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Sesame Street To Introduce A New Character In Honor Of Mitt Romney -- 'Big Oil'

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Carrie
- 231 days ago - nationalmemo.com

Wednesday night at the first presidential debate, Republican nominee Mitt Romney promised to end public financing of America's largest classroom PBS. "I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I'm going to stop other things," the ex-governor said. "I like...

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Lynn Squance (188)

Thursday October 4, 2012, 3:00 pm
What will be the name of the character? I guess if it is named after Rmoney, it will be something like 'Slick'! First name 'Oil' last name 'Slick'. Couldn't you just see that on his tax returns:
Name -- Oil Slick
Gender -- blob
Address -- anywhere I can create havoc

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Lois Jordan (42)

Thursday October 4, 2012, 3:24 pm
Noted. Thanks, Carrie. Good one, Lynn!

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Allan Yorkowitz (187)

Thursday October 4, 2012, 3:52 pm
How about naming the character British Petroleum, or simply Shell? What can we come up with in honor of the Keystone pipeline?

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BarbKnight SunshinecatLady (1488)

Thursday October 4, 2012, 8:17 pm
I got a vision of a keystone cop chasing down a pipe for leaving a nasty line of oil! I love the name Big Oil and believe he will be a good add!

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