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The future of cars (lemmy.world)

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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 52 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Richard Scarry is awesome

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Was. Sadly, he left us with all of the Busy Town books he had to write and illustrate in 1994. But he left a wonderful legacy.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 47 points 4 months ago (3 children)

A pig driving a hot dog is kinda gruesome if you think about it.

[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's all beef.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh, that's fine, because there aren't any cow people in Richard Scarry's works.

Oh. Drinking milk has gotta be awkward, too!

[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The cows drink pig milk. 😉

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's called pilk.

[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Lmao! "Deloinkful"

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What are your thoughts on an Ouroboros but the front half is a pig and the back half is a hotdog?

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That sounds delicious!

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Well fam have I got a treat for you, this is the drawing I made for my first tattoo:

Boaroboros

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

That looks delicious!

[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Amazing.

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[–] Bananigans@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Hotdog car isn't science fiction, it's science fact."

~Oscar Meyer, probably

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

“To beef frank, hotdog car isn’t science fiction, it’s science fact.”

[–] Bananigans@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

Thank you for putting the correct quote.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Richard Scarry is a GOAT of children's fantasy.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Quite literally, sometimes!

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[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Isn't the concept of a pig driving a hot dog kinda low key horrifying?

[–] emmanuel_car@kbin.social 5 points 4 months ago

A gingerbread man sits in a gingerbread house…

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

No worse than my Honda Spinal AcCord

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

In the original Disney Three Little Pigs cartoon, the third pig has paintings of sausages and ham on his wall with labels under them like "uncle" and "grandmother."

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[–] daltotron@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean we technically do have the hot dog car in real life, so that's neat

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I did not expect to see Lowly the worm on Lemmy today. Nice.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lowly's brown and that guy's green. What, you're saying all worms look alike??

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Oh shit. Sorry for my inadvertent wormism. I haven’t seen the guy in like 40 years!

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[–] glarf@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Wow that's a blast from the past.

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This... is not how I imagined the Apple car to look like...

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

The lawsuit is still pending.

[–] Decoy321@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

BEHOLD! THE FUTURE IS NOW!!

hotdog car.

Pickle car

Ok I'm giving up on trying to find an apple car. The search results are flooded with either stuff about the company Apple making their own car, or how to integrate their phones and apps with your own car.

This joke ain't funny enough to keep going. Sorry.

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[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago

Then the car turned itself into a pickle! Funniest shit I've ever seen!

[–] Czarb@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Where is goldbug hiding?

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[–] camr_on@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

I had a giant Richard Scarry book when I was little, that was the shit

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You could drive a hot dog or a pickle car....or you could drive a bi-plane car or tank that is attached to a steamroller tractor or a car made out of wood with saws.

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[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Cars with electric motors can be any shape. I am appalled that there is not a pattywagon for sale

[–] yetiftw@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

for the record, cars with combustion engines can also be any shape

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

True. It's just harder because you have to move the power around with mechanical linkages rather than just having a big ass cable

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's the cheese slice car

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I wanted Lowly's apple car so badly when I was a kid.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have nipples, Greg... Can you make me into a car?

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can drive anything with nipples.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

I mean I guess, but I find it easier to drive with my hands.

[–] PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

what's the hotdog car made of

[–] berryjam@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A hotdog

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Hope it’s 100% beef for the driver’s sake

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

The Patty Wagon from The Spongebob Movie: https://youtu.be/_xImULcwZkg?feature=shared

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know I've seen this book in primary school but I can't remember the title

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

“The Busy World of Richard Scarry”

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If Richard Scary released these today, would it be called "Bussy Town?" 🤔

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