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The AOL news headlines I'm greeted with whenever I log out of my e-mail are always entertaining... in a kind of pathetic way. I've run into quite a few news stories riddled with typos. Most of the time, though, it's at the end when people are supposed to have stopped paying attention. Today, however...
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That's right. Angels have come to earth to change the colours of our cars (feature not available on all models). I kind of have to wonder what I would've found out if I'd clicked on "How it Works." Pulling up the good old OED, I see that there are many things an "angel" can be. Most of them are corporeal. Lots of them with wings. A few of my favourites, though, are "8. slang. A financial backer of an enterprise, esp. one who supports a theatrical production." and "10. An ‘unexplained’ mark on a radar screen." There's no mention of paint in any of these definitions, so I can only imagine that the cause of this paint-change is actual angels. And not angel-clones, but actual diverse angels. (Are angels diverse? Most of the pictures I've seen make them look pretty homogenous.) Unless "different angels" is one concept. Maybe they're fallen angels who couldn't get any other work? "Will perform minor color-change miracles on your car for..." um... angels aren't supposed to desire anything, are they? Though that could be why they're fallen. Or maybe it's traditional angels and unexplained marks on radar screens together, making it two different kinds of angels. Or there have been colour-change angels all along, like the ones in charge of iridescent paint, and now these are different ones.
I wonder how closely-guarded these angel secrets are in the car industry. Do you think I could e-mail them and ask them to clear it up for me?
(The headline plus the other story there also makes me think of something like "Some New Cars Are Not On Fire")
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That's right. Angels have come to earth to change the colours of our cars (feature not available on all models). I kind of have to wonder what I would've found out if I'd clicked on "How it Works." Pulling up the good old OED, I see that there are many things an "angel" can be. Most of them are corporeal. Lots of them with wings. A few of my favourites, though, are "8. slang. A financial backer of an enterprise, esp. one who supports a theatrical production." and "10. An ‘unexplained’ mark on a radar screen." There's no mention of paint in any of these definitions, so I can only imagine that the cause of this paint-change is actual angels. And not angel-clones, but actual diverse angels. (Are angels diverse? Most of the pictures I've seen make them look pretty homogenous.) Unless "different angels" is one concept. Maybe they're fallen angels who couldn't get any other work? "Will perform minor color-change miracles on your car for..." um... angels aren't supposed to desire anything, are they? Though that could be why they're fallen. Or maybe it's traditional angels and unexplained marks on radar screens together, making it two different kinds of angels. Or there have been colour-change angels all along, like the ones in charge of iridescent paint, and now these are different ones.
I wonder how closely-guarded these angel secrets are in the car industry. Do you think I could e-mail them and ask them to clear it up for me?
(The headline plus the other story there also makes me think of something like "Some New Cars Are Not On Fire")
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also:
"tips for painting you don't know."
Oooh, i've always wanted to paint "you don't know."!
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