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    Kurt Vonnegut: “A Saab Could Drag A VW At A Stoplight”

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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    11/02/09

    In reply to Kurt Vonnegut: “A Saab Could Drag A VW At A Stoplight”
    I heard he always had a problem with Ice-9 gumming up the carburetors. #saab
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    Image of PHIL PHIL
    10/30/09

    In reply to Kurt Vonnegut: “A Saab Could Drag A VW At A Stoplight”
    "....and tell the person that wrote this book report on Kurt Vonnegut that he does'nt know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut..."

    Hey Vonnegut!.....I'm stopping payment on the check! #saab
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    Alfisted promoted this comment PHIL was starred PHIL was unstarred
    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    10/30/09

    @PHIL: You're a melon! #saab
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    Image of PHIL PHIL
    10/30/09

    @Alfisted: I know you!

    You're Tall &Fat! You make those obnoxious commercials!

    Yeah? Well your short and ugly.....gimme back my pen. #saab
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    10/30/09

    @PHIL: Let's stop before you're tempted to show us your Klimt. #saab
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    Image of BlueBeard BlueBeard
    10/30/09

    @Alfisted: You're an english major? Maybe you can help me straighten out my Longfellow. #saab
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    Image of PHIL PHIL
    10/30/09

    @BlueBeard:

    Now thats what I call marine biology! #saab
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    scroggzilla raids again promoted this comment PHIL was starred PHIL was unstarred
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    10/30/09

    @PHIL: And just remember, the best thing about kids... is making them! #saab
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    Image of PHIL PHIL
    10/30/09

    @scroggzilla raids again:

    Whats a hot tub without bubbles?

    Bubbles! Get in here #saab
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    Image of Ralph Wiley Is Poised Ralph Wiley Is Poised
    10/30/09

    In reply to Kurt Vonnegut: “A Saab Could Drag A VW At A Stoplight”
    Vonnegut. SAAB. And slow it goes. #saab
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    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    10/30/09

    @Ralph Wiley Is Poised: Comment of the day! Comment of the day! #saab
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    10/30/09

    @Peter Orosz: Seconded. #saab
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    10/30/09

    In reply to Kurt Vonnegut: “A Saab Could Drag A VW At A Stoplight”
    Later Vonnegut dabbled in product planning for SAAB. Explains everything.

    Thanks for bringing this to our attention. #saab
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    Image of oldgraygeek oldgraygeek
    10/30/09

    In reply to Kurt Vonnegut: “A Saab Could Drag A VW At A Stoplight”
    The other problem with the two-cycle Saabs was that, being piston-port engines, there was never a complete seal keeping air out of the crankcase.
    Leave one parked for a month or so, and the air would work its way through the film of oil on its ball-bearing crankshaft. Rust would form, and that motor's life would be shortened to about a week of normal use.

    We used to make good money starting up and driving Saabs for people who were out of town for the winter... #saab
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    Image of Bret Bret
    10/30/09

    In reply to Kurt Vonnegut: “A Saab Could Drag A VW At A Stoplight”

    Being affiliated with Saabs explains a great deal about Kurt Vonnegut. I have been afflicted by a Saab for about 7 years. Perhaps that explains a great deal about me. #saab
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    10/30/09

    @Bret: So that would be a portrait of the typical Saab owner? #saab
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    10/30/09

    In reply to Kurt Vonnegut: “A Saab Could Drag A VW At A Stoplight”
    Kurt Vonnegut. Say it out loud, a couple of times. Vonnegut. You can't tell for sure if it's a foreign swear word, or a delicacy. Maybe it's a bit of both, something no sane man would eat but somewhere in the way back when, some poor bastard named Bjorn was pretty damned hungry in the dim end of the Arctic winter, and all he had left was whatever had gone into the slops bucket. And Mrs. Bjorn had added potatoes and seaweed and they had dinner. And it wasn't too bad, once you got past the fact of where it had all started, with Mrs. Bjorn digging in the slops bucket right before cooking. So they did it again, and eventually their grandkid, some little Bjornson grown to be a fine, handsome restaurateur had remembered that wonderful, esoteric dish from Grandmama's table, a taste delight you just couldn't get anywhere else. You couldn't get it anywhere else because it was cooked garbage, but he didn't know that. All he knew was, it was delicious.

