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Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:54:45 EDT

@smart42: "...and if my speedo indicates 141kmh..."

Wow, you've got one quick swimsuit...
;-)

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Dr.Danger, I run the Death Star — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:51:21 EDT

Nürburgring with a Veyron!

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Dr.Danger, I run the Death Star — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:20:03 EDT

Hyundai Namyang R&D center in South Korea

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FЯeeMan is slowly cЯawling out of the new commenting system — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:53:52 EDT

My version of Google translates the text on the bottom two arrows as:

Toilet, Male, Female | Jeremy Clarkson.

The measurements are probably the distances to the two most publicly accessible facilities at his estate.

My guess is that Ray's in Blighty interviewing with JC himself to host the American Top Gear!

What do I win???

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crankcase — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:01:44 EDT

Ray's in Korea for the annual kimchee festival?

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smokeydog001 — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:11:54 EDT

Aren't Alex Roy and the Great Leader Kim planning a Cannonball run through the Democratic People's Republic of Korea?

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Ethan Allison — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:02:00 EDT

Busan Auto Show?

[www.autoblog.com]

Ethan Allison

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beercheck — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:59:06 EDT

@charles_barrett: You? On a DO-NOT-PERMIT-ENTRY list? No way.

/notinmybackyard

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smart42 — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:15:56 EDT

@Number_Six

No, really there is some pretty twisted politics in the east,
not interplanetary, but bad folks doing really bad things to their own.

Kinda like New Orleans and Davis Inlet, we don't have to look half way around the world to see how crappy we treat our brothers.

I need a single malt to take that edge off,

I still really like cars, but like people more so forgive me,
I think St Peter will be more interested in the human connection than the hoonin' connection @ the ultimate interview.

Sorry for the buzz kill.

The Korean's will win the F1 drivers and constructors championship in 2010 that is the message.

smart42

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Unevolved — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:13:30 EDT

무슨 괴괴망측한 웹사이트, 예수 그리스도.

Unevolved

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om Bronx de Mowgli — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:12:40 EDT

@Novaload: "Shop smart, shop S!-MART!!!, ya-got-that??"

om Bronx de Mowgli

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Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:05:57 EDT

@Novaload: Actually. I know Babelfish well, but I don't use it unless I have a passing knowledge of the target language (French or Spanish or German for me). Change character sets and all bets are off. Here at Jalopnik we're so global, I'd just make a fool of myself in an unfamiliar alphabet, and end up on some country's DO-NOT-PERMIT-ENTRY list as a result...

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Number_Six — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:52:09 EDT

@Novaload: Calling occupants of interplanetary craft...

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NovaloadMissesPolar — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:50:34 EDT

@charles_barrett: They are hiding this

[world.altavista.com]

Now you can amaze and puzzle all your friends,too!

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NovaloadMissesPolar — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:48:40 EDT

@smart42: Yes--that's why I warned him to stay away--who knows what kind of crappy news Ray is getting--even in S. Korea, not N.--about this. Some of the relief agencies and international help who are not actually in Burma are very cautious about what they say so as not piss off the Burmese Overlord who gets all his strategy from astrologers and is a card-carrying member of "Tyrants Not-So-Anonymous."

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NovaloadMissesPolar — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:45:23 EDT

@Rick Astley: @JUST POLAЯ: You ever try to translate something several times through the translator?

He does that every post, only you won't find the translator on the puny Web of this planet.

"Klaatu barada nikto!"

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smart42 — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:34:08 EDT

@novaload

Burma is so Myanmar. They are not doing well right now. They could use a lot of help.

As a Canadian, I also take exception,

We measure in metric but can still buy a 2 x 4 x 8 piece of lumber, or order a pint of Lager. HOWEVER, should I want 500ml of Grolsch, my local barkeep can oblige, and if my speedo indicates 141kmh the cop knows that is well, too fast and here is your hot foot tax.

We are the true center of the universe and have an average of 5% / vol beer. Oh, and when we crash our buggies @ 141 ish we get sewn up for free.

That looks sooo Korean to me, I love the US highway markers. This can only be a Huyndai- Kia teaser.
My guess; an F1 entry which in season two will beat the prancing horse and BMW and MB. Oh, and Honda and....

smart42

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Turkina — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:33:03 EDT

@smoke~: Do you have the contact info for that plant? My old manager might want to get one of those... Seems like his old dummy wasn't good enough for the HOV lane!
[www.wnbc.com]

Turkina

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icantthinkofone — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:13:33 EDT

glad my sarcasm connected@Pope Dearthair the Awesometh: never, NEVER try to go to post something like that on worldcarfans, the bimmerphiles will rape your corn crop and crucify your children.

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interloper — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:08:28 EDT

The DOTS action should be excellent in terms of sheer randomness, if my 3 months there were any indication. Take, for example, this SSangYong Musso pickup. It's got it all. The lift kit? Check. The huge tires? Mandatory. The dented body panels? Yep. The tinted windows? Of course. The tinted windshield? Why the heck not?
[images30.fotki.com]
[images29.fotki.com]

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DoctorNine makes tires squeal in terror — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:04:05 EDT

To quote Frank Zappa: "Great Googly Moogly!!"

