Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: did this group die? Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2024 10:15:14 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 19:15:14 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a714d5e8c0503f0a296f3823640a8185"; logging-data="4087373"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19smIPIDIfLwcPLcrWYWlaRC0efrVMdg+0=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:fMoOpdhIXcA6dej7WoBw0asEFEM= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-CA Bytes: 2536 On 2024-11-09 07:05, badgolferman wrote: > Andrews wrote: > >> I never claimed to be a BMW expert - I simply claimed to own a bimmer >> and a beemer and because of that, I know a lot about those two >> vehicles. > > I'm ignorant as to the difference between a "bimmer" and a "beemer" so > maybe you can explain it to me. Why don't people just say BMW? It's > not like that's a long acronym. I'll explain: Arlen tried to make a meal out of the fact that I own a BMW (2012 135i M Sport Edition in Lemans Blue to be precise) and didn't know that--according to him--one of those terms is use to refer to BMW motorcycles and the other for BMW cars. And from that he tried to claim that: 1. I couldn't possibly own one. 2. That I could possibly be a racing driver and road racing instructor. :-)