Archive for the ‘Cute stories’ Category
Friday, February 13th, 2009
Her life may not be in danger, but Lee Redmond's status in the Guinness Book Of World Record may in jeopardy following a car crash in Utah. Mostly the injuries came because she wasn't wearing a seatbelt and was thrown from the car. The longest nail was about 3.4 inches ...
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
A popular position with many women sitting in the passenger seat apparently has serious erotic implications for some men, as this story about a new book on desire makes plain.
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
The importance that men put on the type of car their friends drive says a lot about what's wrong with the world, or so says this columnist in Psychology Today. It's very entertaining and enlightening.
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
A regular commute into Dallas for a disparate group of women has developed into a networking organization that offers help in times of car trouble or job searches or whatever's needed, and no men are allowed.
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Groups of mothers regularly pray together for the safety of their families and they believe those requests have often been answered.
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
These pictures are quite entertaining, if you're sitting someplace comfortable at home and not behind the wheel trying to get across town without getting killed, at which point some of these traffic lights would be terrifying.
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Just to show that car trouble isn't restricted to people with dull, inexpensive models, consider the grief that owning a Bentley brings to one of those glossy magazine girls.
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Ford has decided to make 100 units of its popular Fiesta subcompact model (with gas, insurance, concierge service, etc) to US citizens who create the worthiest videos. See details on this web page.
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
It's nice to think so, for sure, and this British writer offers up some theories on why it might be true.
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
This story doesn't really have anything to do with cars, but this woman's life is so amazing we had to share it with you.
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
No moral hear, just a laugh at a certain type of guy we all know much too well.
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
We have no idea either what that means, but it's a classic example of one of those websites you just have to see to believe, and since this one is reputedly about cars we thought we'd share it with you. We have decided not to keep you current on a ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Considering how common it is now to drive cross-country, it's interesting to read about the exploits of the first women to undertake what was an incredibly arduous and risky trip only 100 years ago. Video-philes will also appreciate Ken Burns' recreation of the first car drive across the US -- ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
This is the kind of social etiquette question you can only see in a tech-infested world like ours, but it could make for an interesting coffee break chat. The rest of this column has some interesting comments on the women with the princess syndrome.
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
Those ubiquitous stickers you see on all new cars actually have a name -- the Monroney, for the US senator from Oklahoma who created them, and they have done a considerable amount of good for consumers over the last 50 years. They still do.
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
Obsessive-compulsive disorder isn't a lot of fun (except for fans of Monk), but it certainly turned out well for the people in this story.
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
This letter to a newspaper in Arizona will strike a chord with anyone who's ever been put through the hell of buying a car from many (not all, surely?) car dealers. By the way, you do NOT have to pay the delivery or transportation charge they spring on you during ...
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
This story is almost too good to be true, but it actually happened. If only it happened any time someone tried to steal someone else's stuff. Now that's a gadget we could get behind.
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
If you really want to attach pretty much anything you like to the outside of your car so you can exhibit your artistic genius or just get people to stare at you, then you can probably get away with it. Some of the examples of this will amaze or disturb ...
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Saturday, November 29th, 2008
The world's first "accident-avoidance feature" becomes a noise nuisance around the world as more new motorists discover a popular venting method in ever-greater traffic jams.
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
With very little to live on following a bad car crash, a Buffalo woman has made her life richer by sharing it with two foster kids who have even less.
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
This story tempts you to say "Only in LA," but with the ongoing growth of exercise and personal expression and all that, it simply may not be true any more. However, being rousted by the cops for working your abs on a road overlooking the Pacific Ocean can only be ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
For reasons unknown, the people who run this website went to a lot of trouble to pull together endless jokes featuring cars. It has to be of use to someone out there, even if we can't immediately think of who it might be. A child who loves cars, perhaps? We ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Safety experts everywhere will tell you that what this Australian woman did was wrong, wrong, wrong and they'd be right, right, right, but it's still a "bonzer" story.
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Responding to a growing demand for ways to go green, more European cities put communal bicycles on their old streets using the newest technology.
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
This seems like a good idea, since you have to do your seatbelt up for the colorful and large corsage to be visible, and anything that gets people doing up their seatbelts is a great idea.
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
You have to see the picture of this car in action to appreciate how it works, and how wonderful it would be to have one in many, many situations.
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
This should entertain all those guys who think the only thing stopping them from a career in NASCAR or F1 is sponsorship support.
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Joel Stein of the LA Times makes it absolutely clear that he knows very little about cars except that claim about women and sex and then goes on to prove it, but in a funny way. His observation about how newspapers are run alone makes the time spent reading it ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
A reporter for the LA Times goes from New York to The Coast in a 10-year-old Chevrolet Venture and gets a lot better fuel economy than the official statistics say he should. Plus he gets to take his wife, dog and a bunch of stuff along with him, which small ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
A man reflects on the way his wife does not respond to a dirty car or a low fuel light.
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Now this is the kind of thing hockey fans want to see on YouTube. For non-hockey fans, a Zamboni is the garage-sized machine that rolls around the ice between the periods of a hockey game resurfacing the ice. So when the machine at a rink near the Detroit-Windsor border starting ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
First off, carrying your beloved pet on your lap so that it can be trapped between the airbag and your body in a crash an incredibly stupid thing to do. Really, how bad will you feel when you kill your best friend like that?So it's a good thing that more ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
More people are going back to doing the things they like to do because they don't have to save money to pay for the gas to do the things they have to do.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
This survey doesn't actually draw that conclusion or even mention cars, but it's easy to jump to if you're running a website called Car News For Women.
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