beemers

[Ted Crum <tedcrum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When I started working with BMW cycles in the early 60's, they were
Beemers. When I started working with BMW 700 cars latter in the 60's, they
were still Beemers. 1600's, 2002's; still Beemers. The ugly word Bimmer was
not to be spat from the sneering lips of the Hollywood/Marin yuppy who made
our cars infamous until the late 70's. The general public calls them
Beemers, as do many of us who refuse to yield to small-minded post-hoc
rulemakers.

(Not to disparage Mr Lesko, who was "corrected" by these same earlier)

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Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 07:53:27 -0500
From: Tom Lesko <tmlesko@domain.elided>
Subject: Re: Good and Affordable "Bimmer"

As I was once corrected shortly after I got my first BMW,  "now that you
own a BMW, refer to them correctly. The cars are called "Bimmers" and
the motorcycles are called  "Beemers", as in the "Bimmer" magazine for
cars and the "Yankee Beemers" motorcycle club."
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Ted Crum
1988 735i 5-speed
tedcrum@domain.elided

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