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Y'all have to read this book; it is about "Latawnya, the naughty horse" and features horses smoking and drinking!
We have seen the future and it is postmodern. We have now reached the age where random monikers are slapped on things with no regard for meanings or significance, and it sucks. So now I am going to rail against this week is REALLY STUPID CAR NAMES. OK? Like, seriously. The latest nominations are Suzuki Splash- this is a real car- would you not be ashamed of driving a "splash?", Saturn Switch, and Ford Flex. First of all, Switch is an idiotic thing to name a car after, even dumber than Relay. Secondly, "Switch" certainly calls into question one's sexuality, and it just sounds moronic. I don't WANT the words "Flex," "Splash," or "Switch" associated with any car I am likely to own. OK? So stop. In fact, I would absolutely under no circumstances purchase a car with such a name. Surely there are hundreds of discarded nameplates that could be resurrected instead of giving cars names that suggest nothing at all, or worse, negative characteristics. In the not that distant past, cars carried names that were evocative of power, luxury, freedom- full of meaning. Like Riviera, LeSabre, Fairlane, Fifth Avenue, Cordoba- just to name a few. Something about pronouncing the words evoked pride. Now cars have meaningless names, or alphanumeric gibberish.
What's up with the pseudo-scientific sort of car names like Ion and Element and Axiom, also? Cobalt is actually ok. We should come up with a quiz; is D600 a drug, car, computer, or "food product"? Bonus points! Who makes it?
Also we have enough computing power nowadays in our laptops to - I don't know, do something that it takes a whole lot of computing power to do- and people use it to make pictures of cats saying ungrammatical things on the internet, and then I look at these pictures all day.
Y'all have to read this book; it is about "Latawnya, the naughty horse" and features horses smoking and drinking!
We have seen the future and it is postmodern. We have now reached the age where random monikers are slapped on things with no regard for meanings or significance, and it sucks. So now I am going to rail against this week is REALLY STUPID CAR NAMES. OK? Like, seriously. The latest nominations are Suzuki Splash- this is a real car- would you not be ashamed of driving a "splash?", Saturn Switch, and Ford Flex. First of all, Switch is an idiotic thing to name a car after, even dumber than Relay. Secondly, "Switch" certainly calls into question one's sexuality, and it just sounds moronic. I don't WANT the words "Flex," "Splash," or "Switch" associated with any car I am likely to own. OK? So stop. In fact, I would absolutely under no circumstances purchase a car with such a name. Surely there are hundreds of discarded nameplates that could be resurrected instead of giving cars names that suggest nothing at all, or worse, negative characteristics. In the not that distant past, cars carried names that were evocative of power, luxury, freedom- full of meaning. Like Riviera, LeSabre, Fairlane, Fifth Avenue, Cordoba- just to name a few. Something about pronouncing the words evoked pride. Now cars have meaningless names, or alphanumeric gibberish.
What's up with the pseudo-scientific sort of car names like Ion and Element and Axiom, also? Cobalt is actually ok. We should come up with a quiz; is D600 a drug, car, computer, or "food product"? Bonus points! Who makes it?
Also we have enough computing power nowadays in our laptops to - I don't know, do something that it takes a whole lot of computing power to do- and people use it to make pictures of cats saying ungrammatical things on the internet, and then I look at these pictures all day.
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