The cartalk.com TIME KILL WEEKLY Special "Have We Been Duped?" Edition ______________________________________________ Killing Time, Unencumbered by the Work Process ______________________________________________ Maury Maille, Editor What's new at Car Talk Plaza?
Our esteemed producer, Dougie Berman, is on vacation, that's what -- and not just to the Catskills, either. He's off to China, Japan, or any other locale where he won't find our lousy show polluting the airwaves! What's that mean for us? Well, for starters, Tom's off his cocktail of anti-rant-and-rave meds. Which has led him to ponder our current fuel crisis, our infatuation with humungous vehicles, and what the heck we can do about it. Or, in Tommy's subtle style, "This business of consuming millions of barrels of oil has got to stop. Who the heck do we think we are? We have been duped. And now we shall get even!" You can read Tom's rant right here: http://www.cartalk.com/content/rant/whatnow1105/index.html Do you agree? Or, do you think he's got his taillights up his muffler? Read his rant, and then tell us what you think. We'll pass your ideas right on to Tommy. Ever feel like kicking Tom and Ray over the goal post? We understand -- and now we can help. At least we can supply the uniforms: our new Car Talk Football Jerseys. They're exactly like the ones in the big leagues -- except your name's not on the back, you don't have a number or any adoring fans... and you're not hauling in a cool two mil each year. Our Car Talk Football Jersey does, however, say that you're on the same team as our self-professed Philosopher King and his brother, the Chief Puzzler Obfuscator. You can check out the official Car Talk Football Jersey by clicking on our Shameless Commerce Division anytime, at http://www.cartalk.com While you're there, check out our new double CD set, "The Best and Second Best of Car Talk." It's got some of our all-time favorite calls, including "Max and the Schnauzer," "The Toll Gate Fugitive," and Tom and Ray reading the now-infamous, "Vowels for Bosnia." Kerchunk, kerchunk, kerchunk... wooowoooowoooowooo... glugaglugaglugaglugaglug... Got a noise emanating from your car? Want to match it against Tom and Ray's dubious noisemaking talents? We've got just the ticket-- our new Car Talk Noise Emporium at http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/Noises/ Just click on the part of the car that's making the noise, and hear Tom and Ray run through the noisy possibilities. Pretty cool, eh? (Not to mention, also very silly.) Back to making sure Tommy's swallowing his anti-rant meds, Maury Maille Chief Car Noise Imitator Car Talk Plaza P.S. Here's this week's Lame Joke of The Week, courtesy of Jay Doraiswami: A man dies and finds himself in a small room furnished with a couch and TV. There's another guy sitting on the couch, watching the screen. "So, is this heaven or hell?" he asks the guy on the couch. "Well, there are no windows or doors, and no apparent way out," the man answers. "So it's hell?" "I don't know," says the other guy, without looking up. "They did give us this nice big TV." "So maybe it's heaven." "Maybe, but it has only one channel," the man counters. "Oh, so maybe it's hell?" "Well, the station it gets is pretty good - it's PBS." "So maybe this is heaven after all?" "Yeah, except for one thing," the other guy says sadly. "It's always pledge week." ************************ Write Tom and Ray -- Please! Been meaning to write us a witty, brilliant, evocative, insightful letter? No? All right, forget brilliant 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: How to Get a Free Car Talk CD or Booklet Tired of paying auto club dues to an outfit that lobbies against environmental causes? Check out Better World Club--and in the process get a Car Talk CD or booklet for free! Better World is an auto club with genuinely decent values-- unlike some others we could name... whose initials just happen to be AAA. Better World Club cares about-- *Your environmental interests -- it gives 1% of its revenue to environmental clean up and advocacy. *Your consumer interests -- it even offers discounts on hybrid rental cars. *And it has 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 now, you'll get a free Car Talk CD, or a copy of our booklet, 10 Ways You May Be Ruining Your Car without Even Knowing It. Check out Better World Club 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
