Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:56:24 -0500 From: "Frank Coviello" <francisjcoviellonopsampam.please.hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Volvo Joke
All I want to know is: Who had so much time to make this list in the first place? "Simon Clayton" <sc001d2555nopsamamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:OM5c8.3111$bh1.22170642nopsam-text.cableinet.net... > Here this should offend most large auto manufacturers: > > AUDI - Automobile Unsafe Designs, Inc. > BUICK - Big, Ugly, Import Car Killer > CHEVROLET - Constantly Having Every Vehicle Recalled Over Lousy > Engineering Techniques > CHEVROLET - Can Hear Every Valve Rattle On Long Extended Trips > CHEVY - Charged HEaVilY > CHEVY - Cheapest Heap Envisioned Yet > CHEVY NOVAS:- (are actually designed by Toyota: Chevota or Toyolet?) > DATSUN - Disgraceful Auto That Stalls UNceasingly > DODGE - Driven Only During Grey Evenings > DODGE - Drips Oil, Drips Gas Everywhere > FIAT - Fails In Attempted Turns > FIAT - Fix It Again Tony > FIAT - Fine Italian Automotive Technology > FORD - Fought Off Recall Demands > FORD - Found On Road Dead > FORD LTD - Found on road dying, Left to die. > FORD - F___er Only Runs Downhill > FORD - Fix Or Repair Daily > FORD - First On Race Day > FORD - First On Rust Development > FORD - Fork Over Repair Dough > FORD - Founded On Reservation Dump > GEO - Good Engineering Overlooked > GEO - Gets Eventually Over 50 > GMC - Gets More Chicks > GMC - Garage Mechanic's Companion > JEEP - Junk Engineered Executed Poorly > LTD - Laughable Trash Dump > MAZDA - My! Another Zany Detroit Assassin! > OLDS - Old Ladies Driving Slowly > OLDSMOBILE - Old Ladies Drive Slow - Mostly Over Bridges Into Lake Erie > PINTO - Paid Inspector Nicely To Overlook > PLYMOUTH - Police Laugh, Young Men Ogle, all Underestimating This Heap > PONTIAC - Penniless Old Nicaraguan Thinks It's a Cadillac > PONTIAC - Poor Old Nick Thinks It's A Cadillac > PONTIAC - Pours Out Noxious Toxins In American Cities > PORSCHE - Proof Only Rich Suckers Can Have Everything > SAAB - Sad Attempt At Beauty > SAAB - Sorry Auto, Always Broken > SUBARU - Screwed up beyond all repair usually. > TRIUMPH - This Really Is Unreliable Man, Please Help! > TRIUMPH - Tried Repairing It Until My Parts Hurt! > TRIUMPH - The Risk In Useless Machinery Pays Heavily > TOYOTA - Toyauto > TOYOTA - Towed Often, Yearly Overrunning Triple A > > > > "Four Weis" <mweinopsamcom> wrote in message > news:3C700843.35CC8A90nopsamcom... > > > > > > Bob wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 00:08:58 -0500, Four Weis <mweinopsamcom> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >Which means you did not bother to go to the Toyota forum..... > > > > > > > > > > Well, as I said, I really don't care. People talk about other people, > > > their houses, their lifestyles, their hobbies, their looks, their > > > cars, etc. To me it's a big "whatever", although I'm not beyond > > > having a little fun by pulling their jowls a bit, when necessary > > > of course. > > > > > > But because you mentioned it, I did prowl out to alt.autos.toyota. > > > I didn't see much beyond the old cross-posted threads we saw here. > > > Is it some other "forum" you were mentioning ? > > > > > > Bob > > > > How far back did you go? There was a long string of notes until it was > > finally stopped. It may have started as a joke, but it got out of hand > > really quickly. Comments by both Saab and Toyota sides were getting > > nasty, vulgar and personal. I noticed the same 'Volvo Joke' on other new > > groups - fortunately most people just ignored it and let it die. Someone > > is pulling our chains. > > > > > > > > > > > >
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