I still don't get this town's obsession with pirates (or poyruts, in the local vernacular). It's not just Talk Like a Pirate Day, since that's international, although I must say it has a far better following here than anywhere else I've been. It's more the fact that saying 'Yeaaarrgh!!!' appears to be contagious around here, and pirates just keep popping up everwhere.
Figuratively speaking...
Figuratively speaking...
Yesterday I was overtaken on a dull bit of dual carriage way by a pair of brand new black Isuzu Troopers, with blacked-out windows and near-sequential number plates. Strange thing was that above the manufacturer's labels along the bottom edge of the back door, another set just below the rear windscreen called them 'Denver - Colorado' or somesuch...
Now I'm pretty sure that our secret state is a little more subtle than that (plenty of slightly-rusting dark-blue Transits for the SAS to sneak around in, for example), and that had the Americans arrived they would have brought some GMCs with them. So given that with sequential number plates they're bound to be fleet cars of some kind, what kind of crazy organisation maintains a fleet of sinister-looking black Japanese 4x4s, masquerading as American ones?
Wish I could have got you a photo of them ;-)
Now I'm pretty sure that our secret state is a little more subtle than that (plenty of slightly-rusting dark-blue Transits for the SAS to sneak around in, for example), and that had the Americans arrived they would have brought some GMCs with them. So given that with sequential number plates they're bound to be fleet cars of some kind, what kind of crazy organisation maintains a fleet of sinister-looking black Japanese 4x4s, masquerading as American ones?
Wish I could have got you a photo of them ;-)
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