# Frau Blucher is back **URL:** \ **Category:** The Show\ **Created:** [January 3, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729 "2026-01-03T19:03:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vchimpanzee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ba8739/32.png) [@Vchimpanzee](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Vchimpanzee)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/1 "2026-01-03T19:03:54Z")
The mere mention of her name makes horses neigh. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 7:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/2 "2026-01-03T19:13:20Z")
“Frau Blucher, and Dough the old gray Mare”… Whinny!!! I would tune in to Car Talk radio just to hear those hilarious acknowledgements at the end. 😂 ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 8:37pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/3 "2026-01-03T20:37:24Z")
[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/d/a/da3a1f450bd58009fedf659c54457829a04b1393.jpeg "Young Frankenstein : Frau Blucher") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYVIY1izho) ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 11:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/4 "2026-01-03T23:29:40Z")
Yeah that was funny but do you know why the horse would Whitney and would you tell your kids? Whatever happened to actual comedy? ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/5 "2026-01-03T23:40:23Z")
> [@bing](#): > > the horse would Whitney and would you tell your kids? I just thought it was timed to coincide with “Doug The Old Gray Mare”. Bing, with all due respect, please _start typing_ again. I know you meant whinny based on the context, but spoken word dictating doesn’t seem to work. A friend of mine ended up in Facebook “jail” because he spoke all of his posts, and dictate misinterpreted it and other account holders kept reporting him. I will keep typing, until someone pries the keyboard from my cold. dead. hands…! ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 11:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/6 "2026-01-03T23:53:28Z")
@ChrisTheTireWhisperer ![images (81)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/2/3/2336315b2c6489ed6f30f20093633dbc68f8119a.jpeg)you were saying? ---
**Author:** ![wolyrobb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/wolyrobb/32/45497_2.png) [@wolyrobb](https://community.cartalk.com/u/wolyrobb)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 12:27am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/7 "2026-01-04T00:27:15Z")
[https://www.cartalk.com/content/staff-credits](https://www.cartalk.com/content/staff-credits) ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 3:30am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/8 "2026-01-04T03:30:22Z")
I’m not on Facebook or any other and got a Christmas card from the sheriff so I’m not worried about jail. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 3:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/9 "2026-01-04T03:37:59Z")
Even so, typing makes one appear more professional. I’ve never used the Dictation (or similar) function, and hope never to have to. ---
**Author:** ![asemaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@asemaster](https://community.cartalk.com/u/asemaster)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 4:51am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/10 "2026-01-04T04:51:28Z")
> [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > I’ve never used the Dictation (or similar) function, and hope never to have to. But the voice to text function is much safer when you’re on the freeway and texting your wife about dinner. 😀😀😀 ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 8:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/11 "2026-01-04T08:04:01Z")
Should I tell him now that I don’t know what he is talking about and would have no idea how to do it? Naw. I find it amusing when people make baseless assumptions but can’t believe they are wrong. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 8:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/12 "2026-01-04T08:44:30Z")
bing: “Dictation” is what Apple calls its version of a way of converting spoken word to text. If you have an Android OS phone, the same feature might go by another name. I’m sorry, but it’s easy to assume you were speaking words to text when the sound of a horse, in your comment, came out as “Whitney” instead of whinny or whinney. Another possibility: Auto-Correct and/or Predictive Text might be activated(by default) in the Settings for your keyboard. Predictive might try to guess you meant the name Whitney instead of whinny(!) I learned some time ago to go into settings on a new phone and to turn off the half-dozen or so keyboard assist/ automatic features, so the keyboard behaves more like the Smith-Corona typewriters I fondly remember. Sorry for any misunderstandings, and hope this clears things up. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/13 "2026-01-04T14:15:21Z")
Chris, with all do respect, Stop being holier than thou and trying to convert everyone over to YOUR way of thinking, no matter if it is correct or not… I can promise you, if I didn’t have the spell check thingy turned on, you would think I was in the middle of a stroke or something… I CAN NOT SPELL FOR ■■■■!!! Whenever I see a misspelt word I think it is an auto correct, not them being lazy and using talk to text… I HAVE to use talk to text a lot of times cause my spelling is SO BAD and far off that spell check (which mostly sucks) is lost, or I have to google it (works better than spell checks corrections), but even then I am so far off those don’t even work, so I HAVE to someway or another speak my word(s) in order to see how it is spelt… Now that I am having issues with speaking my words clearly/correctly, If talk to text or whatever doesn’t work, then I just have to re-wright what I am trying to say in order to use a different word… We are NOT all the same, some us can do things that others can not, but those others can do stuff that we can not… I can do somethings that probably only a hand full of people in the word % wise can do, but the people not able to do those things I can do can do much greater things, it takes us all to make the world go around… Remember that if everybody was the same, life would be boring… ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/14 "2026-01-04T15:53:44Z")
