As previously explained, my dad had a nauseatingly repetitive joke about a guy who had an S painted on the side of his car. I suspect he told this joke when my mother was, as he perceived, shooting me in the foot, and I wasn't catching on. The S car guy was asked why he had an S painted on the side of his car. The guy replied, "So when they see me drive by, they'll say, 'Look at that escargot'".
When he thought up that joke, I wonder if he recalled his Trinity College, Cambridge days. The older carriageways in the UK begin with an M. The newer with an A. All they were missing was the S.
photo credit Matt Fox! You dirty hur.
