Comments on: If God Had Wanted You To Succeed, He Would Have Made You A BMW 760Li

by: Pete IVDL

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:26:18 +0000

Ohhh. I didn’t even notice the byline. Welcome, Mrs. Sienna!

Murray, someone (I think Ray Bradbury) wrote a short story involving aliens coming across the remnants of civilisation, and their only artefact from the extinct civilisation was a Walt Disney cartoon; so they assumed that the dominant lifeforms on earth were cartoon cars with big bouncy wheels, and physics-defying abilities to turn and fly.

If I was predestinated as a car, I think it would be a Hillman Hunter. It’s an old Australian car, much like a square volkswagen with tiny pointy tailfins, bicycle-thin tires, swept-back roof (made it look like it was wind-tunnel tested, but I think was a smudge left on the blueprint by a coffee spill that made it into production). Boxy but bad.

by: Pete IVDL

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:12:55 +0000

Coop, I have the strongest premonition that you may have said something to your son like “Now, watch and learn how to catch a ~~mouse~~ cat, Junior…” while unpacking the ACME laundry box and ACME string… Are you sure that no violins were pizzicato-ing as you snuck away to pull the string?And if it didn’t work, your son would have said (with an oh-so-cute lisp, “Oh Father, I’m tho athhamed”.

by: Murray

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:58:30 +0000

Back in the 40’s or 50’s there was a Disney cartoon about earth from an alien’s view. They saw that the dominant life on earth was cars. Between roads, parking lots (social gathering) and garages (homes) the terrain appears to be devoted to them. They also noted that often the cars were plagued with parasites, (humans).

by: Murray

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:52:29 +0000

All my car would say is “Oh yea? Let’s see how you look at 350,000 miles.

by: vachon

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:44:51 +0000

I’m afraid if my car ever started talking, it’d snicker about how I have no life and then tell every other vehicle in Publix’s parking lot.

by: Dale

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:44:36 +0000

Wonder what’s in the works at Pixar: A Virus’s Life (with that 70s-style “retrovirus” and the hip, urban bacterium E. Ko Lie. What up E?) Can they develop resistance before the drug companies come out with a new antibiotic? Or “Lint”–fall in love with those cute, fluffy dust bunnies, as they struggle to avoid the broom.

by: scw

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:24:48 +0000

This is a world inhabited by cars. Not people. So, therefore, they are not our appliances anymore. There would be no 14 year old shopping around. It was an allegory, not a story about ACTUAL cars.

by: ice weasel

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:11:14 +0000

Randy Newman called, he said he has your lunch *all* ready for you.

Oh, and I got a note from Sarah McLachlan as well, she wanted me to pass along that it was odd your husband found her “disembodied voice” disturbing since he appears to be married to a pseudonym.

Just sayin.

by: Maximum Bob

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:48:52 +0000

Had to get a new keyboard; the old one melted down when I tried to type, “Emilio Estevez’ finest hour.”

by: Not a pipe

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 03:51:44 +0000

I just had a thought about weekend NPR show based movies:

If they made a Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me movie would Roeper have to recuse himself from reviewing it?