vintage-race
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Car name bad jokes,,, was Saab

To: Stefanv@aol.com, WSpohn4@aol.com, vintage-race@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Car name bad jokes,,, was Saab
From: Jim Hayes <jeh@jimhayes.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:40:00 -0400
>  >Enough with the Saab stories!



Reminds me - My comedy  routine on car names used to go

SAAB, the only car name that was onomatopoeic
Subaru, Japanese for "shit-box"
Hyundai - Korean for same
Volvo- means "hates cars" in Swedish (of course it actually means "I 
roll" in Latin, a perfect name for the focus of their marketing 
program, eh?)
Saturn - same - "hates cars" in English
Buick - rhymes with "puke"
Dodge - named by jaywalkers in Boston (what do we call jaywalkers 
here? Targets!)
BMW - in the city of Boston, it meant "Break My Windows"

And then....a true story:
Around 1966, my brother was delivering a Porsche 911 and had his girl 
friend following in a 356 to bring him back to the dealership. They 
stopped in a country store somewhere in mid-Tennessee to get gas, 
pulling up to the pumps one behind the other. The attendant filled 
both cars, but walked back and forth looking at what was probably the 
first Porsches he had ever seen. When he was getting paid, he 
commented to my brother - "Well you must be driving the front Porch 
and she's driving the back Porch."

Have I insulted enough people's intelligence for today?

Regards, Jim

///  unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net  or try
///  http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo
///  Archives at http://www.team.net/archive/vintage-race


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>