On 4/20/2023 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <Vmd0M.1319057$t5W7.770176@fx13.iad>,
> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>
>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article <180420232159135174%nope@noway.com>,
>>> A Friend <nope@noway.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <jbF%L.2430152$vBI8.1120686@fx15.iad>, trotsky
>>>> <gmsingh@email.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 4/18/23 4:41 PM, A Friend wrote:
>>>>>> In article <c6D%L.2186483$9sn9.1025365@fx17.iad>, moviePig
>>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 4/18/2023 3:59 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> In article <u1mlsj$3kmhc$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> President Biden has always been a gaffe machine, but his slip-ups
>>>>>>>>>> have gotten more frequent, and his trip to Ireland last week was
>>>>>>>>>> no different.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> One of the most head-scratching moments of Biden's Ireland trip
>>>>>>>>>> was when he encouraged his audience to "lick the world".
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> "Let's go lick the world," Biden told Irish leaders during a
>>>>>>>>>> banquet at Dublin Castle on Thursday evening. Biden still
>>>>>>>>>> received applause and a standing ovation from the crowd of Irish
>>>>>>>>>> leaders though, despite the licking remark.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Thursday, Biden claimed (again) he has traveled 17,000 miles
>>>>>>>>>> "with" Chinese President Xi Jinping.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> "I met more with Xi Jinping than any world leader has over the
>>>>>>>>>> last 10 years," Biden said. "Over 91 hours of just one-on-one
>>>>>>>>>> conversations, 68 in person. I've traveled 17,000 miles with him
>>>>>>>>>> through Asia, primarily, through China."
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Biden has been making this claim since at least 2020, and he said
>>>>>>>>>> a version of it in 2016 as well. In 2021, the White House tried
>>>>>>>>>> to explain that Biden meant "the total travel back and forth" in
>>>>>>>>>> China and the U.S. for meetings the two presidents held together.
>>>>>>>>>> However, even The Washington Post came up empty after racking its
>>>>>>>>>> brains trying to figure out what Biden meant.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, Biden confused a rugby team with a violent
>>>>>>>>>> 1920s-era British police force. The president mistook New
>>>>>>>>>> Zealand's All Blacks rugby team for the Black and Tans, a brutal
>>>>>>>>>> police force deployed against the Irish during the Irish War of
>>>>>>>>>> Independence.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> "He was a hell of a rugby player, and he beat the hell out of the
>>>>>>>>>> Black and Tans," Biden said about former Irish rugby player Rob
>>>>>>>>>> Kearney, Biden's distant relative, during remarks in Dundalk,
>>>>>>>>>> Ireland.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The president seems to be popular in Ireland. He jogged onstage
>>>>>>>>>> to speak to a cheering crowd with the Dropkick Murphys playing in
>>>>>>>>>> the background, and he was mobbed by supporters outside a pub.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Beyond Ireland, the last few months have given us no shortage of
>>>>>>>>>> Biden gaffes.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Biden was even more incoherent than usual this week, mixing up
>>>>>>>>>> China and Canada and promoting "tax credits for elected [sic]
>>>>>>>>>> vehicles."
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> In Ottawa, the president declared: "Uh, I have, uh. We have, uh,
>>>>>>>>>> um, ya know, uh."
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> A few weeks ago, Biden said he "applauds China" when he meant
>>>>>>>>>> Canada during remarks to the Canadian Parliament. That move
>>>>>>>>>> surely caused facepalms among White House staffers.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Last month when he was supposed to address the nation about the
>>>>>>>>>> Nashville school shooting that killed six, Biden said he "came
>>>>>>>>>> down because he heard there was chocolate chip ice cream".
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Let's not forget Biden's habit of falling down the Air Force One
>>>>>>>>>> stairs too.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Maybe the White House gaffe prevention squad went on vacation
>>>>>>>>>> sometime last month. Well, who could blame them?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> All that and they're just from the last few weeks. But Dan Quayle
>>>>>>>>> misspelled "potato" and it was the end of the world.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And it wasn1t even him that did it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It wasn't??? But I *saw* him...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Me too. The kid wrote POTATO on a blackboard. Quayle said he'd
>>>>>> misspelled it and should add an "e." The kid knew better but did it
>>>>>> anyway. When Quayle left, the kid quickly erased the "e."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, it wasn't the end of the world, and no one ever treated it that way.
>>>>>
>>>>> No, but it was the beginning of right wing guy looking dumber than a
>>>>> pile of dog shit.
>>>>
>>>> I think his nonsense about the water-filled Martian canals predated
>>>> Potatogate.
>>>
>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the current
>>> Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of stupid things Quayle
>>> ever did just this month, right?
>>>
>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed and reduced
>>> to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered school bus.
>>
>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude and
>> circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I disagree.
>
> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display of
> Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned sorority
> girl" demeanor of Harris.

You appear to be playing "neurologist" to argue that 45-year-old
Quayle's mental agility exceeds 80-year-old Biden's ...whereas I merely
claim that Quayle's Famous Mashed Potatoe, dripping with grownups'
condescension all over a 12-year-old at great length on national TV,
stands as a nonpareil in the history of industrial-strength gaffes --
and will do so until, say, Biden farts the State Of the Union.

In article <7eh0M.2530405$vBI8.290746@fx15.iad>,
moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:

> On 4/20/2023 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> > In article <Vmd0M.1319057$t5W7.770176@fx13.iad>,
> > moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

> >>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the current
> >>> Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of stupid things Quayle
> >>> ever did just this month, right?
> >>>
> >>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed and reduced
> >>> to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered school bus.
> >>
> >> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude and
> >> circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I disagree.
> >
> > As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display of
> > Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned sorority
> > girl" demeanor of Harris.
>
> You appear to be playing "neurologist" to argue that 45-year-old
> Quayle's mental agility exceeds 80-year-old Biden's

I'm arguing no such thing. I'm merely pointing out the vastly different
reaction of the media and the entertainment elites to a simple
misspelled word (which wasn't actually even misspelled-- Quayle's
spelling is considered a legitimate alternate) versus the daily parade
of gaffes, stumbles, and mental lapses of the current president and his
baked vice president, and innocently wondering why there would be such a
dramatic disparity. Then I remembered that Quayle had a (R) after his
name, while Biden and Harris have a (D). Mystery solved.

> until, say, Biden farts the State Of the Union.

"My butt's been wiped!"

On 4/20/2023 4:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <7eh0M.2530405$vBI8.290746@fx15.iad>, moviePig
> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>
>> On 4/20/2023 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article <Vmd0M.1319057$t5W7.770176@fx13.iad>, moviePig
>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>
>>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the
>>>>> current Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of
>>>>> stupid things Quayle ever did just this month, right?
>>>>>
>>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed
>>>>> and reduced to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered
>>>>> school bus.
>>>>
>>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude
>>>> and circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I
>>>> disagree.
>>>
>>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display
>>> of Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned
>>> sorority girl" demeanor of Harris.
>>
>> You appear to be playing "neurologist" to argue that 45-year-old
>> Quayle's mental agility exceeds 80-year-old Biden's
>
> I'm arguing no such thing. I'm merely pointing out the vastly
> different reaction of the media and the entertainment elites to a
> simple misspelled word (which wasn't actually even misspelled--
> Quayle's spelling is considered a legitimate alternate) versus the
> daily parade of gaffes, stumbles, and mental lapses of the current
> president and his baked vice president, and innocently wondering why
> there would be such a dramatic disparity. Then I remembered that
> Quayle had a (R) after his name, while Biden and Harris have a (D).
> Mystery solved.

"Remembered"? You mean the needlepoint motto on your pillowcase?

