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2. "RE: Car Adventures: Tempest"
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   >I was seeing references to that line (usually pronounced in some kind
>of vaguely southern-fried "Here come da judge!" way) all the way into
>the mid-to-late 1990s.

Yeah, it was like that in the original, too, I just didn't type it that way.

>I mean. I suppose that this shouldn't surprise me; I have to imagine
>that early-season Simpsons references ("Dental plan!" "Monorail!") are
>just as vaguely inscrutable to kids born in 2004 today. But man, I
>never had any idea where "Here come the Judge!" came from, and this is
>an odd venue to find that out in.

In fairness, it was a surreal thing to name a car after even when they did it. Someone at GM's ad agency was evidently a Laugh-In fan. All the ad straplines were cutesy judge jokes, too. "This Judge can be bought," that kind of thing.

>> which would be ruined by the lead (this was the real reason it was phased out, >> not because it's toxic),
>
>This is depressing to me, because significant evidence has emerged
>that just about the entirety of the famous mid-century crime wave (the
>sudden spike, sustainment for three or so decades, and equally sudden
>reversion from the 1960s to the 1990s that inspired films like
>Dirty Harry) can be explained by a generation and a half or
>so's worth of people having their brains fried by lead fumes from cars
>as children. If lead was phased out on a technological efficiency
>fluke instead, well. Damn.

Don't get me wrong, people were agitating for its removal because of the health concerns; but what finally got the industry to actually do it was that the catalytic converters required to meet different pollution control goals didn't get along with lead.

(The data about the correlation between atmospheric lead levels and crime didn't come along until well after the fact, though—I believe that's a fairly recent discovery.)

>I would submit, my fine friend, that this warrant was not being served
>because the pig thought you were guilty of burglary and had been dumb
>enough to leave the goods in your car after nearly being pinched.
>(Although plenty of crooks have done plenty of far dumber things.)
>
>It was being served because he knew you were guilty of Contempt
>of Cop. Almost certainly a far more serious crime in his eyes.

Well, yes, that's obvious now, but when I was 17 it didn't seem logical.

>Calling your parents is the real cherry on top of that dick sundae.

There's a mental image.

>I don't have any direct experience with rural small-town cops, but I
>grew up in a suburban small town... and the six or seven cops
>on the payroll there at the time were long on "order" and very, very
>short on "law."

(nod) My experience was probably closer to that than, say, the Duke brothers' milieu, despite the fact that northern Maine is a strange exclave of the shitkicker South. Millinocket in my youth, despite its isolation, was culturally less like a rural town and more like a suburb in search of a city. There are no farms or anything around here, everybody worked at the paper mill, and the town limits are much more constrained than most townships around here, so it always felt more urban than it ever really was. The cops had their own foibles, but they weren't Rosco P. Coltrane types.

(At least they still dressed like cops back then. Nowadays they look like fucking commandos. Commandoes? What's the over/under on that?)

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   RE: Car Adventures: Tempest Mercutio Apr-04-19 1
     RE: Car Adventures: Tempest Gryphonadmin Apr-04-19 2
          RE: Car Adventures: Tempest MuninsFire Apr-04-19 3
              RE: Car Adventures: Tempest Senji Apr-05-19 4
                  RE: Car Adventures: Tempest rwpikul Apr-10-19 8
      RE: Car Adventures: Tempest SneakyPete Apr-06-19 6
          RE: Car Adventures: Tempest BobSchroeck Apr-23-19 9
              RE: Car Adventures: Tempest SneakyPete Apr-28-19 10
   RE: Car Adventures: Tempest Gryphonadmin Apr-05-19 5
   RE: Car Adventures: Tempest MuninsFire Apr-07-19 7


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