Miata Mailing List: December 1993, Message #70
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   From: "craig" 
Subject: RE>Miata Movies?
   Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 18:15:54 -0500


Al Jenab  wrote:

I saw a movie on an airplane recently.  Can't remeber the
title, but it was about some little kid who acquired an incredible pitching
arm (freak accident) and ended up pitching for the Chicago (Cubs? White Sox?)
team.  The movie was awful, but I remeber the Miata.  The sleazeball in the
movie (the little kid's mother's greedy boyfriend) was the kid's agent and he
drove the Miata.  They showed him comically trying to fold himself into and
out of the Miata, as if it were a car for a much more youthfull physique than
this guy posessed.  Anyway, it got me paying attention to how I get in and out
of the car, and sometimes I must look pretty funny, too, especially when the
back is acting up again.  The movie's definitely a three-thumbs down affair,
but if you're forced to watch it, look for the Miata.
-Al

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HEY, THE CUBS WON DIDN'T THEY!  I GREW UP IN CHICAGO AND ENDURED
'69, '84, AND '89.  I TRIED TO GET A PLATE IN TEXAS THAT READ
"CUBS WIN" WITH REFERENCE TO HARRY CARAY'S FAMOUS CRY AT THE END
OF CUBBIE VICTORIES.  HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY CALL IT A THREE
THUMBS DOWN.  GRANTED, IT WAS A STUPID MOVIE AND ONLY FLEW
BECAUSE WE WERE CAPTIVE FLYERS, BUT THEY WON!

CB

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