it fucks me up that when i first heard of michelin star restaurants i was like "the tire company??" and then i was like no that's dumb it has to be a different michelin and then it's just the fucking tire company recommending places to eat
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Who would have thought that this man holds so much power over the world
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Michelin Man's original name was "Bibendum" ("Time to drink" in Latin) His original portrayal was as a jolly fat man made of tires at a table filled with fine food and drink, associating the automobile life with the "high life"
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Time To Drink Man, selling tires, tires people put on their cars, their cars that they drive, while drinking,
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Yeah well drunk driving wasn't actually specifically illegal back then You could get arrested for it but only under the general laws against "public drunkenness"
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i'm learning so much today
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Bibendum/Michelin Man was invented at the Lyon Exposition in France in 1894, first law specifically against DUI of an automobile was New York in 1910
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I looked this up and I'm pretty sure this became a slang term in Spanish because of the Michelin Man
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