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Old 01-29-2004, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Delphinus
Have you ever noticed, the "Volkswagen" is a unit of volume? WTH? It seems so perfectly normal to say something like "the meteorite was the size of a Volkswagen" yet we NEVER, EVER say something like "it was the size of a Peugeot?" or "shoot an object the size of an Austin Mini" ... or whatever ....

When you hear volkswagen what do you think of...... I bet it's the beatle Everyone knows what volkswagen is.... It's hard to find a country where the beatle hasn't been. Isn't the beatle the most massed produced car? How many people know what the size of a Peugeot is? I don't Just thought i'd jump into this thread
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