I was only saying to Nanook the other day
I was only saying to Nanook the other day, what we need is a couple of scantily clad posers to warm things up around here.
‘Nah’, he said. He always says nah; it’s how he got his name. Nobody knows about the ook bit. He always leaves a long gap after nah, for effect and emphasis. So then he had to say it again to regain our attention.
‘Nah, you don’t need them. You need one of them Lotus CIVs’.
You could have heard an anvil drop in the lounge bar of the Artic Turning Circle as, one by one, conversations stopped and heads turned in our direction.
‘What’s a CIV when it’s at home?’
‘A Lotus What?’
‘Turn the match up’
‘Shut up you berk’
Seeing he had centre ground Nanook puffed up his anoraked chest and expounded. It appears that ever since global warming was confirmed, the weather has been getting wetter, colder and windier. Stands to sense then that soon we will enter another ice age. The smart money is therefore on a CIV – A Concept Ice Vehicle.
By now all the heads had turned back, all the conversations had restarted with a vengeance and the match had been turned up so high that our little group, duty bound to stay with Nanook, had to feign strained ears to learn that Lotus plan to power the CIV by a bioethanol engine and a propeller. And, amazingly, instead of tyres (which would be of limited value in a world bound by ice) ground contact is via three runners that enable it to glide over frozen ground.
Give him his due Nanook had introduced a topic we could drink to for another hour till kicking out time. And he stood his ground as our attacks on his daft idea grew wilder and sillier. But when he told us he was getting one for the weekend from a car leasing firm we all, to a man, shouted ‘Nahhhh!!’
December 12, 2008 at 7:44 pm | Car Leasing News, Lotus | No comment
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