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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Hippies Accidentally Create World’s Largest Mercedes Sign

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Ithaca, NY (AP) - While attempting to create the world’s largest peace sign, festival-goers in Ithaca, NY, created the world’s largest Mercedes sign by mistake.
5814 participants gathered to form the familiar symbol of pacifist activism, but - through either oversight or stupidity - only formed three of the four radii required to create a traditional peace sign. Since the missing radius was the lower center line, the symbol they formed was actually the trademark hood ornament of the Mercedes-Benz automobile - a quality German luxury car since 1926 - rather than the anti-war symbol created by a British nuclear disarmament protestor in 1958.

Bwahahaha err.. I mean, gosh darn that’s a shame

“Dude, this totally sucks!” observed participant Summer Sunshine Rainbow Rabinowitz. “We were, like, trying to tell Bush McChimpyhitler that his war totally blows, but somehow he managed to get his Haliburton oil buddies in here to screw us over with some sort of totally covert inside job. Just like 9/11!”

Other participants, such as Moonglow Moonbeam Johnson suspected less conspiratorial causes. “‘Twas the weed, my man. The Acapulco Fire-Bud has a way of rendering one incapable of creating complex geometric figures. Heck, we’re lucky we didn’t end up with a swastika, or - even worse - the Windows logo.”

Summer Sunshine Rainbow and Moonglow Moonbeam?
Whoa… like totally cool earthly sad-ass hippy names

Ithaca High School sophomore Trevor Dougherty, the organizer of the attempt, claimed they were still successful. “Maybe it’s wasn’t a peace sign, but Mercedes isn’t all gas-guzzling & global warming. After all, the high priestess of high people, Janis Joplin, used it as an icon of war resistance in her song, ‘Oh Lord, Won’t You Run Over George Bush With a Mercedes Benz’, which I once saw on YouTube or maybe somebody’s MySpace page.”

“Anyway,” Dougherty concluded, “we all got super-mega-stoned, and that’s what REALLY matters.”

Yes… yes, as long as the real motive of getting super-mega-stone was accomplished, that’s all that really matters
Far out dude.. that’s totally awesome

H/T SondraK

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Mercedes symbol, eh? That just makes me want to Saab!



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Proof on June 25, 2008 at 01:30 pm
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Twas the weed, my man. The Acapulco Fire-Bud has a way of rendering one incapable of creating complex geometric figures.

Oh yes, the upside down broken cross in a circle has got to be the most complex gemoetric figure known to man.

Heck, we’re lucky we didn’t end up with a swastika, or - even worse - the Windows logo.

Lets see.  I would probably list them from innocent to worse as follows:

1. Windows Logo
2. Peace symbol
3. Swastika

Apparantly that fire-bud affects one’s judgment as well.

Ithaca High School sophomore Trevor Dougherty, the organizer of the attempt, claimed they were still successful.

Flash: Homeschooling in Ithaca on the rise.

we all got super-mega-stoned, and that’s what REALLY matters.

If I’m getting the point of this event experimentation, we are to listen to the voices of the most incoherent and brain-dead members of society and apply such to foreign policy… now I understand liberal foreign policy.

HG on June 25, 2008 at 02:13 pm
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HG on June 25, 2008 at 02:25 pm

Let’s see.....

Hippies

plus mind-altering drugs…

what happens to spatial apperception, logic and reasoning?

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...for great justice

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Move_Zig on June 25, 2008 at 02:44 pm

Somehow this sounds appropriate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-GFqhCq2HA

Yeah, weed might have been involved, but maybe also involved is the same kind of thinking that believes that forming a huge peace sign is the best way to stop war.

And yes, I anticipate a few more parents deciding to homeschool their children around there next year.

Bike Bubba on June 25, 2008 at 02:56 pm

But to be fair, the link actually shows a peace sign.  They may be smelly, illogical hippies, but they didn’t do too much homage to Janis when they were making the symbol.

Bike Bubba on June 25, 2008 at 03:30 pm

Yes BB… but, but.. sheesh, ya ol’ party pooper
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Anna on June 25, 2008 at 03:56 pm

Perfect target for an air delivered cluster bomb.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on June 25, 2008 at 07:11 pm

Perfect target for an air delivered cluster bomb.

LOL.. my kind of thinker
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Anna on June 25, 2008 at 07:38 pm

HG - you owe me a new keyboard, monitor, & printer, you also need to clean my desk and carpet, but that was a good one! LMAO!!!


"we should select our leaders on principle first, electability second.”

A young man whose wisdom far exceeds his years

Spartacus on June 26, 2008 at 04:33 pm
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Spartacus,

I think Anna deserves some of the blame.

HG on June 26, 2008 at 04:57 pm

I think Anna deserves some of the blame.

k HG, you replace the equipment and I’ll work something out with An....nevermind…


"we should select our leaders on principle first, electability second.”

A young man whose wisdom far exceeds his years

Spartacus on June 26, 2008 at 05:21 pm

I thought having and wanting peace was a good thing. 
Protesting against something you don’t believe in (as long as you have a legitimate point of view) is a good thing.

But when you protest against “Bush McChimpyhitler” then you’re really being a first class schmuck.  And since when does peace include vile hatred?!

Zoooma on June 27, 2008 at 06:53 am

LOL ...
*shakes head*

Oh. and…

And since when does peace include vile hatred?!

Excellent point Zoooma.  Although ...  I’m fairly confidant that “thinking” is not a concept that hippies give priority
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Anna on June 27, 2008 at 07:37 am
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Check out the real pictuer before this juerk photoshopped it by going here:

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Trevor on June 28, 2008 at 01:27 pm

Or after someone photoshopped it?

Zoooma on June 29, 2008 at 12:33 am
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