The Magic Grapefruit Road Crew grew out of a night of boredom, and a long night online. I was surfing the web and came across a MUTing of a e-mail spam called The Magic Grapefruit of Love, done by Tom Smith.
Well, in my extremely bored state, this struck me as highly amusing, and a bit later I actually went out and painted "MAGIC GRAPEFRUIT ROAD CREW, On Patrol!" on the back of The Cat.
In it was the following section:
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> and would most likely help you out if you had a flat
> tire somewhere in the same state
MIKE: Excuse me! I've got a blowout. Are you the guy
who E-mailed me a magic grapefruit?
> (or within a one or two hour radius, depending on
> the size of your state).
SERVO: The Magic Grapefruit Road Crew, on patrol.
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