# "Shoot the gap"? Shoot myself is more like it! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-the-gap-shoot-myself-is-more-like-it/548247 "2010-07-28T00:25:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-the-gap-shoot-myself-is-more-like-it/548247/1 "2010-07-28T00:25:59Z")
[The commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDQgi2z1YUM). My god. Her voice. Nails on a chalkboard are more mellifluous. It plays every half inning during baseball. I hereby announce my hatred for all things VW and my need for a new set of eardrums. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-the-gap-shoot-myself-is-more-like-it/548247/2 "2010-07-28T00:49:29Z")
She needs to get slugged. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-the-gap-shoot-myself-is-more-like-it/548247/3 "2010-07-28T00:51:04Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > She needs to get slugged. Blue one! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-the-gap-shoot-myself-is-more-like-it/548247/4 "2010-07-28T01:29:25Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > She needs to get slugged. I would settle for her being surgically muted in some way. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-the-gap-shoot-myself-is-more-like-it/548247/5 "2010-07-28T01:31:45Z")
I could say something really dirty about ‘shooting the gap’. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-the-gap-shoot-myself-is-more-like-it/548247/6 "2010-07-28T03:24:03Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I could say something really dirty about ‘shooting the gap’. Have you driven the new VW Astroglide? It fits even the smallest garage. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-the-gap-shoot-myself-is-more-like-it/548247/7 "2010-07-28T10:51:21Z")
I was intrigued with the high mileage cars - what was it, a diesel high-brid? But VW has lost any possibility of me ever buying their cars. Of course, a big part of that is they have a bad reputation for quality (at least according the people I know who have one and my mechanic.) But also, I hate their commercials. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-the-gap-shoot-myself-is-more-like-it/548247/8 "2010-07-28T12:09:28Z")
like the one with the nazi era stock black VW that sounds like an SS officer interviewing people? silly me to expect a football-related thread before clicking. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-the-gap-shoot-myself-is-more-like-it/548247/9 "2010-07-28T17:42:05Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I could say something really dirty about ‘shooting the gap’. What, like ‘you misspelled gape?’