This VW is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! … 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PASSAT!!
So we bought a car last night. A Honda Pilot. We named it Pontius. We were smart enough to drive Dim’s car to the dealership (rather than mine) so we could negotiate a decent trade-in for the VW sight-unseen. (Or smell un-sniffed, as the case should more properly be.) I caught the salesmen gathered together looking under the hood of the VW, laughing. All of them, that is, except the salesman who brokered our deal.
He looked pissed.
Heh.
So Pontius is the new member of the family, and will be our family car for the next 37 brazillion years until we get our money’s worth out of him.
n.b. - The original Dead Parrot Sketch from Monty Python
Wahoo!!! Congratulations!!!
(can I have a ride?) :0)
Posted by: Mom at March 31, 2006 3:22 PMi am so hbapopy you finally got rid of that malignant piece of crap red thing. congrats on your new honda.
Posted by: kat at April 3, 2006 9:43 AMGood for you - I'm glad you got rid of the VW. Hopefully whatever the VW had is not contagious and won't affect Pontius.
I was just going to ask you why you named it Pontius, but just as I was phrasing my question, I get it now. Pontius Pilate (Pilot). I can be so dense sometimes. Perhaps this is the bad of seminary - I started to think of all of the biblical reasons for doing so (he was the one who sent JC to the executioner - the Pilot is, in a sense, sending the VW to the executioner) and evidentally don't need to go that far. :)
PS: I was just looking at that Dead Parrot sketch on Wikipedia because I needed euphemisms for death while writing my funeral sermon. Funny that here it appears again!
Posted by: JennySmith at April 4, 2006 1:25 PM