>> until, say, Biden farts the State Of the Union.
>
> "My butt's been wiped!"

Good point ...unless you know that Biden very probably didn't say his,
whereas Quayle very certainly did.

(Btw, who told you -- and Dan -- that 'potatoe' is a "legitimate
alternative"? Is this like the "Devil's Triangle" game suddenly
appearing on Wiki during Kavanaugh's testimony?)

On 4/20/23 3:26 PM, moviePig wrote:
> On 4/20/2023 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> In article <Vmd0M.1319057$t5W7.770176@fx13.iad>,
>>   moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>> In article <180420232159135174%nope@noway.com>,
>>>>    A Friend <nope@noway.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In article <jbF%L.2430152$vBI8.1120686@fx15.iad>, trotsky
>>>>> <gmsingh@email.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 4/18/23 4:41 PM, A Friend wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <c6D%L.2186483$9sn9.1025365@fx17.iad>, moviePig
>>>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 4/18/2023 3:59 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> In article <u1mlsj$3kmhc$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>>>>>>      Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> President Biden has always been a gaffe machine, but his
>>>>>>>>>>> slip-ups
>>>>>>>>>>> have gotten more frequent, and his trip to Ireland last week was
>>>>>>>>>>> no different.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> One of the most head-scratching moments of Biden's Ireland trip
>>>>>>>>>>> was when he encouraged his audience to "lick the world".
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> "Let's go lick the world," Biden told Irish leaders during a
>>>>>>>>>>> banquet at Dublin Castle on Thursday evening. Biden still
>>>>>>>>>>> received applause and a standing ovation from the crowd of Irish
>>>>>>>>>>> leaders though, despite the licking remark.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Thursday, Biden claimed (again) he has traveled 17,000 miles
>>>>>>>>>>> "with" Chinese President Xi Jinping.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> "I met more with Xi Jinping than any world leader has over the
>>>>>>>>>>> last 10 years," Biden said. "Over 91 hours of just one-on-one
>>>>>>>>>>> conversations, 68 in person. I've traveled 17,000 miles with him
>>>>>>>>>>> through Asia, primarily, through China."
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Biden has been making this claim since at least 2020, and he
>>>>>>>>>>> said
>>>>>>>>>>> a version of it in 2016 as well. In 2021, the White House tried
>>>>>>>>>>> to explain that Biden meant "the total travel back and forth" in
>>>>>>>>>>> China and the U.S. for meetings the two presidents held
>>>>>>>>>>> together.
>>>>>>>>>>> However, even The Washington Post came up empty after racking
>>>>>>>>>>> its
>>>>>>>>>>> brains trying to figure out what Biden meant.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, Biden confused a rugby team with a violent
>>>>>>>>>>> 1920s-era British police force. The president mistook New
>>>>>>>>>>> Zealand's All Blacks rugby team for the Black and Tans, a brutal
>>>>>>>>>>> police force deployed against the Irish during the Irish War of
>>>>>>>>>>> Independence.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> "He was a hell of a rugby player, and he beat the hell out of
>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>> Black and Tans," Biden said about former Irish rugby player Rob
>>>>>>>>>>> Kearney, Biden's distant relative, during remarks in Dundalk,
>>>>>>>>>>> Ireland.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> The president seems to be popular in Ireland. He jogged onstage
>>>>>>>>>>> to speak to a cheering crowd with the Dropkick Murphys
>>>>>>>>>>> playing in
>>>>>>>>>>> the background, and he was mobbed by supporters outside a pub.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Beyond Ireland, the last few months have given us no shortage of
>>>>>>>>>>> Biden gaffes.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Biden was even more incoherent than usual this week, mixing up
>>>>>>>>>>> China and Canada and promoting "tax credits for elected [sic]
>>>>>>>>>>> vehicles."
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> In Ottawa, the president declared: "Uh, I have, uh. We have, uh,
>>>>>>>>>>> um, ya know, uh."
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> A few weeks ago, Biden said he "applauds China" when he meant
>>>>>>>>>>> Canada during remarks to the Canadian Parliament. That move
>>>>>>>>>>> surely caused facepalms among White House staffers.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Last month when he was supposed to address the nation about the
>>>>>>>>>>> Nashville school shooting that killed six, Biden said he "came
>>>>>>>>>>> down because he heard there was chocolate chip ice cream".
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Let's not forget Biden's habit of falling down the Air Force One
>>>>>>>>>>> stairs too.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Maybe the White House gaffe prevention squad went on vacation
>>>>>>>>>>> sometime last month. Well, who could blame them?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> All that and they're just from the last few weeks. But Dan Quayle
>>>>>>>>>> misspelled "potato" and it was the end of the world.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And it wasn1t even him that did it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It wasn't???  But I *saw* him...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Me too.  The kid wrote POTATO on a blackboard.  Quayle said he'd
>>>>>>> misspelled it and should add an "e."  The kid knew better but did it
>>>>>>> anyway.  When Quayle left, the kid quickly erased the "e."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No, it wasn't the end of the world, and no one ever treated it
>>>>>>> that way.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, but it was the beginning of right wing guy looking dumber than a
>>>>>> pile of dog shit.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think his nonsense about the water-filled Martian canals predated
>>>>> Potatogate.
>>>>
>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the current
>>>> Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of stupid things Quayle
>>>> ever did just this month, right?
>>>>
>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed and reduced
>>>> to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered school bus.
>>>
>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude and
>>> circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I disagree.
>>
>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display of
>> Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned sorority
>> girl" demeanor of Harris.
>
> You appear to be playing "neurologist" to argue that 45-year-old
> Quayle's mental agility exceeds 80-year-old Biden's ...whereas I merely
> claim that Quayle's Famous Mashed Potatoe, dripping with grownups'
> condescension all over a 12-year-old at great length on national TV,
> stands as a nonpareil in the history of industrial-strength gaffes --
> and will do so until, say, Biden farts the State Of the Union.

On 4/20/23 3:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <7eh0M.2530405$vBI8.290746@fx15.iad>,
> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>
>> On 4/20/2023 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article <Vmd0M.1319057$t5W7.770176@fx13.iad>,
>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>
>>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the current
>>>>> Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of stupid things Quayle
>>>>> ever did just this month, right?
>>>>>
>>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed and reduced
>>>>> to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered school bus.
>>>>
>>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude and
>>>> circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I disagree.
>>>
>>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display of
>>> Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned sorority
>>> girl" demeanor of Harris.
>>
>> You appear to be playing "neurologist" to argue that 45-year-old
>> Quayle's mental agility exceeds 80-year-old Biden's
>
> I'm arguing no such thing. I'm merely pointing out the vastly different
> reaction of the media and the entertainment elites to a simple
> misspelled word (which wasn't actually even misspelled-- Quayle's
> spelling is considered a legitimate alternate) versus the daily parade
> of gaffes, stumbles, and mental lapses of the current president and his
> baked vice president, and innocently wondering why there would be such a
> dramatic disparity. Then I remembered that Quayle had a (R) after his
> name, while Biden and Harris have a (D). Mystery solved.

So true. Colbert said it best: "reality has a liberal bias." Still no
words of wisdom on Clarence Thomas, right? Does the fact that you're an
utter eunuch enter into the discussion at all?

