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Life is a highway: Study confirms cars have personality
FSU News ^ | 11/26/08

Posted on 06/29/2009 12:34:01 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows

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Your tax dollars at work.
1 posted on 06/29/2009 12:34:02 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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To: Slings and Arrows

Mine’s an ugly old bit$h. She’s not much to look at, but get you there without having to empty out the wallet.


2 posted on 06/29/2009 12:35:48 PM PDT by DownInFlames (C)
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To: Slings and Arrows; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...

"I feel THUUUUPER!"



3 posted on 06/29/2009 12:35:58 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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To: DownInFlames

"Sanctuary! Sanctuary!"

4 posted on 06/29/2009 12:39:22 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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The facial features of this car conveys an effeminate nature, a willingness to be pushed around, a tendancy to be referred to in such terms as "wimp" and "pussy", and to speak in a high-pitched voice - often with a slight lisp.

5 posted on 06/29/2009 12:40:02 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Slings and Arrows

Can’t psych and anthro students do this kind of research for free?


6 posted on 06/29/2009 12:40:24 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Slings and Arrows

this is pretty much common sense in terms of what our brains tend to project on car front ends. for the most part headlights have locations that are similar to eyes, so the rest is probably normal anthropomorphic extrapolation. Once in a while, a car in the rear-view mirror causes such a response in my brain.

I cannot recall models now, but there are some vehicles from teh 40s/50’s with just beautiful bizarre/complex front grillwork that has always struck me as just bizarre.


7 posted on 06/29/2009 12:41:49 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: Slings and Arrows

I am doing the wrong thing for a living.

I’m working WAAAAAYYYYY too hard.


8 posted on 06/29/2009 12:42:07 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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SDo what does it tell you that I ride a motorcycle?
That I'm a cyclops?
9 posted on 06/29/2009 12:42:36 PM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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10 posted on 06/29/2009 12:44:03 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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Can’t psych and anthro students do this kind of research for free?

You'd think so, wouldn't you?

What's really pathetic is that I found out about this in the ACM Tech News. That's supposed to be newsletter for advances in computer science, fercryinoutloud.

11 posted on 06/29/2009 12:44:22 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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The facial features of this car conveys an effeminate nature, a willingness to be pushed around, a tendancy to be referred to in such terms as "wimp" and "pussy", and to speak in a high-pitched voice - often with a slight lisp.

Ever hear the horn on a car like this? 3 and 4 cylindar cars are known for it...

12 posted on 06/29/2009 12:46:12 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: metmom

Yeah, me too.


13 posted on 06/29/2009 12:47:17 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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Mine’s an ugly old bit$h.

If she were half the bi*ch as Christine, you would not dare post that comment on a website that she might happen to see.

14 posted on 06/29/2009 12:48:08 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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15 posted on 06/29/2009 12:48:19 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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I think it would be cool to have satan’s picture on the tread of the tires. Cool photo.


16 posted on 06/29/2009 12:49:16 PM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet!)
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I had a 10-year old kid look at the front of my truck 2002 Chevy Avalanche with a dark bug deflector on the front hood. He looked at it for a bit, came over to me and said “Mister - you have a very angry looking truck”.

I had to go over and look - the kid was right! The front is designed with the Chevy “bowtie” effect going on for the whole front end, so the lights are angled slightly down and in, and with a “unibrow” bug shield gives the expression of a scowl.

I am in the process of a a $1 million research grant on the characteristics and categories of cloud formations. Most cloud formations exhibit “bunny shapes”, with “poodle shapes” coming in a distant second, but research is ongoing.


17 posted on 06/29/2009 12:49:21 PM PDT by 21twelve (Drive Reality out with a pitchfork if you want , it always comes back.)
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What does this one say about it's owner? (me)


18 posted on 06/29/2009 12:49:47 PM PDT by CholeraJoe (So close to Postal.)
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19 posted on 06/29/2009 12:50:20 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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To: 21twelve

As an applied meteorologist, I would like to offer my services. I have spent the better part of 27 years in the USN looking at clouds.
“Still I watch the sky, still I wonder why.”
Lenee Lovich


20 posted on 06/29/2009 12:51:39 PM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet!)
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