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Old Sep 12, 2006 | 8:27 am
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
It's a reference to, amongst other things, sales pitches for the BMW 750ilP that took it from "bullet-proof" to "bomb-proof" for a while .... even after some who had bought it were killed.
I would be pissed if I bought one and ended up like, well, Yosemite Sam after a failed attempt at capturing Road Runner.
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