On 4/20/23 11:04 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <rvm24itk0qgftep72fkes7c9hcsam2g8gn@4ax.com>,
> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 08:34:33 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <u1rh1c$k1vv$6@dont-email.me>,
>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <180420231741145758%nope@noway.com>, nope@noway.com wrote:
>>>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/18/2023 3:59 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>> All that and they're just from the last few weeks. But Dan Quayle
>>>>>>>> misspelled "potato" and it was the end of the world.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And it wasn? even him that did it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It wasn't??? But I *saw* him...
>>>>>
>>>>> Me too. The kid wrote POTATO on a blackboard Quayle said he'd
>>>>> misspelled it and should add an "e." The kid knew better but did it
>>>>> anyway. When Quayle left, the kid quickly erased the "e."
>>>>
>>>> The school had a cue card with "potatoe" written on it.
>>>>
>>>>> No, it wasn't the end of the world, and no one ever treated it that way.
>>>>
>>>> Actually, it was treated that way.
>>>>
>>>> Meanwhile, leftists and the liberal media bend over backwards to make
>>>> excuses for obvious senility.
>>>
>>> Remember all the constant speculation about Reagan's mental state and
>>> all the SNL and late night jokes we got about it?
>>
>> The difference being people that didn't watch those shows didn't get
>> those jokes. It's one huge difference today when even one small
>> mistake can get blown up on social media.
>
> Whether people got the jokes isn't the point. It was the media's and
> Hollywood's willingness to *make* the jokes about Reagan while
> tip-toeing around Biden that's the point.

When did Reagan contract Alzheimer's? Go ahead, complete the lie.

> One guy had (R) after his name, the other has (D). That's all the info
> you need to determine why they're treated so differently.
>
>>> Compare that to what we get with Biden, who is obviously much more far
>>> gone than Reagan was when he was still in office.
>>
>> Or not. While I don't see Biden as being as sharp as he was 30-40
>> years ago I don't see him as heading into senility which Reagan
>> clearly was.
>
> You've got to be kidding me. He sees dead people in the audience. He
> turns around to shake hands with people who aren't there. Hell, just
> read the article that started this thread to see the senility on full
> display.

On 4/20/23 9:27 AM, A Friend wrote:
> In article <u1rh1c$k1vv$6@dont-email.me>, Ubiquitous
> <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>
>> In article <180420231741145758%nope@noway.com>, nope@noway.com wrote:
>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>> On 4/18/2023 3:59 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>>> All that and they're just from the last few weeks. But Dan Quayle
>>>>>> misspelled "potato" and it was the end of the world.
>>>>>>
>>>>> And it wasn¼t even him that did it.
>>>>
>>>> It wasn't??? But I *saw* him...
>>>
>>> Me too. The kid wrote POTATO on a blackboard. Quayle said he'd
>>> misspelled it and should add an "e." The kid knew better but did it
>>> anyway. When Quayle left, the kid quickly erased the "e."
>>
>> The school had a cue card with "potatoe" written on it.
>
>
> So what? It's still wrong -- and if you need a cue card to be able to
> spell "potato," you're already in trouble.
>
>
>>> No, it wasn't the end of the world, and no one ever treated it that way.
>>
>> Actually, it was treated that way.
>
>
> No, it wasn't. It was a Quayle Is a Dumbass story, and it was a
> three-day wonder because there were so damn many of them. Note that it
> was brought up here -- needlessly -- by a Quayle partisan.
>
>
>> Meanwhile, leftists and the liberal media bend over backwards to make excuses
>> for obvious senility.
>
>
> I don't remember them making excuses for Ronald Reagan. That was you
> guys.

Excuses? They were desperate to cover up his condition by any means
necessary.

In article <EOh0M.1703390$8_id.1506554@fx09.iad>,
moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:

> On 4/20/2023 4:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> > In article <7eh0M.2530405$vBI8.290746@fx15.iad>, moviePig
> > <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 4/20/2023 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>> In article <Vmd0M.1319057$t5W7.770176@fx13.iad>, moviePig
> >>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >
> >>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the
> >>>>> current Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of
> >>>>> stupid things Quayle ever did just this month, right?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed
> >>>>> and reduced to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered
> >>>>> school bus.
> >>>>
> >>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude
> >>>> and circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I
> >>>> disagree.
> >>>
> >>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display
> >>> of Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned
> >>> sorority girl" demeanor of Harris.
> >>
> >> You appear to be playing "neurologist" to argue that 45-year-old
> >> Quayle's mental agility exceeds 80-year-old Biden's
> >
> > I'm arguing no such thing. I'm merely pointing out the vastly
> > different reaction of the media and the entertainment elites to a
> > simple misspelled word (which wasn't actually even misspelled--
> > Quayle's spelling is considered a legitimate alternate) versus the
> > daily parade of gaffes, stumbles, and mental lapses of the current
> > president and his baked vice president, and innocently wondering why
> > there would be such a dramatic disparity. Then I remembered that
> > Quayle had a (R) after his name, while Biden and Harris have a (D).
> > Mystery solved.

> >> until, say, Biden farts the State Of the Union.
> >
> > "My butt's been wiped!"
>
> Good point ...unless you know that Biden very probably didn't say this

"Very probably" LOL!

The fact that you can't say for sure that the president of the United
States didn't announce that his butt's been wiped to the national press
corps on the South Lawn of the White House pretty much gives away the
game regarding which is the more worrisome behavior from an official at
that level.

"Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I thought she was going to be
here."

Now go ahead and tell me Biden "probably" didn't say that also. Spin it
away and keep pretending that adding a stray 'e' to the end of the word
is the greater offense.

Better keep the spin machine warmed up, though. Hell, as often as Biden
adds to his Dementia Treasure Chest, it's probably due for its 100,000-
mile oil change at this point.

> (Btw, who told you -- and Dan -- that 'potatoe' is a "legitimate
> alternative"?

The Oxford New American Dictionary app on my mePhone shows this for its
potato entry:

potato |p??t?t?|
noun ( pl. potatoes; archaic: potatoe )

1 a starchy plant tuber that is one of the most important food crops,
cooked and eaten as a vegetable: roasted potatoes | the meal comes with
rice or potato | [ as modifier ] : leek and potato soup.
-- see sweet potato.

2 the plant of the nightshade family that produces these tubers on
underground runners.

[Solanum tuberosum, family Solanaceae. It was first cultivated in the
Andes about 1,800 years ago and was introduced to Europe in c. 1570.]

ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Spanish patata, variant of Taino batata
'sweet potato'. The English word originally denoted the sweet potato and
gained its current sense in the late 16th cent.

> Is this like the "Devil's Triangle" game suddenly appearing on Wiki
> during Kavanaugh's testimony?)

No, it's not like that at all.

On 4/20/2023 6:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <EOh0M.1703390$8_id.1506554@fx09.iad>,
> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>
>> On 4/20/2023 4:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article <7eh0M.2530405$vBI8.290746@fx15.iad>, moviePig
>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/20/2023 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>> In article <Vmd0M.1319057$t5W7.770176@fx13.iad>, moviePig
>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the
>>>>>>> current Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of
>>>>>>> stupid things Quayle ever did just this month, right?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed
>>>>>>> and reduced to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered
>>>>>>> school bus.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude
>>>>>> and circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I
>>>>>> disagree.
>>>>>
>>>>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display
>>>>> of Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned
>>>>> sorority girl" demeanor of Harris.
>>>>
>>>> You appear to be playing "neurologist" to argue that 45-year-old
>>>> Quayle's mental agility exceeds 80-year-old Biden's
>>>
>>> I'm arguing no such thing. I'm merely pointing out the vastly
>>> different reaction of the media and the entertainment elites to a
>>> simple misspelled word (which wasn't actually even misspelled--
>>> Quayle's spelling is considered a legitimate alternate) versus the
>>> daily parade of gaffes, stumbles, and mental lapses of the current
>>> president and his baked vice president, and innocently wondering why
>>> there would be such a dramatic disparity. Then I remembered that
>>> Quayle had a (R) after his name, while Biden and Harris have a (D).
>>> Mystery solved.
>
>>>> until, say, Biden farts the State Of the Union.
>>>
>>> "My butt's been wiped!"
>>
>> Good point ...unless you know that Biden very probably didn't say this
>
> "Very probably" LOL!

