=v= A really great _The_Hots_ comic strip online today (the
11-Feb-2003 strip on two-week delay):

http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/hots/about.htm

The URL will only get you that strip for about a month, so
I've helpfully included the dialogue below (after this here
formfeed):

"Let's get the car washed."
"Why?"
"So we can take pride in it."
"Take pride in it? It's a filth-producing machine and it
should sit in its filth."
"How 'bout a vacuuming?"
"We'll have to see how it does on its emission test."

=v= The cartoonist is a car-free Brompton-rider. I dunno about
the writer, but his character's heart is in the right place.
<_Jym_>