James May has a Golden Cock

[puddingcat]

That makes me happy :)

What also makes me happy is seeing 4 episodes of TG thanks to the Parent People's Sky box this morning. Brother-in-law got it for them as part of a deal where they get 2 sets of programmes, and the box, free for a year. Things that stick in my mind (a remarkably unsticky place) are (a) blimey, Jermy was almost attractive in 2003; (b) when did they start pronouncing Porsche with 2 syllables?, and (c) what does Letchworth have to do with Lamborghini*?

No more TG until the spring :(

Mum says she'll be watching Doctor Who this year, becasue David Tennant reminds her of "the little lad from Top Gear".

I'm back in Stockport, still consider it to be the Armpit of England, but at least it has cats :) And thinking of cats, Pratchett did the whole "cats have oversteer" thing in The Unadulterated Cat, in which he called it "Impatient Legs".

I love my new holes :)

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*Though, being London commuterville, there is the story of how the Travelling Wilburys were formed after the 5 of them met for a long boozy afternoon in the Wilbury pub on the Hitchin edge of Letchworth

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

There's a James Bond title in here somewhere...

As to Porsche, it's one of those words that are exceedingly difficult to pronounce for Anglo/Americans, even for those who speak German reasonably well. Basically, most, if not all, English words are closed, i.e. the voice drops at the end while in various German words, the voice rises but there's no emphasis on the last syllable. In addition, the "e" sound isn't very typical for the English language, either, the closest I can think of would be the e in "rent". vyvyan could probably explain the technicalities a lot better than I can.