As Read On Car Talk

JAN
11Firefighters Top Gallup's "Honesty and Ethics" List
FEB
28A poignant elephant tale (well, sort of...)
14Captain Destructo
01Welcome Tommy Rae
JAN
26A Unified Theory Explaining YOUR BRAINS!
19Letters from Kids
12Why did the German motorist drive into the river?
FEB
08Our Favorite Similes and Metaphors
MAR
30What's "The Best of Car Talk" Actually Worth?
08Yuri Geller, Watch Out!
02Advice from Kids
APR
13One Reason to Nudge Your Co-workers Occasionally
06'52 MG TD Midget
MAY
19A Visit to Car Talk Plaza
11The NYU Letter
04The End of the Road
JUN
22Signs Found in Kitchens
16Great Discoveries on Craigslist
JUL
26You Might Be Italian If . . .
12Melissa Peterson Writes In
12Corollaries to Murphy's Law
05Out of the Woodwork: The Sylvia Poggioli Defenders
AUG
17Days of the Week, Revised
10Things You Would Never Know Without the Movies
10How to Remove an Engine
03Suggested Workplace Etiquette
SEP
28Washboard Roads: A Cry For Help
06Country Song Titles
06Public Distrust of Mechanics and Hair Stylists
OCT
12Students answer science questions.
NOV
16Police Investigating Emergency Doughnut Run
10A Brand New Dictionary
JAN
27It's All In The Attitude
20Aging: Just a Matter of Perspective
13Driving Records Of Which We Hadn't Heard
FEB
10Car Talk Good For Your Health? Maybe, Says Science!
03For Better Identification of Stupid People
MAR
17Explaining How Aircraft Are Able to Fly
17On Topher, Anal Retentiveness, and Channeling
APR
28Mango Memories and Ray in the Wrong
14Beware the Mother Tongue!
MAY
26God Knows What Kids Are Thinking
19In Praise of the Unmotivated
JUN
30Return to Sender
09Really, really bad country song titles!
02Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Winners
JUL
28The Universal Grade-Change Form
28Boycott Car Talk!
21The Oreo Personality Test
21Honk If You Believe This!
AUG
25In Defense of the Puzzler
18Faith and Begorra! Selected Personal Ads from Ireland
10World History According to College Students
02Somebody Silence That Surgeon!
SEP
15Lawn Chair Pilot Larry Walters
08How Do You Decide Whom to Marry? (According to Kids.)
NOV
22From the Department of Clueless Dealerships
DEC
19A Christmas Story. Sort of.
JAN
19Best and Worst Comments Taken from the MIT Course Evaluation Guide
14Learn More Better English
08The Worst Analogies in High School Essays
FEB
26Enhanced Customer Relations?
12Highly Useful Latin Phrases
MAR
24Things I Learned From My Kids
11Car Talk Hatemail Division
03Great Imponderables
APR
27AAADD: The Warning Signs
22The Worst Opening Line in Literature?
08Senior Personal Ads
01Bugsy's Camp Letters
MAY
27De-Clarified Proverbs
20Dilbert's Salary Theorem
20A Little Knowledge Can Be a Dangerous Thing
06Handy English System Conversion Units
JUN
17Warning Labels
04Personal Ads, Translated!
JUL
29Thanks For The Hemorrhoids
29Steven Wright Jokes
29It's Good to Be a Woman
15Thoughts to Ponder, or Ponderous Thoughts?
15Men, Self-Deprecate Thyself!
AUG
26British Officer Reports
26Quotes From Women
19The Horrible Truth About Duct Tape
11The Sequoia's Revenge
11How Do You Make a Baby Cry?
05If You Usually Do Nothing, How Do You Know When You're On Vacation?
SEP
16How I Met My Wife
16Positive? Negative!
16English Creative Writing Battle
09Tommy's Little Brain Test
09Automotive Marketing?
09Fun Things To Do In An Elevator
09Excuse We Wish We Had Tried
02Words To Live By
02Magliozzi's Ignoramus Principle
OCT
21Is This News Fit to Print?
14From the Department of Ethics: The Used Car Salesman
14Tommy's New Theory of Learning
07Rejected International Sports Team Names
07The Pilot And The Service Dog
NOV
18From the "Hope Springs Eternal" Files: A Joke
11The Exercise Diary
02The Car Talk Puzzler Got Me a Job!
DEC
29How About a Little Civility?
23More Allegedly True Statements
09Pre-Recorded Snorts
02Thank God for Satan!
JAN
23A Brief History of the Zamboni!
FEB
27The Secret to a Happy Marriage?
APR
24One-Letter Lexicography
17Effect of Gender on Car Repairs
MAY
28How Do You Decide Whom to Marry?
15Classic Hate Mail
08A Mouse in the Pants?
JUN
26Advice for Americans traveling to France this Summer
12If Airlines Sold Paint
05The MIT Commencement Address
JUL
31Caddies vs. Golfers: 10 Vituperative Exchanges
17Home Ec Tips for the 1950s (and Today)
10The Truth About Lying
AUG
21New Age Corporate and Investment Acronyms
SEP
18A Male and Female Columnist Write a Story
04Study: Is Kansas Flatter Than a Pancake?
OCT
23World's Funniest Joke?
09Looking for a Husband?
