Emperor Ming

Hi Guys Has anyone else seen an ORANGE zed???? I saw a Zed going the other way today in town. It was NOT the bronze colour but a mid to pale ORANGE. It also did not seem to be metallic but a base colour like the red and yellow ones are!!!!!!! Not sure wether I liked it or not but it was certainly different. I don't think it was a re spray but who knows! Any ideas Ming the Curious

Slightly Hardcore.????? Is that softcore?? Limpcore?? Flacidcore?? How can you be SLIGHTLY hardcore????????????????????? Although not Mr Mings type of car I can see the attraction. (I like big engines over small powerful ones everytime but did have a honda 1600 VTECi for a while and it was a blast to drive. I would think that that steps it up a league! Ming the Garrulous

If your oil level is al ittle low and you are 'driving spiritedly' it might cause one of the oil warning sensors to activate which under normal useage would not. Take a peek at the oil level later mate! Ming the Hopeful

Laugh. A stentorian rumble uttered forth from my stomachs pit! The frightening thing, oh ye of the fairer sex, is that oft not I am free of all and any grape or hop based intellectual enhancements. I accept wholeheartedly that this menu of ramblings was started by a quaff of dionysiacally enhanced fermentation but oftennot they come from a truely honest state of sobriety. Ming the Straight PS After a decent seizure I am stoned just through contact as my system is not used to the effects of the THC - tetra hydra canabinol - in the plants and it takes me a while to come round - like last night. LOL

Ah fine we kiltie. Challenge aye tha deed. But, buried under the permafrost of age, entrenched deep within the innermost sanctums of my genealogy is a smattering of a scottish clan and the nuances of long silent archaic prose must rumble on in the deeper recesses of my psyche. (Me nan were arf jock an I fink I musta remembud summat like!) So yir nae three bad at iss. A puckle lessons an yil be a fair cheel! Nae bad at ah! Your not to bad at this! A few lessons and you will be a good student. Not bad at all! Ming the Mind numb

At a hazardous estimation it would/could mean What kind of day did you have? What time are you getting up in the morning - yolking I guess is in reference to yolking a beast which would be the first job in a farmers day - I don't have to get up early and I had an ......... today as well. Be good! Struggling with 'ealy louse'. but agin I hazzard a guess at 'easy day' Ming the struggling

I am at present partaking of one of mrs Mings finest culinary concoctions that is so hot and spicy my tongue is on fire so no wine for me tonight!! Beer or coco cola rule I guess!! Ming the fire Breather

Hail oh Gaelic migrant. Oh son of Dalriada. Lexicon!! It has several meanings archaic, hebrew and ancient greek, my oat ingesting friend but first and foremost is means a dictionary. Ming the Mentally maladjusted

A multiplentitude of my humblest felicitations all ye of great linguistic fortutude. Doric, my good man. A certian ubiquitous charm I am sure, and roots firmly embedded in the antedeluvian orders of our great and sceptered isle. Harkening back to eons gone when history was but in the creating and memories fair failed to reach beyond living memory. Bring it forth for I welcome our verbal jousting and the broadening of all knowledge linguistic. Ming the Lexicon

Now that is the cleverest use of the word 'almost' I've ever seen - well done! Thanks Nixy Its wonderous what a bottle of wine and a chilled out evening can do to ones creative juices. Ming the Considered

I will reply with great fortitude on the morrow good sir. Partaking of great linguistic fortitude is a sobering experience and I care not to waste the elvating experience of good grape sustenance. I have just partook in a gambling extraveganza which left me numerous 'Yanky greenbacks' to the good so I now bid you a fond fairwell and will partake of verbal and linguistic banter on the setting of the 'morrows sun. You linguistic jostler Ming the Muddled

I live my life one wash at a time, For those 10 minutes or less, I am clean. => MING? LOl Are we talking personal hygene or car Hygene here?? LOL After 10 minutes my car is NOT clean but NEARLY clean. It is only truely clean as the last swipe of the duster falls to the floor.!! How about 350z = 'Pound for pound the best fighter on the road'. Do you know what? I love my Zed. Almost as much as Mrs Ming - who has taken it to work today!!

