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Originally Posted by spinner
Are you saying that you're better than a USENET nut? I'm not making a judgement either way, but I will point out the contradiction: Posting in newsgroups or forums is as much about self-admiration and ego as it is about the exchange of ideas. By putting the message in a vanity plate -- and underlining that fact at various opportunities -- you are saying to the world that you want to get noticed and appreciated for your ideas. The actual message is no longer significant.
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The vanity plate is mostly to answer hybrid skeptics who even today are willing to claim we don't get better mileage. But then I came from 'old school' EPA days when you really had to drive as if it were 1970 to get the EPA claimed mileage . . . Did I mention you had to do it bare foot through the snow, up hill, both ways, in a blizzard?
I realize I'm a little nutty, which is why I try to sprinkle facts in my postings. If I don't offer some technical bit of data, something beyond slamming egos, I'll often not post. But in this case, it was an accumulation of observations about how hybrid owners are perceived as evident in the type of commercials and sales approaches being used. For example, the Toyota 'sticks and twigs' commercial.
In this commercial, some native people 'build a Prius' using sticks and twigs on a bluff overlooking a beautiful mountain body of water. The camera pans around it as the car takes shape and then decays back into a few forlorn branches and sticks.
What I'd rather see would be something about the advanced network of computers and simplified transmission that make Prius magic happen. Better still, the quiet and power of electric motion or the superior fuel economy. I don't need a sticks and twigs commercial when the Prius technology is as far removed from CNW Marketing's Chevy Aveo as the Aveo is from stone age technology.
Bob Wilson