Out in the wild (say Walmart in your head) I heard a guy standing on line speaking of getting him “a ride in a Tesla-r”.
He may have made the word 3 syllables. I’m not sure.
I got a little laugh at that.
I told Son-of-a-wrek about it. I thought he was gonna choke to death on a swallow of cheap beer. It was sad to watch til I realized he was laughing.
His neck and face got really red.
He said “Ma, don’t do that to me!”
He thinks it’s the funniest thing he has ever heard.
He will run with it.
He’s gonna look for reasons to bring it up. So he can say Tesla-r out loud.
Very loud. He ain’t got no shame.
Why is this funny? Would you have laughed just as hard if he was talking about the Tesla S or Y? The Tesla R (Roadster) is touted to have a top speed of 250mph and 0-60 in under 2 seconds. I want to ride in a Tesla R as well.
I don’t think Trump is a funny guy, so that must make him a hick.
I give up. I’ve done plenty of YT vids but it’s not playing today. Copy and paste this into a web browser to see our esteemed POTUS call it a “tessler”.
You’re trying too hard. Much too hard. There’s no such thing as a Tesla “R”, or even a Tesla Model R. The roadster model is simply called the Tesla Roadster. Nobody would call it anything else.
Because there’s no such thing.
No, it was funny because slack-jawed ignorant hicks are funny.
Definitely not a fashion choice (those hats look like crap). Either way, not sure where this thread is going. Hicks say tessler. Trump says tessler. Is there a common denominator? Don’t know.
Trump’s level of intelligence (or lack thereof) is readily visible. Some of the things he says – or forces his minions to say – suggests a mental age of about six, and I’m not exaggerating. His picture should appear in the dictionary under the definition of the word “hick”. Why is anyone surprised that he thinks a Tesla is a “Tessler”, or that Ukraine has valuable reserves of “raw earth”?
Maybe the hicks are right. After all, it’s “Chrysler”, not “Chrysla”, so it must be “Tesler”, not “Tesla”! At least, according to the Orange Genius currently sharing the presidency of the USA with Elmo.
The humor in a Southern hick mispronouncing “Tesla” as “Teslar” comes from the contrast—someone with a thick drawl, more at home talking about tractors and mud tires, trying to sound worldly but stumbling over a name associated with sleek, high-tech electric cars driven by progressive, latte-sipping Nawtheners. It’s like Jed Clampett talking about his see-ment pond—that little linguistic mismatch adds to the charm. A hick mispronouncing “F-150” wouldn’t raise an eyebrow, but hearing “Yessir, got me one of them new-fangled Teslars!” is worth at least a chuckle, if not a full-blown smirk.
At least, according to the Orange Genius currently sharing the presidency of the USA with Elmo.