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Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Mon Apr 15, 2013 2:12 pmby Roland Sackville
"Blast and hellfire!" Roland swore, looking through the phonebook.
"Alright, what the hell do people call automobiles these days." he said, to whoever else was in the staff common room.
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Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Mon Apr 15, 2013 2:15 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Cars. Though if you're looking to replace that Trabant I'm not sure it's cars you're looking for."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Mon Apr 15, 2013 2:20 pmby Roland Sackville
"What on Earth are you talking about," Roland said.
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Mon Apr 15, 2013 2:29 pmby Nailah Weaver
"I'm insulting your old 'automobile'."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Mon Apr 15, 2013 2:34 pmby Roland Sackville
"That automobile was state of the art, and never put a foot wrong. I've been trying to find the number of the local Trabant dealership, but I've come up empty there."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Mon Apr 15, 2013 2:40 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Yeah I believe they stopped making those around the time the Cold War ended."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Mon Apr 15, 2013 3:24 pmby Roland Sackville
"Why on Earth would they do that?" he said, surprised.
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Mon Apr 15, 2013 3:32 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Because they already made better cars 20 years ago." she chuckles faintly.
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Mon Apr 15, 2013 3:34 pmby Roland Sackville
"Well, surely the newer models would have all the latest features...like, um.
...Air conditioning?"
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Mon Apr 15, 2013 4:03 pmby Nailah Weaver
"GPS Navigation, keyless entry systems, heated seats, park assistance, bluetooth interface. Modern cars are really more computer than engine at this point. Not to mention that they go from zero to 60 in under 10 minutes."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Mon Apr 15, 2013 11:33 pmby Roland Sackville
"Your car needs to tell you where parks are?"
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:08 amby Nailah Weaver
She lets out a laugh. "Well it can do that too, but it mostly parks the car by itself if I want."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 1:01 pmby Roland Sackville
"I'm not a fan of technology deciding what it will or will not do for me."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 1:03 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Well you don't have to get all the bells and whistles but you won't get around a modern car having a board computer of some kind."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 1:05 pmby Roland Sackville
"Are they, y'know, bodgable? Can we take it out?"
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 1:09 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Not really. At the very least they optimize the engine. It's more electronics than mechanics these days."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:20 pmby Roland Sackville
"But I don't understand electronics. I knew how to fix my Trabant.
...When it wasn't blown into a thousand pieces."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:24 pmby Nailah Weaver
"See the nice things about cars not built in communist Germany? They just work without needing to be fixed."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:27 pmby Roland Sackville
"You're telling me modern cars never break down," Roland said, putting the book down and looking at Nailah dubiously. "I've heard that before. Many, many, many times before."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:29 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Well that'd be a slight exaggeration but thy certain break down much less than 30 year old cars."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:51 pmby Roland Sackville
"That," he said plainly, "is the way of everything built in the last two hundred years."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:54 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Well unless you want to spend a lot of money at a car show I don't think you have much choice."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:55 pmby Roland Sackville
"I really don't want to do that. That is among the things I do not want to do."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 4:35 pmby Nailah Weaver
"I'd ask what kind of car you want but I'm not sure you know the answer to that yourself."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 4:39 pmby Roland Sackville
"I want my Trabant," Roland said, plainly.
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 4:55 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Well in that case I believe time travel is the only option."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 5:39 pmby Amanda Weinrich
"Hi." Amanda said, as she walked in "whats up?"
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 7:03 pmby Roland Sackville
"Professor Weaver is insinuating nasty things about my choice of automobile."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 7:09 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Just pointing out that cars have become better over the last decades." she says innocently.
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 10:46 pmby Amanda Weinrich
"Nothing wrong with a classic." Amanda said "I learned to drive with a VW Bug that my parents bought for $500."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 10:54 pmby Roland Sackville
"Pah, they weren't anything to write home about."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:02 pmby Amanda Weinrich
"And what kind of car do you want?" Amanda asked.
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:12 pmby Roland Sackville
"I don't know. I haven't had to make a decision in quite some time."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:16 pmby Nailah Weaver
"Well how much money do you want to spend?"
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:19 pmby Roland Sackville
"...some amount of moneys? Is 1000 lira too low?"
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:25 pmby Amanda Weinrich
"Probably." Amanda said "Why not go to a car lot and take a look around? Assuming you don't just want to buy another Trabant."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:08 amby Roland Sackville
"That's not a bad idea..."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:11 amby Nailah Weaver
"I feel like I should offer to come with you so you end up with a less... peculiar this time."
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:38 pmby Roland Sackville
"Peculiar?!"
Re: Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:35 pmby Amanda Weinrich
"I'm fairly certain hat Trabants are mostly known for...not being the most stylish cars of their era." Amanda said, trying to be diplomatic.