The cartalk.com TIME KILL WEEKLY Special Vituperative Missive Update Edition ______________________________________________ Killing Time, Unencumbered by the Work Process ______________________________________________ Maury Maille, Editor
What's new at Car Talk Plaza? A brand-new batch of hate mail! As one of the great blues men, Hotchi Splotchy Magliozzi, once said, "If it weren't for hate mail, I wouldn't get no mail at all." We love reading our hate mail. And each year we like to share our finest, most bitter offerings with you -- actual, emotionally charged, vindictive missives from all manners of listeners. Read along with us at: http://www.cartalk.com Our favorite? "Your socialistic, anti-American, pro-government intervention, let the government protect us from ourselves, auto-snob, leftist, East Coast diatribe is enough to make me vomit. My guess is that your IQ is less than that of a common roach."-- Steve Once you've raised your BP by 20 points, here's something to soothe your nerves: Know someone with a hybrid? Our pals at Better World Club (an alternative to AAA) have launched a unique effort: If you own a hybrid, you can get a second, Better World auto club membership for squat. That's righ t-- not even a lousy cent. It's their way of encouraging folks to drive cleaner cars. If you know someone with a hybrid in their driveway, pass along this note. (If they have any decency at all, it ought to be good for a free lunch at least!) You can get more info by clicking on the Better World Club banner, at the top of http://www.cartalk.com Finally, a procrastinator's alert: This coming week is your last chance to vote in our Ugliest New Car contest. You can add your vote, view the finalists, and read our favorite comments (Pontiac Aztec? "Didn't just get hit with an ugly stick; it came charging out of the ugly forest!") via the link at http://www.cartalk.com In a few weeks, we'll announce the official results for the Ugliest New Car of 2005. The winner will be the undisputed champ for the next 12 months -- because, after all, ugly is one topic on which Tom and Ray cannot be challenged! Yours in ugly cars and ugly mail, Maury Maille Director of All Things Ugly Car Talk Plaza P.S. Here's this week's Lame Joke Of The Week, courtesy of Jim Gray: A young nun who worked for a local home healthcare agency was out making her rounds when she ran out of gas. As luck would have it there was a gas station just one block away. She walked to the station to borrow a can with enough gas to start the car and drive to the station for a fill up. The attendant regretfully told her that the only gas can he owned had just been loaned out, but if she would care to wait he was sure it would be back shortly. Since the nun was on the way to see a patient she decided not to wait and walked back to her car. After looking through her car for something to carry to the station to fill with gas, she spotted a bedpan she was taking to the patient. Always resourceful, she carried it to the station, filled it with gasoline, and carried it back to her car. As she was pouring the gas into the tank of her car two men watched her from across the street. One of them turned to the other and said, "If that car starts, I'll go to church every Sunday for the rest of my life!" *************** Write Tom and Ray -- Please! Been meaning to write us a witty, genius, evocative, insightful letter? No? All right, 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
