Comments on: Toyota: What the Hell??

By: josh

josh — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:56:17 +0000

but, the japanese are a majority of shinto-buddhists

By: David A. Rooney

David A. Rooney — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:22:19 +0000

Are you refering to it’s slogan, or is that a critique of the actual film?

By: chuckers

chuckers — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:13:30 +0000

‘BTW, when is someone going to reference “Fight Club”’

David, did you forget the FIRST RULE OF FIGHT CLUB? DID YOU?

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:09:52 +0000

Drive like Hell. You’ll get there.

By: Igelino

Igelino — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:18:08 +0000

Or maybe it’s just “if you’re going to hell, you’ll get the faster in a Toyota than in a handbasket.”

But that would work better if the handbasket didn’t have a steering wheel.

Yeah, Turquoise, whenever I hear the phrase, I get the image of a little girl in a pretty dress, carrying a handbasket to hell.

By: Lola

Lola — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:30:08 +0000

I was told by someone (maybe grandmother, aunt, uncle) a long time ago that going to hell in a hand basket not only meant you were going there quick, but in metaphorical pieces, hence the need for a basket to keep your bits together.

By: David A. Rooney

David A. Rooney — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:36:19 +0000

BTW, when is someone going to reference “Fight Club” and Ed Norton’s explanation to his fellow airline passenger about his job as a recall investigator for a major auto maker?

By: David A. Rooney

David A. Rooney — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:34:13 +0000

This whole cartoon could have been done without the dialogue simply by putting the Toyota logo on the basket itself.

By: paperboy

paperboy — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:05:48 +0000

Thanks, Dyfsunctional#13; I didn’t want to look up the term, hoping that my concept of it would be that of the majority, but, there I am again; a lone bunch of letters in the cyber-wilderness.

By: Dyfsunctional

Dyfsunctional — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:35:09 +0000

paperboy (#4): I think the term usually means “headed for disaster in a rapid, spectacular fashion.” One of those phrases that works more for its rhythm and alliteration than for its literal meaning, like “dead as a doornail” or “mad as a march hare.”