Paperback Writer

Monday, November 08, 2004

Ahhh. The Hummer H2. It has all the pretension without any sophistication.

At 4:52 PM, carmilevy said...: There's a party in my ears and everyone's invited. Great phrasing, T!
At 10:58 PM, Dean said...: I tend to think of Hummers as autoposermobiles: if you see someone driving one, you automatically know he (and let's face it, 99.9% of them are men) is a poser.
At 11:35 PM, Rich Rosenthal II said...: They remind me of my old toy tonka trucks except I think my toys had more metal in the body.
At 1:00 PM, carmilevy said...: Truer words have seldom been spoken, everyone. It highlights the very real difference between truly successful people - who typically prefer to fly below the radar - and people who THINK they're successful, or the nouveau riche, or others of that ilk, who do everything in their power to draw attention to themselves.

These are the people who get the chrome on their cars painted gold, who max out their credit so they can make the payments on that BMW, and who talk the talk more than they walk the walk. They WANT you to turn your head as they drive by in their posermobile.

And what of the truly successful folks? I believe it was Forbes Magazine a couple of years back that did a survey of what millionaires drive. The overwhelmingly popular choice among this set: the Ford F-150 pickup.
At 3:57 PM, Diane said...: What is a Hummer?

Yeah, it's best just to ignore them, don't give them the satisfaction.