Forsooth For I am often upon the queens business. I oftensay 'stand aside miscreant, ner-do-well, and offender of this good parish for I take upon me the queens shilling and am a bidder of her business'. Believe it or believe it not I have put a sentence similar to that in both a custody record AND a police statement. I love words. Look in the dictionary and see Take the word PUDDLE It also means 'to stir molten iron to produce wrought iron by expelling carbon' or 'to busy oneself in an untidy way' or even 'to mix water and clay to seperate gold and opal'. What a fabulous language we have, rivalled only i think by Japanese for its complexity. And I have just typed all this AFTER a full bottle of Rondinella Pinot Grigio - a sharp little rose blush with a distinct tincture of maranello - and one of Mrs Ming's finest home cooked archaic recipees. Ming the Satisfied PS I am also playing on line poker and am sitting 5th out of 13 having started with 271

Agreed Cars are like bikes. You appreciate them more if you move up in little steps. Each one a different experience, and hopefully a little faster, than the last one. (Sounds a little like my women really??) serve your apprenticship with bangers and learn your vehicle. If you start with a Ferrarri or a Turbo car where do you go from there?? Ming the Thinker

We have a 'game' at work where you arew given a word to get into a formal police interview. I once had three offenders - all involved in dealing drugs - and I was given three words. Taj Mahal, St Pauls Cathedral and the Eiffel Tower. I got all three in!! Effervescent was another challenge that I got into an interview for theft of a car. I like your 'word of the day' idea though. I shall have to give it some thought! I have put many a 'hard man' in jail with the power of the word where the 'strong arm' of the law had failed. How about Donnybrook!! Fit that in a sentence Ming the Muddled

Stew Etymologist = wordsmith. Someone who looks at the historically verifiable sources of the formation of a word and the developement of its meaning. I just love word for words sake mate. LOL Ming the Thinker

Being a self confessed ETYMOLOGIST and wordsmith of the queens fair language, a lexicographer of great steadfastness, I was horrified, nay indignant in the highest degree to see the one word that reigns above all others in this language and covers in a multiplentitude my ongoing love affair with all things language related, ETYMOLOGIST spelled incorrectly!! LOL Ming the WORD WORKER

Are you changing the boot lip? If so do you have the original lip? Third if so If you do can I have the first dibs on it please. Thanks Ming the Hopeful

Lexus meets Toyota Corolla. Ugh!!!! Ming the Ex Jag lover (I've had two and they both broke)

Just before the top when you get the overview and you see the DROP behind the car. Made my stomach contract and I was only watching the video. Absolute belief in his own ability!! Top find! Ming the impressed

Again, thanks for the kind comments mate Although I'm very impressed with the Megs stuff, as I've said, I'm getting ready to move up to "better" stuff. Think H5 and your good self have now sold me on this P21 stuff, any recommendations on where to get it? I just typed in Carnuba Wax in the search engine and found a Uk supplier. Delivered it should cost about £30 if I remember rightly. I am towards the bottom of my second tub but i have done lots of cars as well as mine and Mrs Mings Good stuff though Ming the Converted PS Its even better and quicker with my porter cable polisher!!

Ming has got these too and I also think they are cool. The colours are low light but very effective Thought about them for side lights as well. I can just imagine my colleagues faces as my side lights kept changing The coolest panda car in town I reckon!! Ming the Mad

Top result mate. The clarity of reflection shows the attention to detail. I am well impressed. When you get to these levels of cleanliness then what ever you use the results are subjective. Some polishes/waxes/finishes are better on one colour than they are on others though so some experimenting, asking around is always worth it. Personally I use 'Sonus' products as they come highly recommended from a friend who is a detailer by trade and I use P21S as a finisher. When you have waxed a car as opposed to polished it you will not use polishing/finishing agents again. Its odd but the car FEELS nicer and as I said at this level its all about perceptions. I did a friends Volvo over the weekend and the difference was truly amazing and he has not washed or cleaned his car in a couple of YEARS!!! He actually said that it looked better and newer than when he bought it and that was with only one coat of everything!! Well done Ming the Impressed PS I agree with H5 in that it does seem to make the 'flake' look like it is on the top and there for stand out a lot more!

Dont laugh. This was Mrs Mings old celica when I emptied the glove box. Everything you see came out of it!! I dare not ask about her handbag LOL Ming the Confused

1971 - I think - 1.5 Hillman Hunter that overheated like mad. Used to drive up hills and free wheel down them Never quite killed it and sold it in the end for a 1.3 Mk3 Ford Cortina in white with a thin red 'Starsky and Hutch' stripe down the side and loads of lights and tweeters on it - all fitted before I got it!!LOL I too loved all my old bangers and got immense satisfaction from getting loads and loads of miles out of cars that cost nothing. I can remember setting off on a journey and being overjoyed THAT WE GOT THERE!!!!! I learned sooooo much about cars from those days of simple mechanics and necessity!! Ming the VERY old