The cartalk.com TIME KILL WEEKLY Special Good Car-ma Edition ______________________________________________ Killing Time, Unencumbered by the Work Process ______________________________________________ Maury Maille, Editor
What's new at Car Talk Plaza? We're towing your car right out of your driveway-but only if you want us to. See, last week we launched the Car Talk vehicle donation program, in which you can donate any tired, old jalopy (NB: we also accept bright, shiny ones) and your local NPR station can benefit. Already, Car Talk fans have donated more than 50 cars... and helped out their favorite, local stations in the process. Thanks, guys and gals! For more information on how to clean up your driveway and make room for that new Lexus or Volvo over which you've been salivating, see http://v-dac.com/cartalk/ Help us help your local station, by spreading the word to a friend. By the way, you're the very first to know. A week from this weekend, we'll announce the Car Talk Vehicle Donation Program on the air. Not ready to just GIVE your car away? You can always sell it via our lousy, little web site. And, thanks to our partners at cars.com, your ad won't languish forever in some forgotten corner of the World Wide Web-it'll harass people on sites all over the country. Just click on "Sell A Car" on the right at http://www.cartalk.com Okay, now it's time for you to do us a favor-we can't afford to lose any more listeners. Check your tires. Do they say "Steeltex" on them? They might be part of yet another humungous tire safety recall. For the details, see the upper right-hand corner of http://www.cartalk.com Also just in: some brand-new bumper tests-and some very well known cars (yes, that means you, Chevy, Acura and Nissan) aren't doing very well, either. For the details, see http://www.cartalk.com Hauling unmarked bills? (Don't answer.) We've got just the thing for you-our brand-new, official Car Talk unmarked bill carrier which, we confess, looks a lot like a really nice gym bag with all the accoutrements. And, if you're looking for a quick change of clothing, might we suggest our new, official Car Talk baseball jersey? You can get the skinny on both, at http://www.shamelesscommerce.com Okay, here comes the Brinks truck to Harvard Square. Time for us to make our move. Cordially, Maury Maille Chief Unmarked Bill Hauler Car Talk Plaza P.S. Here's this week's Lame Joke Of The Week, courtesy of Dave Wilson. There was a man who had worked all his life, had saved all of his money and was a real miser. He loved money more than anything, and just before he died, he said to his wife, "Now listen. When I die, I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the after life with me." So he got his wife to promise him with all of her heart that when he died, she would put all of the money in the casket with him. Well, he died. He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was sitting there in black, and her friend was sitting next to her. When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said, "Wait just a minute!" She had a box with her; she went over with the box and put it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket down, and they rolled it away. So her friend said, "Girl, I know you weren't fool enough to put all that money in there with your husband." She said, "I can't go back on my word. I promised him that I was gonna put that money in that casket with him." "You mean to tell me you put that money in the casket with him?" "I sure did," said the wife. "I wrote him a check." ******************** Got more time to kill? This past weekend's new, lousy Car Talk show is now on the web site, at http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/Show/ ******************** Miss the puzzler? Losing sleep over it? Add your e-mail to our Car Talk Puzzler Psychic Friends Network and we'll personally hand deliver Ray's new puzzler to your inbox every Monday. http://www.cartalk.com/ct/maillist.jsp?puzzler_list=subscribe#psychic ******************* Embarrassed by having e-mails from Car Talk in your inbox? Can't say that we blame you. Unsubscribe any time, via http://www.cartalk.com/ct/maillist.jsp?mailing_list=subscribe
