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“What Halley said”

June 19th, 2003 · 3 Comments

Fun, thoughtful, quirky, provocative, purely Halley-esque. Just go read it. I don’t have time to add my own two cents this morning, but that’s okay. You’ll be thinking up your own responses and that will be even more fun than reading mine.


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3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Betsy Devine // Jun 19, 2003 at 8:58 pm

    A friend has objected to some of Halley’s comments, so I went back to check and did find one factual misstatement in Halley’s fact-laden and extremely serious piece:

    “She then coaxed three other cavemen to hand over their wheels and also go take baths. She had plans. She and her girlfriends turned their 4 wheels into a Thunderbird. Now the guys were cleaned up and she invited them along for a joy ride in her new car.”

    Halley is too young to remember, but I’m not, and the the ur-car was in fact a Bugatti.

  • 2 jr // Jun 20, 2003 at 7:27 am

    I found it interesting that Halley choose Thunderbird as the make of car she and the girlfriends made. Because any guy’s first question when asked if they would like to go for a ride in a Thunderbird is: What year?

    For every guy knows that being seen by other guys in Thunderbirds of certain vintages is a social fax paux worse than taking a bath.

  • 3 Frank Paynter // Jun 20, 2003 at 4:48 pm

    Well, they’ll have fun, fun, fun til her daddy takes the t-bird away. Patriarchy always rears its ugly head, don’t it.

    “Mustang Halley… guess you better slow your Mustang down.” props to Wilson Pickett