02The Magician and the Parrot
NOV
12A Good Friend: An Ode to Friendship
DEC
23Two Bear Scientists
18Car Talk's Employee Evaluations
11Gifts for Men: A Handy Guide
JAN
24Welcome Tommy Rae
FEB
28That Puzzler Packs a Punch
14The Guy Test
08It's Captain Destructo!
APR
18Ode to a Dart: Ray's Contribution
04Ode to a Dart
MAY
23The Melissa Peterson Letter!
09The NYU Letter
02You Know You're From the Trailer Park When
JUL
25The Andy Letter
18Things You Do Not Want Your Surgeon to Say
11Pillsbury Doughboy Wanted for Attempted Murder?
AUG
01How to Remove an Engine
SEP
19A Bad Case of Witzelsucht
OCT
10Your Science Questions Answered
NOV
14Turning Emissions into Diamonds
07The Andy Letter
07Vowels to Bosnia
DEC
19The Holiday Diet (ca. 1997)
JAN
26Questions to Ponder
19Civility, or a Rebuke to Car Talk Hate Mail Writers
11Keep Straight at the River
04Learn More Better English
FEB
22Ads from Craigslist
15Do I Need a Click AND a Clack?
08"The Surrendered Wife"
02A Smart Mercedes
MAR
29Help Wanted: Time-Traveling Companion
29Things I've Learned from My Children
15Adult Ed Classes for Men
08Car Talk Just Might Be Good For Your Health!
01The "I'm Stupid" Sign
APR
26Letters from Kids
19Memories of Mangos and Raymond in the Wrong
12In Defense of MG Owners
05Our Favorite Similies and Metaphors
MAY
24Napping Found to Help Prevent Heart Disease
JUN
28Signs Found in Kitchens
28Sons Get Their Smarts From Their Mothers
21Found in Your Car . . .
07Signs Found at Businesses
JUL
26The Exercise Diary
18Some Very Punny Stories
12Genie in a Bottle
12Dear Professor, I Need a Grade-Change Because ...
02Things You Would Never Know Without the Movies
02Honk If You Believe This . . .
AUG
30Can't Guys Be Right Even Once?
15Faith and Begorra! Personal Ads from Ireland
15The Joys of Teaching
02You May Be Italian If...
SEP
27How to Drive on Washboard Roads?
13One Woman's Facts About Men
13Police Mistake Automotive Rat-gassing for Suicide Attempt
06Really Bad Country Song Titles
06Public Distrust of Mechanics and Hair Stylists
OCT
25The Drunk and the Single Guy
18Larry Walters Goes For A Flight
NOV
29Marital Trickery
15News Item: Police Helicopter Stops at Krispy Kreme
01Notes from Real-Life "Dilbert-Type" Managers
DEC
20In Defense of British Cuisine
06Crime and Punishment: Polka Edition
JAN
27Pop Music and Dementia
13A Few Handy Metric Conversions
13Does Car Talk Affect Mental Acuity?
06Observations on Aging
FEB
24Our Favorite Foreign Signs
10A Distracted Driving Tale--and a Question
03An MG Dating Faux Pas
03Like the Sign Says...
MAR
30The End of the Road?
30An Especially Lame Joke
23Old Dart, New Dart
02An Insincere Invitation
APR
27Why the General Motors - Peugeot Partnership Bodes Well for GM
20Women: Marry a Man Uglier than You!
13A Lesson in Assertiveness Training
06A Darned Good Reason for Wearing Underwear
MAY
25A Few Thoughts to Ponder
11A Little Knowledge Can Be a Dangerous Thing!
04Signs You Just Might Need a New Car
JUN
29Wacky Warning Labels
22Only God Knows...
08A Few Incredibly Lousy Puns
01More Signs You Need a New Car
JUL
27Why It's Good to Be a Woman
27Boycott Our Lousy Show!
20Gender Equality (or the Lack of It) at Car Talk
20Barbecue Truths
13Grand Prix... in Jersey?
06Where's My Car?
AUG
31A Tale from the Birthday Cake Files
31A Few Painful Puns
31Silence That Surgeon!
25Marital-Automotive Woes
25The Clever Wife
25World History According to College Students
17Best Epitaphs of All Time
03Dealing with a Car Salesman
03Average American's MPG
SEP
28How to Have Fun in Retirement
21The Sad Truth About Duct Tape
14Unfaithful to the Puzzler?
OCT
2615 Famous Sports Quotes
19Madeline's Quest: The Search for Eccentricity
12Who's Driving?
06You Know You're Italian If...
NOV
30Italian Study
21Words of Wisdom from Mom
21"Dealerships without a Clue" Department
17Hemorrhoids on the Increase
09Shop Till You Drop (in Size)
02New Words!
DEC
28The Fiat Mileage Prank
21Obfuscated Christmas Carols
14Not for the Orthopedically Queasy
07Avoiding Car Talk!
07Car Dealers - Least Trusted!
JAN
29Another Automotive Confession
22Best and Worst Comments Taken from the MIT Course Evaluation Guide
08A Few Email Thought Provokers...
01Automotive Confessions
FEB
26A Yugo... in the living room?
19Personal Ads from the ...London Review of Books...
