The Guzzi (sob! sob!) was SNV109R a 1976ish T3. In the picture, about 85/86, it has a Sprint fairing and a Sprint tank/seat unit. (It's not a tank cover, which they also made, but a tank built into the bodywork,) It was my first big bike and I loved it! Then a 'mate' dropped it at clearways at Brands and it never steered the same afterwards, Have checked and it doesn;t appear on the DVLA database. And that should be might and mightn't or could and couldn't but definitely not could and might'nt. (tho' I like the 'art' for art sake) LOL
I was puzzled by the round headlight in what looked like a Stucci fairing (or Agostini fairing)....... I thought it couldn't possibly have been a MkI Le Mans though, because nobody in their right mind would have fitted what also looked like the Crossbow seat/tank unit and wire wheels..... According to the DVLA, my Le MansII (SHK 124W) still exists but is untaxed (due 1990) and no MOT details are available..........it was supposedly exported to Oz, but the DVLA details suggest not.
You got me thinking now, could it have been Crossbow and a Sprint exhaust?? I always thought it was a Sprint fairing but I am getting very old now and it was thirty odd years ago. I ended up selling it on to another mate cheap, he passed it on then it disappeared. In my memory it was a lovely bike in all it's incarnations (It started with a big Pantera fairing and ended as a naked cafe racer with clip-ons and rearsets, very trendy now I believe) but thirty years does give the glasses a very rose tint.
I can confirm that my wife was teaching this to her year 5 class about a month ago. They do teach it in schools but unfortunately the outside influence of "ghetto speak" is overwhelming... innit
I think it is awful that the trend of text speak is allowed in schools and that content is more crucial than literacy having worked in the education system for nearly fifteen years until recently I have seen growing numbers of teenagers that are ready to leave school that can hardly spell their own name let alone the words torque wrench must admit they were not happy when asked to re write sheets because I would not accept them written in text speak also I believe text speak is now allowed in the dictionary bah would probably have better English grammar if the germans had won
Did @Char not post the essence of the original post a while back I searched but couldn't find the post. Albeit not in Mug format, but I remember laughing stupidly when I read it.
Take away their mobile phones and ipads and give them a copy of Fowler's Modern English Usage instead.
Living in Germany i know more germans that can use the grammar of the English language better than nearly all my UK friends.
I have to admit, that when I see basic spelling mistakes (such as the above on the mug) in on-line communication, I tend to think: "One mistake - that was a slip of the keyboard. Two mistakes - they guy is careless and in a hurry. More than this - he's an uneducated idiot. Should I be listening to anything he has to say?" You can call that a pedant's revolt if you like. I don't care.
Educated people used to learn Latin so that they could thereby learn grammar and syntax. And having learned, they could then apply their understanding to English or other languages. Since people stopped learning Latin, standards of English grammar have predictably worsened sharply.
I suppose the measure of a person's intellect could be taken wholly from assessing his English literacy. I guess that means that around half of the World's Nobel Prize winners are potentially low-grade morons. Ah! Not to worry.
@Char may well have done. I posted the picture because I thought it was funny rather than to reopen the debate, which we certainly have had before, and I don't suppose many have changed their views since then.
