The auto parts stores dotting America provide an important service. Sure, you could just buy parts online, but when you need parts now, sometimes the parts store is your only choice. Well, that is, unless you have a weird car.
Jason wrote about the progress of his wonderful Citroën 2CV. Flyingstitch:
…and I need to fix my CV boots.
This could make for a great “who’s on first” conversation at the parts counter.
“I need 2 CV boots.”
“Sure, make and model?”
“Yes.”
That reminds me of the joke where someone asks a parts counter for a gas cap for a Yugo, and the person behind the counter calls it a good trade.
Collegiate Autodidact:
Apropos of which, I’ve posted this more than once here and elsewhere, around the turn of the century (!!) there would sometimes be some confusion, with wrong parts having to be returned and exchanged, because people would ask for a part for their “’90 Ford F150” or their “’94 F150” where the parts counter clerk would hear one as the other. Because the F150 went through a substantial generation change in 1992 with many parts not being interchangeable people ended up with ’94 parts for their ’90 and vice versa where the parts wouldn’t work, lol.
I wrote about how Delaware is hanging boat fenders from steel beams to warn truckers about low bridges ahead. Dan Roth says that while the boat parts are marketed as fenders, they aren’t:
Those are mooring buoys, not fenders.
Bags:
Are they moor or less the same thing?
Always good when we can get some pier review on these articles.
IRegretNothing, Esq, DVM, BBQ:
I harbor ill feelings towards pun threads.
10001010:
Oh buoy, here we go.
Twobox Designgineer:
I’m getting a sinking feeling about this.
Bags:
That’s not a stern enough warning to stop.
IRegretNothing, Esq, DVM, BBQ:
You mean knot a stern enough warning.
Highland Green Miata:
Take a bow.
Jay Vette:
That’s a hull of a good joke.
Hugh Crawford:
Well at least they aren’t Gibsons.
Finally, George Danvers:
It took some big balls to solve this problem.
Have a great evening, everyone!
Topshot graphic image: Jason Torchinsky
“My celebrity crush is Beyonce.”
“Well, whatever floats your boat.”
“No, that’s buoyancy”
Golly gee, mighty honored to get a mention in the COTD post especially since it does get a little lost amidst the serious competition from all those puns in the comments on the post about the boat fenders. In fact I enjoyed that pun thread so much it never even crossed my mind to post the Cary Grant “get out” scene from His Girl Friday 🙂 Yeah, the more people added to that thread and the more people got a kick out of it it became a case of a rising…thread lifting all boats, one could say.
Thanks Mercedes. And thanks to all those that helped keep that thread afloat.
Oh a COTD, I of course would like to thank my family, and all the other people who made this possible.
You know of course that 2CV is pronounced deux chevaux,
Americans are barely literate in their own language. You’re expecting quite a bit out of even a bunch of car enthusiasts to know the proper pronunciation, as its creators intended.
Not to mention spelling.
Or as deux cé vé, I would think. That’s the way it always runs in my head.
Oh a COTD, I of course would like to thank my family, and all the other people who made this possible.
You know of course that 2CV is pronounced “Deux Chevaux”, just like OS X is officially pronounced “Oh Es Ten”.and X is pronounced “Twitter”
Isn’t X pronounced “distortionshatredandbeautytips”?
Puns aside, it is a clever way to try to stop vehicles from hitting the bridge. I can appreciate a solution that uses something in a new way and also gives me a chance to make more nutsack jokes.
I’d like to see one run as a Newton’s Cradle.
I’ll be honest, I’m just here for the pun threads 🙂
This is no laughing matter!
You could say, it’s punishment.
Don’t get us punted, now!