Beemer H/S
01-01-2008, 03:49 PM
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Beemer H/S
not sure why I'm posting this because know the answer.
Great deal for a £30K car with only 187miles
Beautiful Car
Fantastic colour
Classy
Practical
Good economy
Good emisions for taxes
tooooooooooooooo bloody slow.
the search goes on<ul><li><a href="http://www.bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/auc/car_details/0,,1260_159980106__,00.html?currentCh=WBAVR72060KW 35260">320 M Sport Touring</a></li></ul>
Great deal for a £30K car with only 187miles
Beautiful Car
Fantastic colour
Classy
Practical
Good economy
Good emisions for taxes
tooooooooooooooo bloody slow.
the search goes on<ul><li><a href="http://www.bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/auc/car_details/0,,1260_159980106__,00.html?currentCh=WBAVR72060KW 35260">320 M Sport Touring</a></li></ul>
01-02-2008, 06:21 AM
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Stop and think how stupid that is. It's always been BEEMER since WWII."Bimmer" is a New England term
INCORRECTLY misquoted to mean MC or Car alternately, when it is neither. BEEMER is the classic UK term that ORIGINALLY refered to motorcycles (because that's what the company mostly made) and still is in use, where it was actually coined, to mean the same thing is has for 50+ years, a BMW product. If some New Englander botches the pronunciation, that's fine but it does not seperately refer to a car. That is just stupid and a leftover relic from the Preppy Handbook.
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01-02-2008, 07:11 PM
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lol, the~American~BMW community can't be wrong.Don't you get BBC?The story, as I told it, is correct
Maybe you could TiVO the episode of Peep Show where Jeremy crashes Johnson's "Beemer" and half the cast refers to it that way.
It would have been clearer if I had explained it as New Englanders mispronouncing an English term when refering to their prepmobiles.
As an occasional student of the language, I think it proper to consider the origin of the term in order to use it correctly.<ul><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_Show_%28TV_series%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_Show_%28TV_series%29</a</li></ul>
It would have been clearer if I had explained it as New Englanders mispronouncing an English term when refering to their prepmobiles.
As an occasional student of the language, I think it proper to consider the origin of the term in order to use it correctly.<ul><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_Show_%28TV_series%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_Show_%28TV_series%29</a</li></ul>