The cartalk.com TIME KILL WEEKLY Special Roadside Survival Edition ______________________________________________ Killing Time, Unencumbered by the Work Process ______________________________________________ Maury Maille, Editor
What's new at Car Talk Plaza? How to avoid passing through the digestive systems of wolves, that's what new! Have you ever wondered what you should keep in your car, just in case it decides to conk out -- and leaves you scratching your noggin' stranded by the side of the road? Well, after many hours of contemplation (not to mention countless glazed cruellers and triple strength cappuccinos), Tom and Ray have developed just such a list. We're calling it Car Talk's Official Roadside Survival Guide. Take a moment to check it out, at http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/roadside/ Someday, somewhere, when you hear that wolf pack baying in the woods beyond you, you'll be glad you did. Added bonus? We've got a downloadable PDF file of our Official Car Talk directions to jumpstarting your car -- suitable for laminating or duct taping to the jumper cables in your trunk. Ready to test a Car Talk theory? Let us know if you like heated seats... and tell us your gender. Together, we'll find out if the new Magliozzi-heated-tuchus-gender theory is total horse feathers -- or if we're on to something big. Take the poll and see the results right now, at http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/heat/heat.html Way before the age of automatically warmed tuchuses, car ads featured dancing girls, dapper gents, honest car salesmen, and other anachronisms of the auto world. This week, in Links We Like, we're featuring a web site with actual car ads from the '50s -- when fins were big, gas was cheap and Tommy's hair was, well, almost normal. You can check them out right now, and suggest a favorite web site of your own for us to feature, at http://www.cartalk.com/content/links/ Back to work manually warming the fine, Corinthian leather bench here at Car Talk Plaza. Maury Maille Chief Executive Seat Warmer Car Talk Plaza P.S. Here's this week's Lame Joke of The Week, courtesy of Charles Weldon: A priest, a rabbi and a minister walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What is this, a joke?" *************** Write Tom and Ray -- Please! Been meaning to write us a witty, genius, evocative, insightful letter? No? Alright, forget genius then. How about sending us something funny we could read on the air? Write Tom and Ray right now at http://www.cartalk.com/email/email.html *************** USEFUL INFORMATION ALERT: Tired of paying auto club dues to an outfit that lobbies against environmental causes? Check out Better World Club. They're an auto club with genuinely decent values -- unlike some others we could name... whose initials happen to be AAA. Better World Club cares about... *Your environmental interests -- they give 1% of their revenue to environmental clean up and advocacy. *Your consumer interests. They even have discounts on hybrid rental cars. *And, they have the nation's only bicycle roadside assistance program. Dump your AAA membership and join Better World! If you join via the Car Talk web site, they'll even give you an extra month's membership. Check them out now at http://www.cartalk.com ******************** 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 http://www.cartalk.com/radio/show/ ******************** Help Ray lose the night sweats he's been getting, trying to come up with a decent puzzler each week. E-mail him your suggestion any time, via http://www.cartalk.com/email/email.html ******************** Puzzled out? You can unsubscribe to the car talk puzzler psychic friends network anytime at http://www.cartalk.com/ct/maillist.jsp?Puzzler_list=subscribe#psychic We'll forgive you.
