Opinion: JC France Drug Arrest Shouldn't Be Mocked

[Schtauffer]

Re: Opinion: JC France Drug Arrest Shouldn't Be Mocked

So, no different for this guy. He just happens to be more publicly recognized then the average Joe so that's his burden to bare....

Agreed. Gotta take the lumps with the perks. Listening to rich celebrities whine or bully/bluff is a difficult thing.

[SpiderGearsMan]

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go on vh1 celebrity rehab , you can have a shot at lion faced , 190 lb tawny kitaen

[ksj1]

Re: Opinion: JC France Drug Arrest Shouldn't Be Mocked

My question is this.Does he retain the France family lawyer or Jeremy Mayfields?? ;D ;D

[BangShift McT]

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If that ain't "damned if you do, damned if you don't" I don't know what is.. ;D

As far as France...let him suffer the same consequences that everyone else suffers. The fact that someone tried name-throwing to get out of it was my breaking point. Name in paper, embarass the hell out of him and those that 'raised' him. No remorse here.

[SpiderGearsMan]

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I recommend roy black , france family are billionaires

[HEMI]

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I'd like to reccomend the excellent law firm of Dewey,Cheatem & Howe,
for his defense team.

[studemax]

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Shouldn't be mocked?
But he's so "mock-able"!

[38P]

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Dewey, Cheatem and Howe are all tied up working for National Public Radio's idea of a couple of gearheads: Tom and Ray Magliozzi, a/k/a "Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers." (These names should be completely foreign to Bangshifters)

"So, in 1989, we [Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers] founded Dewey, Cheatem and Howe." http://www.cartalk.com/content/about/history/

I've heard that the law firm used (often) by "Hydra and Cammie, the Lifter Sisterz" ** is a "take-no-prisoners bunch o' Southern lawyerin' cutthroats": Paye, Offen, DeJudge. ***

They could probably get a "nice (rich) boy" like J.C. off, no problemo.

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**The Lifter Sisterz are a Pleather jump-suit-clad pair of erstwhile and perhaps future providers of "second opinions" on some of the wimpy, treehugger gibberish that passes for advice in "Click and Clack's" syndicated Car Talk column. See e.g. http://speedzzter.blogspot.com/searc...fter%20Sisterz


*** A brilliant marketing expert who used to "brand manage" at Plymouth, Oldsmobile, and Saturn advised Paye, Offen, DeJudge to drop the "&" for "meta-message clarity [sic]"

[studemax]

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(These names should be completely foreign to Bangshifters)

You telling me that car guys shouldn't know who the Magliozzi's are?
They've written several books, their columns are in hundreds of magazines and newspapers, and they're on TV and online.
Hell, yes - we SHOULD know who Tom and Ray are, even if we don't listen to NPR.

[38P]

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Shhhh! Dude, you're not supposed to admit you know stuff like that!

That's about like saying you know the names of any of the hosts on "E" or HGTV . . . or that you've read "O" magazine . . . or that you're bummed they cancelled "Jon and Kate Plus Eight" . . . or that soccer's better than NFL football . . . or that you really wanted a Honda 50 instead of a Harley fatboy . . . .

Real Bangshifters spend all their spare time (e.g. the time they're not plotting to swap a spare top-fuel mill into subcompact or prepping for another burnout contest) watchin' "Spike," hackin' up logs with chainsaws fueled by nitromethane, gas axein' dead imports for extra coin, and readin' Freiburger while loungin' on the can . . . THEY DON'T PAY ANY MIND TO SAPS LIKE CLICK -N- CLACK!

[Brian Lohnes]

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I'm with the Studester....kinda like listening to click and clack. Plus they're from here so I guess that's another tie in.

Brian

[horsewidower]

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I think of them as the two horsemen of the automotive apocalypse.

[Brian Lohnes]

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Ok now that's good!

[38P]

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kinda like listening to click and clack.

NOOOOOOOOO!!!! :o

"Upwards of 200 horsepower is practically expected today. And there are cars with 300 h.p., 400 h.p. and more. In my humble opinion, that's crazy. There's not a car on the road that truly needs more than 200 h.p. Most cars would be fine with a lot less."

-- Tom Magliozzi, co-host of NPR's "Car Talk."

"We've gone horsepower crazy."

--Ray Magliozzi, co-host of NPR's "Car Talk."


INTERVENTION!

Automotive News Executive Editor Edward M. Lapham (www.autonews.com) wrote . . .

"Who in these United States would honestly prefer a wimpy car that can't get out of its own way, no matter how great the mileage is?"

Click and Clack seem to be the obvious answers to Edward Lapham's rhetorical question.

Lapham continued: "Face it. Horsepower is like sex. Once you've experienced it, you want more. And you can't imagine doing without it."

Of course, this probably goes a long way in explaining the Magliozzi Brothers.

But let's evaluate their argument.

Click and Clack's opinions are rooted in the "appliance-motoring" community's paternalistic worry over fuel economy. Their thesis is that the "horsepower craze" has deprived everyone of all the dreamy fuel-sippers the Earth-children hallucinated about when they buried a brand-new Detroit car on the first Earth Day back in 1970 (in between "rolls" in their psychedelic VW microbuses). Thus they probably represent the thinking of many "intellectuals" and other, lesser know-it-alls who believe they understand better than you do about what sorts of vehicles should be available to the general public.

(Think of this as the same sort of argument you got from the captain of the chess club in back in high school, who proudly scooted around in a wheezing VW Beetle or Fiat 124 or Geo Metro or bone-stock Honda Civic, while all the "irresponsible" kids hung out in V8 Mustangs, Camaros, GTOs and other "bitchin'" hot rods, "muscle cars" or "tuner whips")

(Excerpted from http://speedzzter.blogspot.com/2006/...ower-ford.html)

Now, Mr. Lohnes, you've got to cleanse the "appliance motoring" toxins that unprotected listening to the Magliozzis (and perhaps proximity to M.I.T. and "HAAA-VAAARD") have lodged into your subconscious.

To start, pop in an MP3 of the Allman Brothers' "Jessica" or Golden Earring's "Radar Love" (or in a pinch, The Doobie Brothers' "Rockin' Down the Highway") heat the meats with a few minutes of gratuitious, smokin' tire melting, and bang-out about twenty or so screamin' at-the-redline powershifts . . .

Then report back to us in the morning . . . .

(This is an awful lot of work to go to in support of a misunderstood joke . . . .)

I think of them as the two horsemen of the automotive apocalypse.

And one would be on an aging Shetland Pony, while the other buzzed in on an electric hobby horse . . . . ;D

[Brian Lohnes]

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Well jeez. The one thing I find entertaining is the callers who are normally one sentence short of asking about headlight fluid.

With respect to appliance motoring, I'm the guy that just bought a 1966 C50 Pickup truck. That's an appliance like an M1A1 Abrams tank.

Ever hear about the garage they had in Cambridge where you rented a work bay to fix your junk in? An impossible business to run today with insurance laws but then again, no one can fix anything themselves any more so it would probably fail on that alone.

I'll say this, their show beats the shit out of the "gardening hour" that runs on the other channel when I'm hauling ass to the drag strip at 0-dark-30 on a Sunday morning.

Brian