MAR
26Older Siblings Are Smarter
05Aging Is a Matter of Perspective
APR
30Car Talk Goes Under the Dash with Bill Kramer
23Unconventional English Measurements
16The Lawyer and the Mule
09How to Remove an Engine
09Great Newspaper Headlines
02About the Knock-Your-Socks-Off Myth
MAY
21Signs that Your Guy Should Not Be Wielding a Set of Tools ...Around the House
07The party to end all parties
JUN
25How to Impress Your Wife with Car Talk
18On Forgetting the Puzzler
18How Not to Cook Sausages
11Shakespearean Car Reviews
04Job Applicant Faux Pas
04Haikus for Jews
JUL
30Love and Rust Spots
30A Car Classified
30"Hey, Watch This" — A True Story
23Novel concept for increasing MPG
23Famous Last Words...
23The Ford Is My Auto, I Shall Not Want Another
16If you do nothing, how do you know you're on vacation?
09Avoiding Our Lousy Show
09Study links astrological signs with driving habits
02Driver's Test... Updated
AUG
27Proper Brownie-to-Mechanic Ratio
27The World's 19 Shortest Books
27Car Talk Promotes Physical Fitness
20Could life get any harder?
20Volvo Dope Slap
20The Puzzler's Work Ethic, Questioned
13The NPR Café
13Enhanced Customer Relations
06More Clear Signs You Need a New Car
06Re-Released Boomer Tunes
SEP
24The New Car Talk Mid-Show Alarm
17Bogosity, Defined at Last!
17A Bad Case of Auto Hubris
10Volkswagen "Mans Up" the Beetle
10More Famous Last Words
03Chuck's bad day on the road
03Puzzler Vacation Time
030 - 200 in 4 seconds
OCT
29Great Quotes About Dogs
29'Check Wallet' Light
22"Daily Savings Time"
15A Ferret up the Trousers
08Car Talk: Not Such A Good Test Prep
01How the Supreme Court Emulates Car Talk
NOV
18Department of Painful Headlines
12Auto Slogans That Never Caught Fire
05Gender Benders, Grammatically Speaking
DEC
31The Wonderful World of Autolinguistics
09A Case of Automotive Karma
03A Few Choice New Words
JAN
30Used Car Salesman Comes Clean
23"Hah! We're Back!"
23Here for the Barbecue
16Could This Be Tommy's Next Job?
09Classic Rodney Dangerfield
FEB
27Learn More Better English
20What kids say about Car Talk
06The Subris of Some Drivers
06An Ill-Conceived Getaway
MAR
27Yogi-isms
27A humble request from a mechanic
20Breaking News: Bad driving may be genetic!
13Why the comedy club is as good as the health club
06A Fair Trade?
06Favorite Rodney Dangerfield jokes submitted by our listeners
APR
24New Auto Vocabulary
10Not Quite Right, Kid
03Funny Court Statements
MAY
29Winners of Worst Opening Lines in Literature
22Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder: This Is How It Goes
15The Serenity Prayer
08The Magician and the Parrot
01Lost in Translation: English Signs from Overseas
JUN
26New Listeners
26Dougie Berman, Bad Influence.
19Return to Sender
JUL
31Creative Writing Class
31How do you decide whom to marry?
24The Dysfunctional Section of a Hallmark Store
24The Cowboy and the Consultant
24Top 19 Rejected International Sports Team Names
17Interesting facts about Car Talk Emails
10Oreo Personality Test
10Hate Mail Division from Car Talk Plaza
03Children's Books That Didn't Make It
03A Really, Truly Bad Pun
AUG
21When Your Wife Looks Like a Truck...
21What's new at Car Talk Plaza?
21Fan Mail (If You Can Call It That)
SEP
18A Joke from the "Hope Springs Eternal" Department
04You know you're from Boston when...
04How it's possible to know less than zero
04Our captive audience
OCT
30Life lessons learned the hard way
23Friendship Is...
16Causes of the massive, nine-day traffic jam in China?
09Hahvahd v. MIT
02Advice from Kids
NOV
27Wasting another perfectly good hour listening to Car Talk
20Texting Abbreviations for the Elderly
06Kids Say the Funniest Things
DEC
18Fifteen golden rules to follow when holiday shopping for the man in your life
JAN
31A poignant elephant tale (well, sort of...)
31A Strange Coincidence?
24Ken's Automotive-Relationship Bind
17The Wisdom of Groucho Marx
03Polka Punishment
03Truth about Arup Gupta
FEB
28Legal Observations
21Mechanics rank above car salesmen in honesty poll
14Questionable Wisdom
07The Department of Full Disclosure
07Last Voices?
MAR
28The Perils of Cigars in Pipes
28The effect of your show on my lizard
21Sleep Deprivation in Iraq - and Car Talk
21Andrew's Auto Parts Predicament
14Handy Latin Phrases
07Better Identification of Stupid People
APR
25A Pain in my Ears
18The Many Benefits of Car Talk
18Ingenious Financial Planning
11Marital Wisdom from All Over
11Categorizing the Car Talk Podcast
04Licensing the Snort?
04Signs That Your Company Is Going Under
MAY
30Ireland's Worst Driver
23Our Effect on Vegetables
16Our Favorite Fiat Jokes
16Department of Inadvertent Educational Benefit
09New Use for Your Show
09Wisdom from Woody Allen
02Beware the Mother Tongue...
JUN
27Horses Not to Bet On
20Reasons Why Some Men Choose Dogs Over Wives
13Ray Goes Out On a Limb
06Math and word equations
06Craig Damrauer
06Does Car Talk affect mental acuity?
