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by Ofishbein on August 27th, 2009
The Citroen 2CV was an ugly, slow French-made car from the '40s. Since "lemon" in french is "citron", I figured it was just way too much of a coincidence.
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Interesting. : )
by Barcaluv on August 27th, 2009