Did no one think this bus ad through? (Picture. Must be seen to be believed.)

[WillParkinson]

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Sexy pair o' hubcaps!

Did they think it through?

That's either a definite yes or a definite no.

[siligut]

2. Looks like one of the wheels is missing a hubcap.

If the placement of Danielle Smith's image is purposeful, I think she would demand to have that second hubcap, for symmetry. So you are right, it would seem that the artist went from paper to big ol' bus without too much thought in between

[HopeHoops]

4. Wardrobe malfunction

[bluedigger]

7. The hubs are different because only one set of wheels is "driven".

The other set just helps carry the load.

[siligut]

8. I wondered if it was something like that, thanks

Now I know something new

[HopeHoops]

3. Or perhaps they DID.

[pipi_k]

5. hahahah!!! The only thing

they need now is a picture of a guy placed strategically over the exhaust pipe...

[Fix The Stupid]

6. Has anyone heard of the Wildrose party before this?

Didn't think so....

Marketing WIN.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. Wiki sez it's an Alberta, Canada, party

so dunno if anyone outside of Alberta would have heard of it.

I'd suspect it's conservative/Tory, just because there's what looks like an English flag on the bus.

Agree, it's a marketing win. I have a new appreciation of lugnuts.

[geardaddy]

12. I think the English flag there

is just part of the emblem on the Alberta flag.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. Thanks for that. I was reading too much "England" into it. nt

[sarge43]

22. The Saint George or English crest is on every Canadian province coat of arms. n/t

[geardaddy]

24. Interesting. I didn't know that.

Even Quebec and Nova Scotia?

[sarge43]

27. I sit corrected

Quebec's coat has three gold fleur de lys on a blue field. Nova Scotia, the St Andrew's blue saltire on a white field, Scotland's flag, with Scotland's royal coat of arms in the center.

[Swede]

14. They are a far right party,to the right of the conservatives running the show now.

nt

[Fix The Stupid]

25. Yep.

They're a little scary...

Well, a lot of scary actually. What little I have read shows them to be of the bible thumping, puritanical type...

Alberta is a strange place...

[av8rdave]

10. Oh, they definitely thought it through

[geardaddy]

11. Looks like one of her "wheel" is an innie.

[DFW]

13. There is a bus charter company here in Germany that raises eyebrows among English speakers

[IMG][/IMG]

This is a real company (http://www.fuecker-busreisen.de/das-unternehmen.html), and they also
have a driver's ed school. How'd you like THAT name on your certificate when you go to get your
license?

[davsand]

16. That driving school must have a lot of graduates. n/t

[cyglet]

17. Not pronounced the same way

but I think I'd print it on the bus the same way the URL is....

[DFW]

20. Only spelled out for internet use

On all literature and their busses, it's the family name as they spell it: "Fücker"

In German, the "ü" can be spelled as "ue" but it is usually only written that way for international correspondence since Germans know that not every language has ü.ä, or ö on their keyboards.

Of course it's not pronounced the same way, but how many native speakers of English know that?

[MNBrewer]

18. This Kinsey 6 looked at and thought "Besides the fact that the flower looks like Malvaceae

instead of Roseaceae, I don't see anything wrong." Had to read the comments to get it.

[cyglet]

19. Guess it depends

how much your mind is in the gutter...

[OffWithTheirHeads]

21. Dude, you havn't seen anything.

Several years ago, I was charged with installing the HVAC system in the new, Campbell Unified School District (Campbell, Ca.) school bus repair station. The Campbell School District sold the lot that their bus repair faculity was staged from and bought a new lot to construct the new facility on. One of the terms of the sale was that they had to vacate the existing lot by a certain date and move into the new facility.

Campbell Unified sold the old lot, bought the new lot and hired arcitects, engineers, drew up plans, submitted them for bid, awarded contracts and everything was ready to go. The architects and engineers specified a building whose structural steel framing could only be accomplished by a firm back east. (yeah right!) We waited for the structural steel to be fabricated, delivered and erected by the experts from the east coast. It finally arrived and erection proceeded. There was only one problem. Nobody had measured the height of the school busses. They would not be able to fit in the bus repair facility as it was designed. The busses were too tall! About a year later, a new design was submitted and approved. New structural steel was constructed and shipped to California and the structure was finally built.

Never in my life have I seen so much money squandered. I saw welding benches installed in the repair shop composed of butcher block Oak. I installed bathroom exhaust fans for two stall bathrooms that could have easily served small highrise buildings.

The corruption was rampant.

The system is broken. Stealing as much as you can from public works projects does not make us a better society and I saw it all the time in everything from school projects to retirement homes.

I did a gym in Saratoga. They bought the hardwood for the floor from some outfit in Sweden! They paid a fortune for it! It looked just like any other hardwood floor but it cost about 10 times what the floor would have cost locally.

Someting Wong here!

[sarge43]

23. All that's missing are tassels. n/t

[csziggy]

26. They could put spinner hubcaps on it

But I like this hubcap:

Two of those would be awesome!

[sarge43]

28. Awesome indeed.

[KamaAina]

29. Nice set of

tires.