Originally published at: Oscar Mayer stops dicking around with the Wienermobile's name | Boing Boing
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I blame Frank in marketing.
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This reminds me of the IHOP/IHOB name change silliness a few years ago. I’m sure that it was always meant to be a temporary marketing gimmick that would stoke cries of outrage among the public and score them a bunch of free publicity, just as this article is doing now.
And a lot of people realized this from the beginning:
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It’s almost as if it was intended to be a temporary name change all along.
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Ooooooh, that coachwork is soooooo hot! 
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This from a region that saw sage burning in recent wildfires. Makes no franken sense:
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It’s all a bunch of baloney.
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Like new C̶o̶c̶k̶ Coke
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I remember seeing it once on the road in New Jersey and how funny that was. It’s a ridiculous, phallic-looking thing, and Oscar Mayer should just embrace that. You can’t get away from the fact that hot dogs and sausages look like penises, so let’s just get over that and enjoy this goofy car.
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The license plate says PEA.
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Are you insulting the beloved pea-car?
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Pekar was awesome. 
Okay, the Reliant Robin maybe not so much.
Rolling a Reliant Robin Funny Moments (Episode 1) - Top Gear
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And now the question is why MotorTrend published two versions by two different writers on the same day. Or is this a thing for MotorTrend? I’m not a regular reader.
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The Motor Trend version of the Reboing, perhaps?
ETA: Who TF spells roly-poly “rolly-pollie” ???!!!
I’m a-thankin’ you for defendin’ mah honor, and that of the beloved pea-car, Ma’am.
