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Wth is "Liquid Metal Design"?

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  1. 2k1Toaster

    2k1Toaster Brand New Prius Batteries

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    Saw a Buick commercial while watching the canucks playoff game and one of their selling points was "liquid metal design"... Uh, Wth? Are they just making crap up because they don't have any real features?

    It looks ridiculously ugly and mundane. No idea what they are talking about. Perhaps the only possible thing to do with a Buick after purchase is melt it back into raw material... It would look nicer.
     
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    Kind of prudish, but can the mod's change the title to "What on earth is..."

    And...: Go Canucks ;)
     
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    It's an acronym, no big deal...

    "What The Fudge" is an appropriate mental substitution if you need one...

    Indeed!

    You see the crazy (as usual) suit Don Cherry was wearing?!
     
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    It's a marketing term and deliberately crafted not to mean anything. If it meant something it could be disputed. Probably cost half a million in consulting and focus group fees to come up with, and another two million in royalties to James Cameron who used the term in Terminator II to describe the T-1000. The market research department likely calculated that the term would increase sales by 10 million dollars, so it was money well spent.
     
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    Oh yeah, he could moonlight as a traffic cone.
     
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    So it's made of mercury ??
     
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    General Motors re-engineered Buick design and manufacturing processes. Rusted out GM cars are melted and re-shaped as new 2011 Buicks. Each new Buick assumes the problems from the original car from which it was made. It's really an ingenious technology feat.
     
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    Liquid Metal, isn't that from "The Terminator"?
     
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    I read it on the internet so it must be true:
    <H3>Wth World Taekwondo Federation

    no fudge mentioned.

    </H3>
     
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    Wait a minute, you complain about the thread title and then end the post swearing like that? :boxing:;)

    They played good last night, I didn't want to see Nashville go but they dominated the 3rd and just choked them off.

    Oh and it's a Buick so it is irrelevant...
     
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    Wth is acronym for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which are the days GM produces liquid metal Buicks. At least, that's how I understand the acronym. Maybe it means something else.:p
     
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    I say it all the time when the wife takes the other car...

    Where's The Fiesta?
     
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    The alternative I've tended to hear is Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. There's a user over on Tivcommunity w/the handle WhiskeyTango. :)

    Side note: There's a pho restaurant in the city a me called http://www.whatthepho.net/.
     
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    Aaahhh...nothing brings back memories for me more than the military phoenetic alphabet. I had to learn the phoenetic alphabet during my college ROTC days. I can also tell you why you say the word "sir", but that's for another day.
     
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    I like it when people speak phoenetically without knowing them.

    Watermelon Toffee Fingernail.
     
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    I often use the NATO alphabet when I am assisting callers with their information.

    I've had people be really surprised that I know them. I have a chart on the wall... duh. :huh:
     
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