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Best Article Outta The SUN EVA!!
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 5:27 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Slang crosses up GM
By MARYANNA LEWYCKYJ, TORONTO SUN
It's game over for the Buick LaCrosse in Canada. A General Motors executive yesterday admitted that the future Buick model -- which is set to debut late next year -- will be re-named in Canada after GM learned LaCrosse is a Quebec slang term for masturbation.
The new mid-size sedan, which will replace the Buick Regal, will still go by the name LaCrosse in the U.S.
GM vice-chairman Bob Lutz, who was in Toronto yesterday to address a gathering of GM dealers, said he wasn't aware of LaCrosse's racy roots although he speaks French and spent three years living in Paris.
"I thought I knew every expression existing in the French language for self-gratification, including the crudest ones known to man," said the outspoken Lutz.
He told journalists the proposed name for the new Buick has caused "a slight problem with your francophone fellow Canadians."
This isn't GM's first name snafu. Sales of the popular Chevy Nova stalled when the vehicle was shipped to Spanish-language countries, where "Nova" translated to "doesn't run."
Makes ya wonder what your car name means else-where in the world.
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 8:36 pm
by [PX] Nebuchadnezzar
Honda in Portugese means "Penile Compensator"
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 9:35 pm
by Ghost [PX]
I'd say somthing witty, but I just dont care...
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 4:32 am
by [Fallen]Thanatos
I could also say something but i have too much respect for Dempsey that i couldnt bring myself to it.
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 6:16 am
by [PX] Nebuchadnezzar
well yeah, but look at how tall Mike is, I'm sure he has no problems "down there", and he's dutch too, that help out abit
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 9:46 am
by Tempus
i think talking about dempsey's whatever is a zone i am not comfortable to travel.... perhaps n3b enjoys the male fallic things
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:52 am
by Ghost [PX]
You spelled phallic wrong....
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 2:31 pm
by [PX]IronFist
Since when did you become the spelling Nazi Ghost?
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 3:17 pm
by Dempsey
I thank you all for holding back and Nik should definetly get a honda
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 3:23 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
I thank you all for holding back and Nik should definetly get a honda
.............lmao..............just lmao.
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 3:25 pm
by Dempsey
Well he should know better than to make such a comment, being the room mate of a proud honda owner
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 3:28 pm
by [PX]IronFist
Doesn't Nik already want a Honda? I think that he was making fun of himself in the post as well.
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 3:29 pm
by Dempsey
Beemer. That's what he's working on
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 4:33 pm
by Ghost [PX]
I just felt the need to point out the error of the spelling of phallic. It also gave me an excuse to spell phallic in a post.
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 4:52 pm
by [PX] Nebuchadnezzar
BMW baby! 80's retro charm.