{"id":18505,"date":"2021-09-27T06:25:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18505"},"modified":"2021-09-27T06:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:28:41","slug":"overnight-news-whats-an-even-better-joke-than-electric-cars-silent-motorcycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18505\/overnight-news-whats-an-even-better-joke-than-electric-cars-silent-motorcycles\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: What\u2019s an even better joke than electric cars? Silent motorcycles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_16586\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16586\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ya think it's easy?\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cA silent hog is a toothless dog.\u201d<\/p><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2021\/09\/are-electric-vehicles-a-joke.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Hinderaker asks if electric cars are a joke,<\/a> but I can think of something even funnier: Electric motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p>Scooters, Vespas, mo-peds \u2013 battery up; no one cares, least of all fertile women. But the purpose of a motorcycle is to be  showy and obnoxious \u2013 to be showy <em>by<\/em> being obnoxious. Remove the obnoxophone and you have removed the marketing appeal.<\/p>\n<p>These are the purposes of a motorcycle in America:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To be obnoxious at start-up and shut-down, especially when everyone else is sleeping.<\/li>\n<li>To be obnoxious at stoplights.<\/li>\n<li>To be obnoxious in traffic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In fact, this is all about Incandescent need \u2013 and the excessive displays necessary to catch the attention of preoccupied strangers ensconced in cars and enmired in traffic. But how are you going to distract them with your presence without the boom-boom-boom of that VRROOM-VRROOM-VRROOM?<\/p>\n<p>Like NASCAR and the NFL, is the motorcycle business trying to replace its customer base? Seems equally wise to me: Hating the people who love you will not inspire the love of people who hate you. But, as with corporate weenies everywhere, there is an incandescent need even more important than VRROOM-VRROOM-VRROOM. Who cares if it kills the business?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Federalist:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/27\/of-all-the-third-world-cities-ive-lived-in-baltimore-was-the-worst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Of All The Third-World Cities I\u2019ve Lived In, Baltimore Was The Worst.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WKBN.com:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkbn.com\/news\/national-world\/vans-operating-as-illegal-airbnbs-in-nyc-impounded-by-nyc-sheriffs-office-official\/amp\/?__twitter_impression=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vans operating as illegal Airbnbs in NYC impounded by NYC Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Lifson:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/schadenfreude_to_start_the_week_biden_and_the_dems_plans_are_collapsing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Schadenfreude to start the week: Biden and the Dems\u2019 plans are collapsing.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Roger Kimball:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/09\/25\/how-it-might-end-act-i\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How It Might End, Act I: It seems to be that we have alarm bells going off all around us. The oddity is that so few people seem to hear them.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Rufo:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/parents-critical-race-theory-is-divisive-and-dangerous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The White Backlash That Wasn\u2019t: Opposition to critical race theory is broad and bipartisan.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA silent hog is a toothless dog.\u201dJohn Hinderaker asks if electric cars are a joke, but I can think of something even funnier: Electric motorcycles. Scooters, Vespas, mo-peds \u2013 battery up; no one cares, least of all fertile women. But the purpose of a motorcycle is to be showy and obnoxious \u2013 to be showy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":428,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/428\/blogoff-post-51-ask-the-broker-do-you-drive-a-big-obnoxious-car\/","url_meta":{"origin":18505,"position":0},"title":"Blogoff Post #51: Ask the Broker: Do you drive a big obnoxious car . . . ?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This came up in a comment from a bubble head a few weeks ago. 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I bought the iPad - the to-be-shipped-in-late-April, 3G & WiFi, 64 gig model. I see significant work applications - for instance, keeping all client files available for court, creating eBooks of NC criminal code so I don't need to lug around books, and, I hope,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Technology","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3197,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3197\/bloodhoundblog-in-the-terrible-twos-and-the-me-me-me-meme\/","url_meta":{"origin":18505,"position":4},"title":"BloodhoundBlog in the terrible two&#8217;s and the me-me-me meme","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I had mail last night from a sweet kid who wanted to tag me in what she called a MeMe game. 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