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How to key a Boxster
The December issue of Self Magazine has an article on how it's sometimes good to act out your anger rather than repressing it--typical ladies' self-help foolishness. The title of the piece is, "Jealous? Resentful? Mad as Hell? GREAT!" and the theme of the piece is that "experts" say that sometimes doing something evil can be "uplifting."
The full-spread photo is of a nicely dressed young woman walking past a silver Boxster and keying a huge gash in the paint. Real nice. Last time PCNA lend them a car for a photo shoot...although I can only assume the gashes were Scitexed into the pic. Stephan
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Well, I agree with the premise that it is better to somehow constructively release one's anger and at least they picked a boxster . . .
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Self magazine? Was Playboy sold out?
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Phew I thought Susan's Boxster had been keyed. At least that's not the case.
Look at the bright side. With all the crazy lawyers you have in the US you can now claim that the magazine is responsible in case someone keyes your Porsches. That'll cost them 
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EXACTLY, Mikkel. And as icing on the cake, what kind of an example is that to assumedly well brought up ladies??? I don't care if it's a Boxster or a 2CV, it's the very principle of it...
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Yeah. Let's encourage women to be vengeful. Good idea.
Okay, that was a bit sarcastic. According to my observation, not all women need special training in this area. Some have a real gift. You know how we can tell that our dogs love us more than our wives? The later we return home, the happier the dog is to see us.
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Back when I was 20 or so I got selected for Jury duty at the county courthouse. What a treat. Sat through a day or two sitting at the courthouse waiting to be called, ready to sit through the jury polling, and maybe sit in on a trial.
Got selected to a case late one day. Told to come back and be ready for the case tomorrow morning. Had something to do with the city vs. a guy for property damage, I figured he trashed a Police car or something... No....the loser's ex-girlfriend filed a civil complaint against him which the city had to prosecute because he allegedly put a $400 key scratch in the ditz's door of her Ford Ranger pickup. 9 hours later, after watching 2 attorney's approach the bench several times, easels with crime scene maps, the story about how they got it on in the cab of the Ranger pickup and how he sprained his arm while doing it...the dumb case finally ended where we found him not guilty. Vandalisim drives me nuts. Theft I can understand, but just wrecking someone else's property for the fun of it warrants the big ammo...
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Quote: "You know how we can tell that our dogs love us more than our wives? The later we return home, the happier the dog is to see us."
Heh heh....I like this one.
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Re: How to key a Boxster
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That's not journalism, its trash!
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Anyone have any contact imfo on the magazine?????
Sure would like to inundate the email/mailbox full of irate Porsche owners....
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Is is time for some keys to visit the parking lot at SELF magazine?
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It's "Self" magazine - it's all about doing what's right, for YOU! YOU are what matters, and sometimes that strange world on the other side of your eyes? You just need to let it know YOU're alive, then YOU will feel so much better - about YOUrself!
Ophrah Ophrah Ophrah. Phil Phil Phil. I'd rather kill myself than have a mind that is so weak and directionless I'd need to take directions from the likes of them. John
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jdub, that is exactly why you need to worry - the folks that are attracted to that drivel are the ones that will follow what they preach. It's the Heaven's Gate or the James Jones of the shallow end of the gene pool...
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Part of the note I sent the stoopid editors at self....
I think you have done your readers a diservice and invite a lawsuit from the owner of the next keyed Porsche. I have spent hours on my hobby of restoring and driving my old cars. Stupid articles like this are the reason journalists are hated so much. May your BMW stationwagon get herpes.
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Noah's soothing words...for me to POOP ON!
Really, it's Super's need to use wood to help lift his Porsche. I just can't live in a world like that... John
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Aw, there there John. Just grab a cup of International Coffee mix and tune in to Dr. Phil. You'll feel much better after watching him berate someone on national television.
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To quote from Pulp Fiction, "How could someone do that to a man's automobile?"
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