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I can see a need to explain.

You can only use Scottish rabbits for the purpose as any others run like hell and you can see why!!!!. As you may or may not know Scottish Rabbits and Haggis are fitted with two short legs and two long legs and the method of catching them is to chase them the opposite way round the hills so that they roll down into the hands of BBC outside broadcast team who insert the Microphones whilst they are still moving but this has a tendency to twist the wires, hence the term often used in connection with sound as a "twisted pair" not sure if this refers to the wires or something else!!!

The term " lucky rabbits foot" comes from the same scenario as being one of the rabbits that got away hence termed as "lucky". Not sure this one holds true as he wasn't "lucky" enough to hang on to his foot!! I suppose it is all relative though, microphone up the bottom or lose a foot, no contest really!

 

Rod

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At least a few Forumites will recall the 1977 TR Silver Jubilee Run, John O'Groats to Lands End . . . . .

 

Yes I know, it's like the Swinging 60s, if you claim to remember much you weren't really there . . . . .

 

One unforgettable memory - hacking down the M5 at a fair clip in the open TR6, a light degree of wet stuff coming down, sufficient to encourage a speed that kept the rain off our heads. In the mirror loomed LMW140, Chris Sergison's legendary red TR2, coming up behind at a speed that only a seriously tweaked TR2 could achieve, beyond the reach of a standard car.

 

Leaning backwards out of the passenger seat, SLR in hand, right elbow skimming the tarmac, the ever intrepid Julian Stephens proving once again that there's no snapshotter like a Cornish snapshotter.

 

A fine TR man, and an innovator in the days before digital and GoPro.

 

Cheers

 

Alec

Here you go Alec

pictures courtesy of Julian.

Stuart.

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