From DRJ of Patterico’s Pontifications:
An auto center in Rockwall, Texas, in the Dallas Metroplex is offering a Nobel Peace Prize with every oil change:
In addition to an oil change, customers get stickers with a picture of the Nobel Peace Prize.
This would explain 2001, 2002, 2007 and 2009, wouldn’t it? And the winner in 2005 might just have picked his up there, too.
Does the NAPA logo stand for Nobel Award for Peace Association?
NAPA is after-market parts which by some unfathomable reason are also called OEM. I like and trust my mechanic but I fight with him over this all the time.
I’ve bought NAPA parts before, and there are NAPA stores all around.
One might also add 1973
Sure could, Jeff! The Paris Peace Accords to “end” the war in Vietnam were a complete sham, and everybody knew it. The Communists knew that President Nixon wanted out of Vietnam, but he needed some way to save face, a concept well understood in the Oriental cultures. So, they figured that they could agree to a peace treaty, and use that time to retool and rearm for a finishing push into South Vietnam, and give President Nixon his time to pull out of Vietnam, a “Peace With Honor™” as it were. They also knew that, once out, it didn’t make a damned bit of difference whether President Nixon promised to come to the aid of South Vietnam if the Communists broke the treaty; the Congress would never allow it.
We pull out, President Nixon is embattled in fighting Watergate, the Democrats win huge victories in the 1974 elections, and eventually President Nixon is forced to resign. The Communists strike again, and South Vietnam is crushed. I guess that was peace, in a way, the peace resulting from one side winning and one side losing.
At least if you get one you actually had to do something.
Oh my, this is funny. Of course now that Algore has read his poetry at Copenhagen, I suspect he will be our next Nobel laureate…
I’ll have 2 NPP’s, a large coke, one medium fries, and 2 orders of onion rings. Oh, and put that on Algore’s tab.
That’s about its worth these days.
Medium fries and two orders of onion rings? That’s more than wasteful, but the amount of CO2 released to cook all three would contribute to global warming. Fries or rings, but not both.
ropelight, you erred in your order. When ordering a huge amount of bad, you’re supposed to clear your conscience by ordering the diet coke.
You guys go to your church, and I’ll go to mine.