I love people who reference that play.
Since the Volvo went mainstream, breaking out from its traditional market of college professors and upper middle class NPR listeners from New England, the Subaru has become the liberal car of choice. Subarus are also known for being the preferred mode of transportation among lesbians. (My Google search is my cite.)
/drives a Forester I’ve had for years.
Subarus and Saturns. Must be some secret “s” code…
Do Volvo’s still have factory installed PBS bumper stickers on them?
It’s turbulent priest.
Yes I had only ever personally heard it was a lesbian car. I’ve never heard of it as a liberal carmaker. It’s a stereotype to be sure but my understanding is that it’s based on Subaru’s legitimate early and continuing efforts to market specifically to gays and lesbians.
Actually, many scholars think it was
But that does not really roll off the tongue. I think I was remembering a Black Adder episode anyway.
It’s such a pity that Edmund Blackadder died in WW1: it would be fun to have him emigrate to the former American colonies and join the Tea Party movement.
Look for Blackadder Scared Stupid in a big-box bargain bin near you.
Somewhat better than the whole “crammy-throaty” thing for you and yours, eh Ex-Governor?
Much better than the sore loser thing is working for you.
Survival was not an attribute of characters in any series.
Looks like her peeps might be listening…
Curious, I always heard the Subaru / Lesbian thing was specific to the Forester model. CiteAnyways, another bemused Subaru driver checking in. I live in a snowy rocky mountain state so there are tons of them here, of course we are a deeply “red” state as well so go figure.
Well, I’d believe that, if the ‘ramming incident’ hadn’t just made the news a day or two before. If she had said it a week earlier, it wouldn’t have meant anything.
It seems from the perspective of an observer, to be a direct reference to that.
Of course, where I am, Subaru means ‘that thing with the big wing and fart-can exhaust’ half the time, anyhow.
I so need an Obama sticker for my Outback now.
I already had to take the “Republicans for Voldemort” sticker off our other car, because when we moved to our current place, our new next door neighbor came over to tell us that we “must not have gotten the memo” about the town, because everyone was a Democrat and that they were really pleased to be getting some Republicans moving in. She then told me when their prayer group started, because she saw my husband’s linux shark on the car. My car’s been naked ever since, but I did not laugh while she was talking. I’m exceptionally proud of my self-control.
The Forester came out in 1997. I could swear I recall the Lesbian association with Subaru long before then.
Presumably she hadn’t read the Harry Potter books, because she’d been told they were about witchcraft, so she had no idea who He-who-must-not-be-named is.
Good thing all those teabaggers are paragons of logic and rationality, and could never interpret her words differently than you, or we might have something to be concerned about.
WTF makes a car (any car) a “lesbian” car? 
You work on them with Snap-On Tools. 