Word: tappet
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...answer it. This year MIT has chosen Thomas L. Magliozzi and Raymond F. Magliozzi to speak at its graduation, two men you've probably never heard of. Neither, to be honest, had we. These two men are better known as Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers. respected Cambridge auto mechanics and MIT graduates. They are also co-hosts of Car Talk, a syndicated radio program broadcast from the offices of Dewey, Cheetham & Howe in Harvard Square (aka Car Talk Plaza...
Known to the American public as "Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers," the Magliozzis, both MIT graduates, represent a definite change from past MIT commencement speakers, which have included President Clinton, AIDS researcher David D. Ho and Vice President Al Gore...
...fictional Zenith, George Babbitt brags about boosterism. In Boston, a Tappet brother asks, "Does the transmission go clunk before or after you let in the clutch?" In Paris, Papa Wemba recalls his days as Zaire's most popular folk singer. And in New Orleans, Dr. John bellows the blues from the stage of the Colt 38 Club...
...Talk, NPR's offbeat call-in show, gets as much mileage out of the jokes as the information. Boston's Tappet brothers -- actually two M.I.T. grads named Ray and Tom Magliozzi, who own an auto-repair shop and drive U.S. models -- have turned America's love-hate relationship with the automobile into a stand-up routine. "Do you know why they call the Volvo the poor man's Mercedes?" Ray once asked a perplexed caller. "Because the repair bills will keep you too poor to buy a Mercedes...
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