> [@asemaster](#): > > But the voice to text function is much safer when you’re on the freeway and texting your wife about dinner. 😀😀😀 Yeah, but with my redneck southern draw, boy oh boy has talk to text gotten me into trouble with the wifey before, gezz it has put other female names (that I don’t even know) into text and screwed what I was trying to say all kinds of up… Like making it look like I was texting another female and sent it to her by mistake… I should really screen shot some of the stuff I type or talk to text before I prof read and correct it… 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/15 "2026-01-04T21:34:23Z")
> [@davesmopar](#): > > Yeah, but with my redneck southern draw, boy oh boy has talk to text gotten me into trouble with the wifey before, gezz it has put other female names (that I don’t even know) into text and screwed what I was trying to say all kinds of up… Like making it look like I was texting another female and sent it to her by mistake ^This^ is exactly what happened to a friend of mine, using voice-text on Fakebook. Only it was his comments against his political opponents, and the voice-to-text posted what sounded like threats! It got him suspended from Fakebook, and when his account was reopened, everything he posts now has a disclaimer attached to it by FB about its validity or lack thereof. He can’t even type p u s s ycat without asterisks appearing in front of it, lol! He owns 9 cats. Where you got “holier than thou” out of what was simplie advice and info I shared is beyond my comprehension. I just simply stated that I turned all that off before using the phone. I never said anyone else had to do it, only that it worked for me. If anything I type worse than you dave! For every 5 seconds of typing I spend 15 backspacing to correct all the typos. In other words: I’m my own ‘auto-correct’ and ‘spellchecker’. I just don’t believe in all those built-in assistants, but that does not me any holier than a t i h s -stained tollet seat. There is something seriously wrong with the way people online, in general, interpret and receive advice or knowledge. They take it as an attack, for no good reason, and it makes no sense. It took me over one minute to type the above sentence, because of all the backing up I had to do to correct the misspellings. If I’d left them in, the sentence would be completely(30 seconds just to type “compeletlty”!) unreadable. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 10:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/16 "2026-01-04T22:03:26Z")
I think it might have something to do with telling a couple of adults not to cross the street until the walk sign came on. Or maybe I’m confusing you with someone else. Then one of the more violent members here said he’d give you a fat lip or something to that effect. Actually I agree with him/her but I would have just laughed. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 10:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/17 "2026-01-04T22:12:42Z")
> [@bing](#): > > I think it might have something to do with telling a couple of adults not to cross the street until the walk sign came on. I simply asked them why they didn’t use the button provided. The side street in question connects to the CT Post Road, a four lane meat-grinder with cars turning into and out of said side street. How “I personally use every pedestrian button” come off as “holy” makes zero sense. It’s just common sense. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 10:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/18 "2026-01-04T22:16:14Z")
Do some research on what actually happens when you press that button. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/19 "2026-01-04T22:24:13Z")
I don’t know the actual step-by-step, but pressing the walk button initiates a cycle where the walk lights display, vs the traffic control signals for the cross street. Yes, it may take a minute or two to happen, but no big deal. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2026, 12:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729/20 "2026-01-05T00:10:58Z")
> [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > Where you got “holier than thou” out of what was simplie advice and info I shared is beyond my comprehension I 1st said it 2 days ago about you always lecturing us about the speed limit and after making this statement: > [@New Hampshire Excitement #2](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-hampshire-excitement-2/204653/131): > > Contact your legislators instead, if you feel the speed limits aren’t properly set. And many types of statements like that in the thread below as well as on the forum in general… > [@New Hampshire Excitement #2](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-hampshire-excitement-2/204653/132): > > Chris, you act like you break ZERO laws EVER, PLEASE just stop with your holier than thou attitude about the speed limit law!!! gzzzzz… Any law broken is a law broken… You say if we don’t like it then to contact our legislators, well take some of YOUR own advise, if YOU don’t like it, contact your legislators about doing something about it, and or join Law Enforcement… You have a habit of solicitating unwanted advice… You do it so much and often that I don’t even think you realize you are doing it… [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frau-blucher-is-back/204729.md?page=2)