VW - Punch Dub
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Topic: VW - Punch Dub
Posted By: ForumAdmin
Subject: VW - Punch Dub
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2010 at 2:26pm
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Ever play that game with VW bugs when you were a kid? |
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Posted By: Moochamoocha
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2010 at 3:50pm
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I've never played that game and I don't get it. Why are you supposed to punch people when you see a VW Bug? Seems stupid to me.
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Posted By: jeroboam
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2010 at 8:32pm
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we were annoyed as they are trying to get you to do it with all vws. It is bugs, and it is slug bug where I live. I will give them the whole tracy morgan/stevie wonder one. THAT was funny. |
Posted By: Hezadancer
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2010 at 8:50pm
| It's bugs only! God damn it this is why I'm growing to hate VW more and more. I'm not punching someone every time I see a Jetta, even though I want to for other reasons. It takes the fun out of it. |
Posted By: Titus77
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2010 at 9:29pm
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It's 'Punch Bug' in my universe ------------- Where's The Beef? |
Posted By: Ad nauseous
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2010 at 4:06am
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STUPID STUPID STUPID that's all I've got to say. ------------- One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off |
Posted By: EMCEE
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2010 at 7:09pm
I think it's because of the negative connotation of the word "bug" that they changed it. ------------- Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain |
Titus77 wrote:Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2010 at 7:33pm
| My bro and I used to play this game...'cept it wasn't for Bugs in particular. We'd pick a year and make and model of car, and the first one to spot one, hits the other. |
Posted By: jeroboam
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2010 at 9:36am
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No they often use the word bug in their ads still. Well they were. Are they still making the new beetle? |
Posted By: RichardCranium
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2010 at 11:37am
Growing up it was "Slug Bug", and exclusive to Beetles ("Bugs"). I never slugged my little brother when I saw a Microbus. Well, okay I did- but not because I saw a Microbus.
Slug Bug never started out as a game thought up by VW, it has been ripped off for their own marketing purposes which makes me madder than an old lady who sees her husband's brand new bottle of Viagra on February 13th.
But I did like the Stevie-Tracey thing. ------------- |
Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2010 at 12:54am
 yea...until the accident.(I love the commercial with the guy who 'punches' (taps) the baby) ------------- X <sig.nature> "What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike |
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2010 at 4:53pm
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I can't imagine playing this game with current VWs (or almost any other modern sedan). Cars these days look really generic to me. I don't know if I could tell a Passat from a Prius.
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Posted By: Christine
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 11:21pm
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Was "Punch Bug" to us as well. And yeah, sucks that they changed it to "Punch DUB," WTF does that even mean?! Absolutely nothing. Talk about super lame. If parents are going to teach their kids about cars, teach them about REAL cars. Play a game like "spot the classics" or something like that (that's not a real game- just came up with it.) My dad told me to look out for license plates from different states- that kept ME busy!
 Grrrrr indeed. |
Posted By: Angry McPisseron
Date Posted: 30 May 2010 at 5:47am
It was "Punch Buggy" when I was growing up. 
And it only applied to Bugs, Beetles, and Super Beetles -- not Buses, Rabbits, Golfs, Jettas, TDIs, etc. ------------- http://www.ledmuseum.net/" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: musicman
Date Posted: 30 May 2010 at 10:56am
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A guy I worked with had a Jetta that was so unreliable that it should have been VW that was getting punched.
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Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2011 at 11:13pm
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I finally found it....the one I DO like....
------------- X <sig.nature> "What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike |