Remember when you first started forming opinions about cars? When you were just worldly enough to be dangerous? We remember thinking we were absolute geniuses when we decided attaching generators to all the turning shafts of a car would create a self sustaining electric car. Or when we thought more spoilers meant higher speeds (some never get over that one). Well Cracked has amusingly recaptured that moment in time with a piece titled "Automobile Facts, By Kevin D. (Age 7)" and we admire their ability to adopt that imagination which made being a child car dork fun.
Facts About Cars, By Kevin
11:45 AM on Wed Feb 13 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
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Oh, that's just plain disturbing. The iron lung part anyway.
"Automobiles can be most any color-expect invisible and orange."
YEAH! Take that Challenger!
"Automobiles can be most any color-expect invisible and orange."
"Some automobiles have a manual gearshift, which means women can't use them unless they're really anxious to get somewhere. Or WWII's happening, which means women can do almost anything."
Heh, that's pretty funny for Cracked...
When I was at primary school in the 80s kids thought that having a fuel injected engine made cars loads faster. If we saw an Escort cabriolet with Injection written down the sides we thought it must be an amazing car.
Darn, and I really wanted my next car to be invisible orange, too.
@Dr.Danger: COTD!
I did not know Cracked still existed until now.
It's obvious that little Kevin has not been give "the speech"; you know, about the birds and the bees, and the cars and the dragons.
That's... kind of messed up.
But, daddy, if you have so many maids, why is the house always so dirty?
I think Kevin works for GM... I wonder if he took his buyout option?
"Automobiles can be most any color except invisible and orange." That's awesome! Except I think the Yaris always comes in "invisible".
That was truly not funny. Almost every line that attempted humor was something that has already been done to death. The few parts that were actually like the observations of a seven year old were not enough to pull it off, and how many of those can you have before the gag is up anyway.
Contrast it to the very amusing article in the Onion a few days back about GM's new line of lay-offs.
Cracked only came back a few years ago. It's still gay.
you guys are linking to cracked.com? that's not even trying anymore.
@mzs: Not enough GM cheap shots for ya eh
@TPSreports: If by "gay" you mean "lame", I would suggest you check your thesaurus for a better choice of adjective.
@TPSreports: If you mean "gay" as in the orientation of Gawker Media's founder, then nevermind...
First, if this is an 8 year old, this post is disturbing. If it isn't, then Cracked is disturbing. In fact, this whole post is disturbing.
Yeah. Not funny. Not offensive, just not funny.
"(Ford Mustang is what he calls his penis.)"
well said, young man, well said.
At least they are providing a service by running that annoying T-shirt ad.
When I was a kid, I thought my 3rd grade teacher's Pontiac Grand Prix was the coolest car in the world.
Then my mulleted best friend showed up on the last day of school in his father's Kenworth tractor...and my world was fractured.
Also, my 3rd grade teacher was HOT.
It took me a second to catch onto the bit about the maids. I thought that was kinda funny. But the rest of it was kind of how remember Cracked from the 1970's. A much less clever version of Mad.
@savethevipers: funny, cause "penis" is usually what I call people in Ford Mustangs
I just cringed reading that, don't get me wrong, I enjoy humour like that but that was just recycled jokes over and over.
Better off reading Rob Hamburger and Real Ultimate Power. Even if it does have nothing to do with cars.
I don't think I even read half of that; it was shite.
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