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Despite my liberal credentials as a Volvo-driving, pro-choice, gay-marriage-supporting urban dweller, I admit to an inner conflict when it comes to guns. I grew up surrounded by firearms and the boys who loved them. My father is a bona fide hunting nut who threatened to buy my son a lifetime membership to the National Rifle Association for his first birthday. I myself have mowed down a variety of defenseless woodland creatures. I used to be a decent shot with a pistol, and once during the Clinton years, I spearheaded an outing of lefty political scribes...
...thinks we should start handling disputes in this country, maybe it's time the Democratic Party stopped agonizing about gun control and started brushing up on its aimif only for purposes of self-defense. I'd be happy to organize a trip to the skeet range anytime, guys. My Volvo seats five...
...quite put a name to it. Odd but true, according to a study that will appear in the Journal of Consumer Research later this year. Researchers studied reactions to TV commercials with actors David Duchovny, Donald Sutherland, David Hyde Pierce and Willem Dafoe voicing pitches for Sprint, Volvo, Lipton and Qwest, respectively. The commercial watchers' prior attitudes toward the celebrity influenced how much they liked or disliked the brand, but surprisingly, the celebrity endorsements evoked stronger feelings for the brand when viewers weren't sure to whom the familiar voice belonged...
...ends them ... well, when the stimulants wear off. Immediately after waking, she starts the first of several loads of laundry, sees her husband off to work, fixes breakfast for her kids (she calls them "very high maintenance, very demanding") and then herds them into her Volvo station wagon for a long day of lessons, camps and therapies. At night, she makes dinner for the family but not for herself. She says she's just too harried. Not until 10 p.m. or so, when the children are in bed and the house is finally quiet, does the speedy Gonzalez relax...
...drive a Volvo and you do yoga, you are pretty much a Democrat. If you drive a Lincoln or a BMW and own a gun, you're voting George Bush...