{"id":5223,"date":"2010-01-21T13:25:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T19:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5223"},"modified":"2010-02-06T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T18:45:10","slug":"dont-turn-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/21\/dont-turn-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Turn Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of name for a car is that?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mercedes-Benz_CL203_CLC180_Kompressor_Heck_1.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/kompressor.jpg\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Der Kompressor\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, the Kompressor?  Was someone&#8217;s German\/American dictionary off by a little bit when this was brainstormed (in the German, <em>brundsturmcht<\/em>, I believe)?  Or were they trying to come up with a noun that indicated this particular Mercedes would crush the competition?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, you know what song I&#8217;d use in the commercials, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_w4Xulsjo5I&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_w4Xulsjo5I&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Altered <em>slightly<\/em>, as you can guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of name for a car is that? Seriously, the Kompressor? Was someone&#8217;s German\/American dictionary off by a little bit when this was brainstormed (in the German, brundsturmcht, I believe)? Or were they trying to come up with a noun that indicated this particular Mercedes would crush the competition? Regardless, you know what song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5349,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions\/5349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}