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To: Daffynition
Fifty years from now, someone will find the last Yugo in an Albanian barn and make a million off it.

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.

17 posted on 11/17/2008 6:28:36 PM PST by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: Tallguy
You may be kidding .... but it is sadly true.

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)

19 posted on 11/18/2008 2:55:27 AM PST by Daffynition ("Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.")
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