« Lookee Lookee at the wittle boycott... | Main | Interesting, very interesting. . . »
May 5, 2006
Since people will be looking. . .
Given this little "event" with Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) hitting a barricade, then shuffled off home by the Capitol Police with little to no investigation of possible impairment, people will be looking for this again, so I'm putting it back up.
If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he'd be President today!
It floats.The way our body is built, we'd be surprised if it didn't. The sheet of flat steel that goes underneath every Volkswagen keeps out water, as well as dirt and salt and other nasty things that can eat away at the underside of a car. So it's watertight at the bottom. And everybody knows it's easier to shut the door on a Volkswagen after you've rolled down the window a little.
That proves it's practically airtight on top. If it was a boat, we could call it the Water Bug. But it's not a boat, it's a car.
And, like Mary Jo Kopechne, it's only 99 and 44/100 percent pure. So it won't stay afloat forever. Just long enough. Poor Teddy. If he'd been smart enough to buy a Volkswagen, he never would have gotten into hot water.
--Volskwagen "National Lampoon Ad Parody" from the 70's.
Maybe we should take yet another hard look at the excesses of the Kennedy family, no?
--Jason
UPDATE: Fixed attribution of picture/ad copy. Added that this was a National Lampoon Magainze joke ad. You can view a scanned copy HERE..
-JC
Posted by JasonColeman at May 5, 2006 8:57 AM
Comments
That was not really and ad .. was it?
Posted by: Brian at May 5, 2006 12:34 PM
I remember when this appeared in National Lampoon back in the '70's... back when it was magazine rather than just a brand.
Posted by: southtrek at May 5, 2006 2:14 PM
Okay, 'National Lampoon', got it.
Still .. that I could imagine it was a real ad from Volkswagon says a lot about my perception of their branding (he said in the advertising cant from that never-was online advertising startup in the 90s). Or that I'm guilliable.
Posted by: Brian at May 5, 2006 6:17 PM
Yea, looks like those Kennedys have a bad gene. They can't avoid booze and they can't avoid addiction, and they can't avoid driving their cars off the road.
He actually smashed his car a week prior to this incident.
Posted by: The Thinker at May 7, 2006 4:42 PM
