"sm70- why not Duesenberg?" (sm70-whynotduesenberg)
08/11/2017 at 11:58 • Filed to: None
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"sm70- why not Duesenberg?" (sm70-whynotduesenberg)
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Reminded me of this, erm, piece from 1951. Take three parts horribly un-PC (and not particularly funny) stereotype jokes, two parts corny and equally eye-roll-worthy dad jokes, and one part overly-repeated 50's phrases like “This little number” and there you have it.
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Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
08/11/2017 at 12:05 |
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Interesting. The term “bug” was clearly in widespread use by this time... I wouldn’t have expected that in 1951.
Check out that near-pornographic description and artistry for that pink car, too.
Those racist parts in there would get someone lynched today.
Damn, the sexism, too.
Mustang prototype @4:20.
The internet would be in an absolute uproar if this was released today.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
08/11/2017 at 12:06 |
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The best old auto industry cartoon is the Ford V8 one. Although, this one, Tex Avery...
Urambo Tauro
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
08/11/2017 at 12:14 |
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Wrencher’s dream, right here.
Your boy, BJR
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
08/11/2017 at 12:17 |
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The step down part made me lol
StoneCold
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
08/11/2017 at 12:27 |
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Very cringeworthy, but the “It also includes a glass bottom, to see if any of them were your friends” had me cracking up a bit.
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sm70- why not Duesenberg?
> Your boy, BJR
08/11/2017 at 12:56 |
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You can tell this video came out shortly after the Hudsons brought that design trend to market.
Frenchlicker
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
08/11/2017 at 13:44 |
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It seems that I saw this recently on a tv channel. One of the ones that shows old cartoons in between shows. Or maybe it was at the drive in, that seems right.
Kiltedpadre
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
08/11/2017 at 13:52 |
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The idea of a “bug” being an issue with a system that needs to be solved is even much older than that. I remember reading about Thomas Edison talking with engineers about needing to work out bugs in some of his inventions. I don’t know whether that would be the original usage, or if the phrase is even older.
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Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Kiltedpadre
08/11/2017 at 15:17 |
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I did see that from the late-1800s. There is an apocryphal story in computing about a certain pioneer in the industry locating an actual bug (a moth) that was stopping a relay from operating properly that was the source of calling them “bugs”.
ranwhenparked
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
08/11/2017 at 18:10 |
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And, like Hollywood Steps Out , many of the jokes are probably totally lost on modern viewers.
They at least covered Studebaker, Nash, Hudson, Tucker, Chrysler, and Henry J.