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Article #31Re: SUV JERKS
From: Loren Petrich
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 00:00
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 00:00
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In article <3874064E.BA16786C@acm.org>, <John_David_Galt@acm.org> wrote: >mulders_notpair_noidnuff wrote: >> After yet another run-in with ANOTHER asshole driving an SUV, it makes >> one wonder: is it that assholes buy SUVs or is it that the SUV turns >> those that drive them into assholes? >It's class envy that turns some of those who DON'T drive them into assholes. So that means that if you hate President Clinton, you have political-office envy? Did this speculation about a connection hit a raw nerve somewhere? I suspect that the SUV is the sort of car that a jerk likes to buy, because it is so big and imposing. True, there are places that are worth getting SUV's for driving in, but the large majority of SUV drivers seldom go near such places. -- Loren Petrich Happiness is a fast Macintosh petrich@netcom.com And a fast train My home page: http://www.petrich.com/home.html
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,f6070ece06994f3c X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: fd3ff,f6070ece06994f3c X-Google-Attributes: gidfd3ff,public X-Google-Thread: f59f9,f6070ece06994f3c X-Google-Attributes: gidf59f9,public X-Google-Thread: f824f,f6070ece06994f3c X-Google-Attributes: gidf824f,public X-Google-Thread: 107d03,f6070ece06994f3c X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public X-Google-Thread: 10001a,f6070ece06994f3c X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich) Subject: Re: SUV JERKS Date: 2000/01/07 Message-ID: <854do7$eag$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> X-Deja-AN: 569484751 References: <3873B986.30B3@thetruth.net> <3874064E.BA16786C@acm.org> Organization: NETCOM / MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Newsgroups: la.transportation,la.general,ca.driving,ca.general,ba.transportation,ba.general