From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V9 #294 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Friday, November 19 2004 Volume 09 : Number 294 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Re: avalon-digest V9 #293 [LottieStreeter2@cs.com] Re: [AVALON] Re: avalon-digest V9 #293 ["Andy" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Re: avalon-digest V9 #293 If there is any truth to this then I am sure the car would be a new Mercedes CLS which Bryan woud almost certainly have had as part of his payoff for making the CLS promotional film. A CLS could easily be mistaken for a Maserati. Regards Andy Langley - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: < Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 4:01 PM Subject: [AVALON] Re: avalon-digest V9 #293 > The normally supremely urbane bryan ferry phoned up a restaurateur friend > and begged him to drag his diners to the restaurant window. he did and two > minutes later Ferry drove past the window doing 2 mph in his brand new > maserati. > He stopped, wound down the window and started chanting 'i've-got-a-new-car, > > i've-got-a-new-car' then laughed in a slightly deranged manner and drove off. > > If true, this story makes me feel really bad. A Maserati is a purely > frivolous purchase, which our "working-class hero" has never been prone to. Fine > things, certainly, but something this flashy and gaudy... > > I think the divorce hit him hard and the feeling of "I'm a failure/nobody > loves me" is now evolving into "wow--I'm free to do what I want" -- and "I'll > show her"... > > I also suspect he was probably under the influence of something to to pull a > crazy stunt like this. > > Who knows, maybe Katie Turner just told him he was old and stuffy, or maybe > she dumped him again.....it seems like such a "male menopause" thing to do. > > It's sad that owning and driving the car isn't enough for him, or even > sharing the event with friends and family. Very strange for him to feel compelled > to share it with a bunch of mere acquaintances, strangers even. > > ..............? > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:44:43 -0800 (PST) From: Joel Hurd Subject: Re: [AVALON] chuckling in a brand new car > The normally supremely urbane Bryan Ferry phoned up a restaurateur > friend and begged him to drag his diners to the restaurant window. > he did and two minutes later Ferry drove past the window doing 2 > mph in his brand new maserati. > He stopped, wound down the window and started chanting > 'i've-got-a-new-car, i've-got-a-new-car' then laughed in a slightly > deranged manner and drove off. If true then hilarious! :D __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V9 #294 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest