What's for breakfast?

[Les Parker]

Maybe to resolve the spell/mis-spell btween grille and grill ?

A rose by any other name is still a tulip...........

[TeriAnn]

Originally Posted by Dixon Kenner
The term pre-existed that mailing list, and if anything, there may be references to the term on the original "British-Cars" mailing list that spawned all of the various lists that followed. However, suffice it to say, the term pre-existed the Internet in Canada. I can't speak for the Aussies or Brits. If it is a Canadian term, then good for us at introducing it to the world... :-) What is so bad about that? We don't begrudge the Americans for calling the wings fenders!

Well, Maybe Dixon & friends were using that term among themselves for years before they sprung it on the LRO mail list as the proper in term to be using, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't used on the original british car mailing list. I was one of the founding members of the british car email list and would have known.

Here is the email list family tree:

rec.autos was the first place where people posted about various cars.

Around 1987 a guy who owned an MGB and worked at Apollo computers sent emails out to people who were posting to rec.autos about British cars letting them know he was starting a British car email list and inviting us to join. It became the first of the team.net auto email lists.

Around the beginning of 1990 the powers that be decided that Land Rovers were too different from the British sports cars that the LRO email list was created as the first marque spin off from the original british car mail list. Those of us with Land Rovers on the british car list joined the new Land Rover list.

Then in 1994 the LRO list found a lot of new Discovery and Defender members who didn't care anything about Series trucks (the sole topic of discussion before then) and were concerned about which CD changers fit the dash, interior water leaks, oil leaks and warranty issues. Around 1996 after a lot of friction between the old guard Series owners and the nouveau coiler owners the RRO mailing list was created for the coiler owners to separate the leafer owners from the coiler owners to reduce bickering.

Very soon there after a bunch of area specific lists were split off plus some club lists formed.

Wouldn't it have been more accurate to call the radiator bulkhead the "toxic for breakfast only grill mount"????

[yorker]

Wouldn't it have been more accurate to call the radiator bulkhead the "toxic for breakfast only grill mount"????

I think calling it what it is works fine, a Radiator Grille Panel. Maybe Radiator Panel for short.

[Broadstone]

Well I was married in England and after the wedding the gathering was called the "wedding breakfast" even though it was in the afternoon. This was because it was your "first" meal as a married couple. Maybe it is called breakfast because it shows up first?

[LaneRover]

Well I was married in England and after the wedding the gathering was called the "wedding breakfast" even though it was in the afternoon. This was because it was your "first" meal as a married couple. Maybe it is called breakfast because it shows up first?

So the oil stains on the drive would be a midnight snack?

[disco2hse]

So the oil stains on the drive would be a midnight snack?

A little double intendre

Terri-Ann. Thank you that was hilarious Until this discussion I had never heard the term before and being in an ex-colony I have owned British vehicles most of my adult life. So you can add New Zealand to that list.

[jimsshuman]

seems to me that there some folks who think they know everything, and then there are some who don't but just love to agrue, about anything!!

call it what ever the h*ll you want too! its the front part! if you have an sIII like myself, its the part that breaks! (one of many)

[TeriAnn]

seems to me that there some folks who think they know everything, and then there are some who don't but just love to agrue, about anything!!

call it what ever the h*ll you want too! its the front part! if you have an sIII like myself, its the part that breaks! (one of many)

I thought this thread had run its course and was dead but I am under the impression that this last post is aimed directly at me since I provided the answer to the original poster's question. And some people had some good natured fun with the term.

Personally I felt your posting is a bit mean spirited. The gentleman asked a question about origin of a term in common use among internet connected North American Series LR owners. I was there when the term was first introduced to to LRO email list and participated in the discussion at the time. So I felt obliged to answer his question as best as I remember events unfolding. If you were there and remember events unfolding differently, you are welcome to differ with my recollection. Criticize the information I presented if your memory differs but not the person who was trying to be helpful.

However I feel that calling me "a know it all" just because I was trying to answer a question about the origin of a local slang term as best as I could recollect is a bit over the top and contributed nothing to the thread beyond a certain meanness.

And yes I can be argumentative at times but I try very hard to stay away from mean spirited. But if you find my postings to be offensive please feel free to not read them or or disagree with the information that I am presenting (I'm not always right and sometimes misread the question) or complain to the forum moderators about them. I will always respect the moderator's recommendations.

[yorker]

I thought this thread had run its course and was dead but I am under the impression that this last post is aimed directly at me since I provided the answer to the original poster's question...

This thread had had run its course. Really no need for a diatribe just because you felt jimsshuman may have possibly posted something "aimed at you".

[lincoln lass]

Thanks Yorker. Now I know.

[stonefox]

Doctor told me :"Take two and call him in the morning"

[chrismccarthy]

fun nee

I always thought that was a British thing actually. course we call everything different:

Aluminum vs Aluminium
Grill vs Breakfast
Hood vs Bonnet
Wing vs Fender
Vegemite vs Ipecac

Vegemite vs Ipecac<--that thar is fun nee!!

[jp-]

That's right:

That's some good editing Safe. Did you do Obama's birth certificate too?

[mr.toad]

All this breakfast talk is making me hungry for my first leafer. I'll keep lurking and saving my $$ for a IIa...