On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Hans Franke wrote:
> Well, acording to other sources you may substitute any
> American car brand (at least during the 70s and 80s) and
> you still get the joke goin'.
Hans, have you ever driven or ridden in a comfortable large American
car from the early to mid 1970's, and seen how solidly it was
constructed, and how it had features missing from today's newer cars?
Back then, one could even choose from a very wide, by today's
standards, variety of carpet styles/textures and colors as well as the
types of seat coverings, styles of seats, etc.
Hmmm... I'd find the joke funnier of the words "Volvo," (can you say
"ugly boring cars?") "BMW" (can you say "overpriced VW Beetle?") or
the name of some random japmobile (they wouldn't exist if most of the
old US cars hadn't been scrapped so that japan could buy the scrap)
was substituted. No, I don't apologize for a lower-case japan. No
country that treats dogs and cats as "novelty items," to be disposed
of by dropping them in chutes on a street-corner like one drops a
letter into a mailbox, so that they can later be destroyed by
mechanical means, so that a human doesn't have to see them killed,
deserves to have it's name capitalized.
Of course, I see no reason why most modern American automobiles as
well can't be substituted for this joke. Minivans, 4WD vehicles and
the so-called station wagons - if one can call those new tiny vehices
station wagons, no longer even have tailgate windows that open, due to
the cheapness of design. While the "quality" of modern automobiles
reeks of cheapness, the prices are nothing other than overly
expensive.
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