The Never Ending Story

[Captain]

Just now, turboplanner said:

For specifity it was Bombay, Mum hadn't been born when it was started by the Sarkies (we know the family), who dropped thSarkie name and built a string of them in Southeast Asia.

...... Thanks for that Turbs as I know the Bombay Raffles better that the ones in Mumbai or in Gujerat, as I had a short term but turbulent fling with one of the Sarkie black sheep daughters, after which, is when I wrote that addendum that doubled the size of the original Kama Sutra.

[turboplanner]

1 hour ago, Captain said:

..... kill off the reputations of all the old pommy brands, most of which had already trashed their own reputations, such that all the world car market had left were fourty 3 letter identical brands from China that nobody recognized, so that .....

.........buinesses like Cooks Tour (not the tourist traps like cruising down the Rhine for $30,000.00 + extras but Tour Cars. We used to euphamistically call them Touring Cars until the guts were cut out, the 351s dropped and the cars were all Chinese except the body panels thick enough that the cat could jump up on the roof without leaving dents. It was a different world where .......

[Captain]

28 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

.........buinesses like Cooks Tour (not the tourist traps like cruising down the Rhine for $30,000.00 + extras but Tour Cars. We used to euphamistically call them Touring Cars until the guts were cut out, the 351s dropped and the cars were all Chinese except the body panels thick enough that the cat could jump up on the roof without leaving dents. It was a different world where .......

...... now, Wheels magazine (a division of Turbine Publications) lists 75 pages of Chinese vehicles that are all identical, except for those more budget versions with cat prints like dimples on a gold ball, and many of which experience thermal runaways before they leave the factory or while waiting at the docks.

 

"If not caught fire by then, they can be certifamacated as safe under our CHINCAP Safety Rating System." said the head of the Chinese Thermal Runaway Institute (the CTRI), who also heads the Panel Thickness Cat Testing Directorate (the PTCTD).

 

"But what about the ship that is burning in the Nth Pacific?" asked a diligent & probing ABC reporter. (NB that those 5 words have never before been used together in this way).

 

"That nothing to do with us. That was caused by the 3000 panel testing cats that accompanied the 3000 EVs, this excellent Chinese quality control where every buyer received a test cat to check the panels or to eat, and the fact that some of those scalded moggies are being processed back thru the Woohan Wet Market also has nothing to do with us."

 

"But what about the ......

Edited Monday at 09:43 PM by Captain

[turboplanner]

"........report?" asked Romsey Turbine who had been sitting there quietly writing the lead story of the May edition of theWHATREPORT!!!??? snapped the CTRI.

 

Romsey had been waiting for just such a question, and....................

[Captain]

20 hours ago, turboplanner said:

"........report?" asked Romsey Turbine who had been sitting there quietly writing the lead story of the May edition of theWHATREPORT!!!??? snapped the CTRI.

 

Romsey had been waiting for just such a question, and....................

.... because he had also asked it, he .....

[turboplanner]

.....knew the answer, but he was a complicated man and delighted in seeing whether everyone was awake. Unfortunately in doing that he had fallen asleep and .........

[Captain]

On 17/06/2025 at 5:26 PM, turboplanner said:

.....knew the answer, but he was a complicated man and delighted in seeing whether everyone was awake. Unfortunately in doing that he had fallen asleep and .........

.... Romsey was experiencing what many do on Wreck Flying when they read the often lengthy and detailed posts by ......

[onetrack]

......Cappy, Turbo, and others. Only OT's contributions are stimulating and interesting, just like Cappy's long delirious nights, down at the..........

[Captain]

5 minutes ago, onetrack said:

......Cappy, Turbo, and others. Only OT's contributions are stimulating and interesting, just like Cappy's long delirious nights, down at the..........

..... well known and often denigrated Blue Oyster Bar in Baylis St Wagga Wagga, with his friend (NTTIAWWT) Ahlocks, and .....

Edited 3 hours ago by Captain

[turboplanner]

........that scrawny little hanger-on Dave whose dummy spit exit from AUF, burning the two Thrusters, is long remembered for .......