On the other hand, the women imagined Mr Bush would drive a convertible, honk the horn, chew gum and "spend all night talking about himself".Wall Street Journal, May 26thWhat are friends for?"At one of these governors' conferences, George turns to me and says, 'What are they talking about?'.
Living in China, I used to seethe with rage at the way Communist officials and the new rich would barge and honk their way through busy pedestrian crossings, displaying absolute contempt for those too lowly to afford their own set of wheels.
"Do you honk all pedestrians, or just heavily pregnant ones?" I demanded, as the car's occupants (an expensive blonde and her girlfriend) stared in disbelief at the sight of a man looking a little like Harry Potter, only older and a bit out of breath, shouting at them in an underground car park.
But for some, that was entirely the point: Bugatti never built his cars to look quite so perfect.The lengths to which some people now go to restore old vehicles is causing the usually clubby world of car collectors to honk loudly.
Beneath the bogus Tuscan sky, 1,700 slot machines flash, honk and chatter.Gambling is booming in South Africa.
Signs have appeared telling drivers to honk their horns if they love the army.
Many of the drivers return the thumbs-up gesture and honk their horns.
As before the war, senior officials honk furiously through the traffic jams of Baghdad, their convoys bristling with gun muzzles like hedgehogs.
But on Sunday night horns did not honk and crowds did not gather.
Michael Holden, an economist at the Canada West Foundation, a think-tank, says that urging firms to move faster was like "people who honk at the car in front of them in a traffic jam .The government is not relying on moral suasion alone.
If his software were continuously talking to the car, the auto could honk its horn and flash its lights (rather than, say, slam on the brakes), warning other drivers and potentially reducing side-swipe accidents.
