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From: mandtbac@news.abo.fi (Mats Andtbacka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
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Date: 27 Jan 1995 22:59:03 GMT
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Thomas Charles CONWAY, in <9502711.28530@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>:
>karl@plato.simons-rock.edu (Karl A. Krueger) writes:

>>Thunderbird?  Try Lada!
>>
>>(cheap Soviet car, falls apart, coughs gak in the air like no tomorrow, 
>>and breaks down.)

>Hence the joke:
>	A man walks into a service station and says "Can I have a new
>	rear-vision mirror for my Lada?"
>	The mechanic replies "Yeah, sure! That's about a fair exchange."

Okay, this no longer belongs _anywhere_, but:

Lada used to sell these two models, the (cheap) GLS and the
(amazingly, even cheaper) LS.

Rumour had it, the LS stood for "Lists along the Sides".
GLS was "Galvanized Lists along the Sides".

--		(Thing was, that held true, too...)

" Heaven's just a rumour she'll dispel /
  As she walks me through the nicest parts of hell "	- NIN