The Marmot’s Hole

9 Comments

1. michael
   Posted January 22, 2007 at 5:13 pm | Permalink

   I hope they make office chairs with this stuff–my boss has been farting like Poong Poongie all day

2. R. Elgin
   Posted January 22, 2007 at 5:20 pm | Permalink

   That sounds great. Maybe I should hang one in the living room.

3. Brendon Carr
   Posted January 22, 2007 at 6:04 pm | Permalink

   Kumho is my favorite tire company. Once I worked on an M&A transaction involving an Asiana unit where at the conclusion(!) of a horrible day we got dragged up to the boardroom to sit through a dreadful corporate-image video introducing the world of Kumho, complete with robotic voiceover straight out of Arirang TV Central Casting.

   I couldn’t stop giggling as the narrator kept telling us that Kumho was “tirelessly” working to continuously improve, “tirelessly” striving toward the 21st century global standard of the new millennium, “tirelessly” blah blah blah. Too bad this is a tire company, I thought silently. I was the only one in the room who got the joke. Anyway, it’s a bold tire company that plans tirelessly.

   Mmm, lavender scented tires!

4. R. Elgin
   Posted January 22, 2007 at 6:15 pm | Permalink

   God bless the former, deceased owner as well. He was a pretty nice fellow too.

5. seouldout
   Posted January 22, 2007 at 6:59 pm | Permalink

   Good god, were you googling patchouli +tires and stumbled on the site?

   I’ll now be having my aromatherapy treatments on Highway 1.

6. ORblog
   Posted January 23, 2007 at 1:17 am | Permalink

   Appropo of nothing whatsoever, one of the cases we read in law school involved Kumho. The student who was called on in class to summarize the case pronounced the name just like you’d expect from someone unfamiliar with Korean.

   On another note, Kumho also makes tires for drifting that give off red smoke. Now, if only Kumho could combine the two, drift events would be an enhanced experience in sight and scent.

7. Zonath
   Posted January 23, 2007 at 6:24 am | Permalink

   Jeezus… What the hell is this? First candles, then potpourri, and now tires? Pretty soon, everything is going to smell like that Yankee Candle crap. Tires should smell like tires.

8. SomeguyinKorea
   Posted January 23, 2007 at 12:16 pm | Permalink

   Brendon,

   did it say that Kumho takes a hands on approach to ensuring customer satisfaction?

9. The Goat
   Posted January 23, 2007 at 1:45 pm | Permalink

   umm…ok.