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I just think the "eating crow" comment was, shall we say,
childish? I thought the cobra crowd was above that, despite whatever they spew on a Ferrari chat forum.
Wow, you really take yourself seriously, huh?
My post:
sniff, I just visited the Ferrari site and those guys are real nice gents n'all, breathe rarefied air and live in a parallel world not unlike ours but decidedly in another world. What was interesting was all the speculation about the Ferrari beating the crap outa the Cobra and then the results became know to all the players, what a hoot. Eat crow guys, eat crow the Ferrari got beat by a grunt that has been around for over fifty years. Kudos to Blitz for his driving skills, to the Tom Kirkham for building a world class car and to Kiethcraft for developing an awesome engine and finally to ol' Shell, for creating the legend.
was made in the spirit of the moment
and after having read the comments on the Ferrari forum that Computerworks had provided a link for. Seems those guys exhibited a
disbelief that a replica of the original Cobra design, being over fifty years old beat the latest and greatest Ferrari had on offer, and, had exhibited what to me seemed like a disdain for the Cobra brand, thus I used the term "eat crow" which under the circumstances was the correct use of words given what the guys on the Ferrari site were saying.
Eating crow is an English-language idiom meaning humiliation by admitting wrongness or having been proved wrong after taking a strong position Eating crow is presumably foul-tasting in the same way that being proved wrong might be emotionally hard to swallow.[1]n.
Analogous to this would be David ”flipping off” Goliath, (oh dear, another silly expression) prior to nailing him with a rock or conversely the underdog beating the champ, as in the Rocky Movie. Seems we all like to root for the underdog
Not sure about you, but I get the impression that most of the folks on the Club Cobra are hardworking guys and use this forum to express themselves freely and on occasion let rip with their expressions and emotions when describing something, without any concern for censure, hell even Jamo stated to Blitz “nice girl, she cook good? I’ll give you two sheep and a goat for her”, but changed his mind and kept the sheep……I would have kept the girl. I also recall someone wrote
And one other thing. Who cares if the headlights aren’t real? Wow.
So when you say some of my words are childish may I suggest you first perform your due diligence to fully understand the veracity of the statement and its use in the context of what is being discussed.
ACademic, no harm, no foul, pal, but y’all picked the wrong guy to dance with.
Cheers, John, AKA, tin-man, Zhuhia. P.R.C.