Posts Tagged ‘cats’

70′s cats: Loud, daft, murderous

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

The first two instalments leading on from the Cat v Dog debate I wrote last week. Cementing my cat like unpredictability, who knows how many instalments there will be. Here for now is the first two of Cars Named After Cats. So grab some catnip and a cuppa tea and enjoy….

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De Tomaso Pantera

Ahhhh, the 70s. No one really gave a toss about living did they? They cared more about L-I-V-I-N’ (to quote Wooderson from Dazed & Confused). L-i-v-i-n’ large. Every night. Unprotected. In slacks to show off your pack. Or in Sasoons to show off your moons. It was a sweaty, panther cage sex fight cocktail with a disco-punk shag-pile backbeat and ashtrays in hospital delivery rooms.

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If you like dogs you don’t like cars. Fact.

Friday, November 27th, 2009

A rather alarming thing arose at the MPH dinner, which the whole Overdrive team attended a while back. And it wasn’t the fact that Ross, our old operations manager, can’t go for 12 minutes without thinking of something for Ciro and me to do, or that he can go a whole 7 without thinking about something we haven’t done yet, that we said we’d do. Last year Monday.

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The Aston Martin Bulldog. The only car (n)ever named after a dog.

Nor was I alarmed that some ass-hat in a bandana bid R200 000 for a signed Pelé shirt. Alarm was a distant galaxy when Ciro tried to leverage in on Ross’ and my heated football banter by saying something singularly incorrect and bereft of anything to do with Bolton Wanderers or what colour corner flags should be (proving indisputably that his life is vastly more varied and “outdoorsy” than ours).

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