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From: Ray O on 8 Dec 2009 16:27

"Jeff Strickland" <crwlrjeff(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
<snipped>
>>
>> I'm waiting to hear the next OnStar commercial with celebrity
>> endorsements, or Saturday Night Live could have some fun with it ;-)
>> --
>
>
> Did you see SNL over the weekend with Blake Lively playing Elin while they
> used a regular cast member to play Tiger? It was pretty funny. He wanted
> to make a statement to the media while Blake was standing nearby. He held
> up a paper with his statement on it with HELP ME printed on the side we
> could see. He said, "I've made some mistakes ... " and Blake raised her
> eyebrows as if to say, "that's an understatement."
>
> Sadly, Rhianna was the musical guest on the show, and the Domestic
> Violence Crowd is up in arms that the skit is in poor taste.
>
>

At the risk of coming across like the fuddy duddy that I am...

30 years ago, I used to watch SNL weekly, and after a while, it didn't seem
so funny, so I watched it less often. I turn it on about once a year now,
and now all it seems to do is confirm that I've gotten out of touch with the
current crop of glitterati, celebrities, and "musical" artists because I
don't know who most of the guest hosts or musical guests are, what their
claim to fame is, or what kind of talent they are supposed to have. My
attention span must have gotten even shorter, because it seems like the
skits are too long and continue past the punch line.

Special interest and PC groups have waaaay to much influence these days.
Comedians are not allowed to be funny any more because most jokes come at
the expense of some thin-skinned special interest group.
--

Ray O
(correct punctuation to reply)


From: Tom on 8 Dec 2009 17:22


"badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Jeff Strickland wrote:
>
>>
>>"badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:xn0ginphx5iusos001(a)reader.albasani.net...
>>>Jeff Strickland wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>"badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:xn0ginhpp58b36s000(a)reader.albasani.net...
>>>>>"Woods' wife, Elin, has told police that she used a golf club to
>>>>>smash the back windows of the Cadillac Escalade to help her
>>>>>husband out."
>>>>>
>>>>>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091208/ap_on_sp_go_ne/glf_tiger_woods
>>>>>
>>>>>-------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Putting aside all the titillating conversations and innuendos
>>>>>about Tiger Woods and his personal life I would like to broach
>>>>>a different subject related to him.
>>>>>
>>>>>Taking the news report at face value, in the above statement
>>>>>Woods' wife reportedly used a golf club to break the window so
>>>>>she could gain access to her unconscious husband following his
>>>>>wreck. Obviously this GM vehicle has the automatic locks that
>>>>>engage when the transmission is taken out of Park and locks all
>>>>>the doors. I have always hated this "safety feature" and
>>>>>frankly find it to be more unsafe than safe. This incident is
>>>>>a perfect example of what can happen if someone has a wreck and
>>>>>is incapacitated to the point where they cannot get out on
>>>>>their own accord. Any bystanders who try to help cannot open
>>>>>the door and must find an object to smash safety glass to gain
>>>>>access. That wastes valuable time and is not that easy to do
>>>>>anyway.
>>>>>
>>>>>Just as most other good intentions imposed upon the general
>>>>>public this is one with unintended consequences that I think
>>>>>she be re-examined.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Any door that locks automatically can unlock the same way. My car
>>>>-- a 1994 model -- unlocks the doors, turns off the radio and
>>>>turns on the flashers all by itself. Surely a new Cadillac can do
>>>>the same, at a bare minimum.
>>>
>>>I had a 1994 Camry; it did not do the things you say.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>My '94 isn't a Toyota, but it's as luxury of a car that the Escalade
>>is today.
>
>
> So only people who can afford luxury cars are worthy of safety features
> such as you describe?
>
>if a door is locked manually or automatically you still cant open it from
>the outside dosnt make any difference

From: badgolferman on 8 Dec 2009 17:24
Jeff Strickland, 12/8/2009,3:06:39 PM, wrote:

> How long it takes for this stuff to become mainstream and provided to
> the masses is a fact of life. Electric windows and door locks was
> once a luxury that only the rich could afford. I don't understand
> what your point is.

My point is it was a bad feature in the first place and there has been
new features created to override the bad feature.

From: Ray O on 8 Dec 2009 17:35

"badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Jeff Strickland, 12/8/2009,3:06:39 PM, wrote:
>
>> How long it takes for this stuff to become mainstream and provided to
>> the masses is a fact of life. Electric windows and door locks was
>> once a luxury that only the rich could afford. I don't understand
>> what your point is.
>
> My point is it was a bad feature in the first place and there has been
> new features created to override the bad feature.
>

You can't get much more primitive than a rock, and AFAIK, a rock will still
open most car windows ;-)

I have a different device that isn't so likely to spray glass everywhere by
putting a nice spiderweb pattern in the safety glass that you can then push
in or crumble. I know police and firemen that use this device.
--

Ray O
(correct punctuation to reply)


From: badgolferman on 8 Dec 2009 22:20
Tom, 12/8/2009,5:22:59 PM, wrote:

> if a door is locked manually or automatically you still cant open it
> from the outside dosnt make any difference

Surely you drove cars before there were automatic locks. Did you lock
your doors when you got in? The only time I ever locked my doors when
I was in the car was when I was downtown at night and there were
strange people walking up to me while sitting at a traffic light.

Why must doors be locked while you're inside the vehicle anyway? Do
they suddenly fly open these days? I just don't get it.

--
"Some folks are wise and some are otherwise." ~ Tobias George Smolett
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