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This clearly comes under the category of One Couldn't Make This Sh!t Up If One Tried: the deal, announced yesterday, whereby NASCAR and Harlequin Publishing are teaming up to producer NASCAR-themed romance novels. The deal is described in the press as a marriage between opposites -- I would respectfully disagree. I think they are equals in many respects. As the analogy might be presented on the answer key to the SAT (which guarantees that NASCAR fans will get neither the joke nor the reference):
Harlequin ::Fine Literature
NASCAR :: Athletic Competition
The commentators on NPR, on which I heard this story this morning, and who must have been mightily suppressing guffaws of laughter, noted that 40% of NASCAR fans are women (WHY??) and supposedly like to read (though the statistics might be skewed by the large number of subscriptions to Better Trailers and Gardens).
I can see it now: "Throw away that Jane Austen crap, Lurleen, I jus' got my copy of 'Pitstop Passion'!"
The downward spiral of intelligence in America (starting at the top!) continues! Turn left, turn left, turn left...
posted by J.Po @ 12:37 PM
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40% of NASCAR fans are women (WHY??)
a)Because their husbands/boyfriends/kissin' cousins are NASCAR fans and it beats being alone on a Sunday afternoon.
b)Because women like watching cars wreck too, you sexist pig.
c)That Jeff Gordon is mighty cute.
Take your pick. Think about it. Would there be a Tide car if there were no women watching?
Hate all you want, but may I offer you the actual blurb from In the Groove as proof of these book's high quality? "The high-speed thrill of NASCAR racing meets the high-stakes game of love in this whirlwind romance from the author of Dangerous Curves!" Tobias Wolff better watch out; there is a new star burning bright in high literature's firmament.
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