by the Night Writer
Road-tripped with the Reverend Mother and Tiger Lilly this weekend, and among the tunes on the car stereo was Marc Cohn’s “Silver Thunderbird”:
Don’t gimme no Buick
Son you must take my word
If there’s a God in heaven
He’s got a Silver Thunderbird
You can keep your Eldorados
And the foreign car’s absurd
Me I wanna go down
In a Silver Thunderbird
Which raises the question, “If God drives a silver Thunderbird, what does the Devil drive?”
I said, “Pinto.”
Tiger Lilly: “A Prius.”
Enter your suggestions in the comment section.
(Actually, I’ve always heard that God had a Chrysler, because the Bible says He drove Adam from the garden in his Fury.).
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UGH, I absolutely LOVE THAT ENTIRE ALBUM!!!
P.S. I don’t know if the devil would drive this car, but it was certainly possessed: my former (thank, God) 1995 Ford Taurus.
A Trabant, of course. And now that GM stands for Geithner Motors, look for one of these beauties to be in your driveway soon.
Pinto’s are from heaven. 🙂
@ Hayden: with your ’95 Taurus it sounds as if you’d spend a lot of time walking in Memphis – or wherever you happened to be.
@ Mr. D: I think you’re probably correct about the Trabant being the model for the new GM; those cars are “green” because they’re bio-degradable (or at least look like they are).
@ Jifufu: so was Lucifer, originally.
my Dad always believed that God drove a chrysler. and taught me accordingly.
(i’ve since discovered he really drives a hyundai.)
as for the devil:one of these,of course
and like its namesake, an empty promise in pretty packaging.
God let James Bond drive his Astin-Martin during the filming of Goldfinger.
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Complete segue here, but I learned something at the men’s retreat: we had a Jewish president. Yep, Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately for him he was shot in the temple.