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Look at Tempting Palates For Those With Urge to Scribble
Aired January 24, 2003 - 05:51 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: It's that time of year again when snow, salt and dirt make things not very palatable on the streets of New York. But the result is a tempting palate for those with an urge to scribble.
CNN's Jeanne Moos gets down and dirty.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Has your car been giving you dirty looks? 'Tis the season when we're awash in unwashed vehicles. "Clean me, please." Not a chance. But at least the dirt affords the chance to scrawl messages on moving blackboards, from the name of a union to a cheery hello to a "Please kiss my" expletive deleted. We've all seen them.
(on camera): Please wash me.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For the first time since you got me.
MOOS (voice-over): The owner of this van has even encountered poetry.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Dirty, dirty, please, please clean me. I'm so dirty as I can be.
MOOS: OK, so maybe the grammar's not so hot. "Stupido." "Do not parking." And knowing how to spell smell can be a challenge. This delivery van man left a message for his coworker.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I say wash me please. I smell so bad.
MOOS: Oscar Wilde once said man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. Tell that to the messenger who wrote dirt.com. A dirty mind might think dirt.com would be a porn site. But, no, it's for those who are against globalization.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just picked the truck up and somebody had wrote it.
MOOS (on camera): Are you going to wash your truck?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ah, that's the company got to wash it, not me.
MOOS (voice-over): A company called Fleet Wash specializes in washing trucks. Its employees see a lot of messages before they're hosed off.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Test dirt, please don't wash.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jimmy Hoffa, call home.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I've seen this driver is drunk.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Driver asleep, don't honk.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Leg check 45 feet.
MOOS: Female drivers approaching the back of the truck, beware. When you get to the cab, 45 feet ahead, the trucker may be looking down, checking out your legs. Some musings are a mystery. No, it's not hieroglyphics, it's a floor plan.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's got two doors here. He was showing me there's a desktop coming around.
MOOS: Sometimes what's scrawled compliments what's already there.
(on camera): Marijuana for sale, 24 hour services, seven days a week, free pickup and delivery.
(voice-over): Pleas for help make you wonder.
(on camera): Are you sure there's nobody in there?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's nobody in there.
MOOS: Do you know what's on the back of your truck?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
MOOS: What's it say?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It says my truck's dirtier than yours.
MOOS (voice-over): Actually, it says your truck is dirtier than mine. Maybe the warning should say objects in mirror are dirtier than they appear. But look on the bright side.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The more they write on it, the little less dirt I have.
MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
WHITFIELD: And with that cold that we're seeing this morning, I don't see any car washings any time soon.
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Aired January 24, 2003 - 05:51 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: It's that time of year again when snow, salt and dirt make things not very palatable on the streets of New York. But the result is a tempting palate for those with an urge to scribble.
CNN's Jeanne Moos gets down and dirty.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Has your car been giving you dirty looks? 'Tis the season when we're awash in unwashed vehicles. "Clean me, please." Not a chance. But at least the dirt affords the chance to scrawl messages on moving blackboards, from the name of a union to a cheery hello to a "Please kiss my" expletive deleted. We've all seen them.
(on camera): Please wash me.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For the first time since you got me.
MOOS (voice-over): The owner of this van has even encountered poetry.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Dirty, dirty, please, please clean me. I'm so dirty as I can be.
MOOS: OK, so maybe the grammar's not so hot. "Stupido." "Do not parking." And knowing how to spell smell can be a challenge. This delivery van man left a message for his coworker.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I say wash me please. I smell so bad.
MOOS: Oscar Wilde once said man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. Tell that to the messenger who wrote dirt.com. A dirty mind might think dirt.com would be a porn site. But, no, it's for those who are against globalization.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just picked the truck up and somebody had wrote it.
MOOS (on camera): Are you going to wash your truck?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ah, that's the company got to wash it, not me.
MOOS (voice-over): A company called Fleet Wash specializes in washing trucks. Its employees see a lot of messages before they're hosed off.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Test dirt, please don't wash.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jimmy Hoffa, call home.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I've seen this driver is drunk.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Driver asleep, don't honk.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Leg check 45 feet.
MOOS: Female drivers approaching the back of the truck, beware. When you get to the cab, 45 feet ahead, the trucker may be looking down, checking out your legs. Some musings are a mystery. No, it's not hieroglyphics, it's a floor plan.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's got two doors here. He was showing me there's a desktop coming around.
MOOS: Sometimes what's scrawled compliments what's already there.
(on camera): Marijuana for sale, 24 hour services, seven days a week, free pickup and delivery.
(voice-over): Pleas for help make you wonder.
(on camera): Are you sure there's nobody in there?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's nobody in there.
MOOS: Do you know what's on the back of your truck?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
MOOS: What's it say?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It says my truck's dirtier than yours.
MOOS (voice-over): Actually, it says your truck is dirtier than mine. Maybe the warning should say objects in mirror are dirtier than they appear. But look on the bright side.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The more they write on it, the little less dirt I have.
MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
WHITFIELD: And with that cold that we're seeing this morning, I don't see any car washings any time soon.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
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