"LOL" doesn't give a ridiculous assertion credibility. The fact is that
the audio in question is so fuzzy that it lends itself to anything
critics dream up. Like "talking dogs" who, when they utter four yelps,
are claimed to have said "elevator" or "jelly donut".

> The fact that you can't say for sure that the president of the United
> States didn't announce that his butt's been wiped to the national press
> corps on the South Lawn of the White House pretty much gives away the
> game regarding which is the more worrisome behavior from an official at
> that level.

Well, *you* can't say for sure that he didn't prove the Riemann
hypothesis...

> "Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I thought she was going to be
> here."
>
> Now go ahead and tell me Biden "probably" didn't say that also. Spin it
> away and keep pretending that adding a stray 'e' to the end of the word
> is the greater offense.

It hasn't nearly the inherent foot-in-mouth cachet of 'potatoe'.

> Better keep the spin machine warmed up, though. Hell, as often as Biden
> adds to his Dementia Treasure Chest, it's probably due for its 100,000-
> mile oil change at this point.
>
>> (Btw, who told you -- and Dan -- that 'potatoe' is a "legitimate
>> alternative"?
>
> The Oxford New American Dictionary app on my mePhone shows this for its
> potato entry:
>
> potato |p??t?t?|
> noun ( pl. potatoes; archaic: potatoe )
>
> 1 a starchy plant tuber that is one of the most important food crops,
> cooked and eaten as a vegetable: roasted potatoes | the meal comes with
> rice or potato | [ as modifier ] : leek and potato soup.
> -- see sweet potato.
>
> 2 the plant of the nightshade family that produces these tubers on
> underground runners.
>
> [Solanum tuberosum, family Solanaceae. It was first cultivated in the
> Andes about 1,800 years ago and was introduced to Europe in c. 1570.]
>
> ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Spanish patata, variant of Taino batata
> 'sweet potato'. The English word originally denoted the sweet potato and
> gained its current sense in the late 16th cent.
>
>> Is this like the "Devil's Triangle" game suddenly appearing on Wiki
>> during Kavanaugh's testimony?)
>
> No, it's not like that at all.

Indeed. It's more like you imagine some parallel universe in which Dan
Quayle can spell 'archaic'...

moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
> On 4/20/2023 6:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> In article <EOh0M.1703390$8_id.1506554@fx09.iad>,
>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/20/2023 4:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>> In article <7eh0M.2530405$vBI8.290746@fx15.iad>, moviePig
>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 4/20/2023 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>> In article <Vmd0M.1319057$t5W7.770176@fx13.iad>, moviePig
>>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the
>>>>>>>> current Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of
>>>>>>>> stupid things Quayle ever did just this month, right?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed
>>>>>>>> and reduced to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered
>>>>>>>> school bus.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude
>>>>>>> and circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I
>>>>>>> disagree.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display
>>>>>> of Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned
>>>>>> sorority girl" demeanor of Harris.
>>>>>
>>>>> You appear to be playing "neurologist" to argue that 45-year-old
>>>>> Quayle's mental agility exceeds 80-year-old Biden's
>>>>
>>>> I'm arguing no such thing. I'm merely pointing out the vastly
>>>> different reaction of the media and the entertainment elites to a
>>>> simple misspelled word (which wasn't actually even misspelled--
>>>> Quayle's spelling is considered a legitimate alternate) versus the
>>>> daily parade of gaffes, stumbles, and mental lapses of the current
>>>> president and his baked vice president, and innocently wondering why
>>>> there would be such a dramatic disparity. Then I remembered that
>>>> Quayle had a (R) after his name, while Biden and Harris have a (D).
>>>> Mystery solved.
>>
>>>>> until, say, Biden farts the State Of the Union.
>>>>
>>>> "My butt's been wiped!"
>>>
>>> Good point ...unless you know that Biden very probably didn't say this
>>
>> "Very probably" LOL!
>
> "LOL" doesn't give a ridiculous assertion credibility. The fact is that
> the audio in question is so fuzzy that it lends itself to anything
> critics dream up. Like "talking dogs" who, when they utter four yelps,
> are claimed to have said "elevator" or "jelly donut".
>
>
>> The fact that you can't say for sure that the president of the United
>> States didn't announce that his butt's been wiped to the national press
>> corps on the South Lawn of the White House pretty much gives away the
>> game regarding which is the more worrisome behavior from an official at
>> that level.
>
> Well, *you* can't say for sure that he didn't prove the Riemann
> hypothesis...
>
>> "Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I thought she was going to be
>> here."
>>
>> Now go ahead and tell me Biden "probably" didn't say that also. Spin it
>> away and keep pretending that adding a stray 'e' to the end of the word
>> is the greater offense.
>
> It hasn't nearly the inherent foot-in-mouth cachet of 'potatoe'.

Sure, he's just seeing dead people. But quasi-misspelling a word is the
more serious concern because "cachet".

On 4/21/23 1:42 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>> On 4/20/2023 6:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article <EOh0M.1703390$8_id.1506554@fx09.iad>,
>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/20/2023 4:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>> In article <7eh0M.2530405$vBI8.290746@fx15.iad>, moviePig
>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 4/20/2023 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <Vmd0M.1319057$t5W7.770176@fx13.iad>, moviePig
>>>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the
>>>>>>>>> current Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of
>>>>>>>>> stupid things Quayle ever did just this month, right?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed
>>>>>>>>> and reduced to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered
>>>>>>>>> school bus.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude
>>>>>>>> and circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I
>>>>>>>> disagree.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display
>>>>>>> of Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned
>>>>>>> sorority girl" demeanor of Harris.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You appear to be playing "neurologist" to argue that 45-year-old
>>>>>> Quayle's mental agility exceeds 80-year-old Biden's
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm arguing no such thing. I'm merely pointing out the vastly
>>>>> different reaction of the media and the entertainment elites to a
>>>>> simple misspelled word (which wasn't actually even misspelled--
>>>>> Quayle's spelling is considered a legitimate alternate) versus the
>>>>> daily parade of gaffes, stumbles, and mental lapses of the current
>>>>> president and his baked vice president, and innocently wondering why
>>>>> there would be such a dramatic disparity. Then I remembered that
>>>>> Quayle had a (R) after his name, while Biden and Harris have a (D).
>>>>> Mystery solved.
>>>
>>>>>> until, say, Biden farts the State Of the Union.
>>>>>
>>>>> "My butt's been wiped!"
>>>>
>>>> Good point ...unless you know that Biden very probably didn't say this
>>>
>>> "Very probably" LOL!
>>
>> "LOL" doesn't give a ridiculous assertion credibility. The fact is that
>> the audio in question is so fuzzy that it lends itself to anything
>> critics dream up. Like "talking dogs" who, when they utter four yelps,
>> are claimed to have said "elevator" or "jelly donut".
>>
>>
>>> The fact that you can't say for sure that the president of the United
>>> States didn't announce that his butt's been wiped to the national press
>>> corps on the South Lawn of the White House pretty much gives away the
>>> game regarding which is the more worrisome behavior from an official at
>>> that level.
>>
>> Well, *you* can't say for sure that he didn't prove the Riemann
>> hypothesis...
>>
>>> "Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I thought she was going to be
>>> here."
>>>
>>> Now go ahead and tell me Biden "probably" didn't say that also. Spin it
>>> away and keep pretending that adding a stray 'e' to the end of the word
>>> is the greater offense.
>>
>> It hasn't nearly the inherent foot-in-mouth cachet of 'potatoe'.
>
> Sure, he's just seeing dead people. But quasi-misspelling a word is the
> more serious concern because "cachet".

You may be correct. I'm sure many on the right think Quayle is stupid
as a bag of shit but now worse than that.

atropos@mac.com wrote:
> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> A Friend <nope@noway.com> wrote:
>>>> trotsky <gmsingh@email.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 4/18/23 4:41 PM, A Friend wrote:
>>>>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 4/18/2023 3:59 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

>>>>>>>>>> President Biden has always been a gaffe machine, but his slip-ups
>>>>>>>>>> have gotten more frequent, and his trip to Ireland last week was
>>>>>>>>>> no different.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> One of the most head-scratching moments of Biden's Ireland trip
>>>>>>>>>> was when he encouraged his audience to "lick the world".
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> "Let's go lick the world," Biden told Irish leaders during a
>>>>>>>>>> banquet at Dublin Castle on Thursday evening. Biden still
>>>>>>>>>> received applause and a standing ovation from the crowd of Irish
>>>>>>>>>> leaders though, despite the licking remark.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Thursday, Biden claimed (again) he has traveled 17,000 miles
>>>>>>>>>> "with" Chinese President Xi Jinping.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> "I met more with Xi Jinping than any world leader has over the
>>>>>>>>>> last 10 years," Biden said. "Over 91 hours of just one-on-one
>>>>>>>>>> conversations, 68 in person. I've traveled 17,000 miles with him
>>>>>>>>>> through Asia, primarily, through China."
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Biden has been making this claim since at least 2020, and he said
>>>>>>>>>> a version of it in 2016 as well. In 2021, the White House tried
>>>>>>>>>> to explain that Biden meant "the total travel back and forth" in
>>>>>>>>>> China and the U.S. for meetings the two presidents held together.
>>>>>>>>>> However, even The Washington Post came up empty after racking its
>>>>>>>>>> brains trying to figure out what Biden meant.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, Biden confused a rugby team with a violent
>>>>>>>>>> 1920s-era British police force. The president mistook New
>>>>>>>>>> Zealand's All Blacks rugby team for the Black and Tans, a brutal
>>>>>>>>>> police force deployed against the Irish during the Irish War of
>>>>>>>>>> Independence.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> "He was a hell of a rugby player, and he beat the hell out of the
>>>>>>>>>> Black and Tans," Biden said about former Irish rugby player Rob
>>>>>>>>>> Kearney, Biden's distant relative, during remarks in Dundalk,
>>>>>>>>>> Ireland.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The president seems to be popular in Ireland. He jogged onstage
>>>>>>>>>> to speak to a cheering crowd with the Dropkick Murphys playing in
>>>>>>>>>> the background, and he was mobbed by supporters outside a pub.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Beyond Ireland, the last few months have given us no shortage of
>>>>>>>>>> Biden gaffes.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Biden was even more incoherent than usual this week, mixing up
>>>>>>>>>> China and Canada and promoting "tax credits for elected [sic]
>>>>>>>>>> vehicles."
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> In Ottawa, the president declared: "Uh, I have, uh. We have, uh,
>>>>>>>>>> um, ya know, uh."
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> A few weeks ago, Biden said he "applauds China" when he meant
>>>>>>>>>> Canada during remarks to the Canadian Parliament. That move
>>>>>>>>>> surely caused facepalms among White House staffers.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Last month when he was supposed to address the nation about the
>>>>>>>>>> Nashville school shooting that killed six, Biden said he "came
>>>>>>>>>> down because he heard there was chocolate chip ice cream".
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Let's not forget Biden's habit of falling down the Air Force One
>>>>>>>>>> stairs too.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Maybe the White House gaffe prevention squad went on vacation
>>>>>>>>>> sometime last month. Well, who could blame them?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> All that and they're just from the last few weeks. But Dan Quayle
>>>>>>>>> misspelled "potato" and it was the end of the world.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And it wasn1t even him that did it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It wasn't??? But I *saw* him...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Me too. The kid wrote POTATO on a blackboard. Quayle said he'd
>>>>>> misspelled it and should add an "e." The kid knew better but did it
>>>>>> anyway. When Quayle left, the kid quickly erased the "e."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, it wasn't the end of the world, and no one ever treated it that way.
>>>>>
>>>>> No, but it was the beginning of right wing guy looking dumber than a
>>>>> pile of dog shit.
>>>>
>>>> I think his nonsense about the water-filled Martian canals predated
>>>> Potatogate.
>>>
>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the current
>>> Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of stupid things Quayle
>>> ever did just this month, right?
>>>
>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed and reduced
>>> to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered school bus.
>>
>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude and
>> circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I disagree.
>
>As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display of
>Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned sorority
>girl" demeanor of Harris.

"We have a thousand billionaires in America. You know the average tax rate they
pay? Eight. E-I-G-H percent. 8%"

"... you need some respect. R-E-F-P-C-T"

"Jobs is a three-letter word"

VEEP thoughts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnHIMjw-xKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Y-21jVPY8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr-mfXT-VH0

--
"The sky was low and heavy, like the brow of a retarded child."

A Washington state middle school was investigated for having students
and staff play a licking game that parents described as �highly vile.�

Desert Hills Middle School in Kennewick had minor students and adult
teachers compete to lick marshmallow cream off either side of two clear
plexiglass panes, a video of the incident shows. The game was held at a
school pep rally on March 31.

The video shows multiple staffers and students aggressively licking up
the four lines of cream sometimes with their tongues in the same spots
on opposite sides of the plexiglass. At one point, an adult holds a
child�s head to the glass while licking the other side. Toward the end
of the video, one staffer appears to be licking the glass in a way that
one parent described as �sensual.�

Students can be heard screaming, �Ew,� �That�s actually so disgusting,�
�I�m going to throw up,� �That�s so gross,� �What the heck?� and �Who
thought that this was a good idea?�

Shocking video from a Washington Middle School shows Teachers
participating in a licking game with underage children.

Parents were reportedly outraged after hearing about the event
and branded it �disgusting� and �incredibly inappropriate�

Source: Daily Mail pic.twitter.com/fU5xtA2cee

� Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 20, 2023

Mother Megan Sa�s daughter showed her the video, and Sa posted it to
Facebook.

�In my opinion, we do not send our children to school to be exposed to
highly sexualized behavior by adults,� Sa told Fox News. �We send them
to school to learn and for them to socialize with other people their
ages.�

�They shouldn�t have to sit in a gym for a school assembly and wonder,
�What is going on?� Schools should be a safe place for children to go
and this despicable display of adult behavior was hard to watch,� the
mother said.

The mom said that the principal could be seen in the video laughing and
filming the scene with his phone.

The school district opened an investigation into the incident.

Superintendent Dr. Traci Pierce said in a statement to families on
Friday that the investigation has concluded. She called the incident
�not an appropriate activity.�

�During the activity, some students felt very uncomfortable, and the
activity was highly disturbing for some students, parents, families,
and community members to watch on video,� Pierce said. �This activity
does not have district approval and will never be repeated in the
future.�

However, she added that �the intent of the activity was innocent and
not ill-intended.�

�There is zero evidence to suggest or support that this was in any way
�grooming� activity on the part of organizers or participants,� Pierce
said. �That being said, the fact that the activity was planned,
occurred, and not stopped, shows a lack of sound discernment and good
judgment, and the activity is not aligned with district expectations.�

Principal Casey Gant issued an apology for the activity in a statement
to parents.

�On behalf of Desert Hills Middle School, I would like to apologize for
the activity that took place during our recent assembly,� Gant said.
�As building principal, I take ownership for the events that occur in
my school, and I recognize the impact that this situation has had on
our school community.�

�I am committed to the safety of our students and staff and will ensure
that all future activities meet the highest professional standards and
adhere to district policy,� Gant added. �Again, I apologize that this
incident occurred and for the negativity brought to the Desert Hills
community.�

Sa, the mother who initially brought attention to the video, said she
is not satisfied with the principal�s apology, especially since no
staffers were suspended or terminated.

However, contacted for comment, the school district told The Daily Wire
it is �taking corrective actions to address this incident.�

--
Let's go Brandon!

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

> A Washington state middle school was investigated for having students
> and staff play a licking game that parents described as “highly vile.”
>
> Desert Hills Middle School in Kennewick had minor students and adult
> teachers compete to lick marshmallow cream off either side of two clear
> plexiglass panes, a video of the incident shows. The game was held at a
> school pep rally on March 31.
>
> The school district opened an investigation into the incident.
>
> Superintendent Dr. Traci Pierce said in a statement to families on
> Friday that the investigation has concluded. She called the incident
> “not an appropriate activity.”
>
> “During the activity, some students felt very uncomfortable, and the
> activity was highly disturbing for some students, parents, families,
> and community members to watch on video,” Pierce said. “This activity
> does not have district approval and will never be repeated in the
> future.”

Why is this surprising? This is what you get when you hire a bunch of
pink-haired pronoun people who hang the hammer and sickle on the classroom
wall to be teachers.

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
> atropos@mac.com wrote:
>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>> A Friend <nope@noway.com> wrote:
>>>>> trotsky <gmsingh@email.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/18/23 4:41 PM, A Friend wrote:
>>>>>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 4/18/2023 3:59 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>
>>>>>>>>>>> President Biden has always been a gaffe machine, but his slip-ups
>>>>>>>>>>> have gotten more frequent, and his trip to Ireland last week was
>>>>>>>>>>> no different.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> One of the most head-scratching moments of Biden's Ireland trip
>>>>>>>>>>> was when he encouraged his audience to "lick the world".
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> "Let's go lick the world," Biden told Irish leaders during a
>>>>>>>>>>> banquet at Dublin Castle on Thursday evening. Biden still
>>>>>>>>>>> received applause and a standing ovation from the crowd of Irish
>>>>>>>>>>> leaders though, despite the licking remark.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Thursday, Biden claimed (again) he has traveled 17,000 miles
>>>>>>>>>>> "with" Chinese President Xi Jinping.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> "I met more with Xi Jinping than any world leader has over the
>>>>>>>>>>> last 10 years," Biden said. "Over 91 hours of just one-on-one
>>>>>>>>>>> conversations, 68 in person. I've traveled 17,000 miles with him
>>>>>>>>>>> through Asia, primarily, through China."
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Biden has been making this claim since at least 2020, and he said
>>>>>>>>>>> a version of it in 2016 as well. In 2021, the White House tried
>>>>>>>>>>> to explain that Biden meant "the total travel back and forth" in
>>>>>>>>>>> China and the U.S. for meetings the two presidents held together.
>>>>>>>>>>> However, even The Washington Post came up empty after racking its
>>>>>>>>>>> brains trying to figure out what Biden meant.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, Biden confused a rugby team with a violent
>>>>>>>>>>> 1920s-era British police force. The president mistook New
>>>>>>>>>>> Zealand's All Blacks rugby team for the Black and Tans, a brutal
>>>>>>>>>>> police force deployed against the Irish during the Irish War of
>>>>>>>>>>> Independence.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> "He was a hell of a rugby player, and he beat the hell out of the
>>>>>>>>>>> Black and Tans," Biden said about former Irish rugby player Rob
>>>>>>>>>>> Kearney, Biden's distant relative, during remarks in Dundalk,
>>>>>>>>>>> Ireland.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> The president seems to be popular in Ireland. He jogged onstage
>>>>>>>>>>> to speak to a cheering crowd with the Dropkick Murphys playing in
>>>>>>>>>>> the background, and he was mobbed by supporters outside a pub.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Beyond Ireland, the last few months have given us no shortage of
>>>>>>>>>>> Biden gaffes.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Biden was even more incoherent than usual this week, mixing up
>>>>>>>>>>> China and Canada and promoting "tax credits for elected [sic]
>>>>>>>>>>> vehicles."
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> In Ottawa, the president declared: "Uh, I have, uh. We have, uh,
>>>>>>>>>>> um, ya know, uh."
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> A few weeks ago, Biden said he "applauds China" when he meant
>>>>>>>>>>> Canada during remarks to the Canadian Parliament. That move
>>>>>>>>>>> surely caused facepalms among White House staffers.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Last month when he was supposed to address the nation about the
>>>>>>>>>>> Nashville school shooting that killed six, Biden said he "came
>>>>>>>>>>> down because he heard there was chocolate chip ice cream".
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Let's not forget Biden's habit of falling down the Air Force One
>>>>>>>>>>> stairs too.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Maybe the White House gaffe prevention squad went on vacation
>>>>>>>>>>> sometime last month. Well, who could blame them?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> All that and they're just from the last few weeks. But Dan Quayle
>>>>>>>>>> misspelled "potato" and it was the end of the world.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And it wasn1t even him that did it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It wasn't??? But I *saw* him...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Me too. The kid wrote POTATO on a blackboard. Quayle said he'd
>>>>>>> misspelled it and should add an "e." The kid knew better but did it
>>>>>>> anyway. When Quayle left, the kid quickly erased the "e."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No, it wasn't the end of the world, and no one ever treated it that way.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, but it was the beginning of right wing guy looking dumber than a
>>>>>> pile of dog shit.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think his nonsense about the water-filled Martian canals predated
>>>>> Potatogate.
>>>>
>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the current
>>>> Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of stupid things Quayle
>>>> ever did just this month, right?
>>>>
>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed and reduced
>>>> to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered school bus.
>>>
>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude and
>>> circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I disagree.
>>
>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display of
>> Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned sorority
>> girl" demeanor of Harris.
>
> "We have a thousand billionaires in America. You know the average tax rate they
> pay? Eight. E-I-G-H percent. 8%"
>
> "... you need some respect. R-E-F-P-C-T"
>
> "Jobs is a three-letter word"

Multiple examples of a VP misspelling words and miscounting letters just
like Quayle did once, but for some reason Quayle's had 'cachet' and
Harris's do not. I wonder what that reason could be? I just can't quite put
my finger on it...

