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Support for the Car Talk web site comes from the used Chrysler Cordoba wiring harnesses
car we polish and sell as high speed T-1 lines, and
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What's New at Car Talk Plaza?
Free parking and a chance to celebrate awful decision-making, that's what.
In case you
missed the news, 2007 marks the 20th anniversary for Our Lousy Show.
(In other words,
the Seat Cover Anniversary, for those of you who follow such things.)
That's right, back in time when Ollie North was testifying to Congress, when Ray
still had more hair coming out of his head than his ears and nose, and the
Chrysler New Yorker was still in its ascendency, a new show called "Car Talk" rudely coughed and sputtered its way onto the staid airwaves of
NPR.
We're still not quite sure how it happened. But it did, and 20 years later, we find it all cause for celebration.
In commemoration of this moment of public broadcasting infamy, we're pleased to debut an official line of Car Talk 20th Anniversary Swag, including:
a hooded sweatshirt, T-shirt, and coffee and travel mugs. Each item
features our classic Car Talk logo with one of our favorite designs of all time -- the famed greasy fingerprints of Tom and Ray.
PLUS - With every order (while they last), we're throwing in a FREE Car Talk Plaza Parking Permit.*
It will allow you to park anywhere in Harvard Square at any time, day or night, and pay nothing.... except the cost of any citations, Denver-boot
removals, or towing and storage fees that you may accumulate. Because while the Car Talk Plaza Parking Permit looks great on your side window,
it's actually fairly useless, since we don't have any parking here at the Plaza. But it IS a great conversation piece. And it's
easily removable if you get sick of it!
And it's yours, free, with any Shameless Commerce Division order, while they last.
So, this coming week, here's what we suggest you do:
1. Print out this email, and shove it into your travel bag.
2. When you're at the in-laws later this week, pull it out and feign exhaustion at your all-consuming work load.
3. Point to the print-out, claim it's an "urgent business matter" and excuse yourself to the nearest out-of-the-way corner of the house with good
wi-fi reception.
4. Kill time shopping for our junk for yourself and not-so-loved ones, listen to Car Talk online, and generally keep a low profile.
5. Use our boss button as needed. 
6. Repeat as long as you think you can get away with it.
Buy enough of our stuff and we might just be around to bail you out
of Thanksgiving 2015. You never know.
Yours in highly suspect anniversaries,
Maury Maille
President, L-Tryptophan Fan Club
Car Talk Plaza
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P.S. Car Talk is looking for a cartoonist, comic book artist or sketch artist for an
interesting web feature about Tom and Ray. Know someone? Please send this note along. Inordinate sums of cash will be sorely lacking. In fact, you'll
have to settle for few lousy items from our Shameless Commerce Division. But, you will have our undying thanks -- and the eternal shame of being
associated with Car Talk. For details, please email us.
Thanks.
P.P.S. While you're on our site, don't forget about the opportunity to name our new animated sitcom, coming to PBS next summer. If we
use your suggestion, you just might get an animated cameo in the series! (Producers reserve the right to make you ugly and 50 pounds heavier, so be
nice to us.)
P.P.P.S. Here's this week's Lame Joke of the Week, from Nancy in Rockwall, Texas:
An old, blind cowboy wanders into an all-girl biker bar by mistake.
He finds his way to a bar stool and orders some coffee. After sitting there for a
while, he yells to the waiter, "Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?"
The bar immediately falls absolutely silent. In a very deep, husky voice, the woman
next to him says, "Before you tell that joke, Cowboy, I think it is only fair,given that you are blind, that you should know five things:
1.
The bartender is a blonde girl with a baseball bat.
2. The bouncer is a blonde girl.
3. I'm a 6-foot tall, 175-pound blonde woman with a black belt in karate.
4. The woman sitting next to me is blonde and a professional weightlifter.
5. The lady to your right is blonde and a professional wrestler.
"Now, think about it seriously, Mister. Do you still wanna tell that joke?"
The blind cowboy thinks for a second, shakes his head, and mutters, "No...not if I'm gonna have to explain it five times."
*Note: We don't actually have a parking garage.
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Podcast our Lousy Show
That's right. Now we're polluting iPods, too. Subscribe to our free Car Talk Call of the
Week podcast. Plus, download Car Talk archives, read reviews, search shows and post your
comments. Here's how.
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Write Tom and Ray - Please!
Been
meaning to write us a witty,
brilliant, evocative, insightful letter? Excellent! We're not getting
any of those things from the chumps hanging around Car Talk Plaza. For
that
matter, we'd settle for anything better than the usual schlock Tommy
reads on the air.
Write Tom and Ray
now!
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Help Ray lose
the night sweats he's been getting, trying to come up with a decent puzzler each week. Email
him your suggestion any time.
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Got a car you're tired of looking at? Why not donate it to benefit your local public radio
station?
Clear out your driveway, support your local public radio station and get a tax deduction - all in one fell swoop.
Interested - or know someone who might be? Here's
the
scoop. And thanks for supporting your local NPR station - not to mention, listening to our lousy show.
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