A nice thread to reanimate tho',

also affects a certain baguette and rolled-up Le Monde holding a gauche - Gitanes grabbing posture a droite that you may find in a tabac of a matin in certain banlieue of our grande merde-heap voisines.
Perhaps it's Halloween and the nearly full moon that made me see that for the first time.
Straight arms can't have been beyond the ken of the mighty Coalville, given that they were determined to paint his gloves black, maybe they just thought the position of the handbrake and the general MIG-15 vs. Lada 4x4 cockpit layout of the Shadowtrak meant that it the en garde posture was more appropriate.
