# Did anyone else hear this on Car Talk?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 10, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-on-car-talk/154186 "2003-02-10T20:32:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-on-car-talk/154186/1 "2003-02-10T20:32:53Z")

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I don’t know what your local NPR station does, but whenever ours does a weekend fund drive, they re-run an old Car Talk, and cut in and out of it to ask for pledges.

I know Saturday’s Car Talk was a rerun because I had vague memories of some of the calls. When they were trying to explain to a woman what a loose heat shield meant on her car, Tom said “remember the problem with the Shuttle a couple of years back?”:smack:

Holy crap! I don’t expect the gopher who has to find an old show to listen to every second of it for untimely references, but that was about the most accidentally inappropriate comment I’ve ever heard.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-on-car-talk/154186/2 "2003-02-10T20:36:53Z")

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“These things happen because people like you say, ‘These things happen!’ when these things happen!”

I’m sorry. What?

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Fagjunk Theology: Not just for sodomite propagandists anymore.

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**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-on-car-talk/154186/3 "2003-02-10T20:41:36Z")

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> \*Originally posted by gatopescado \*  
> \*\*“These things happen because people like you say, ‘These things happen!’ when these things happen!”
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> I’m sorry. What?\*\*

For some reason I pictured you saying this in Homestar Runner’s voice and it made me crack up.

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-on-car-talk/154186/4 "2003-02-10T20:48:03Z")

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> \*Originally posted by gatopescado \*  
> \*\*“These things happen because people like you say, ‘These things happen!’ when these things happen!”  
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I heard it in Ethel Merman’s voice from Mad, mad, mad, mad world.

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-on-car-talk/154186/5 "2003-02-10T22:12:09Z")

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I heard Derek Jacobi from _Dead Again._

“If fate works at all it works because people think this time it isn’t going to happen!”