What's your best/worst joke?

[CJ_London]

 

[CJ_London]

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

That windows version is "Dirty Girty from Number 30"

 

[AccessBlaster]

 

[CJ_London]

if you are into football....

 

[The_Doc_Man]

@CJ_London - Now THAT dog has a career in sports advertising.

 

[CJ_London]

 

[AccessBlaster]

 

[Steve R.]

Courtesy of my daughter.

 

[AccessBlaster]

 

[KitaYama]

 

[KitaYama]

 

[Isaac]

 

[Isaac]

Sorry FoFa, it's a cute joke but completely false:

Once again, Snopes.com to the rescue

And once again, I personally find the Snopes to be the thing that's mostly false.
First of all, this (like many things Snopes supposedly "debunks"), is more about opinion than fact. The vast majority of the story is, in fact, true. They really did name a car NOVA, and NO VA really does mean Doesn't Go.

Snopes claim that it is false depends mostly on its assertion that Hispanics wouldn't see "nova" as "doesn't go", when you take accenting into account.
I, however, deem this very Snopes assertion to be false.
After listening to my in-laws speak spanish for the past 25 years - INCLUDING LISTENING to them trying to pronounce English brands/words, or proper nouns that mean nothing to them in their language, I conclude that the likely way a person in Mexico would pronounce this word if they say it actually is in a double-accented way: no va
And yes, it's quite likely the thought would cross their mind that it is essentially "doesn't go", which could be a bit humorous to them.

Nobody in Mexico would be pronouncing it in the full, exact, English way, which is like: "NO-vuh", because they simply DONT' pronounce their "ah" sounds as a tiny after-thought-like emphasis that turns into a tiny "uh", the way English speakers do. They ALWAYS thoroughly enunciate their "ah" sounds, and would definitely be saying it "NO VAH", which is precisely, "doesn't go".

I agree with Snopes that if a Mexican wanted to say a car doesn't drive, they wouldn't use "doesn't go", they would use something else, but still, "nova" would make them think of "doesn't go", for better or for worse.

As has been the case with at least 2/3 of all Snopes articles I have read, which turn out to be mostly an opinion of the author stated in an authoritative tone - but not really being authoritative - I rate Snopes "mostly false".

 

[Minty]

And once again, I personally find the Snopes to be the thing that's mostly false.
First of all, this (like many things Snopes supposedly "debunks"), is more about opinion than fact. The vast majority of the story is, in fact, true. They really did name a car NOVA, and NO VA really does mean Doesn't Go.

They sure did in the UK this was renamed as the Nova

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[Isaac]

Not sure what you mean?

FYI, what I was responding to was this:
someone posted the age-old joke about how Chevy made a mistake naming a car "NOVA" and then trying to sell it in spanish speaking countries.
The story goes, when they discovered that NOVA meant "doesn't go" in spanish, they had to rename or stop selling it.
Then, someone linked to a Snopes article which had the tsk-tsk-tsk tone of a parent informing a child of something that every adult knows, claiming the story was entirely false, and relying in large part on claiming that 1) hispanics wouldn't pronounce it like that, and 2) hispanics wouldn't use "doesn't go" to say a car doesn't run, therefore, the name was irrelevant.

I was merely taking issue with the Snopes article, which I quite disagreed with on the pronunciation claims, and also taking issue with the idea that many times fact checkers perform fact check articles that sound a lot like this:
"Yes, that did actually happen, but.........." and conclude with a "totally false" label.

I saw this the other day on CNN. CNN was running an article saying something like "conservatives again spread misinformation about sexual content in schools". They were talking about the book Gender Queer. I can't find the article but it literally read (I am not joking), something like this: "It is true, the book does graphically depict men having sex with boys. There is so much more to this book. Thus, this is all misinformation"

Like literally saying, "Yes, I guess it really is true. But, so it's not".

 

[AccessBlaster]

So ridiculous, Mexicans love Nova especially models from the 60s and 70s. I see it every day living in So Cal. Do you know what else they love? Impala, Chevelle, Mustang, Camaros, and every type of pickup truck ever made.

 

[Isaac]

They do love their pickups, I can't decide who loves them more - Americans or Mexicans, but it's pervasive in both

 

[The_Doc_Man]

When my oldest grandson was 3, his favorite vehicular toy was the old Chevy pickup truck. I think it's genetic.

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

A mop?

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