Re: New porker
acupunch;262321 said:
one more silly question from me, is this model of Porsche called poker? or you name your ride a 'Poker'. just curious.
and if you don't mind, I would like to join in the taxi ride queue if I make it to meet up this weekend.
Porker is probably an affectionate term for Porsche in general, but not to be applied to the Cayenne, and possibly more often to the 911 series than the Boxster and Cayman.
As it is one of the lightest steel cars around, it is probably ironic in nature, and used in a politically correct self depreciatory sense - it would be more vulgar in mixed guest parties to say `I bought a Porsche' rather than `I bought a Porker'. Laugh to yourself once a smart fat ass says `Oh yeah, cars are getting heavier and heavier nowadays, especially those Porkers' exposing himself for the fat fool that he is .... and for added entertainment u should quip - "yeah, but not as bad as those Lotus Elises! Born fat and now fatter even. But on the brighter side, the new BMWs are at 2.5 tons, much lighter than the 3 tons they were at before." (no this guy not American, and the English already think in KG, and he KNOW we are not american with our prominent singapore accent)
The fat fool would say, "I thought they were closer to 3.5 tons!"
Then you should say, "Yeah, you're probably closer with that".
Nah... this is not my imagination, actually happened, I was just a bystander though. But angmoh parties are like that lah, most of the time is talking cock and the art is how to impress people and make people envious without sounding ya-ya... but the performance envelope varies from individual to individual ... no I am not angmoh ...
Additionally, the paintwork of a 917 was that of a pig for the slaughter, marking out nice regions of the pig to cut. This might have been an additional reason why the Porker moniker held on. Behold: