Taking precious time out of their parents’ basements to support the cause
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.
“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.”
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.”
Good one, Harvey. I’ll be laughing about this for a while.
Cut yer hair! Get a job!
The funniest thing about this Newsish Fakery post is that this has actually happened numerous times. I’ve seen it live at UNM & I’ve seen the ubiquitous Mercedes symbol on the news.
heh heh… you wouldn’t, like, have a link to a bigger .jpeg of that that I could, like, steal, would ya man?
You keep topping yourself, Fra-, er Harvey. The funny thing is that I’d have never noticed the difference between Mercedes vs. Peace signs had you not pointed it out.
Love the names: Summer Sunshine Rainbow Rabinowitz and Moonglow Moonbeam Johnson
P.S. Any news about our own counter-protest so that the WeTards can quit clogging up my “special” email box?
Great comedy always has an element of truth, and this did so well I had to check the original photo to make sure this one was shopped.
1958? It may have been co-opted in 1958 by the weenies, but it is the Cross of Nero which has been around much longer.
Love it.
“BUSH LIED! People bought Mercedes! BUSH LIED! People bought Mercedes! BUSH LIED! No- wait…”
Man, now I feel sorry for all of those former hippies who sold their Nehru jackets and Beetle boots on eBay so they could buy their “Peace Cars” from Benz.
You mean not one of those morons stopped and asked, “Wait, like, doesn’t the peace symbol have, like, three pointy thingies?”
Eediots! This is why I believe we’ll win every time. Just be patient, they’ll wander off soon enough.
Ha! I actually had to check the original to make sure this was edited. Between the Obama-Phone edit and this one, I’m convinced that guys have a calling. Perhaps you could start working for AP? I hear they have an opening now that Hajji-boy was fired.
Wish we could go higher than 5 stars! Summer Sunshine Rainbow…..ohmygoodness I needed a laugh like THAT!
Heh … zombie has documented multiple instances of this.
“Cross of Nero?” You wanna reference that one please? And Texxe Marrs is NOT a reference.
Can you imagine the smell?
They probably thought the cops were tear gassing them.
Love the hippys!!
I live near Ithaca, and my children went to school with both a Sunshine AND a Summer. Creepy – wonder where they are now …..not my kids, I know where they are – the other ones.
The line about the Windows logo was pure comedy gold.
Never knew hippies appreciated fine German engineering.
Wait – did you photoshop this or did the Ithaca Journal?
I just checked the link to the journal that you provided and it appears that there is indeed a peace sign there. But, if you look at the individuals standing around in your shot and the journal’s (people standing around inside and out the sign), it appears that your two images were taken at the same time.
Someone’s p-shoppin’s! I bet I know who.
Oh, you got me.
Didn’t get the by-line in my RSS reader.
I have to say, this picture-fix came out remarkably well with little effort, since there were plenty of grass sections to clone to cover up the people, and the overall look of the grass is NATURALLY patchy and color-varied, so the doctoring is not obvious.
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