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Solo_Racer — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:03:17 EDT

@69 woodie..wait for it..: Oh, c'mon, we like Corner Gas.

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om Bronx de Mowgli — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:00:32 EDT

I KNOW! Ray is pounding them for a Genesisamino!!!!

fearless leader indeed!

om Bronx de Mowgli

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Number_Six — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:50:00 EDT

@JUST POLAЯ: Canada should just issue one blanket apology for everything and broadcast it yearly on what used to be Simcoe Day.

Number_Six

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Number_Six — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:47:56 EDT

@bzr - Pinko Commie Bastard Edition: The Canadian contingent.

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POLAЯMISSESEVEЯYBODY — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:47:12 EDT

@sliderule: As a Canadian, I think he should apologize, like all good Canadians should, for being offended!

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bzr — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:39:51 EDT

Damn, who says Jalops aren't cultured?

bzr

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sliderule — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:36:34 EDT

@69 woodie..wait for it..: as a Canadian, i find it funny that you are offended.

sliderule

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POLAЯMISSESEVEЯYBODY — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:36:21 EDT

@Rick Astley: Maybe that's how we got today's rambling COTD?!?!

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Pete Gaines — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:30:22 EDT

@Rick Astley: To be fair, ppa lu is a classic car that's hard to beat.

Pete Gaines

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Pete Gaines — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:29:49 EDT

The cool thing about Kim Jong Il is that he just started a car blog today and already it's the heaviest-trafficked blog in the world and he broke like 18 embargoes.

At least that's what I read from KCNA.

Pete Gaines

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Rick Astley — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:27:07 EDT

@JUST POLAЯ: You ever try to translate something several times through the translator? There's this geometric translation break-down that starts off hilarious and quickly moves to nonsensical. Like this:

my car is faster than yours
나의 차는 너의 것보다는 더 빠르다
You whom me, it kicks is quicker the thing than
나가, 그것 걷어차는 너는 더 빠르다 것
It goes out, it it kicks hard and it spreads out and and be quicker,
그것은, 열심히 걷어차는 그것 나간다 밖으로 퍼지고 더 빠르,
It it it kicks hard eagerly spreads out at the outside which goes out, compared to ppa lu,
그것은, 열심히 걷어차는 그것 나간다 밖으로 퍼지고 더 빠르,

Rick Astley

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POLAЯMISSESEVEЯYBODY — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:19:57 EDT

@Rick Astley: I the following person, my him like
Shakespeare who has sexual intercourse greatly!

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Rick Astley — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:13:03 EDT

@JUST POLAЯ: And here I thought you were quoting Shakespeare!

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pitchpitch Type-Я — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:09:02 EDT

@dwegmull:

Me too! I just don't want to be the first one to say it everytime.

pitchpitch Type-Я

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POLAЯMISSESEVEЯYBODY — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:06:34 EDT

@charles_barrett: Everyone love what is said is found, from Uncle Charles!
;)

@Number_Six: Order your box respirator today!

@Starlton Heston, Gushing post-mother: I possess many love for the rectum of my uncle!

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om Bronx de Mowgli — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:51:54 EDT

@JUST POLAЯ: So... wow Uncle Fucker in Korean... even better when translated back, and I quote:
"Close the face uncle fool who you is severe.
You the donkey the cocking which licks suck the uncle fool and.
In compliance with you the uncle fool, like that it truth grudge, you
anyone it has sexual intercourse positively together is the uncle.
Close the face uncle fool who you is severe.
You are the thing flesh which has sexual intercourse you uncle and the uncle fool.
You do not eat the grass field and you do not sleep and you do not mow.
You the sexual intercourse which is legitimate all day long you uncle!"

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Number_Six — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:50:16 EDT

@JUST POLAЯ: I know. Hehe.

Number_Six

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Number_Six — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:42:16 EDT

@charles_barrett: Nah, I am a whitey who speaks some Korean and they just use me as a dancing bear.

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Number_Six — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:41:28 EDT

Oh, or driving a Genesis Coupe.

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skyln95 — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:40:54 EDT

that is korean writing. i can't read it, but i know it's korean. hyundai?

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Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:39:26 EDT

@JUST POLAЯ:
@Rick Astley:
Yikes...! I can barely manage to comment coherently in English, and you guys are flinging up Asian characters left and right... I guess I deserve to be outsourced to another continent...!

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NovaloadMissesPolar — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:36:02 EDT

I can't believe you have disclosed Ray's secret identity?! Traitors! How is he going to --uh, do what he is supposed to do as a friendly harmless tourist if you guys are blowing his cover?!

Oh, and Ray? Skip Burma.

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Deartháir and his eight little drained beers — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:33:36 EDT

@69 woodie..wait for it..: ME TOO.

Okay, not really.

