Joe,

 JM>   I'll watch the ones from various companies and its always "this is
 JM> the best car ever made, not some piece of junk like we made last year
 JM> you need to trade in right now for this great new car".  Well, that's
 JM> the gist of the ads.  :)

  Years ago in Nashville, Tennessee...they had a park called Opryland USA.
The only thing that survives of it is the building where they perform The
Grand Ole Opry every week (it's the longest running show, first started 
nearly 100 years ago, by WSM Radio, Clear Channel 650). The radio station
was originally owned by an insurance company, and their slogan of "We
Serve Millions" was the inspiration for the station's callsign. It has
always had a country-western format.

  But, at Opryland, they had one ride called the Tin Lizzie...where you
got to "drive" remakes of those classic cars. 

  Changing fortunes, etc. closed the park, and it was razed...and then
replaced by a shopping mall. Yet, so many shopping areas and malls now
are boarded up and vacant.

  The original home of the Grand Ole Opry, the Ryman Auditorium, in
downtown Nashville, was originally a Baptist Church...it still has
the stained glass windows. Sometimes, they refer to it as "The Mother
Church".

Daryl

... A gossip is someone with a great sense of rumor.
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