[Leica] Clarkson's international incident.

[lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

.A decade or so ago Jeremy Clarkson made headline news and sparked off an
international incident by warning car fans not to walk their dogs past
Hyundai dealerships for fear that the Korean salesmen would barbecue and eat
their mutts. It was his backhanded way of suggesting that the Hyundai cars
were dogs. The Foreign Office made profound apologies to the Korean
Government, saying that the commentator didn't mean that the Koreans would
literally eat dogs. Rather it was simply Monty Pythonesque humor. He meant,
they said, that the car business is full of dog eat dog competition. Have a
little mustard with that apology.

Larry Z