James May got fired from Autocar because of this.

"CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)" (ccpbb)
12/07/2013 at 21:18 • Filed to: Top gear, James may

I own a copy of Autocar's 1992 Special Road Test Yearbook issue. And if you don't know why it's special, James May was the feature editor and got fired afterward for the hidden message he put in this particular issue. See, May was cool even BEFORE Top Gear.
If you watch enough top gear, you know these Easter eggs from their careers. Richard Hammond used to be normal, Jezza had bad hair and terrible suits, and James May was the features editor at Autocar.
I found out about this while going through their Wikipedia articles. It was one of the more interesting entries of the pre-Top Gear years. James May was bored, and decided to fiddle with the big letters you see on headings. An Opponaut or anyone knows with some manipulation, messages can be put in.
So James May put "So you think it's really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up; it's a real pain in the arse." Something he would do in a boring, docile job.

I knew I had to get one. A slice of the May's fine work. So on eBay one day, I found it. Fucking cost 40 dollars for a magazine that would have cost me £1.25 at a newsstand at the local petrol station (if I lived in England). Plus, it was from Britain, not some person in Arkansas.
A slice of history of the age of the PreTopGearJezzaHampsterMay era.

DISCUSSION (18)

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
12/07/2013 at 21:19

And this is my copy.

Agrajag > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
12/07/2013 at 21:32

God, I saw "James May got fired..." and almost had a stroke. Then I finished reading.

Rainbow > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
12/07/2013 at 21:58

I remember reading about that on Cracked. I thought he quit the job and just stuck that in toward the end for fun.

Bad Idea Hat > Agrajag
12/07/2013 at 22:12

I just had to find a neighbor who had heart medicine so I could take it.

Wooo my heart rate is heading down. Dude still owes me a nuclear sub made out of lego.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > Rainbow
12/07/2013 at 22:52

Yeah. It's amazing. It would be hard nowadays.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > Agrajag
12/08/2013 at 01:59

Relax, it anyone had to get fired it would be the stig getting fired because of a wardrobe malfunction.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > Bad Idea Hat
12/08/2013 at 01:59

Lol.

Ted Olsthoorn > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
12/08/2013 at 03:14

I hear The Stig doesn't even have a contract. There is no way of firing him then.

Bob LeDrew > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
12/08/2013 at 10:56

What a bunch of douchenozzles for firing him over that.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > Bob LeDrew
12/08/2013 at 11:20

Exactly! They should have made it more interesting with Mays advice! But, if he wasn't fired, Jason Dawes would still be on Top Gear. And he wasn't really good..