Why is it every time you see a Humma "H-2"....

[BiggJawn]

It has the name of some business painted on it?

Is that the ONLY way to afford one? Paint the name of your business on the side and let the other taxpayers pay for it?

"Hey, Buddy! You write that Behemouth off on your taxes?"

"Uh.....Yeah, I guess so...Why?" (when they don't try to run over you with it, that is...)

"How's about letting ME take it around the block, seein's how I'm paying for it, not you...."

[SOteric]

1. I know a guy who's got a Hummer and isn't a business.

But, I'm thinking if I saw a lot of company logos, that would just clear up for me the delicate question of whom to patronise.

[7th_Sephiroth]

16. i want to get an H-1

because i plan on moving to the mountains

[MercutioATC]

2. I live in a wealthy suburb and there's 6 or 7 here that don't have any

business graphics on them. I see 1 or 2 H2s a day here...

[DieboldMustDie]

3. You don't have to paint the name of your business on the side...

to get the tax break. I haven't noticed one with a company name on it yet.

[BiggJawn]

5. Must be a "Hoosier Thing", then.

Guy owns a liqour store in-town has 3 of them, Seen one the other week from a "Wedding Balloon" service (them balloons must be heavy!) and had to contest the ROW around the corner from my GF's today with one from some rib pit in the next town up the road...

[Melsky]

4. The only one I see here has a lumber business on it

I patronize the other lumberyard in town.

[WindRavenX]

6. Whenever I see a H2

I get pretty pissed off.
Hey buddy, it gets what, 2 miles to the gallon? Woo! :eyes:

[kanrok]

8. Yep. I agree

Is it wrong for me to mouth the word "asshole" every time I see a Hummer?

[Stone Cold]

10. I do the same thing...

....I was reading on sierraclub.org, and the average SUV, when you drive it under normal use for a year, wastes as much energy as leaving your fridge door open for 6 years, leaving your bathroom light on for 30 years, or leaving your tv on for 28 years. Makes me pissed everytime I see the damn things. :eyes:

[DemoTex]

7. BiggJawn ... right on the money!

The new tax laws are selling more Hummers than Carter's sold liver pills (as granny used to say). Why would anyone by one of those MF's, otherwise?

BTW: Got the station partially set up here in the NC mountains. Used my wrist-slingshot/Zebco rig to string up a 20-meter dipole cut to 14.28 (my airline net freq). I strung it slightly NNE-SSE so that the big lobes are WNW-ESE. On that bad solar day last week, when 20 was so awful, I was about the only east coast station heard in the western states (CA, AZ, NM) on our Thursday AM net. No amp, no Yagi ... just a properly cut dipole (SWR<1.1). The good news is, I have plenty of trees and plenty of wire! That expensive crank-up tower that I thought I had to have here at the final QTH? Maybe ... maybe not.

73
Mac

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

9. Oh, live it up!

Big honkin' tower on top of that mountain? Multi-band Yagi on the top? Maybe a little heat on the thing, some lovely Svetlanas to keep you warm in the shack? C'mon, you know you want to work Tierra del Fuego on a ground wave! ;-)

If you have enough room, or some really, really understanding neighbors, you can run that 160 antenna farm you've been dreaming of, too. :D

[DemoTex]

11. Oh, I've got the room for the 160 long-wire farm, believe me!

It will come (half-wave). So will 75 and 40. So many trees, so little time!

And I covet my neighbor's multi-band multi-polar VHF/UHF array (then I find that he is bi-polar and never comes around anymore! But it gives me a great ideas for VHF/UHF).

Once I get my 1kW amp here from Dallas, I'll evaluate the antenna needs. I use 1kW about once a month, at most, for the 20-meter SSB net. What I might need now is an amp for 2m/70cm. I'm finding an incredible area served by the local repeaters (Brevard, Anderson, Greeenville), and I often work Appalacian Trail hikers on those bands for many miles away.

In other words, the 2-meter coverage here in the NC Gorges area is excellent. I can drive from Greenville, SC, to our place in the western wilds of Transylvania county with no lack of 2-meter coverage.

In Dallas, I found 2-meters a chat frequency. Here in the wilds it is a life-or-death freq. My wife is studying for her Technician licence. She realizes that that will be the only thing that can save her on a dark night on Frozen Creek Road when things go bad.

[WoodrowFan]

12. never seen one with a business name

here in DC they all seem to be privately owned. Damn, those things hog parking spaces as well as gas!

[Dogmudgeon]

13. There's a Very Special Tax Break

for Hummers and other SUVs.

It was in the news this past spring, but was a "9-Day Wonder", after which it disappeared.

When we start down the decending slope of the Oil Mountain, the road yacht drivers will be trés fuquéd.

--bkl

[Robb]

14. Road yacht! LOL!

Hadn't heard that one...

I saw another H2 go by yesterday, and thought to myself "How come it's always an old white guy driving?"

Which I knew the answer to, of course. But at least these ball players who buy them have some chance of actually enjoying the stupid things.

[ProudGerman]

15. Actually, I see lots of them, only few have biz names on them

For me, its mostly a solitary individual wearing a suit on his way to the office.

Maybe I'll see less of them when they finally pave the roads here in the Richmond area.


In all seriousness, the private owners might as well have a slogan painted on their H2s. It's painfully obvious to most everybody, might as well make it obvious to everybody. They can have painted down the sides of their H2s in bright orange letters "I'm making up for a small penis".

[SPQR]

17. We usually see one or two

on our weekley trips to Vermont. The other day in Westchester County I saw a Hummer limo. That thing must get negative milage. Osama must love these guys. I think they all must suffer from that Japanese of the penis retreating into the body.

[Frangible]

18. They're a great offroad vehicle

But only about 1% of hummer owners actually take their vehicle offroads.

Personally, I think it's way too damn big and too much of a pig for me. I have a hand-me-down minivan that I hate hate hate. Can't wait until my finances free up and I can get a 2004 Toyota Prius.

[RichardRay]

19. How about a stretch H-2

I live in the mountains. In the kind of a place where I use 4WD 2/3 of the time to get thorugh snow and/or mud for the last mile or so to my cabin. I don't have the same hostility towards SUV's that some folks do.

I burst into full on guffaws last night, though, when I stopped at a corner a found myself face to face with a Hummer stretched to the legal limit. I'd guess there were six windows between the driver's window and the back end. With little running lights between each of them.

I'd love to find the owner and invite him to come up to the cabin - I don't think he'd make it around the first hairpin, let along the second or the third one!

-
Richard Ray - Jackson Hole, WY

[Bake]

20. The ones I've seen here in Mississippi

All had Haley Barbour for Governor stickers on 'em. No business graphics, though.

Bake

[Hammie]

21. It is called advertising

If I'm going to be driving around all day and want to get some name recognition, am I going to buy a Camry and paint my name on the side of it? Hell no. I'm going to buy something that turns heads and paint my name on the side of that. The H2 is a good choice. It looks kind of like and H1, so it stands out, but is is alot cheaper. When H1's were first available, I swear every radio station in town had one painted up like a giant bumper sticker. You may not like 'em, but you can't help but notice 'em