<VV> Corvair Firsts (ad naseum)

[airvair]

Tony Underwood wrote:

>At 06:39 hours 09/28/2004 +0100, Alan and Clare Wesson wrote:
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>>Bob Earls wrote:
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>>><First Air Cooled.
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>>>Certainly not the first air cooled.. I believe there's only 1 or 2 in 
>>>existence.
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>>It was called the 'Copper-cooled' and one of the two is in the F**d museum 
>>in Dearborn - I have seen it. A bit of a coup for Henry, that - apparently 
>>the General is thought to have tried to sink them all in Lake Erie, and 
>>asked for owners to return them, but Mr Ford wasn't keen to comply...
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>I assume the other one is the example in the CPF?     
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Don't we all wish. Actually, I understand that it is in the former 
Harrah collection in Reno.

>>>       "Cogito eggo sum"
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>> <>Ah! I am on strong ground here - I know more about Latin than 
>> Vairs. I can
>> assure you with some confidence that it is:
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>> Cogito ERGO sum!
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>> Actually, that one expresses a belief in the existence of breakfast 
>> snacks.
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>> ...you guys don't have Eggo over there, do you...?
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>> tony..
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I believe the original poster was making a pun off the well-known Latin 
expression.

-Mark C