expensive, but just look at that engine bay (and the twin SU's) and the interior carpet
Beautiful restoration job.
www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-car-page.php/carno/109920
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Gorgeous. My dad so very nearly bought an estate one of those when he retired. He'd had 144s and 244s when he worked and fancied something smaller. He ended up buying a Van Den Plas 1300 instead. Oh well...
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Funny, never fancied the P1800 and Roger Moore miscast terribly as Simon Templar put me right off it.
The contemporary Volvo saloons were obviously better in most ways especially aesthetically and their engines and running gear could be and often were tweaked.
I guess you have to be one of nature's Swedes to really dig the thing. Yes chaps, I mean you. One wouldn't have thought there'd be so many. 29 grand? BUMBOCLAAT! You could get a very fast or very luxurious car for less than that. And far better looking in both cases.
I'm not saying I disapprove of impeccable, extravagant restoration jobs even on cars worse than that. I'm just saying this one doesn't pull my daisy.
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>> I guess you have to be one of nature's Swedes to really dig the thing.
Oi Jason, who are you calling a turnip ?
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>> Oi Jason, who are you calling a turnip ?
(Looks demure and brushes enormous quantity of cigar ash off aircraft-carrier-landing-deck-sized pale pink lapel. Shoots cuffs with heavy clank of massive cufflinks).
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>> >> I guess you have to be one of nature's Swedes to really dig
>> the thing.
You know AC, I really think the woodworm of Alzheimer's has started to drill its little holes in your rafters.
The Volvo P1800, is possibly one of the pettiest little sports cars of its or any other era, even from an era that produced many pretty little sports cars.
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My 1962 P1800 was a lovely car. Oddly, it had a Triumph engine but here's a note about Volvo service. I ordered and paid for mine in Kuala Lumpur, to be ready at Heathrow in December for my honeymoon. When I arrived, there was a fiancé at the airport but no car. I phoned to Sweden. Apalled staff scurried around and, while the call was in progress, found their only unsold P1800 available in Europe was in Holland. They would fly it over that night and I could pick it up in the morning. Which I did.
Older drivers will remember what a terrible winter that was. In France, we passed thousands of crashed, iced-up cars with iced-up drivers, but the Swedes know about winters and the only mishap we had in our warm car was at a small bridge in Provence. The road was just too icey and slippery for the climb but a gang of men emerged from a hidden, snow-covered hut, as if this was quite normal routine, and pushed us over.
Alas, the car turned out to be a terrible ruster on Malaysia's laterite roads and I had to sell it after a couple of years.
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>> one of the pettiest little sports cars of its or any other era, even from an era that produced many pretty little sports cars.
Couldn't agrøø møre, øld frøøt ... SKØL!
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"The Volvo P1800, is possibly one of the pettiest little sports cars..."
You'd better get your petti-coat. Just to show I can do accents now - Zéro points....
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AC - Now you're showing off.
(How did you get round the lack of a numerical keypad?)
Last edited by: ChrisPeugeot on Sat 25 Sep 10 at 13:41
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>> pretty little sports cars.
Aesthetics as we know are a matter of taste, and tastes differ, mine and Zero's differing quite often although not always. But we all know the difference between a sporting tourer variant of a Eurobox and a sports car.
Now the Lancia B20 was what one might call a sports car. And it was extremely pretty.
I saw an impeccable - restored, obviously - gunmetal silver one the other day somewhere here in West France. Hell of a car it was, although oddly the early ones had a column gearchange. Oddly because the gearbox was in the rear transaxle. I suppose Lancia figured that if Tatra could get away with a hank of spaghetti leading down the steering column, through an acute angle and all the way to the back axle, Lancia could, too. Quite a few owners had them converted to floor change.
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Sat 25 Sep 10 at 16:20
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Damn that pink time limit thing!
I tried to add that the Lancia B20 was especially pretty under the bonnet. You certainly can't say that of any Volvo from those days.
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>> I tried to add that the Lancia B20 was especially pretty under the bonnet. You
>> certainly can't say that of any Volvo from those days.
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Didn't need to look at the offensive B16 B18 or B20 Volvo engines quite so often though..)
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>> Didn't need to look at the offensive B16 B18 or B20 Volvo engines quite so often though..)
heh heh... come to think of it Alfas and Ferraris have pretty engine bays too.
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Chaos in France. - FocalPoint
