Buick Names Car After Masturbation

[matcom]

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MAKUHARI, Japan (Reuters) - General Motors Corp will rename its Buick LaCrosse in Canada because the name for the car is slang for masturbation in Quebec, embarrassed officials with the U.S. automaker said Thursday.

GM officials, who declined to be named, said it had been unaware that LaCrosse was a term for self-gratification among teenagers in French-speaking Quebec.

GM officials in Canada are working on a new name for the car, a sedan that will go on sale next year to replace the Buick Regal.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=1&u=/nm/20031023/od_nm/autos_show_buick_dc

[underpants]

1. LaCrosse? Oh yeah we used to call it "touch football"

How is "LaCrosse" slang for "shaking hands with the unemployed"?

[tnlefty]

2. too funny

You don't even want to know the images conjured up when I hear or read about Smirk's* "donors conference".

[larryepke]

3. A little study of local culture would go a long way

Remember the Chevy Nova? GM tried to sell it in Mexico, but since "no va" means "it won't go" in Spanish, the car didn't sell well at all there.

[gratuitous]

4. Buick named a car

Monkeyspank?

[Nihil]

6. yep, responding to competition ...

... from the Ford Tosser, Lada Jerchoff and Mitsubishi Willywaggle ...

[gratuitous]

8. The Pontiac Pudpuller

We build excitement -- Pontiac!

[underpants]

9. This is not your father's Chickenchoker

:bounce:

[gratuitous]

14. I think we're having too much fun with this subject

I'm starting to grow hair on my palms.

[Richardo]

15. And my monitor's getting dark...wait, I CAN'T SEE!!!

[matcom]

21. as i have always said, Buy A Buick......

Kill A Kitten :D

[Wickerman]

5. Gee, so when I tell my wife I am going to La Crosse

she shouldn't expect me to drive across the border to Wisconsin, but retire to bedroom with some mags and a box of Kleenex, huh?

[DakotaDemocrat]

18. Grew up in La Crosse, WI

I'll never see the "World's Largest Six Pack" the same way - those tall cylindrical structures that oozed liquid.

I think I need a cigarette...

[underpants]

7. Worse than the Chevy Nova

as in "No go" in Spanish.

Bob, our sales are WAY below forecasts in Guatemala...

Yeah uh.......

[MissMillie]

17. I remember when our Spanish teacher told us about this one...

.... the laugh lasted for quite a while. I believe the Nova was renamed in Mexico: Caribe

[HEyHEY]

10. The're renaming it the Buick "Jerk off" has a nice ring--

Freaky thing is the game Lacrosee, imagine what they think when they hear "Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the National Lacrosse series" on tv?

[kodi]

16. probably has 4-hand drive.

.

[Fenris]

11. See, the French screw America over again! (sarcasm)

Can you guess what I am doing behind this sign, mon ami?

[Richardo]

13. "I'll give you a hint - that's not my thumb above the "B"...."

:7

[rock]

12. So, with such a jazzy name, why are they changing it?

?

[geniph]

19. I'm always amused by the name Cadillac Escalade

an escalade is an attack by ladders on a besieged fortification - it's usually a suicidal-type attack. Therefore, buying the Escalade is a suicidal attack on the highways of the world. Most appropriate for a gas-guzzling Suburban Mall Assault Vehicle.

[Lisa]

20. I still think this sounds like an urban legend ...

They got away with the "Hummer", didn't they?