Somehow, "fire appliance" doesn't carry the same cache as "FIRE ENGINE".
I'm happy for the new moto-fire-appliance, but sad for the Fire Engine. I weep, in a manly way.
Pretty soon, I guess we'll see the loss of the Fire Station in favor of the Fire Appliance Storage Facility...probably just be single Firefighters in little cubby-hole spaces spread throughout a city.
It won't be practical to keep dalmations any more. Playing checkers between calls will become a thing of the past.
I weep some more.
