Dear gulker.com readers: it pains us, or, maybe, amuses us to report that, for the first time in this blog’s history (at least we think it’s the first time) we have knowingly pulled the digital wool over our reader’s virtual eyes. We told a deliberate fib.
At issue is the post we offered more than a month ago about a presumed very expensive, ultra-overweight SUV favored by the local nouveau riche, a clan famously given to wretched excess as a lifestyle.
The 4-ton, 5-mpg, $140,000 heavy Chevy (or Yukon, or Escalade) does not, as far as I know, actually exist. I made it up, partly as a writing exercise, and partly to see if anyone would swallow a new high in Silicon Valley extremes. As it turned out, no one batted an eyelash: even my wife Linda and good friend Scott were more than prepared to believe the tale.
We also wondered if we could spawn an urban myth with this fabrication, but heavy Chevies didn’t, it seems, have enough sex appeal to go farther than a few indignant comments left on the blog. You know you’re bad when even your made-up stuff doesn’t budge the hit meter…
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You need to make up a fake French SUV.
Hmmm. the Renault Faux or the Citroen Limon, perhaps?