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61 Was Freud a Minivan or S.U.V. Kind of Guy? (was SUVs) -- rank: 431

... Robinson Crusoe as one of the founding capitalist myths, the SUV and everything it offers, subverts that myth: it's headed ... riot, or whatever, you can pack your family in your SUV and head for the hills. ---------------------------------- i thought i would add an account of car makers/marketers psychological profile of SUV buyers vs. minivan buyers (as reported in _stay free!_ magazine ...

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Author:	Kirsten Neilsen
Date:	Tue May 22 17:24:08 PDT 2001

62 [lbo-talk] more on fuel economy -- rank: 431

Ravi, I don't think your SUV counts as an SUV. It's too small. Joanna ravi wrote: >On 20 Jul ... have felt "obliged" to shell over 50 grand on >>an SUV >>when everyone in New Jersey seemed to own one. >> >>Based on my casual and unscientific observations, SUV drivers are more >>likely to be assholes than drivers of ... vehicles. <...> >> >> > > >Well, you may be right... I own a mini-SUV (Toyota RAV4), I do live >in New Jersey, and I ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Fri Jul 20 17:55:57 PDT 2007

63 SUVs -- rank: 385

... this New Yorker cartoon that caught one aspect of the SUV >phenomenon: It showed a disgruntled middle aged male sitting next to his >buddy in an SUV that towers above the rest of the traffic (but stalled ... Robinson Crusoe as one of the founding >capitalist myths, the SUV and everything it offers, subverts that myth: >it's headed ... riot, or whatever, you can pack >your family in your SUV and head for the hills. I think you ar

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed May 23 06:46:06 PDT 2001

64 [lbo-talk] more on fuel economy -- rank: 385

... I think this is based on your view that the SUV fad was totally manufactured by the marketing machine. I disagree ... of manufacturing, to be sure, but at the end the SUV marketing appealed to atavistic and "reptilian" instincts already existing in ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Jul 19 13:09:55 PDT 2007

65 [lbo-talk] My interview w/ World Burns to Death -- rank: 385

... research conducted by the country's leading > automakers, Bradsher reports, SUV buyers tend to be "insecure and > vain. They are frequently ... to help others." Well my marriage broke up over an SUV. My ex went out to buy the Sunday paper and ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Thu Nov 2 10:59:38 PST 2006

66 SUVs -- rank: 385

... this New Yorker cartoon that caught one aspect of the SUV phenomenon: It showed a disgruntled middle aged male sitting next to his buddy in an SUV that towers above the rest of the traffic (but stalled ... Robinson Crusoe as one of the founding capitalist myths, the SUV and everything it offers, subverts that myth: it's headed ... riot, or whatever, you can pack your family in your SUV and head for the hills. Joanna Bujes

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Tue May 22 17:13:23 PDT 2001

67 [lbo-talk] more on fuel economy -- rank: 385

... I think this is based on your view that the SUV fad was totally manufactured > by the marketing machine. I disagree ... of manufacturing, to be sure, but at the end the SUV marketing appealed to > atavistic and "reptilian" instincts already existing in ... Way_). That's what you got from Bradsher's book? SUV's existed long before 1990 but they sold in tiny ... that they could exploit if they CREATED a demand for SUV's so they set abo

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Thu Jul 19 14:35:16 PDT 2007

68 Categories? (was Re: The Left, The Public, was Re: Ideology....) -- rank: 385

... of the old saying "comparing apples and > oranges." Categories like "SUV drivers" (to which Carrol > objected) and categories like "women" & "gay ... and I have at least as many reasons to group SUV drivers together as most people do "gay men & lesbians" (which ... 20 word request of you asked little else). I find SUV drivers to be, in general, more careless, arrogant, thoughtless, and ...

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Author:	j.f. noonan
Date:	Wed May 30 23:36:17 PDT 2001

69 guns prevent violence! -- rank: 385

... that one last week? A jerk in Chicago driving an SUV cut off a bicyclist who pounded his fist on the side of the SUV; the SUV driver let the bicyclist go ahead of him and then ... times, ultimately knocking the bicyclist to the ground. Then the SUV driver backed up over the bicyclist several times, killing him ...

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Wed May 5 11:13:21 PDT 1999

70 The Left, The Public, was Re: Ideology.... -- rank: 385

[Pity, yes, for the infected, But maintain antisepsis.] Rob Schaap wrote: > > [clip] > By 1970, it was cooler not to go, and I'd not have gone there and then. > For the most part, we are talking *boys* here. And it's an exceptional boy > indeed who flies in the face ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu May 24 09:28:09 PDT 2001

71 [lbo-talk] Paris will do more time than most -- rank: 385

... From the Los Angeles Times Delgadillo admits wife drove city SUV L.A. city attorney had refused to discuss who was ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Tue Jun 19 10:14:57 PDT 2007

72 [lbo-talk] Peak Oil or Oil Bubble? -- rank: 385

... I would to LOVE to see that happening. > > Because: > > a) SUV drivers won't blink at that cost, your chuckling unheard ... chuckled). If you could get an *honest* survey of what SUV drivers are thinking, I think you'd hear something very ... the people of a personality type that would buy an SUV to tell you how ba

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Thu Apr 14 09:04:37 PDT 2005

73 [lbo-talk] Peak Oil or Oil Bubble? -- rank: 332

... middle class takes the hit. The ones that >> buy the SUV in puruit of the "American Dream", or at least the ... of it. > > The lower middle class couldn't afford an SUV. > > The average US household spent about 3% of its after ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Thu Apr 14 09:56:16 PDT 2005

74 [lbo-talk] Re: My interview w/ World Burns to Death -- rank: 332

... The woman who runs the local soup kitchen drives an SUV as does the professor next door neighbor. Neither of them ... may be somewhat anti-social as well. He drives an SUV. John Thornton Jim Straub wrote: > I disagree. In Vegas, where ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Thu Nov 2 13:07:00 PST 2006

75 [lbo-talk] more on fuel economy -- rank: 332

Oh, SUV's were a lot of things, mainly -- a status symbol ... last twentyfive years. My last marriage broke up over an SUV. My ex went out to get the Sunday paper and ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Thu Jul 19 22:39:25 PDT 2007