JUL
25Real Excuses Received by Schoolteachers
25Fun Things to Do in an Elevator
18All Time Most Confounding Puzzler?
11Advice for Americans Traveling to France
11Bad Puns
04The Ford Is My Auto, I Shall Not Want Another
04Why Dogs Are Better than Men
AUG
29A "Grammy and the Cake" story - from Ireland
29Things we've learned from the movie industry
29Painful puns (though blissfully short)
22Male-Female Translations
15Dealing with a Car Salesman
15Right Person, Right Job?
15Corollaries to Murphy's Law
08Treat Us with Silent Contempt, Please
08Auto Repair Magic
SEP
26Great Quotes from Steven Wright
19Responses to Lousy Pick Up Lines
19A Woman and a Man Meet on a Train
12Worst Opening Lines Ever
12Proper Brownie-to-Mechanic Ratio
12A Course in... Stupidity
05Stealing Your Thunder and Deja vu
05Automotive Haikus
OCT
31Accidental Accident Reports
31Molly Gets A New Car
17You Know It's Time to Diet When...
10The Cost of Growing Tomatoes
02The world's funniest jokes?
NOV
28Two Bear Scientists
21Things You'll Never Catch Dad Saying
14More Great Comebacks to Pickup Lines
07Things Mom Would Never Say
DEC
26Worst Analogies in High School Essays
19Irreverent Thieves
19Dartmouth in Need of More Math Puzzlers
12Slightly Fractured Hanukkah Songs
05Actual Headlines
JAN
26Names of Horses Expected to Have Undistinguished Careers
19The Best Country and Western Song Titles of All Time
05Hemorrhoids on the Increase
FEB
23Great Discoveries on Craigslist
09Who's Driving, Anyway?
02A Distracted Driving Tale - and a Question
MAR
22Rose Goes to Heaven
15The Wisdom of Homer Simpson
08Oddest Book Titles Ever
01You Know You're a Loser When...
APR
26Apologizing for a Car Fire
05Women: Marry a Man Uglier Than You
MAY
31"Alle, schau zu!" What happens when a German barbecue goes haywire
31On Forgetting the Puzzler
17Forgive Me Tom and Ray for Framing You
10You just might need a new car soon if...
JUN
28Classic George Carlin
21What can happen when you follow Tom and Ray's Advice
07You know it's time for a new car when...
JUL
26You, Too, Can Learn to Sing the Blues
26One Way to Remove an Engine
19Vincent Van Gogh's Relatives
12You May Be Italian If...
12Work Etiquette
05How to Impress Your Wife with Car Talk
05The Ford is My Auto, I Shall Not Want Another
AUG
30More Signs You Need a New Car
30Bulwer-Lytton Lousy Fiction Winners
30A new word
23Interesting facts about Car Talk Emails
23All Time Most Confounding Puzzler?
16Actual Lines from Resumes
16Which Brother Is Gambling?
16Average American's MPG
09Puzzler Water Rescue
09Turning Emissions into Diamonds
02Notes from Real-Life "Dilbert-Type" Managers
02Tommy's List of "Phrases to Live By"
02The Return of the Fabled "Andy Letter"
SEP
27Handy Latin Phrases
20What's the proper etiquette for pumping gas?
13Forgotten Wedding Anniversary
13Style Invitational: Altering Famous Literary Passages
06Alternative Ways of Calling Someone Stupid
06What My Mother Taught Me
06Understanding Engineers
OCT
25Car Talk: Child Sleep Aid
18Signs Tom's too old to be on the radio
18Avoiding Car Talk
11Marital-automotive woes
04Car Talk Promotes Physical Fitness
NOV
29Tommy's New Theory of Learning
29Lawnchair Pilot, Larry Walters
22Sheep Who Love Car Talk
22Sheep and Car Talk: A Research Project
22Yet Another Benefit of The Car Talk Podcast
15Rejected Dissertation Topics
08The sexiness of parallel parking
01Sheep Who Love Car Talk
DEC
20The stupidest holiday gifts, ever
13Our Pre-Recorded Snorts
06Nuvo-Etymology Department
JAN
20Bizarre Bazaars: Weird, Wacky & Just Plain Embarrassing Business Names
13... And One Car Talk Listener's Unique Solution
13Obesity and MPG: An American Problem...
06Weirdness in Waccabuc
FEB
17An insincere invitation
10Represtartings, and other new words
03Personal Ads from the ...London Review of Books...
MAR
31Back In Time
31Things I've Learned from My Children
24End of the Road?
10In Defense of Napping on the Job
APR
21Top Bumper Stickers Seen Around the World
07'52 MG TD Midget
MAY
26A Couple of Embarrassing Moments
19New Words
05Favorite Analogies
JUN
23The Pope's 10 Commandments of the Road
16Graduation Speeches
02Global warming caused by Act of Congress
JUL
28Universal Grade-Change Form
21Store Says Customer Used Gun to Negotiate
14Is the elder Tommy smarter?
14An Auto Column Like No Other
AUG
31Quotes from Albert Einstein
31The Hormone Guide
25The Joys of Being a Teacher
25Duct tape's single greatest failing
18How Snorting Led to Marital Discord
18Italian Moms - and Their 61-year-old At-Home Sons
18Truly Terrible Writing
11Making Amends with the Car Gods
04Exercise Diary
SEP
29Car Talk and Nocturnal Flatulence
22Hang up and drive?
