Find the redundancy...

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: "Pizza pie" is guaranteed to send me into an apoplectic frothing at the mouth rage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok8x2mX4qac

JoeyM wrote:

Flight Service wrote:

irish44j wrote: my least favorite reduntant phrases: "foreign imported cars"

So what would a Honda Accord, Toyota Camry, Subaru Legacy, Mercedes Benz ML, BMW X5 and VW Jetta be?

Those are "American assembled, partially from imported parts"

Fixed that for you.

for the record: Assembled in Ohio, Indiana, Indiana (same plant as Camry), Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee.

and I would call the Mondeo an Imported Domestic.

I figured that was where you were going, but didn't want to assume. I knew about the first two, though.

JoeyM wrote: Those are "American assembled, partially from imported parts"

So are all "American" cars, then.

Knurled wrote:

JoeyM wrote: Those are "American assembled, partially from imported parts"

So are all "American" cars, then.

Exactly. Foreign companies have created jobs with their factories here.

Buying an a Honda Accord built in Marysville, made out of Mitsui steel from Richfield creates jobs in Ohio. Sure, the keiretsu-nature of a Japanese company buying products from another Japanese company bothers some people, but there's no question that two manufacturers moving into Ohio has been good for their economy.

The same is true for Volkswagon in TN something that they are not afraid to play up.

There are a good number of engineers working for Toyota and Honda, as well.

During the dark days of the auto company fiasco a few years ago, I was at a Detroit Region rallycross event. A good number of their competitors are engineers or otherwise work for GM/Ford/Chrysler in some fashion, and many had doubts as to their continued employment. During the driver's meeting, someone said something about the Big Three. The chair said "Yeah, the American Big Three... that's Honda, Volkswagen, and Toyota, right?"

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/build-projects-and-project-cars/help-with-sbc-chevy/56562/page1/

Flight Service wrote:

JoeyM wrote:

Flight Service wrote:

irish44j wrote: my least favorite reduntant phrases: "foreign imported cars"

So what would a Honda Accord, Toyota Camry, Subaru Legacy, Mercedes Benz ML, BMW X5 and VW Jetta be?

Those are "American assembled, partially from imported parts"

Fixed that for you. for the record: Assembled in Ohio, Indiana, Indiana (same plant as Camry), Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee. and I would call the Mondeo an Imported Domestic.

The Mondeo would be "captive import." I first heard the term working for Mitsubishi about Dodges that were actually Mitsus.

Zomby Woof wrote: Or the hot water heater.

what is wrong with a Hot Water Heater? Something has to heat the water up to make it hot

Yeah, but the Mondeo was a ford overseas, and still would be after importing. I think your "captive import" may only apply to badge engineering (e.g. your mitsubishis being sold as dodges, or mazda pickups being sold as fords)

mad_machine wrote:

Zomby Woof wrote: Or the hot water heater.

what is wrong with a Hot Water Heater? Something has to heat the water up to make it hot

[George Carlin] 'Hot water doesn't need heating.'[/George Carlin]

The IT nerd in me hates when someone says NIC (Network Interface Card) card.

Most American's don't know what a boxer engine is. I see Toybaru as trying to appropriate the term and make people associate it with their product. If you can't make up a term (see Duratech, Infiniti, et al), try and claim someone else's for your own!

In reply to Rusted_Busted_Spit:

I find your screen name a little redundant.

JohnInKansas wrote: In reply to Rusted_Busted_Spit: I find your screen name a little redundant.

thats more than just a little bit..........

I hate "time-schedule". What other kind of (^ common) schedule is there?

It also annoys me when people say supposebly.

JohnInKansas wrote: In reply to Rusted_Busted_Spit: I find your screen name a little redundant.

Well done.

this thread reminds of some funny little shorts i hear on the radio at work every night.. it's called Man Man and Boy Boy... a little background: Man Man was a guy named Bruce Phallus that was bitten by a radioactive body builder and given the testosterone of 100 men, and the brains to match. Boy Boy is his (possibly) gay teenage sidekick.

anyways, one episode had him fighting an arch enemy named "Oxy Moron" and his army of living dead jumbo shrimp...

that is all..

Rusted_Busted_Spit wrote: The IT nerd in me hates when someone says NIC (Network Interface Card) card.

I agree. There are many IT terms that people hack up that irk me.

wvumtnbkr wrote: I hate "time-schedule". What other kind of (^ common) schedule is there?

Payment Schedule?

In reply to JoeyM:

Based on time I believe.

wvumtnbkr wrote: In reply to JoeyM: Based on time I believe.

Time is an illusion. Lunch time, doubly so.

Reality is an illusion..caused by lack of Alcohol.

No one needs a hot water heater they need cold water heaters....

44Dwarf wrote: Reality is an illusion..caused by lack of Alcohol.

....which, in sufficient quantity, should feel similar to being hit in the head with a large gold brick wrapped in a lemon.