Meredith Vieira Thinks ‘Hummer’ Is A Perfectly Innocent Word

by Frances Martel | 1:25 pm, April 10th, 2010

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Friday’s Today Show featured a light-hearted segment on the pitfalls of naming car models, highlighting some of the best (and worst) names in automotive history. At the top of the inappropriate name list was the now-defunct Hummer, for reasons that were completely lost on host Meredith Vieira.

Among the best car names, the segment concluded? Mustang, Corvette, and Golf– trusted cars with catchy names. Among the worst– Hummer, for making 12-year-old boys everywhere laugh. Not laughing was Vieira, who naively comments, “I didn’t know ‘hummer’ had a bad meaning!” Her colleague Jenna Wolff comforted her by claiming she didn’t really get it either, but she was probably just excited to introduce Vieira to UrbanDictionary.com during the break.

Watch the clip below:

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*points and laughs*
http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

I don’t know that I believe the young one…
Meredith yes, but one would think Ms. Wolff might be acquainted with contemporary slang.

Of course being somewhat old myself, I was ready to reference the old story about the Chevy Nova not selling well in Spanish-speaking countries, but then I pulled-up Snopes to provide a background link and learned that it’s mostly urban legend.
TylerDurdin

Meredith you are so, so, so…. Never mind, ya wouldn’t get that either.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Gary-Stewart/1032630109 Gary Stewart

Meredeth: Do you Tweet?

Stephen Colbert: I have twatted, yes.

Meredith: So have I.