Travels & Trevails of one of the Premier Boffins in the World of Professional Sport.
Friday, November 13, 2009
There's a Great French Joke In Here Somewhere
The script of Risky Business meets reality, and reality bites back.
"Who's da U-boat commander?"
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Or maybe it's a Texas joke?
Or maybe it's a joke about guys with way more money than sense?
Or maybe it's a joke about engineers who spend millions trying to cut a few kilos out of a supercar's design, and then said supercar is bought by a middle-aged fat guy carrying 100 extra kilos around his middle.
Enzo Ferrari had nothing but disdain for the people who bought his cars. He considered them all poseur idiots, a means to an end. The people who bought his road cars were poseurs with too much disposable income, and the people who bought his old race cars were even bigger idiots, because he'd since built a better one.
And so forth.
Here a video of the aftermath:
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