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Note to the Toyota marketing dept

There’s this grey-import minivan getting around that’s made by Toyota and it’s called the Alphard.

That’s a portmanteau of alpha and retard. I can’t explain it, but there it is.

The only alternative explanation is that they’ve misspelt aphid. But who’d name a car after a parasite on a rose? Not even the Japs are that crazy.

If I was in the business of making up new words I’d suggest that an Alphard is a Japanese oxymoron.

Having said that, I know a couple of people in the bureaucracy (what they call management) at UTS that think they’re alphas but they are really retards. Most of them really.

So maybe Toyota’s onto something. But I still wouldn’t name an minivan after them.