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Sheikh flies Lamborghini 6,500 miles to Britain for oil change
The Sun ^ | Today | Neil Syson

Posted on 07/31/2008 4:16:32 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes

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To: Red Badger

Here it is:

http://www.bigfoot4x4.com/more5.html


41 posted on 07/31/2008 5:23:57 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

$7,000 for an oil change?

Well,I’ve seen Arabs drive, so I wouldn’t want them working on my car either...probably fill the radiator with Quaker State.


42 posted on 07/31/2008 5:28:19 AM PDT by coolbreeze (giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teen-age boys.)
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To: thackney

I dunno, Ive never seen a tire that big in real life!..........Bigfoot was here at the local Ford dealership a couple of years back for a promotion, but it didn’t have tiers this big at the time!........


43 posted on 07/31/2008 5:29:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (If we drill deep enough, we can reach the Saudi oil fields from THIS side..........)
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To: Red Badger
Picture from the bigfoot website of the original installation of those tires:


44 posted on 07/31/2008 5:34:16 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

How did they last so long? My local tire dealer says that the shelf life of a tire is only like 7-8 years............


45 posted on 07/31/2008 5:38:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (If we drill deep enough, we can reach the Saudi oil fields from THIS side..........)
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To: Past Your Eyes
A cargo handler at Heathrow blasted the car’s environmental damage.

You're a cargo handler. Handle cargo and shut the @#$@ up!

46 posted on 07/31/2008 5:42:17 AM PDT by Tennessee_Bob ("Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.")
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To: coolbreeze

Yeah, there was a Lebanese Marionite family that ran a local garage and filling station in my town. I always bought gas there on the way into work. During Gulf War I, they were glued to the TV cheering on the US and Bush I. When I had a short circuit in my electrical system I brought it in to them. After about three tries, hundreds of dollars and no success, I brought it over to my current mechanic, who simply rewired the faulty line.

One of the Lebanese brothers got an EE degree from Northeastern, but had trouble finding work. I ran into him selling pizza in one of those medical office condos near Fenway Park, bizzare coincidence. He was a really nice guy, hope it turned out ok for him.

When I lived in Queens, there was a Lebanese Catholic family with five daughters up the block. They and their mother were all amazingly friendly. (Yes, what you’re thinking.) The father, who was estranged from his wife, ran a service station on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. I had a conversation with him about the business. In sum, his business ethics were appalling. Basically, he said you had to f*** the people.


47 posted on 07/31/2008 5:44:17 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (His Negritude has made his negritude the central theme of this campaign)
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To: thackney

45 tons! Now THAT’s funny! :-)


48 posted on 07/31/2008 5:46:18 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Vigilantism will arise where the justice system is viewed as overly lenient and/or ineffective.)
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To: Red Badger

You kidding, right. (It’s 190,000 pounds Sterling, like $500,000, not pounds mass.)


49 posted on 07/31/2008 5:46:30 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (His Negritude has made his negritude the central theme of this campaign)
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To: Past Your Eyes
Sheikh flies Lamborghini 6,500 miles to Britain for oil change

"There's a PROBLEM with that!!??, said Al Gore.

50 posted on 07/31/2008 5:49:30 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I know, thackney and I were just fooling around......


51 posted on 07/31/2008 5:50:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (If we drill deep enough, we can reach the Saudi oil fields from THIS side..........)
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To: Red Badger

Obviously not the typical tire. I have not been able to find out much about it.


52 posted on 07/31/2008 5:51:26 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Wow,you really are lonely up there in the peoples republic...I was born in South Weymouth,moved away in early ‘60’s...Later in life.when driving up to New Hampshire to visit family,I felt like the drive across Mass. was like running across East Germany to make it to Berlin.


53 posted on 07/31/2008 5:55:32 AM PDT by coolbreeze (giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teen-age boys.)
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To: Past Your Eyes
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or what!

Auto execs discuss flying cars

Clearly they shouldn't have left out Stephan Winkelmann from Lamborghini!

54 posted on 07/31/2008 6:00:09 AM PDT by Tribune7 (How is inflicting pain and death on an innocent, helpless human being for profit, moral?)
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To: Past Your Eyes

I wonder if they’ll have a $6,999 oil change option on the board at Jiffy Lube next time I go there?


56 posted on 07/31/2008 6:52:18 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Black dogs and bacon bombs.)
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To: Past Your Eyes

Doesn’t everybody fly their Lamborghini to the UK for an oil change? Or when the tires need air?

I do.


57 posted on 07/31/2008 7:08:29 AM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Past Your Eyes

An airport worker said: “This car doesn’t have a carbon footprint – more of a crater.”

A cargo handler at Heathrow blasted the car’s environmental damage.


Since these morons are in the industry that PROFITS from such consumption of their services, maybe they should either feel grateful, or accept for of the moral culpability.


58 posted on 07/31/2008 7:12:54 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Guns don't kill people, criminals and the governments that create them do.)
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To: palomonte
How large do you suppose the British Royal Family’s carbon footprint to be?

Compared to the US President, who needs about 40 aircraft to travel to a foreign country? I'd say miniscule.

59 posted on 07/31/2008 9:03:11 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy
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To: Oztrich Boy

I agree - the expense to transport and guard the US President border on the ridiculous - but my point was that the person who complained about the oil change was British and there are certainly examples of wretched excess in Britain as well.


60 posted on 07/31/2008 11:37:15 AM PDT by palomonte
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