> I'm sure this could lead to confusion, i.e:
>
> "So, how did you spend the weekend, Bill?"
>
> "Oh, with the missus - tinkered 'round under the hood then jacked her up
> and wacked on some new rubber."
>
> "Ahem, I see... Ahh... see you later then."
>
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> From: Atwell Haines[SMTP:carbuff@nac.net]
> Reply To: Atwell Haines
> Sent: Sunday, 7 March 1999 2:25
> To: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Marrying your car?
>
> From today's paper: (I swear I am NOT making this up). I would understand
> better if a Triumph were involved:
>
> +++++
>
> Saturday, March 6, 1999
>
> MAN ATTEMPTS TO MARRY CAR BUT IS REJECTED
>
> Knoxville, TN (USA) (AP) - Many men have had love affairs with their
> cars. Buster Mitchell wanted to make it official.
>
> Jilted by his girlfriend, a bereft Mitchell decided he wanted to marry
> his true love: his 1996 Mustang GT.
>
> "I've been broken-hearted and hung out to dry, so I am going to the
> courthouse and try to marry my car," Mitchell said before trying to get a
> marriage license Thursday.
>
> Mitchell, 28, didn't get very far in the application before the clerk
> dashed his dreams. Only men and women can marry under Tennessee law,
> officials explained.
>
> It was sometime after he listed his fiancee's birthplace as "Detroit",
> her father as "Henry Ford" and her blood type as "10W-40" that his plans
> sputtered.
>
> "Well, in California they are doing same-sex marriages," he said. "So are
> we here in Tennessee. Why can't we do the good ol' boy thing and marry
> our cars and trucks?"
>
> Mitchell said he isn't giving up.
>
>
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