>
(first part from Amethyst Deceiver)
>
>> It's fairly common in the motor-racing community and thus among those
who
>> watch motor-racing. OldBloke has pulled away from traffic lights in the
>> past and exclaimed "sorry! Bit of wheelspin there".
>>
>
> Hey, thanks, that's really interesting. Thanks.
>
> I called my dad to see if he ever had used the phrase. He doesn't talk
> about his past careers much, but he raced cars in the US, (I forget the
> name of the style of racing but if I think real hard I will remember),
and
> he also raced motorcycles professionally in Germany/Vienna. Also ice
> motorcycle racing. But I don't know if ice racing was professional or
> not.
> I asked him what phrase he would use to describe the situation. I
didn't
> steer him just asked him the scenario just like in the OP.
>
> He answered, ya pokhovznuvsya.
>
> He's such a joker.
>
> But then I told him what I was wanting, and he hadn't ever heard it used
> either, so I guess that makes it non-USian mostly UKian. Interesting,
> interesting.
> I'll have to remember to adjust for such phrases next time I visit.
>
> And then my dad told me this funny story about a guy who used a torch on
> the latch of a Triumph he was repairing.
>
> mk5000
>
> "To be able to go fro doing somethng as crazy and ig as 'Pirates' to
> womethng beautiful and deep like 'Atonement' you have to have someone
> looking out for you"--Keira Knightley
>
>
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