I see bicycles around here all the time. Of course, I also see those scooters that have become so popular the past couple of years. I don't mind the ones with the handlebars for navigation, but I used to see a guy all the time on one that was just the board you stand on. He had some close calls with that darn thing.
Yeah, but that's an electric bike. Remember those????
What strange, alien device is that?
Ricardo used to have a hard time making that commercial (iirc). Cordova is a real word, accented the first syllable. Chrysler's car accented the second syllable.
Remember them? There are traffic jams of those come dinner time (deliver people).
$6M man is a bargain these days. In Sydney, the exchange rate would be (on average) about 3 or 4 houses for one guy.
Still funny.
Actually, no, not made up. Corinthian: of Corinth. Corinth was a city in Greece. Two books in the New Testament are devoted to the Christians in Corinth, Corinthians.
Patrick Duffy from Dallas, Step By Step, and Man From Atlantis.
From Wikipedia: Corinthian leather is a term coined by the advertising agency Bozell in 1974[1] to describe the leather upholstery used in certain Chrysler luxury vehicles. Although merely a marketing concept, it suggested a premium product...something rich in quality, rare, and luxurious.[2] In reality, it was the same leather used in most Chryslers, produced by the Radel Leather Manufacturing Company in Newark, New Jersey.
Corinthian leather may be made up, but only as a product. Corinth is real, not made up. The most common usage of the word Corinthian is in architecture, Greek to be specific. Its implication is that of high end quality. Thus why they stole it for their advertising. They didn't just make up the word, they usurped it for their profit.
I think the made up part was that there was such a thing as "Corinthian leather". It was leather, plain and simple. Probably from whatever was the cheapest source of acceptable leather at the time. Not biblical or ancient grecian leather. Or leather processed in the fashion of either of those. (I did know about the biblical reference. Catholic School
Didn't know about the greek reference. )
HR Puffenstuff or something like that. That show creeped me out as a kid.