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Mechanic Offers a Nobel Prize for an Oil Change

Has a little fun mocking the president in conservative Texas town

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 21, 2009 2:30 PM CST
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(Newser) – A Texas car mechanic has turned President Obama’s unlikely Nobel Peace Prize into an even unlikelier promotion, and his conservative customers are loving it. At Horizon Auto in Rockwall County, an oil change comes with a Nobel—well, a sticker with a picture of the prize. And these stirring words: “Conferred for the effort and peaceful intention of getting the oil and filter changed.”

The owner tells the Dallas Morning News that equating Obama’s peaceful achievements with an oil change is just for yucks, and not a partisan attack. And though photos of the sign have made the rounds of conservative websites, it's going over some heads. “People over 35 notice it more than younger people,” says an employee. “I think they understand it better.” A new sign going up soon will be less elliptical, the owner says: “We sell brakes. Washington needs them.”

The promotion.
The promotion.   (Rockwall Rocks!)
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JesusLovesSomeOfYou
Dec 22, 2009 12:23 PM CST
How can you thumb that down. That's pure comedy genius. Leads me to believe that we've got some folks making thumbs based on personal feeling toward other Readers. Kind of takes away from the credibility of the entire thumb system.
odowd80
Dec 22, 2009 4:10 AM CST
Tea-baggers can barely read, much less write history books. I'm not too concerned about how Obama's legacy will be recorded in my children's history e-books.
cyclops
Dec 22, 2009 2:46 AM CST
RETIRED

 
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