Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:40:12 GMT From: Paul Halliday <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: Any pipe smoking 9.5 drivers in the house?
in article r54i42td6e32p1uk0809vv1kklve6p9m6pnospamcom, Bob at uctraingnospamanet.com wrote on 21/04/2006 18:05: > On 21 Apr 2006 06:18:38 -0700, "Nasty Bob" <speedypancakenospamail.com> > wrote: > >> Funny you should say that. One of my earliest memories of Saabs was >> walking to primary school with a pal. We noticed that 8/10 Saab drivers >> did indeed smoke pipes, and often had a beard. Not exactly research, >> and quite a few years ago now I know, but still... > > How times have changed! We used to see beards at parties, beards in > the office, the elevator. Now you have to go outside if you want to > have a beard! Come work with me, pal. Apart from myself, which is often through sheer laziness than any desire to actually grow a beard, about 50% of the people I work with (or for) are muslims, who are known for their beards :) The older chaps have full beards and the younger lads tend to wear very styled beards. SAAB-wise, there's quite a joke among the 99 forums for beard-wearing, pipe smoking, Werther sucking, tartan blanket sporting people in their retro-Swedish rides :) More so for the 96 and previous? I reckon the C900 brigade are far too "hip" and "with-it" (although those terms were coined by beard-wearers) to smoke pipes. Now 9-5s, being the new 9000s, are quite the car for stolid pipe smoking chaps. Good on 'em! So, hands up ... Who's a "beardy"? Describe your style. I'm a lazy 5 o'clock shadow to "designer stubble" to looking shabby to looking like a tramp to being a full beardy ... Then, I shave it off for some reason or other ... Usually something to do with my wife :) Hey Michael - You know those "universal" mobile phone holders? I wonder if there's one small enough to hold a pipe? There's a patent in there for someone ... Paul 1989 900 Turbo S http://saab.go.dyndns.org/
