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Subject: [Leica] Seriously OT - Jaguary XF
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:53:21 -0000
References: <C9A27D3C.6264%eric.calderwood@btinternet.com>

Yup, the term Bee Emms was always used to describe the motorbike too. 
Funnily enough, the bikes were here in Ireland well before the cars which 
only made it in 1967 with the 1602.

Douglas
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Douglas Barry
Bray, Co. Wicklow
Republic of Ireland


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Calderwood" <eric.calderwood at btinternet.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Seriously OT - Jaguary XF


> When I was riding bikes it was the same for them too, Bee Em's.
>
> Eric
>
>
>
> On 13/03/2011 08:33, "FRANK DERNIE" <frank.dernie at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>>you are being too pedantic for me! Neither is much used here. The car is
>>usually
>>a Bee Em, the bike I have not heard a slang term for (not saying there
>>isn't
>>one).
>>FD
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----
>>From: Stan Yoder <s.yoder at verizon.net>
>>To: lug at leica-users.org
>>Sent: Sunday, 13 March, 2011 2:10:01
>>Subject: Re: [Leica] Seriously OT - Jaguary XF
>>
>>On 3/12/11 8:14 PM, lug-request at leica-users.org wrote:
>>> Only a Beemer from 2005 or earlier.
>>"Bimmer." B_ee_mers are the motorcycles. Regardless, expensive to own and
>>operate. I have two.
>>
>>Stan Yoder
>>
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