15Unfaithful to the Puzzler?
08The Bogus, Stick-on Sunroof
08The Lincoln - and the Rattlesnakes
OCT
27The fabled Andy Letter
20Philomedy: Our Favorite Philosophical Jokes
13Single in the Supermarket
NOV
24Shootin' the lugnuts off your car
17Wedgie-Proof Underwear
10Can't Escape Click and Clack
DEC
29Too Much Information?
22Your Voices Agitate Our Dog Bob!!
15Why the Minivan might be the Sexiest Car Around
08Love a man with a Buick
01Newspaper readers get Tom and Ray laughing
JAN
28A New Automotive Vocabulary
21Top 10 Car Make Baby Names of 2005
14Mafia Humor
FEB
25An Amazing Fact
25U.S.S. Nautilus visits Seattle and crew secretly buys Bar's Leak
18The Need for BOTH Click and Clack?
11Practical Jokes from Our Listeners
04Top Meeting Quotes
MAR
18Car Talk's Top Five Signs Your Mechanic Is Ripping You Off
11A Joke from the "Hope Springs Eternal" Department
APR
22A Unified Theory Explaining YOUR BRAINS!
22Of Women and Wedgies
15Great Sayings from Fran Lebowitz
MAY
27The Great Outdoors
27Our Favorite Similes and Metaphors
20Women who give wedgies
20World History -- According to Students.
13Wal-Mart's New Wines
JUN
1715 Things Bill Fenton Did at Target
10Actual Newspaper Ads
JUL
29Love and Rust Spots
29"Hey, Watch This!"
29Thinking Quiz
22Silence This Surgeon
22Famous Last Words
22Some Very Punny Stories
15A Modest Automobile
AUG
26What Was That Number Again?
19Wretched Writing
19Alex's Fiat
19A Very Special Classified
12"Hey! Watch This!"
05Puzzler Vacation Time
05Advice from Kids
05The Painful Puns Persist...
SEP
30The "Check Wallet" Light
16How Jim Lost his Mechanical Dignity
16Bogosity, Defined
09Overhead Highway Signs We'd Like to See
09Making Amends With the Car Gods
09More Famous Last Words
02A Real Man's Chain Letter
OCT
28Letter from a Captive Listener
21Who's Driving?
21About Those Two Breaks...
14A Fuel-Efficient Humvee?
07A Hot Date
NOV
25Marital Trickery
18Life Saving Auto Medical Manuevers
11Another Good Reason for Clean Underwear
04Search for Eccentricity
DEC
23Lost in Translation: GM Model Names in Chinese
09Things To Be Thankful For
02Not for the Orthopedically Queasy
JAN
22Metric Conversions
15Mouse in Pants
08Another Automotive Confession
01A Fun Game
01Did you know this?
FEB
26Great Imponderables
19A Unified Theory Explaining YOUR BRAINS!
12Something to Offend Everyone
MAR
26Five Tips for a Woman
26Redneck Sayings
19The Benefits of Owning a Yugo
05A Joke from the "Hope Springs Eternal" Department
APR
16Incredibly Lousy Puns
16Husband 1.0.
02here
MAY
21The Great Outdoors
21Request from Lorna
14More Ukranian vowel humor
07Women and wedgies
JUN
18Tommy's favorite new lawyer joke
11Zen Judaism
JUL
30Aging Is a Matter of Perspective
30The Dysfunctional Section of a Hallmark Store
30Jetta Driving Ass
23Gender Equality (and the Lack of it) On Car Talk
23You Know You're from Boston When...
23Re-Released Boomer Tunes
16What the Unmotivated Are Doing for You
16A Clever Wife
09Your Driving Record and Your Astrological Sign
AUG
27Subtle Slams
27A Son's Letter
27Quantum Mechanics and Wrong Information
20A Court Fine
20Top Ten Ways to Know Your Midlife Crisis Is Over
200 to 200 - ...fast...
13A Mercedes Mid-Life Crisis
13The Puzzler's Dubious Work Ethic
13A Son's Love
06It's Good to be a Woman
06Ann's Complaint About Nick's Camaro
06Eloquent Insults
SEP
24Car Talk and Narcolepsy
17How the Supreme Court is just like "Stump the Chumps"
10Puzzler Vacation Time
10Under the Knife with Car Talk
03Top 19 Rejected International Sports Team Names
03Kids Say the Funniest Things
03Fan Mail (If You Can Call It That)
OCT
29The Proposal for Daily Savings Time
22Linguistic Anthropology Department
15The Sky Is Falling
08A Gas Saving Tip
01What Nuns Drive
NOV
12License Plate Lingo
05A Ferret Up Your Leg
DEC
31Wasting Another Perfectly Good Hour
31A Christmas Story (Sort Of)
17The Benefits of Having Three Halves
17The Lousiest Car Ever
17The "Two-Hat" Cold Remedy
10A Few Choice New Words
03Egyptian Driving Rules
JAN
31Redneck Sayings
03Cynical Sayings
FEB
28Incredibly Lousy Puns
21A letter from Monsieur Gigi
07Five tips for a woman...
MAR
27Larry Miller's Quotes on Aging
13Louis Casimir Jr., Obituary
06Husband 1.0
APR
24Gun It!
