Well, that silly George W. Bush has gone and stuck his foot in his mouth again. Geez, can’t that stupid monkey shut his stupid mouth?
The News & Observer, which serves Raleigh, Durham, Cary, and Chapel Hill (NC) reports on an exchange between Bush and Sara Coleman, who owns Cupcake Shoppe in Raleigh. During the conversation, Bush let it slip that he thinks that cupcakes are “necessities of life.” He even went so far as to say “I think cupcakes are good for your health.”
I just don’t understand why this guy is allowed out in public!
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But this does shed some light on why some now want to send him to Israel as Obama’s special negotiator.
Let them eat cupcakes.
– Obama’s Israel policy
August 1st, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Er — I think my attempt at humor fell very flat. The “idiot” in question was not actually GWB but his successor.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:33 pm
No, no, HP, it’s my little joke that fell flat. I was riffing on yours by extending it.
Chalk it up to a very bad day yesterday — nasty symptoms it would be major TMI to report here — which are still affecting the Joke-ificator.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Howard, your joke was okay and understood. Dyer was running with you.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:46 pm
J.E., thanks for attempting to save me the embarrassment of having a good joke go straight over my head, but lately there’s been a lot of that going around, too.
fuster, thank you for words of consolation. I see that today you are the kindler, gentler fuster that you were after NZ Contentions started monitoring our comments.
August 1st, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Howard #5: You may recall that when that happened to me recently, I traveled back in time to when I had missed the joke and unmade my comment. Since Joe NS has pointed out the grave dangers of messing around with past and future, I would not consider doing so for anything less important than avoiding the embarrassment of missing a good joke.
August 1st, 2009 at 1:44 pm
But, Peter, your journey was successful. You undid the joke-missing comment and the space-time continuum remains intact. So no harm, no foul.
My own regret about your time travel was the one change I had hoped would take place but didn’t. Viz., when you returned to the hear and now, Obama was still president.
A man can dream!
August 1st, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Howard…I’ve been know to offend friends, family, and even strangers with my humor. (I know you are probably surprised by this confession.) However, I once caused a friend to laugh a chunk of spiced apple out of his nose because of a “piano player” joke. This brough me much joy. You’re humor has yet to bother me.
Steven from Indiana
August 2nd, 2009 at 7:58 am
Steven, Kind of you to say, but be warned. I have also caused the equivalent of spiced apple chunks to exit noses and, like you, took perverse delight in my actions. The best is yet to come.
August 2nd, 2009 at 9:29 am
Howard and Steven, I take no pleasure in playing the Puritan . . . . Uh, hold the phone, Malone. Actually I delight in playing the Puritan – but I’ve consulted the original blueprints (i.e., nos. 111-4232B/H-666 through 7 come eleven) for the intelligent design of corpus humanum (NB: those docs have been “leaked,” as they say, by Seraphim eager to set the record straight), and I can declare without fear of contradiction that there is no provision, anticipation, or intention in the broad acceptation of those words for apple chunks, spiced, mulled, or otherwise, to be expelled via the nose (q.v., Title CCCXI(B): “Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head,” passim). Snot, yes – And who might object? – but the specs are quite clear on this: rhino-ejecta are permissible only in the 10-micron to 0.1-mm range of diameters; any thing in excess automatically invalidates the somatic warranty and, please note, “cannot be advanced as a cause of action should disagreeable or even fatal consequences ensue, however comic [emphasis supplied].”
I respectfully draw your attention to the above caution in the interests of full disclosure.
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:35 am
“You’re humor has yet to bother me.”
Only my lack of proofreading bothers me.
Steven from Indiana
P.S….LOL, Joe.
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:41 am
Joe: Come on, now. The substance of your comment comes in large measure from the abstract of an article in the British journal Humours by Sir Kenneth Crackfeathers and Reginald Fortnight titled “Mass of rhino-ejecta correlated with variation in LPM intensity and frequency” (Jun ’03). (LPM is, of course, “larfs per minute”).
Steven: I thought you meant “you are humor.” I thought you was bein’ metaphysical.
P.S. I said Boo-urns.
August 2nd, 2009 at 11:10 am
Howard, are you seriously implying that the advice of Messrs. Crackfeathers and Fortnight is not the gold standard in this area?
Indeed! That will take some getting used to. I fear you are too bold, sir.
August 2nd, 2009 at 11:22 am
Sorry, Joe. I don’t know what came over me.
I’ll be slinking away now.
August 2nd, 2009 at 12:14 pm