Friday, April 6, 2007
A Fresh Idea
I think that a cool way to promote literacy amongst the American public would be for automobile manufacturers to start naming cars after punctuation and grammar terms. Can you imagine the "All New 2008 Metaphor" (probably a SUV) or how about the "utilitarian, yet sporty Comma." Or the affordable, yet luxurious sedan, the Simile" A word of caution however to the manufacturers, don't use period, that would be dumb, no one would buy a car named the Period.
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Hee. How about the "sleekly smooth, fully-equipped luxury Colon." Along with the two-door, hatchback version, the Semi-Colon.
Wow, that is good. i love that idea..but probably no one would buy that one either...
The Exclamation seems a bit too obvious.
hmmm, i don't know why The Exclaimation would be too obvious, it may lack the understated elegance of The Ampersand, and maybe it does not have the spunky sportiness of The Asterisk, but I think it does ok for itself, kinda like the Acclaim.
I would totally buy a car called The Ampersand. Perhaps there could be a hybrid car called The Gerund for casually tooling about town? And an adorable putt putt of a car called The Ellipsis, except it would probably be sort of a lemon, like the Fiat, and would constantly break down.
Yes, The Ampersand... i am sure would be a cool car. I think i would buy The Parentheses though. and i don't even know what it looks like!
brilliant ideas all . . . but being environmentally inclined, i would go for Sweden's efficient, understated city car, the Umlaut.
oh, forget The Parentheses, i will buy The Umlaut!
How about Mexico's answer to the Yugo: the Tilda
sassmaster, you are so multi-cultural! i don't even know what a Tilda is!
I think this is a brilliant idea! I see a Lamborghini knock-off called the Italix. A spunky Golf-esque vehicle could be called The Dash. Might a hybrid also be known as the Honda Hyphen?
There was an ephemera association in Mpls known as "Ampersand." I wanted to be them, but I didn't have the Benjamins it took to purchase rare broadsides and antique vellum bookmarks. Someday...
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