Personally, I find it funnier that the only place I've ever heard the stereotype Canadian "bob and doug" accent was in Toronto... which is sure as hell not part of Canada.

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om Bronx de Mowgli — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:32:22 EDT

@JUST POLAЯ:

om Bronx de Mowgli

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Number_Six — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:30:45 EDT

@JUST POLAЯ: 시끄럽다

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Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:30:10 EDT

Well, it's a bit presumptious, but I suppose if Matt Lauer on NBC can pull this kind of stunt during May ratings sweeps, why not our very own beloved auto pundit Ray Wert. Time to start a new drinking game... (*hiccup*)

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Rick Astley — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:29:14 EDT

서당개 삼 년에 풍월 읊는다.

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Number_Six — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:28:50 EDT

He's on the highway out of Incheon Airport, possibly heading for the Korean Women Inventors' Convention, Buddha's Birthday Lotus Lantern Festival, the 10th annual Hampyeong World Butterfly & Insect Expo, Boryeong Tea Festival. Could also be going to try out a Hyundai with Sync installed.

Hopefully he just gets bombed on makkoli.

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POLAЯMISSESEVEЯYBODY — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:23:14 EDT

당신의 지독한 얼굴 삼촌 멍청이를 닫으십시오.
당신은 삼촌 멍청이를 당나귀 핥는 격발준비작용 빠는 이다.
당신에 의하여 삼촌 멍청이, 그렇습니다 그것의 진실한, 아무도
확실히 성교한다 당신 같이 삼촌이이다.
당신의 지독한 얼굴 삼촌 멍청이를 닫으십시오.
당신은 당신의 삼촌을 성교한 것 살, 삼촌 멍청이이다.
당신은 잔디밭을 먹지 않거나 자지 않거나 채초하지 않는다.
당신 정당한 성교 하루종일 당신의 삼촌!
............V.............

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Rick Astley — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:21:12 EDT

Where, where the Hell is Wert?
Where, where the Hell is Wert?
Where, where the Hell is Wert?
Where, where the Hell is Wert?
Well, maybe he went to get a sideways haircut
Maybe he went to get a striped shirt
Maybe he went to get some plastic shoes
Maybe he went to get some funny sunglasses
Well, maybe he went to get an Air Force parka
Maybe he went to get a Vespa scooter
Maybe he went to get a British flag
Maybe he went to go Mod Ska dancing
Well, maybe he went to get a mohawk
And maybe he went to get some gnarly thrash boots
Maybe he went to go ride his skateboard
Maybe he went to see the Circle Jerks

Rick Astley

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icantthinkofone — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:10:01 EDT

@SmaartAasSaabr:
not funny.
As a Canadian, i am seriously offended.

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SmaartAasSaabr — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:58:15 EDT

@smalleyxb122: WETIN DEY MUMU MUGU YAHOO YAHOO SMALL BOI NO FIT PUSH TRUCK

SmaartAasSaabr

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smalleyxb122 — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:55:51 EDT

Windsor, Ontario.

But I can't seem to make out the Canadian gibberish.

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smokeydog001 — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:52:21 EDT

He's off to Pyongyang to tour the Great Leader's new HOV Lane auto accessory plant.

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Mike the Dog — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:50:16 EDT

@DoctorNine: Thanks for the map. Looks like I guessed right...

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57sweptside — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:46:46 EDT

There are no Interstate 50 or 100 in the United States, and 15 is a west coast line, while 1 is in Hawaii.

South Korean signs have an interesting wrinkle. They have the color scheme of the later, modified U.S. interstate highway signs, with the top quarter (or so) red and the bottom three-quarters blue.

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Schm, lord of Torques! — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:43:14 EDT

Korea. Ray is getting a little Genesis Coupe/Genesis hooning action.

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DoctorNine makes tires squeal in terror — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:35:49 EDT

See:

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dwegmull — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:34:38 EDT

What I really want to know is which car Wert drove to his high school reunion...

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DoctorNine makes tires squeal in terror — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:34:24 EDT

Has to be Seoul, that's the only place those roads are close to one another.

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dck47 — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:33:45 EDT

Korea for the Hyundai Genesis launch.

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Mike the Dog — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:31:00 EDT

@Mike the Dog: Unless, of course, someone monkeyed with the phone # in photoshop (as the missing parenthesis would suggest...).

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Mike the Dog — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:27:05 EDT

Well, it's almost certainly Korean. The US style route signs point to somewhere in Cali, but the metric distances suggest otherwise. The phone number in the lower left starts with a 0, so that pretty much say it's not in the US. I'm guessing Seoul, S. Korea. It IS just about time for the Seoul Auto Show, isn't it? Update: research says no, Seoul Motor Show is every other year. Dang. I still say seoul, though.

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Ω ß®ªғғ — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:16:12 EDT

He is Los Angeles, Korea getting ready to take the Korean PCH up to Korean San Francisco?

Ω ß®ªғғ

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Mikeee — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:14:20 EDT

Looks kinda like Korean to me.
And the bottom two arrows have the same text?? (except for the distance)

Mikeee