Re: Picking an ancient, and persistent, nit

[Charles Slayman <Charles.Slayman@domain.elided>]

John,
	That's great!  Now I'll have to go check the BMW catalogs for spelling 
or determine if I'm permanently dislexic (darn, that spelling doesn't look right 
either!)  Please don't tell PapaFred.  I'm already in trouble for my flywheel 
installation problems.
	
Cheers,
Charlie

PS  I've decided from now on I'm only going to use rubber donuts on my cars.

PPS  Oh darn!  Does that mispelling mean I'm on the Official Factory 
You-Know-What List?  But it wasn't listed as one of the rules. 

	
>From: "John Hertzman" <johnhertzman@domain.elided>
>To: <alfa-digest@domain.elided>
>Cc: "Charles Slayman" <Charles.Slayman@domain.elided>
>Subject: Picking an ancient, and persistent, nit
>Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:11:11 -0400
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> 
>Charlie Slayman, advising relative newbie Brad Karp, refers to the "rubber 
donut (aka guibo - Hey!  Even the BMW guys call it this!)"
>
> BMW guys may, but when I did (as many of us have, in the first careless 
raptures of our enthusiasm) a seriously credentialed lurker sicked PapaFred on 
me with a correction and admonition. To that S.C.L. 'guibo' ranks with 
Guilietta, Romero, and Alpha. The joints were manufactured by the company Giubo 
SpA, founded by the engineer Boschi to make and market his patented giunti 
(Italian for 'joints'), thus GIUnti BOschi or giubo. 'Guibo' will live on, but 
it will never win points in the grand concours of alfadom. If one can remember 
'Giulietta', 'giubo' shouldn't be much harder.
>
> Cordially,
>
>John (or Gian) H.

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