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Reader “Emily” sends us this mysterious photo from Chicago, which appears to be a Paultard car, only without the R at the beginning of Dr. Paul’s famous slogan. “I still really couldn’t believe this was a thing,” she writes. So, question: IS THIS A THING?
VW hasn’t made a Thing in quite some time. Is that a Mustang? Didn’t Burt Reynolds drive one of those?
Hey, this guy (it HAS to be a guy) is living to his libertarian principals (sic) in the widest way possible. It’s deregulated spelling and no gubbiment is going to tell him how to spel whuds.
no. no it is not.
This is why I always put my decals on my windshield.
I love evolution too!
It certainly seems thing-like, though badly misspelled. I think the ‘R’ would’ve been too close to the door crack. Eh, leave it to Paultards to muff the type blocking.
Instead of “revolution” it is “evolution”. The driver loves Ron Paul but just wants to take things a little slower.
Aloysius: Yes, ugh, start the 3VOLution without me.
by default, aren’t we already a part of 3VOLUTION? Maybe it’s one of those “Save ‘Em All” campaigns by a heavy metal contemporary Christian band.
Is that a GM product? Do I now own part of that car?
“IS THIS A THING?” No, but it is Das Ding an sich. Ponder that!
Is that one of the many copies, made for the show, of the new Knightrider KIT car? Can’t wait to see it at Univeral Studios as a main attraction on their tour, years after the show’s been cancelled.
No entity without identity.
hobospacejunkie:
I’m guessing KITT would drive itself off a cliff if it had that sticker on its door panel.
The 3volution will not be televised. Instead, it will appear in mysterious, fogged lens photos of crappy Fords.
Typical Ford owner, spell about as well as their cars drive.
no this is all wrong. that car is simply part of the darwin bicentennial.
But if it’s a Ding, we can’t know it, although we may owkn it (I’m embracing libraritarian spelukn too.) And do Dings 3volve or were they created by a not-too-brite desiner?
Yes, it is a thing; so are all cars, being nonliving physical objects (except the aforementioned Kitt, who is alive).
The Granolesbodarwin Abortion party is now picking over the corpse of the Paultards, since the whole Jesus fish with legs thing hasn’t really worked out for them.
Vulpes82: It is definitely a thing-in-itself.
DOUBLE NERDATION: “The presence of something present such as the [late-model Ford Mustang] comes into its own, appropriatively manifests and determines itself, only from the thinging of the thing.” Unfortunately, this guy hasn’t thinged a thing without paying in years.
ladymacbeth: That will teach me to try to work in another window when I should be commenting.
That’s not a Mitsubishi Evo by any chance, is it? (Sorry, my car recognition skills are a bit subpar.) That would provide a (boring) explanation.
I’m still mulling over the “thingyness” of it, but if there was a rear-view picture of the car in question with mudflaps featuring a silhouetted Dr. Paul with his erectd penis supporting the Constipatution then I would definitely say’yes-yes this is a thing.’
doxastic: Triple Nerd Score!: It is the thing and the whole of the thing.
What a crappy parking job–it looks like it’s blocking half the alley entrance!
It may be a type of thing rather than an instance of a thing. Then again, it might just be an attribute.
If this is a thing, then it’s a misguided attempt to popularize the evil scientific rationalist agenda — it’s not like Ron Paulism is more popular than science already. If they really want to popularize evolution, they should associate it with something wildly popular and somewhat related — steak, for instance. Couldn’t you picture a little biology lesson on all your grilling meats?
I want to pronounce it “THREEvolution,” which I imagine must be a branch of science similar to THREEconomics. So presumably this car is owned by a THREEnvironmentalist who eats only at Wendys.
Also: I’m glad to find out that asking if a thing is “a thing” is actually a thing!
Roger the Shrubber: It’s definitely an accident.
He’s “being a part” of the Revolution. Just not the part with the R.
I have to recuse myself because I have a thing for things. And also I gotta go to a thing. That’s the thing.
The R mysteriously disappeared on Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Apparently, the car hopes one day to be a seaplane.
Hello, people! It’s ELVISlution!
It’s not so much a “thing” as a “happening”, a “rave” or a “rage”, depending on who was president when you were 17. I suppose the current 17-years-olds refer to it as a “skidoosh”.
Ugh, deport all libertarians to Somalia. They will “3VOL” it there.
It is nothing (the opposite of being a thing). Some fun cutting and pasting though.
Hominidx: Hey, you leave the guy who died on the shitter in my fair city out of this.
It’s a blimp with wheels. I understand it gets very good mileage but you don’t want in one if you have an accident. Probably sucks in snow.
I say it’s missing a “D,” not an “R”…
Idiocy: Be a part of it!
Vulpes82: I like to keep my Ding an Sich firmly in hand if you know what I mean. and I think you do.
ladymacbeth: Darwin-tard? OMG there are so many “natural selection” jokes churning through my brain that I’m on the verge of a meltdown.
Sometimes a thing is just a thing.
The car belongs to an 80’s punk rocker who is waiting for the “D” he ordered to arrive. The tipoff was the bumper sticker (not pictured) that said, “My other car is a B-52.”
To answer your question, it IS a thing. There is a Paultard with a similar logo on the back of his (her? maybe it’s his girlfriend) Jeep in my neighborhood, complete with an R. What I don’t get is, does Ron Paul like LOVE, or backwards LOVE? That would be just another Paul-ian insult to traditional Republican values.
It is what Paultards call a “flightless blimp.” Hence no ‘R.’
CockedAle: Your comment hadn’t posted yet when I wrote my comment and stepped on your joke — unfortunate coincidence.
Ceci n’est pas une thing.
The logo is evolving. HAHAHAHa
I’m 99.9% sure the owner means “Evolution”, as in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. The only confusing part is that I don’t think it’s an Evo. I think it’s a 3000GT, which may have evolved into the Evo.
But, hey, why let details get in the way of ad hominem attacks, eh?
lawrenceofthedesert: Great minds snark alike.
x111e7thst: I keep mine in my “categorial imperative.” “Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more!”
Yes! I drive past the car every day in Roscoe Village. Paultards should take over our esteemed city council.
Check the rear of the car. If it has one of those Darwin-fish thingies stuck on it, leave it be. If not, call the bomb squad.
Vulpes82: Ew, no thanks, I’m a utilitatian.
This car is a farce. Anyone knows the bible says everything was created in 7 days, even cars, which roamed free with the dinosaurs. Noah had to save something, so he saved the cars, leaving the dinosaur poo behind to power them.
Zadig: Oooooh, felicific calculus makes me hot! (And I have no idea what I’m even saying anymore, so I suppose it’s best to end the philosophy double entendres here, before the Ban Hammer comes down.)
Tra: That reminded me of a joke: I love country music, but only the first syllable
Jeez, the lengths people will go not to put a Darwin fish on their car.
stuffisthings: If you say it that way, you have to give Pat Riley a dollar.
Vagina Doctor Ron Paul is angry because he isn’t able to practice his 3VOL with women all across the country.
As for the car, it would be thingier if had something more than a dropped-’r'… like “NUT LOTION” with a red ‘L’, say.