I had a buddy with one of these. He painted 25 Cents on the hood with an arrow pointing at the scoop.
Posted on 11/17/2008 3:42:54 PM PST by Decombobulator
Just as Hitler brought us the "people's car", Obama will save Amerikka with our own state-owned automobile.
Although it will make a Yugo seem like a Mercedes.
Jay Leno once joked about a Yugo being used in the first "push-by shooting."
In a Yugo
As the snow flies
At a used car lot on the edge of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo
And they drive with pride
Cause if there’s one thing that this world needs
It’s environmental friends who’ll take the lead
In a Yugo
They say, “people don’t you understand
Those suburbans are ruining the land”
But they’ll wish they had a full size van one day
They point fingers at you and me
They say we’re too blind to see
But do we simply use our heads
And choose another way?
As those small wheels turn
Fifty miles to the gallon
And their knees on their chest
They’re gonna save enough gas
For all of the rest
In a Yugo
Then one day on the interstate
They suddenly lose control
They swerve to miss a baby duck
They’re squashed beneath a produce truck
But they drove with pride...
And as the crowds drive past a little flat car
You know they saved a lot of gas
But they didnt get far
In a Yugo
And as they’re trapped inside
At a used car lot on the other side of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo....
And they drive with pride...
That song cracks me up.
My ultra-lib sis and her even moonbatty-er husband drive an itty bitty car, and I always think of them when I hear that song, OR the real Elvis song.
And I’m gonna laugh my butt off when it happens.
Do the brain-farts in Detroit really think Obama will just hand over the billions of dollars they want with no strings attached?
No. Of course not. We know that Socialism demands that the State must gain control - then ownership - of the industries.
And I’m gonna laugh my butt off as well when the idiots in the media wake up one day to see that Freedom of the Press is gone, gone gone. When they see that Obamessiah they elected turns on them and extends the Fairness Doctrine to ALL aspects of the media. Right wing AND left wing.
Can you say “Welcome back Pravda”?
I knew you could.
I had a buddy with one of these. He painted 25 Cents on the hood with an arrow pointing at the scoop.
LOL. I expect that on airling oxygen masks, next. “For more oxygen, please insert 2 quarters...”
Government owning car companies worked sooooo well for British Leyland, Fiat, etc.
Here in Panama it reminds me of the Russian car the Lada sold here more than 20 years ago.
The Panamanians with their great sense of humor renamed it “la Lata” (the tin can). They were about $3000 and maybe a little more.
A person I know purchased one. Two years later he couldn’t even re-sell it. He took it directly to the junk yard.
I see the Chinese “Chery” on the same future track.
And we were worried that they’d nationalize Healthcare? If the Republicans go along with this bailout, there will be no arguing the next industry sector takeover.
What was that punchline? “We’ve already established WHAT you are. Now we’re just dickering the PRICE.”
What will a million dollars be worth in 2058? Adjusted for inflation it could be about what the car was worth new... I'm only slightly kidding.
Nothing will be different for the MSM, they toe the line anyway. It is the alternate media of talk radio and the internet that will change.
Trust me, you will not be laughing!!
To be fair, they weren´t as bad as Yugos.
This is a "Deux Cheveaux" (pronounced "dew shiv-oh"), a car formerly made by Citroen that achieved worldwide fame for making people smirk.
Deux Cheveaux engines were only slightly more powerful than a Weed Eater, which is why this card was intended to be funny. You couldn´t climb over a speed bump in one of these without first getting out and emptying your pockets to reduce weight.
The caption says "Demenagement" (I left out the accents, since they´re a pain to type and may not reproduce correctly in all browsers). In French, this means "Moving," but to get the full flavor of the irony here I´ll quote the actual dictionary definition (from The New Cassell´s French Dictionary, if you don´t believe me):
"Demenagement, n. m.: Removal, removing one´s furniture. Demenager, to remove. Demenager a la cloche de bois, to remove surreptitiously. Il demenage, he is getting queer."
Caption: "Demenagement" (Citroen 2cv, 1961)
Hey, I drive an itty-bitty car, and I’m definately NOT a lib.
I drive a classic (1969) VW Beetle. Love it!!
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