A-men. enough said. Let's get back to business.....Sumbeam and
Tigers/Alpines
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> From: Paul Burr <tigerpb@ids.net>
> To: Bob Palmer <rpalmer@ames.ucsd.edu>
> Cc: MWood24020@aol.com; tigers@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Must see auto web site.
> Date: Saturday, August 01, 1998 4:37 PM
>
> Bob Palmer wrote:
> >
> > Mike, et Listers,
> >
> > I was thinking about making some comments along those lines myself
Mike. I
> > don't mind being politically incorrect when it's appropriate, but I
sense
> > more than a little race prejudice behind this slamming of the "Rice
Boy"
> > culture.
> > >
> Bob: just for the record, the host of the "Rice-Boy" page is a
> Korean-American, an explans that the term refers to the type of
> car/owner who uses tape decals, gaudy wheels, and a loud exhaust on a
> base model asian econobox. These owners then adapt the mindset that they
> are now Speed Racer in the Mach5-nothing on the planet can catch them
> now.
> As you'll see in the sites "Hate Mail" secton, the host is threatend
> with the most vulgar abuse at the hands of the phonies he's exposing.
> Every era has more than it's fair share of phoney poser's. This time
> around, it seems to be young guys with cheesy econoboxes trying to
> equate stickers and loudness with a truly fast car.
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