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"Mark Carroll" <mark@ixod.org> wrote in message 
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> My car has some patches where the outer coat of paint's vanished,
> exposing the primer underneath. I could do with them being touched up
> so it no longer looks like any paint's missing. Same colour as the
> rest of the car will do. Can anyone recommend somewhere that can do
> this cheaply but well?

    "Cheaply" and "well" don't go together when it comes to auto painting. 
But depending on what kind of car you are wanting to do this to will be the 
deciding factor if you go to somewhere cheap or Maaco. I suggest Maaco. By 
the way, are you from the US? You spelled "color" like the British do, and 
wonder if this newsgroup is used in the UK as well. That happens to some 
newsgroups. osu.for-sale, created by and for OSU students, has been used by 
Oregonians and Oklahomiams for their respective state schools.

Jingo.

"Jingo." <martian@columbus.rr.com> writes:

> By the way, are you from the US? You spelled "color" like the
> British do, and wonder if this newsgroup is used in the UK as well.

We just ain't learned Mark how to write good like Americans yet.

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In article <qMywd.79425$MG3.33237@fe2.columbus.rr.com>,
Jingo. <martian@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
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>    "Cheaply" and "well" don't go together when it comes to auto painting. 

That was my fear. I wonder what the profit margins are.

>But depending on what kind of car you are wanting to do this to will be the 
>deciding factor if you go to somewhere cheap or Maaco. I suggest Maaco. By 

Thanks.

>the way, are you from the US? You spelled "color" like the British do, and 
>wonder if this newsgroup is used in the UK as well. That happens to some 
>newsgroups. osu.for-sale, created by and for OSU students, has been used by 
>Oregonians and Oklahomiams for their respective state schools.

Ah, good point. cam.* is particularly awkward, being used as a local
hierarchy by quite separate groups in Britain and in Canada. No, I'm
not aware that cmh.* is used at all in Britain. Although I'm a US
citizen living in Columbus, I did indeed spend most of my life in
Britain, and some of my writing is for a British target audience. I
find it really quite hard to switch between US and UK spelling and
punctuation on demand so, writing casually, you'll see an unfortunate
hybrid from me. And, a colleague tells me that there's something
irredeemably non-American about my turn of phrase, so my imitation of
written American English is imperfect at the best of times.

And, what Matt said. (-: Of course, Ohio has some things that drive
people from other parts of the US crazy, like "the lawn needs mowed"
when, say, in Washington DC, I think I'd hear the "to be" included
even in informal speech.

-- Mark

> And, what Matt said. (-: Of course, Ohio has some things that drive
> people from other parts of the US crazy, like "the lawn needs mowed"
> when, say, in Washington DC, I think I'd hear the "to be" included
> even in informal speech.

    Heh.. I am fairly well spoken and had heard that "needs mowed" was an 
issue. I say that. I didn't understand, when hearing about it, what was 
wrong with the phrase. As grammatically correct as I try to be, that one 
escaped me.

My favorite pet peeve is "could care less". It's amazing to me that some 
people, when confronted with it, will try in all kinds of ways to justify 
that 'could care less' makes sense, when it doesn't at all.

Jingo.