Monday, June 23, 2008

Does anyone know what is the name of this odd looking car?

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BMW Isetta Car
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BlackCrypt said...
Thats Urkells car!
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The Man said...
The first time I saw one of these I was eight years old of course I didn't know what it was called since it was many years before Family Matter was on T.V.
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GOD said...
BMW
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The Man said...
GOD doesn't know the "Name of the Car!"
I thought "GOD" knows everything?
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Anonymous said...
Its an Isetta.
BMW is hinting at releasing a new model following in the Isetta footsteps.
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TimO said...
In Columbus Ohio we had a local TV clown in the '60s called "Flippo the Clown" who started his show by driving up to the studio in one. (Sadly, he just passed away a couple of years ago...) There is a couple of these cars in a great antique car museum in Clearwater FL by the airport.
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Werner said...
It's a BMW Isetta which was rather popular in the 1950ties in Germany. The German nickname for that tiny vehicle was "Knutschkugel"
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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed

It doesn’t get any easier for cops when a suspect falls at their feet
A 48-year-old man sought by police officers on a felony charge in Riverside, Calif., accidentally fell right at their feet, police say.
The Riverside Police Department said in a news release that when police officers were at a residence trying to find Henry Gabriel Pereyra to speak with the suspect, he fell through a ceiling and landed right in front of them.
Pereyra had been suspected of violating a restraining order and police were alerted to his presence in the home Friday by a civilian process server. The server told police officers Pereyra was allegedly in the home of his estranged wife despite the court order.
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Drunk driver in a stolen car possessed pot, switchblade
Tyler Lunday was driving a stolen car while drunk and without a license Saturday morning, while also in possession of an illegal knife, marijuana and an open container of alcohol, say police.
Based on those allegations, Lunday, 22, of 400 Portsmouth Avenue, Greenland, is facing a felony count of receiving stolen property and class A misdemeanor charges of driving while intoxicated/second offense, drug possession, operating without a valid license, open container and carrying an illegal switchblade.
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Girl who "Cop a Feel" when she grabbed officer's groin jailed
An aspiring model convicted of grabbing a trooper's genitals while being booked for driving while intoxicated is in jail without bail for violating probation a second time this year.
Taryn McCarthy, 22, of 529 Union St., is scheduled to be video-arraigned Monday on a charge of probation violation alleging she failed a Breathalyzer test in spite of a court order to abstain from alcohol.
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College girls banned from whistling at builders
A further education college is having to protect builders from wolf-whistling girls, in a reversal of traditional gender stereotypes.
The students have been advised that their attentions constitute harassment and are wholly unacceptable
Officials at West Kent College in Tonbridge, Kent, sent an email to all pupils warning that the behavior was "totally unacceptable", and saying any students caught harassing contractors would face disciplinary action.
The email was sent after a demolition team started work on a £94 million, three-year building project at the campus.
The email read: "It has come to the attention of the college that some female students have been making comments to, or whistling at, the builders both whilst on site and as they walk around the campus.
Meanwhile new laws could see wolf-whistling builders placed on the sex offenders register. The Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill will create a new offence of "communicating indecently", punishable by up to 10 years in jail.
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Store Register Rage?
Handing her 8-month-old off to a store employee, a Family Dollar Store customer yanked hair out of the head of another woman in line, choked the woman’s mother and chomped down on a police officer’s finger Wednesday, according to an arrest report.
The incident took place about 6 p.m. at the 2049 S. U.S. 1 store, according to the report. The suspect, Tiffany Mashae Brown, 24, of 16th Street, attacked the victims because she was irate about being directed to a different register than the one she started at.
Brown hit the 34-year-old woman in the face and upper body and then scratched her face and pulled her hair so that blond strands littered the store.
Brown bit the last victim, a Fort Pierce Police Department officer, when he struggled to detain her due to her large size — 265 pounds, according to the report.
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Comedian George Carlin Dies at 71

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians whose biting insights on life and language were immortalized in his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV" routine, died of heart failure Sunday. He was 71.
Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas.
Carlin's jokes constantly pushed accepted boundaries of comedy and language, particularly with his routine on the "Seven Words" -- all of which are more or taboo on broadcast TV and radio to this day. When he uttered all seven at a show in Milwaukee in 1972, he was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace, freed on $150 bail -- and typically unapologetic on his release.
A Wisconsin judge dismissed the case, saying the language was indecent but citing free speech and the lack of any disturbance.
When the words were later played on a New York radio station, they resulted in a Supreme Court ruling in 1978 upholding the government's authority to sanction stations for broadcasting offensive language during hours when children might be listening.
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KC said...
Say it not so!
He was funnier than a kick to the crotch!
RIP George Carlin.
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George Carlin - Defrags the 10 Commandments
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Mad Izatie said...
ah, rest in peace, old fart.
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