    SAAB means Svenska Aeroplan something something. It's a mouthful. A mouthful like a big steaming bite of hot cooked Vonnegut. If you worked there every day, you'd say SAAB too. Otherwise you'd be so tired from saying the name over and over answering the phone, you'd drop dead of terminal mouth fatigue before lunch.

    Vonnegut. SAAB. Two names just meant for each other.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    10/30/09

    In reply to Kurt Vonnegut: “A Saab Could Drag A VW At A Stoplight”
    In my junior-year english honors class, we had to read 1984, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Brave New World, Slaughter House Five, and Breakfast of Champions back to back.

    I have since come to hate the works of Orwell, Kesey, Huxley, and especially Vonnegut (I hated Slaughter House Five). #saab
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    Image of tekamul tekamul
    10/30/09

    @pauljones: I read Slapstick over the course of a week when I had the flu my sophomore year.
    NyQuil should be a required supplement when reading Vonnegut #saab
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    10/30/09

    @pauljones: That's a shame. But I feel the same way about most 18th and 19th century English poetry. Caught a lucky beak there. #saab
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    Image of dedgsus dedgsus
    10/30/09

    @pauljones:
    You got off easy... my junior honors English class included such literary greats as The Scarlet Letter and The Grapes of Wrath. #saab
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    pauljones promoted this comment dedgsus was starred dedgsus was unstarred
    Image of pauljones pauljones
    10/30/09

    @dedgsus: The Scarlet Letter was a drag, if only because there was too much descriptive language. I lived The Grapes of Wrath, though; it was the only reprieve I had while reading Salinger's Catcher In the Rye.

    Add Salinger's name to the list of authors I don't like anymore. #saab
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    Image of Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master
    10/30/09

    In reply to Kurt Vonnegut: “A Saab Could Drag A VW At A Stoplight”
    Not long ago a lady drove by our house and stopped. She went to the front of her minivan and produced--surprisingly to both her and to us--a small gray kitten, no more than three weeks old. My wife and I took care of the cat for a week before finding it a nice home with one of her coworkers.

    In the mid-70s my parents had a similar incident with their own cat, who they pulled from the front part of the engine compartment, just inches from the belt array, after driving several miles. For the rest of that cat's 17 years, it was deathly afraid of ceiling fans.

    My point in all this was...um...something about the SAAB device resembling both a Cat's Cradle and a Slaughterhouse. #saab
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    Image of IH_kumicho IH_kumicho
    10/30/09

    @Ash78 ain't got time to bleed: My grandparents have had barn cats for years, and they'd love to sleep on the toasty warm engine blocks. One black cat in particular was named "Stubby" due to an unfortunate contact between his tail and one of the moving engine parts... #saab
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    Image of Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon
    10/30/09

    @IH_kumicho: Thanks Captain Oblivious. #saab
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    Image of Racin_G73 - dirt track legend (some day ... maybe) Racin_G73 - dirt track legend (some day ... maybe)
    10/30/09

    @Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon: Sometimes I wish there was an opposite-of-heart-clickey.... #saab
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    Image of tempesjo tempesjo
    10/30/09

    @Racin_G73 - dirt track legend (some day ... maybe): I'll give you a click for that, though. There's no need to rip on somebody for sharing a harmless personal car-related story. #saab
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    Image of Racin_G73 - dirt track legend (some day ... maybe) Racin_G73 - dirt track legend (some day ... maybe)
    10/30/09

    @tempesjo: Likewise, I'm sure! #saab
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    10/30/09

    In reply to Kurt Vonnegut: “A Saab Could Drag A VW At A Stoplight”
    The idea of an automotive smokescreen appeals to me. Maybe I should shop for diesel Benzes.