17More Lousy Puns
10Assertiveness Training
032004 Version of You Might Be a Redneck if...
MAY
29Exceptionally Painful Word Puns
22The Party to End All Parties
15New Lawyer Joke
08Husband-Mart
01Pat calls Tom and Ray on the carpet.
JUN
26Woman over 40
26Declarified Proverbs
19Bugsy's letters from summer camp
12The Year's Best Headlines
05Car Dings
05Lost the Argument AND the War
JUL
31Perspectives on aging
31bumper stickers for women
31What the Unmotivated Are Doing for You
24Kansas and pancakes
24"She was so blonde..."
24Painful country music song titles
17Volvo Dope Slap
17A Really, Truly Bad Pun
10Boycott Car Talk!
10Definition of Barbecuing
03A Bone to Pick
AUG
28The Dysfunctional Section of a Hallmark Store
28Jetta Driving Ass
28Forensic Psychiatrist's Jetta Theory
21Life in Various States
21Stealing Your Thunder and Deja vu
21Clever Wife
14The Style Invitational; Week 560: The 97.5-Meter Dash;
14Exercise
14Mouthful Gets Metro Passenger Handcuffs and Jail
07Fan Mail (If You Can Call It That)
07Top 19 Rejected International Sports Team Names
07"How I Met My Wife"
SEP
25Ho Family
11A Professor's Jetta Judgement
11Questions to Ponder
04Accident-Prone Names
04Elegant Insults
04Consultant Humor
OCT
30Red Sox Use Tom & Ray's Philosophy to Win World Series
23Kids Say the Funniest Things
09Teacher Arrested
02A story... at someone else's expense.
NOV
27Automotive Confession
20My Wife
13Tips for Northerners Moving to the South
06Hahvahd & MIT
DEC
18Wasting another perfectly good hour...
11Automotive Confessions
04Rusting Car
JAN
25Observations on Aging
18Road Rules: India versus New England
11Settle a Saudi Bet...
04Friendship Is...
04Great Bits of Wisdom for Our Time
FEB
22That Puzzler Has Punch!
15It's All in The Attitude
08Used Car Salesman Comes Clean
01Move Over, Border Collie...
MAR
15Aging Is a Matter of Perspective
08Tom and Ray's Somewhat Famous Saukerkraut Pierogi
01Legal Observations
APR
26Adult Ed Classes for Men
19Who Reads What and Why
12Senior Personal Ads
05Top Bumper Stickers Seen Around the World
MAY
31Really Bad Country Song Titles
24Goodbye My Coney Island Baby
24What the Unmotivated Are Doing for You
JUN
28Amazing Anagrams
07Declarified Proverbs
JUL
26CEO-Nistas
26It's Good to be a Woman
19The psychologist is in: Tommy shares the Oreo personality test
19Tom and Ray: guilty of shamelessly flirting with female callers?
12Genie in a Bottle
05Faith and Begorra! Personal Ads from Ireland
05Actual Entries from Qantas Maintenance Logs
AUG
30Volvo Dope Slap
30Kansas Is Flatter than a Pancake
30Really, Truly Bad Puns
23She was So Blonde...
23Bulwer-Lytton 2003 Winners
16If Airlines Sold Paint...
16You May Be Italian If...
09World History According to College Students
09A Woman's Facts About Men
02Re-Released Boomer Tunes
02Can't Men Be Right Even Once?
02You Know You're from Boston When...
SEP
27Positives and Negatives
20Tritrack's Moderator Teenage Driving Monitor
13Top 19 Rejected International Sports Team Names
13Young Women in the Driver's Seat
06Tommy's Little Brain Test
06Divine Justice: Sequoia lands on SUV
06Fan Mail (If You Can Call It That)
OCT
25Could life get any harder?
18New Age Corporate and Investment Acronyms
04Bumper Stickers For Women
NOV
29A Fun Game
22Did you know this?
22You know you're living in 2003 when...
15Confused on a higher level
08Puzzler, not so bogus
01New standardized hand signals
DEC
20"Approach Everyone Who Is Steadfast"; and other obfuscated Christmas carols
13Car Sale Hassles Top Complaint List
06Geography test questions
JAN
26A Few E-Mail Thought Provokers...
19At Least We Rate Above Car Salesmen (Gallup Poll)
12Great Bits of Wisdom for Our Time
05A Christmas Story (Sort Of)
FEB
16Signs by English-As-A-Second-Language Writers
09...Washington Post... Word Play
02For the Mathematically Challenged...
02For Men Tired of Receiving Male-Bashing Jokes
MAR
30Best and Worst Comments Taken from the MIT Course Evaluation Guide
30You Might Be a Redneck If...
30Funny Court Statements
23The Wisdom of 6 Year Olds
23Back in Time
161972-2002: Times, They Are A'Changin'
09The Stella Awards
02Car Talk Car Tunes; Not Worthy of Thieves?
02Larry Walters Goes for a Flight
02Who Reads What and Why
APR
27Beware the Mother Tongue...
20Memories of Mangos and Raymond in the Wrong
13Memorable Mergers
MAY
25"I Hate Car Talk!"
18Adult Ed Classes for Men
04Personal Ads Translated
JUN
29Children's Books That Didn't Make It
22If Airlines Sold Paint...
15Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder: This Is How It Goes
08Genie in a Bottle
01Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Winners
01Yugo Redux
JUL
27You Know You're Trailer Trash When...
27A Modest Automobile
27Some Very Punny Stories
20It's Good to Be a Woman
20CEO-Nistas
13Gender Equality (the Lack of It) on Car Talk
13Oreo Personality Test
06Amazing Anagrams
AUG
31Silence that Surgeon!
31Responses from the Original Hollywood Squares
31Musings on Marriage, Wives and Divorce
24World History According to College Students
24Faith and Begorra! Personal Ads from Ireland
17You May Be Italian If...
10The Painful Puns Persist
10God Knows What Kids are Thinking...
03Signs Found in Kitchens
03A Little Knowledge Can Be a Dangerous Thing...
03Bad Puns
SEP
28Why did the chicken cross the road?
21Drive-Through ATMs
21Actual Entries from Qantas Maintenance Logs
14A Woman's Facts About Men
14Real Women versus Martha Stewart
14Random Jokes
07Re-Released Boomer Tunes
07Can't Men Be Right Even Once?
07You Know You're from Boston When...
OCT
12Top 10 Best Golf Caddy Remarks
05Gender Benders, Grammatically Speaking
NOV
30Two Bear Scientists
09Shame on You, Subaru: Tommy Whacks the WRX
02Is This News Fit to Print?
DEC
28A Fiat Christmas Story (Sort Of)
21Thank God for Satan
14Not Will Roger-isms
JAN
27No Snap-on Gifts at Valentine's Day
06Worst Analogies in High School Essays
FEB
24Our Favorite Similies and Metaphors
17In Defense of Vacuum Cleaners
17Best and Worst CommentsTaken from the...MIT Course Evaluation Guide
10You Might Be a Redneck If...
MAR
31Former Marijuana Smuggler
31Back in Time
31Mental Health Hotline
17Ski Now, Talk Later
17No Hands on the Wheel
17Life in the Bike Lane
17Two High-Risk Activities
03One Reason to Nudge Your Co-workers Occasionally
APR
28Winners of Worst Opening Lines in Literature
21Male Italian Drivers Bury a Magliozzi Theory
14Funny Court Statements
07Things I've Learned from My Children
MAY
19Why Athletes Should Not Be Role Models...
12A Little Knowledge Can Be a Dangerous Thing...
05How to Solve City Parking
05Faulty Ignition Saves Man from Car Bomb
JUN
23God Knows What Kids Are Thinking...
16Thoughts to Ponder...or Ponderous Thoughts?
09Haikus for Jews
02You Know You're Trailer Trash When...
JUL
28Warning Labels
28Tommy's List of "Phrases to Live By"
21Sentences Found in Patients' Medical Charts
21"Hey, Watch This" -- A True Story
21Some Very Punny Stories...
14Famous Last Words
14Signs Found at Businesses
07Signs Found in Kitchens
07A Modest Automobile
AUG
25Epitaphs
251977 MG Midget
25Bad Puns
18Responses from the Original Hollywood Squares TV Show
18Musings on Marriage, Wives, and Divorce
11The Joys of Being a Teacher
11Gender English (Women and Men)
11Job Interview Foibles
04Animal Quiz
SEP
28Quotes in Honor of Women
22Mottos to Live By
22Silence That Surgeon...
08Bad Puns
08Puzzler Water Rescue
08What Women Mean
01Useful English Conversion Units
01A Real Man's Chain Letter
OCT
27Emergency Doughnut Run?
20Advice from Kids
13The Painful Puns Persist...
NOV
24Zen Haiku for Computer Users
24Automotive Haiku for Car Talk Listeners
17White House Letter (Puzzler)
17Friendship Is...
10Doug Berman...Boss of the Year??
DEC
22Sayings from Stressed Females
22Our Favorite Similies and Metaphors
01Polka Crimes
JAN
29Volkswagen Bus
22Truth About Arup Gupta
15Worst Car of the Millennium Nominations
08I Have a Problem...
FEB
26Learn More Better English
19Letters from Kids
05Smart Mercedes
MAR
25Boat Joke
18How Do You Decide Whom to Marry
11Ways to Measure a Butt
04Better Identification of Stupid People
APR
29Dilbert's Salary Theorem
15Best Newspaper Headlines of1999
15How to Remove an Engine
08Funeral
MAY
27When Your Wife Looks Like a Truck...
27La-Z-Boy Tester
20Job Applicant Faux Pas
06Useful English System Conversion Units
JUN
30Gender English (Women and Men)
23Effect of Gender on Car Repairs
09One-liners to Live by
JUL
22Tommy's List of "Phrases to Live By"
15Warning Labels
15Thinking Quiz
AUG
26Decade of the "Naughties"
19Ways to Measure a Butt
12The Wisdom of Supermodels
05Love and Rust Spots
SEP
30A Real Man's Chain Letter
16Elevators
09The Joys of Being a Teacher
02Conflicting Car-O-Scopes
OCT
21How to Know If You're Italian
14How to Recognize a Girl Car
14Roman Numerals
NOV
24Very Special Edition Automobiles
11Turning Emissions into Diamonds
04Notes from Real-Life "Dilbert-Type" Managers
DEC
15Report:98 Percent of U.S. Commuters Favor Public Transportation forOthers
08MetroSnack Patrol Puts Girl in Cuffs
01Words of Wisdom from Mom
JAN
29Chuck...Is That Your Pager?
