<VV> Automotive Cancer WAS Strut rod battle

[Bill Hubbell]

All:

I am sorry that people are so sensitive these days that mere words upset them. I was always taught, when growing up, that "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never harm me". Well, that was usually said after I came in crying because one of my older brothers called me a name.  Yes, I do know that words can hurt, and people have had their lives and reputations destroyed by careless Nd cruel words. I know that in times of war that "loose lips sink ships". I know that our favorite car was maligned by one man's poorly written book. Yes, it is true that words can hurt, but really , we have become such a terribly sensitive society that now it seems that almost every word offends somebody.  Some days I wish we would all just grow thick skins again and get over ourselves.  Let words just be words, but let our actions speak for who we really are. Can't we all just get along?

Bill Hubbell

ps, my father died of colon cancer, my grandfather died of esophageal cancer, but it does not bother me to speak of bad car rust as cancer because I know that a car is not a person and the word has different meanings when used in different contexts. 

On May 19, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Shelrockbored at aol.com wrote:

> 
> Sorry if this upsets you.  As was stated elsewhere the term "cancer"  when 
> applied to automotive bodies means something more than just rust.  It  
> usually refers to an automobile body which has serious holes in it due to  rust.  
> Some damage can be repaired, some cannot.  I would think more  than just 
> twice (and do a lot more than just think) before I purchased  a Corvair 
> convertible which had, "run when parked"  and sat for a  number of years if it was 
> on Long Island.  
> 
> Automotive cancer is, however a slang term.  One could gather a  number of 
> people in a room and ask them to define a slang term and one would not  get 
> the same definition twice.
> 
> Again, sorry if it upset you.
> 
> Steve Sassi
> Long Island Corvair
> 
> Postscript:  We of Long Island (L.I.) have enormous bodies  of salt water 
> no more than twenty miles away from us at any point on L.I.,  so automotive 
> cancer is a very serious issue.
> 
> SVS 
> 
> 
> In a message dated 5/15/2013 10:18:24 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> jon at jonwoolf.com writes:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Now, a request.... most of us have had someone  close to us battling with 
> cancer. Sometimes losing that horrible  fight.  If you wish to talk about 
> your 'vair's rust here, is it  really necessary to describe it as 
> 'Cancer?' There is no comparison  between a person's struggle with a 
> terrible disease and a patch of rust in  an old car, and I know it jolts 
> me to see the word used so frequently and  so loosely.  Just one man's  
> opinion.
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