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As Read on Car Talk

Man, do we get some wacko mail!

Collected right here is all the fine correspondence that Tommy has read on the air on Car Talk. If you heard it on the show, you'll find it here.

2009
June 27 Horses Not to Bet On
June 20 Reasons Why Some Men Choose Dogs Over Wives
June 13 Ray Goes Out On a Limb
June 6 Math and word equations (courtesy of Craig Damrauer) and Does Car Talk effect mental acuity?
May 30 Ireland's Worst Driver
May 23 Our Affect on Vegetables
May 16 Our Favorite Fiat Jokes and Department of Inadvertent Educational Benefit
May 9 Wisdom from Woody Allen and New Use for Your Show
May 2 Beware the Mother Tongue...
April 25 Jeremy's Notes and A Pain in my Ears
April 18 Ingenious Financial Planning and The Many Benefits of Car Talk
April 11 Marital Wisdom from All Over and Categorizing the Car Talk Podcast
April 4 Signs That Your Company Is Going Under and Licensing the Snort?
March 28 The Perils of Cigars in Pipes and The effect of your show on my lizard
March 21 Andrew's Auto Parts Predicament and Sleep Deprivation in Iraq — and Car Talk
March 14 Handy Latin Phrases
March 7 Better Identification of Stupid People
February 28 Legal Observations
February 21 Mechanics rank above car salesmen in honesty poll
February 14 Questionable Wisdom
February 7 The Department of Full Disclosure and Last Voices?
January 31 A poignant elephant tale (well, sort of...) and A Strange Coincidence?
January 24 Ken's Automotive-Relationship Bind
January 17 The Wisdom of Groucho Marx
January 3 Polka Punishment and Truth about Arup Gupta


2008
December 20 The stupidest holiday gifts, ever
December 13 Our Pre-Recorded Snorts
December 6 Nuvo-Etymology Department
November 29 Lawnchair pilot, Larry Walters and Tommy's New Theory of Learning
November 22 Sheep Who Love Car Talk; Sheep and Car Talk: A Research Project; and Yet Another Benefit of The Car Talk Podcast
November 15 Rejected Dissertation Topics
November 8 The sexiness of parallel parking
November 1 Sheep Who Love Car Talk
October 25 Car Talk: Child Sleep Aid
October 18 Signs Tom's too old to be on the radio and Avoiding Car Talk
October 11 Marital-automotive woes
October 4 Car Talk Promotes Physical Fitness
September 27 Handy Latin Phrases
September 20 What's the proper etiquette for pumping gas?
September 13 Forgotten Wedding Anniversary; Style Invitational: Altering Famous Literary Passages
September 6 Alternative Ways of Calling Someone Stupid; What My Mother Taught Me; Understanding Engineers
August 30 A new word; More signs you need a new car; Bulwer-Lytton lousy fiction winners
August 23 Interesting facts about Car Talk Emails; All Time Most Confounding Puzzler?
August 16 Actual Lines from Resumes; Which Brother Is Gambling?;
Average American's MPG
August 9 Turning Emissions into Diamonds; Puzzler Water Rescue
August 2 Notes from Real-Life "Dilbert-Type" Managers; Tommy's List of "Phrases to Live By"; and the return of the fabled "Andy Letter"
July 26 You, too, can learn to sing the blues; one way to remove an engine
July 19 Vincent Van Gogh's relatives
July 12 Work Etiquette and You May Be Italian If...
July 5 How to Impress Your Wife with Car Talk and The Ford is My Auto, I Shall Not Want Another
June 28 Classic George Carlin
June 21 What can happen when you follow Tom and Ray's Advice
June 14 What women really want
June 7 You know it's time for a new car when...
May 31 "Alle, schau zu!" What happens when a German barbecue goes haywire and On Forgetting the Puzzler
May 17 Forgive Me Tom and Ray for Framing You
May 10 You just might need a new car soon...
May 3 From Foreign Accent Syndrome to Foreign Language Syndrome;
Hear Ray Explain Foreign Accent Syndrome
April 26 Apologizing for a Car Fire
April 5 Women: Marry a Man Uglier Than You
March 22 Rose Goes to Heaven
March 15 The Wisdom of Homer Simpson
March 8 Oddest Book Titles Ever
March 1 You Know You're a Loser When...
February 23 Great Discoveries on Craigslist
February 9 Who's Driving, Anyway?
February 2 A Distracted Driving Tale — and a Question
January 26 Names of Horses Expected to Have Undistinguished Careers
January 19 The Best Country and Western Song Titles of All Time
January 12 Washington Post Neologisms
January 5 Hemorrhoids on the Increase


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