15Why did the German motorist drive into the river?
FEB
26George Carlin Funnies
19Regarding Misdirected E-mail
MAR
20Vincent Van Gogh's relatives
20Discover Third Cindy Crawford Facial Expression
20Tandem Story
APR
17An Objet D'Art
17Ode to a Dart
MAY
08HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHOM TO MARRY?
JUN
12New Butt Measurement Methodology: Octaves
JUL
17Is Car Talk Y2K Compliant?
03When Your Wife Looks Like a Truck...
SEP
18Love and Rust Spots
OCT
30Work Etiquette
30Three Halves
23Cell Phone Justice
16Conflicting Car-O-Scopes
09I Want THIS Job...
02The Wisdom of Supermodels
NOV
27"Dealerships without a Clue" Dept.
27New Dictionary
13Hemorrhoids on the Increase
13International Cell Phone Perspective
06The Decline of Western Civilization Is Due to...Automatic Transmissions?!
DEC
25More Allegedly True Statements
25January 2 Holiday Diet (circa 1997)
25Congress Passes "AmericansWith No Abilities" Act
18Gifts for Men
18Corporate Mergers
11Ride Now, Talk Later
04Puzzler Submission
JAN
30 Like the Sign Says...
02 Holiday Diet (circa 1997)
FEB
27More Deep Thoughts
13 Top 10 Changes at NASA to Accommodate 76-Year-Old John Glenn's Return to Space
06 Destructo Machine
MAR
13Bruce's theme song: Styx's "Too Much Time on My Hands"
APR
24Phone Numbers We Won't Be Dialing Anytime Soon
17Microsoft Patents Ones and Zeros
10The Bogus Bill
MAY
29Out of the Woodwork: The Sylvia Poggioli Defenders
01Car Talk -- The Existentialist Approach
JUN
26Honk! If You Believe This.
19News Release--From API, UPI, CPI, Reuters and all the ships at sea
13For Shame, For Shame!
13Letter From the President (MIT, that is)
05Ready, Set, Pave!
JUL
24The Football Exam
17The School of What?
10 1950's Home Ec--The Good Ole' Days
03Travel Advisory: The French.
AUG
21The NPR Cafe
15WOMEN SPEAK IN ESTROGEN AND MEN LISTEN IN TESTOSTERONE
08Steven Wright's Expressions
SEP
25Teaching Math
19Public Distrust of Mechanics and Hair Stylists
04The Puzzler Speaks!
OCT
30Things You Would Never Know Without the Movies
30Dog Quotes
23US Government Property Auction
03God's Total Quality Management Questionnaire
NOV
21Exercise Diary
14Good Grief: It's The Pilot
07Explaining How Aircrafts Are Able to Fly
DEC
25Road Kill Cafe Menu
25Martha Stewart's Holiday Calendar
18More Allegedly True Statements
18Congress Passes "Americans With No Abilities" Act
11Puzzlers -- Answering the Economic Crisis
05Larry Walters Goes For A Flight
JAN
31Where Our Answers *Really* Come From!
24Mean-Spirited Letter Writers: Beware
FEB
21Taking Things Apart, Or, How to Make Two from One
14The Difference Between Moron and Idiot
MAR
28Creative Psychiatry 101: How to Bill Your Patient(s)
28What "The Best of Car Talk" is Really Worth
28Car Talk Just Might Be Good for Your Health
22Battle of the Genders: English 44A, Creative Writing
22Cindy Crawford's New Expression
08Do a Good Deed: Help Feed the Pilots!
08Yuri Geller, Watch Out! How Tom Answers Questions
01Jokes - Some Things To Think About
APR
25Men, Self-Deprecate Thyself!
05Of Topher, Anal Retentiveness and Channeling
05We Hear from Lea's 'Rents
MAY
24Enemy Anti-Aircraft Activity in Northern England
16Secession of the Lone Star State
09Fun Things To Do In An Elevator
09Excuses We Wished We'd Used
02The Driver Warning List
JUN
27Pillsbury Dough Boy Wanted for Attempted Murder
20Doughnuts and Brains: Never the Twain Shall Meet
06It's That Time of Year: The Grade-Change Form
JUL
2613-year-old Kid Addresses Social Inequity
11Steven Wright's Expressions
AUG
22Don't Let Bostonians Plan Your Road Trip
22Car Talk: The Next Generation
SEP
26The World's 19 Shortest Books
19The School of What?
13University Entrance Exam - Football Player Version
OCT
31 Daylight Time Conspiracy
24The Andy Scale
17Words To Live By
10Actual Signs
04 Magliozzi's Ignoramus Principle
NOV
29 Roadkill Grill Restaurant
29 McDonnell Douglas Warranty Card
21 15 Famous Sports Quotes
14 An Interesting Article: Are Mechanics Becoming More Honest?!
14 Our New Diet Unveiled
07Car Talk - The Video Game?
DEC
20 Car Talk Employee Evaluation
20Regarding Great Pick-Up Lines
13 From The Martha Stewart Calendar
06 Dodge Dart: Unobtrusive International Automobile
OCT
25Aphorisms (The COMPLETE List)
NOV
29Saturn Manual
15British Officer Reports
08Days of the Week, Revised
DEC
20British "Cuisine"