    Probably not. One old, slow Euro four-door is enough. #saab
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    Image of KTown_WhiteBoy KTown_WhiteBoy
    10/30/09

    @MushyHeirloom: Seafoam in a vacuum hose works just as well, and you can pick and choose when to do it. I blanketed my entire suburban neighborhood one night.

    The neighbors think we're really weird, and I tend to agree with them. #saab
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    10/30/09

    @MushyHeirloom: Introducing diesel into the exhaust pipe is also supposed to work pretty well. Might gum up your Cat, so I'd pipe it in after that. But you'll need enough heat for it to smolder and smoke, so YMMV. #saab
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    Image of Armand Armand
    10/30/09

    @MushyHeirloom: A Mercedes 240D will make a Volvo 240DL feel like a goddamn rocketship. #saab
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    Image of Tomsk sez so long Ash78, and thanks for all the fish! Tomsk sez so long Ash78, and thanks for all the fish!
    10/30/09

    @Armand: Damn straight, particularly if the 240D in question is an automatic.
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    Edited by Tomsk sez so long Ash78, and thanks for all the fish! at 10/30/09 2:18 PM Tomsk sez so long Ash78, and thanks for all the fish! was starred Tomsk sez so long Ash78, and thanks for all the fish! was unstarred
    Image of ummagumma82 ummagumma82
    10/30/09

    @KTown_WhiteBoy: I can definitely vouch for Seafoam. My next-door neighbor's 2-story house became COMPLETELY engulfed in smoke, all the way up to the roof. I felt kinda bad about that.

    I still don't understand how enough gunk can accumulate to create such an amazing amount of smoke.. It really must be seen to be believed. #saab
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    10/30/09

    @ummagumma82: Hmm, it does need a good Seafoaming eventually, I forgot about that smoking possibility... #saab
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    10/30/09

    @Armand: The L makes about 40 horsepower by itself. #saab
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    10/30/09


    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Gum up your cat??? #saab
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    10/31/09

    @HoonThatFerrari: Exactly. #saab
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    Image of Thomas Paladino Thomas Paladino
    10/30/09

    In reply to Kurt Vonnegut: “A Saab Could Drag A VW At A Stoplight”
    Excellent (but brief) read! Wish it was longer, much like the Swede's must wish of their dicks. #saab
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    10/30/09

    @Thomas Paladino: I gotta tell you, I'm Swedish.

    The rest of the description doesn't apply. #saab
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    Image of BlueToast BlueToast
    10/30/09

    @Elhigh: You didn't think it was an "Excellent (but brief) read!"? #saab
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    10/30/09

    @BlueToast: From his perspective, it may have been a long read. #saab
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    10/30/09

    In reply to Kurt Vonnegut: “A Saab Could Drag A VW At A Stoplight”
    "Swedes have short dicks but long memories."

    Listen: Automotive journalism could use a few Kurt Vonneguts. #saab
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    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    10/30/09

    @Alfisted: He is my hero. #saab
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    10/29/09

    In reply to Traffic Barrel Monster Spotted In Michigan
    At least the traffic barrels won't be in short supply. #trafficbarrelmonster
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    Image of Cheeseslap Cheeseslap
    10/29/09

    In reply to Traffic Barrel Monster Spotted In Michigan
    Needs more doobie. #trafficbarrelmonster
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    Scandinavian Flick promoted this comment Cheeseslap was starred Cheeseslap was unstarred
    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    10/29/09

    @Cheeseslap: He smokes only the finest road flares.
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    Image of Cheeseslap Cheeseslap
    10/29/09

    @Scandinavian Flick: He first passed the robot to Dave Chappelle. When it rains, the drops courteously fall next to him, but never on him. Drivers alert HIM to poor road conditions. He is...The Most Interesting Barrel Man in the World! #trafficbarrelmonster
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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    10/29/09

    In reply to Traffic Barrel Monster Spotted In Michigan

    I was trying to find a hieroglyphic image of this, but this picture is so much better anyway... #trafficbarrelmonster
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