no_email@invalid.invalid wrote:
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> atropos@mac.com wrote:
>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>> A Friend <nope@noway.com> wrote:
>>>>>> trotsky <gmsingh@email.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 4/18/23 4:41 PM, A Friend wrote:
>>>>>>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 4/18/2023 3:59 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> President Biden has always been a gaffe machine, but his slip-ups
>>>>>>>>>>>> have gotten more frequent, and his trip to Ireland last week was
>>>>>>>>>>>> no different.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> One of the most head-scratching moments of Biden's Ireland trip
>>>>>>>>>>>> was when he encouraged his audience to "lick the world".
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> "Let's go lick the world," Biden told Irish leaders during a
>>>>>>>>>>>> banquet at Dublin Castle on Thursday evening. Biden still
>>>>>>>>>>>> received applause and a standing ovation from the crowd of Irish
>>>>>>>>>>>> leaders though, despite the licking remark.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Thursday, Biden claimed (again) he has traveled 17,000 miles
>>>>>>>>>>>> "with" Chinese President Xi Jinping.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> "I met more with Xi Jinping than any world leader has over the
>>>>>>>>>>>> last 10 years," Biden said. "Over 91 hours of just one-on-one
>>>>>>>>>>>> conversations, 68 in person. I've traveled 17,000 miles with him
>>>>>>>>>>>> through Asia, primarily, through China."
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Biden has been making this claim since at least 2020, and he said
>>>>>>>>>>>> a version of it in 2016 as well. In 2021, the White House tried
>>>>>>>>>>>> to explain that Biden meant "the total travel back and forth" in
>>>>>>>>>>>> China and the U.S. for meetings the two presidents held together.
>>>>>>>>>>>> However, even The Washington Post came up empty after racking its
>>>>>>>>>>>> brains trying to figure out what Biden meant.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, Biden confused a rugby team with a violent
>>>>>>>>>>>> 1920s-era British police force. The president mistook New
>>>>>>>>>>>> Zealand's All Blacks rugby team for the Black and Tans, a brutal
>>>>>>>>>>>> police force deployed against the Irish during the Irish War of
>>>>>>>>>>>> Independence.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> "He was a hell of a rugby player, and he beat the hell out of the
>>>>>>>>>>>> Black and Tans," Biden said about former Irish rugby player Rob
>>>>>>>>>>>> Kearney, Biden's distant relative, during remarks in Dundalk,
>>>>>>>>>>>> Ireland.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> The president seems to be popular in Ireland. He jogged onstage
>>>>>>>>>>>> to speak to a cheering crowd with the Dropkick Murphys playing in
>>>>>>>>>>>> the background, and he was mobbed by supporters outside a pub.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Beyond Ireland, the last few months have given us no shortage of
>>>>>>>>>>>> Biden gaffes.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Biden was even more incoherent than usual this week, mixing up
>>>>>>>>>>>> China and Canada and promoting "tax credits for elected [sic]
>>>>>>>>>>>> vehicles."
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> In Ottawa, the president declared: "Uh, I have, uh. We have, uh,
>>>>>>>>>>>> um, ya know, uh."
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> A few weeks ago, Biden said he "applauds China" when he meant
>>>>>>>>>>>> Canada during remarks to the Canadian Parliament. That move
>>>>>>>>>>>> surely caused facepalms among White House staffers.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Last month when he was supposed to address the nation about the
>>>>>>>>>>>> Nashville school shooting that killed six, Biden said he "came
>>>>>>>>>>>> down because he heard there was chocolate chip ice cream".
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Let's not forget Biden's habit of falling down the Air Force One
>>>>>>>>>>>> stairs too.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Maybe the White House gaffe prevention squad went on vacation
>>>>>>>>>>>> sometime last month. Well, who could blame them?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> All that and they're just from the last few weeks. But Dan Quayle
>>>>>>>>>>> misspelled "potato" and it was the end of the world.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> And it wasn1t even him that did it.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It wasn't??? But I *saw* him...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Me too. The kid wrote POTATO on a blackboard. Quayle said he'd
>>>>>>>> misspelled it and should add an "e." The kid knew better but did it
>>>>>>>> anyway. When Quayle left, the kid quickly erased the "e."
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> No, it wasn't the end of the world, and no one ever treated it that way.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No, but it was the beginning of right wing guy looking dumber than a
>>>>>>> pile of dog shit.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think his nonsense about the water-filled Martian canals predated
>>>>>> Potatogate.
>>>>>
>>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the current
>>>>> Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of stupid things Quayle
>>>>> ever did just this month, right?
>>>>>
>>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed and reduced
>>>>> to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered school bus.
>>>>
>>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude and
>>>> circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I disagree.
>>>
>>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display of
>>> Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned sorority
>>> girl" demeanor of Harris.
>>
>> "We have a thousand billionaires in America. You know the average tax
>> rate they pay? Eight. E-I-G-H percent. 8%"
>>
>> "... you need some respect. R-E-F-P-C-T"
>>
>> "Jobs is a three-letter word"
>
>Multiple examples of a VP misspelling words and miscounting letters just
>like Quayle did once, but for some reason Quayle's had 'cachet' and
>Harris's do not. I wonder what that reason could be? I just can't quite put
>my finger on it...

On 4/21/2023 2:42 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>> On 4/20/2023 6:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article <EOh0M.1703390$8_id.1506554@fx09.iad>,
>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/20/2023 4:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>> In article <7eh0M.2530405$vBI8.290746@fx15.iad>, moviePig
>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 4/20/2023 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <Vmd0M.1319057$t5W7.770176@fx13.iad>, moviePig
>>>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the
>>>>>>>>> current Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of
>>>>>>>>> stupid things Quayle ever did just this month, right?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed
>>>>>>>>> and reduced to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered
>>>>>>>>> school bus.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude
>>>>>>>> and circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I
>>>>>>>> disagree.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display
>>>>>>> of Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned
>>>>>>> sorority girl" demeanor of Harris.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You appear to be playing "neurologist" to argue that 45-year-old
>>>>>> Quayle's mental agility exceeds 80-year-old Biden's
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm arguing no such thing. I'm merely pointing out the vastly
>>>>> different reaction of the media and the entertainment elites to a
>>>>> simple misspelled word (which wasn't actually even misspelled--
>>>>> Quayle's spelling is considered a legitimate alternate) versus the
>>>>> daily parade of gaffes, stumbles, and mental lapses of the current
>>>>> president and his baked vice president, and innocently wondering why
>>>>> there would be such a dramatic disparity. Then I remembered that
>>>>> Quayle had a (R) after his name, while Biden and Harris have a (D).
>>>>> Mystery solved.
>>>
>>>>>> until, say, Biden farts the State Of the Union.
>>>>>
>>>>> "My butt's been wiped!"
>>>>
>>>> Good point ...unless you know that Biden very probably didn't say this
>>>
>>> "Very probably" LOL!
>>
>> "LOL" doesn't give a ridiculous assertion credibility. The fact is that
>> the audio in question is so fuzzy that it lends itself to anything
>> critics dream up. Like "talking dogs" who, when they utter four yelps,
>> are claimed to have said "elevator" or "jelly donut".
>>
>>
>>> The fact that you can't say for sure that the president of the United
>>> States didn't announce that his butt's been wiped to the national press
>>> corps on the South Lawn of the White House pretty much gives away the
>>> game regarding which is the more worrisome behavior from an official at
>>> that level.
>>
>> Well, *you* can't say for sure that he didn't prove the Riemann
>> hypothesis...
>>
>>> "Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I thought she was going to be
>>> here."
>>>
>>> Now go ahead and tell me Biden "probably" didn't say that also. Spin it
>>> away and keep pretending that adding a stray 'e' to the end of the word
>>> is the greater offense.
>>
>> It hasn't nearly the inherent foot-in-mouth cachet of 'potatoe'.
>
> Sure, he's just seeing dead people. But quasi-misspelling a word is the
> more serious concern because "cachet".

On the off-chance that you actually still don't get it: Quayle's
laborious mis-instruction of a 12-year-old on national TV, about a
common spelling known to %99.9 of viewers, is the historical pinnacle of
unassisted political pratfalls, at least in my recall. But if you
really think that any one of Biden's public missteps compares, by all
means do trot it out.

BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>> On 4/20/2023 6:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article <EOh0M.1703390$8_id.1506554@fx09.iad>,
>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/20/2023 4:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>> In article <7eh0M.2530405$vBI8.290746@fx15.iad>, moviePig
>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 4/20/2023 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <Vmd0M.1319057$t5W7.770176@fx13.iad>, moviePig
>>>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the
>>>>>>>>> current Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of
>>>>>>>>> stupid things Quayle ever did just this month, right?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed
>>>>>>>>> and reduced to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered
>>>>>>>>> school bus.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude
>>>>>>>> and circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I
>>>>>>>> disagree.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display
>>>>>>> of Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned
>>>>>>> sorority girl" demeanor of Harris.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You appear to be playing "neurologist" to argue that 45-year-old
>>>>>> Quayle's mental agility exceeds 80-year-old Biden's
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm arguing no such thing. I'm merely pointing out the vastly
>>>>> different reaction of the media and the entertainment elites to a
>>>>> simple misspelled word (which wasn't actually even misspelled--
>>>>> Quayle's spelling is considered a legitimate alternate) versus the
>>>>> daily parade of gaffes, stumbles, and mental lapses of the current
>>>>> president and his baked vice president, and innocently wondering why
>>>>> there would be such a dramatic disparity. Then I remembered that
>>>>> Quayle had a (R) after his name, while Biden and Harris have a (D).
>>>>> Mystery solved.
>>>
>>>>>> until, say, Biden farts the State Of the Union.
>>>>>
>>>>> "My butt's been wiped!"
>>>>
>>>> Good point ...unless you know that Biden very probably didn't say this
>>>
>>> "Very probably" LOL!
>>
>> "LOL" doesn't give a ridiculous assertion credibility. The fact is that
>> the audio in question is so fuzzy that it lends itself to anything
>> critics dream up. Like "talking dogs" who, when they utter four yelps,
>> are claimed to have said "elevator" or "jelly donut".
>>
>>
>>> The fact that you can't say for sure that the president of the United
>>> States didn't announce that his butt's been wiped to the national press
>>> corps on the South Lawn of the White House pretty much gives away the
>>> game regarding which is the more worrisome behavior from an official at
>>> that level.
>>
>> Well, *you* can't say for sure that he didn't prove the Riemann
>> hypothesis...
>>
>>> "Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I thought she was going to be
>>> here."
>>>
>>> Now go ahead and tell me Biden "probably" didn't say that also. Spin it
>>> away and keep pretending that adding a stray 'e' to the end of the word
>>> is the greater offense.
>>
>> It hasn't nearly the inherent foot-in-mouth cachet of 'potatoe'.
>
>Sure, he's just seeing dead people. But quasi-misspelling a word is the
>more serious concern because "cachet".

Why are you talking like moviePig?

In article <u1u5b1$2pa8u$2@dont-email.me>,
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

> BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >> On 4/20/2023 6:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>> In article <EOh0M.1703390$8_id.1506554@fx09.iad>,
> >>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 4/20/2023 4:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>>>> In article <7eh0M.2530405$vBI8.290746@fx15.iad>, moviePig
> >>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 4/20/2023 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>>>>>> In article <Vmd0M.1319057$t5W7.770176@fx13.iad>, moviePig
> >>>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the
> >>>>>>>>> current Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of
> >>>>>>>>> stupid things Quayle ever did just this month, right?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed
> >>>>>>>>> and reduced to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered
> >>>>>>>>> school bus.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude
> >>>>>>>> and circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I
> >>>>>>>> disagree.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display
> >>>>>>> of Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned
> >>>>>>> sorority girl" demeanor of Harris.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You appear to be playing "neurologist" to argue that 45-year-old
> >>>>>> Quayle's mental agility exceeds 80-year-old Biden's
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm arguing no such thing. I'm merely pointing out the vastly
> >>>>> different reaction of the media and the entertainment elites to a
> >>>>> simple misspelled word (which wasn't actually even misspelled--
> >>>>> Quayle's spelling is considered a legitimate alternate) versus the
> >>>>> daily parade of gaffes, stumbles, and mental lapses of the current
> >>>>> president and his baked vice president, and innocently wondering why
> >>>>> there would be such a dramatic disparity. Then I remembered that
> >>>>> Quayle had a (R) after his name, while Biden and Harris have a (D).
> >>>>> Mystery solved.
> >>>
> >>>>>> until, say, Biden farts the State Of the Union.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "My butt's been wiped!"
> >>>>
> >>>> Good point ...unless you know that Biden very probably didn't say this
> >>>
> >>> "Very probably" LOL!
> >>
> >> "LOL" doesn't give a ridiculous assertion credibility. The fact is that
> >> the audio in question is so fuzzy that it lends itself to anything
> >> critics dream up. Like "talking dogs" who, when they utter four yelps,
> >> are claimed to have said "elevator" or "jelly donut".
> >>
> >>
> >>> The fact that you can't say for sure that the president of the United
> >>> States didn't announce that his butt's been wiped to the national press
> >>> corps on the South Lawn of the White House pretty much gives away the
> >>> game regarding which is the more worrisome behavior from an official at
> >>> that level.
> >>
> >> Well, *you* can't say for sure that he didn't prove the Riemann
> >> hypothesis...
> >>
> >>> "Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I thought she was going to be
> >>> here."
> >>>
> >>> Now go ahead and tell me Biden "probably" didn't say that also. Spin it
> >>> away and keep pretending that adding a stray 'e' to the end of the word
> >>> is the greater offense.
> >>
> >> It hasn't nearly the inherent foot-in-mouth cachet of 'potatoe'.
> >
> >Sure, he's just seeing dead people. But quasi-misspelling a word is the
> >more serious concern because "cachet".
>
> Why are you talking like moviePig?

Maybe I was kicked in the head?

In article <Pbw0M.2224025$iS99.970188@fx16.iad>,
moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:

> On 4/21/2023 2:42 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> > moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >> On 4/20/2023 6:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>> In article <EOh0M.1703390$8_id.1506554@fx09.iad>,
> >>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 4/20/2023 4:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>>>> In article <7eh0M.2530405$vBI8.290746@fx15.iad>, moviePig
> >>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 4/20/2023 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>>>>>> In article <Vmd0M.1319057$t5W7.770176@fx13.iad>, moviePig
> >>>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the
> >>>>>>>>> current Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of
> >>>>>>>>> stupid things Quayle ever did just this month, right?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed
> >>>>>>>>> and reduced to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered
> >>>>>>>>> school bus.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude
> >>>>>>>> and circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I
> >>>>>>>> disagree.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display
> >>>>>>> of Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned
> >>>>>>> sorority girl" demeanor of Harris.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You appear to be playing "neurologist" to argue that 45-year-old
> >>>>>> Quayle's mental agility exceeds 80-year-old Biden's
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm arguing no such thing. I'm merely pointing out the vastly
> >>>>> different reaction of the media and the entertainment elites to a
> >>>>> simple misspelled word (which wasn't actually even misspelled--
> >>>>> Quayle's spelling is considered a legitimate alternate) versus the
> >>>>> daily parade of gaffes, stumbles, and mental lapses of the current
> >>>>> president and his baked vice president, and innocently wondering why
> >>>>> there would be such a dramatic disparity. Then I remembered that
> >>>>> Quayle had a (R) after his name, while Biden and Harris have a (D).
> >>>>> Mystery solved.
> >>>
> >>>>>> until, say, Biden farts the State Of the Union.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "My butt's been wiped!"
> >>>>
> >>>> Good point ...unless you know that Biden very probably didn't say this
> >>>
> >>> "Very probably" LOL!
> >>
> >> "LOL" doesn't give a ridiculous assertion credibility. The fact is that
> >> the audio in question is so fuzzy that it lends itself to anything
> >> critics dream up. Like "talking dogs" who, when they utter four yelps,
> >> are claimed to have said "elevator" or "jelly donut".
> >>
> >>
> >>> The fact that you can't say for sure that the president of the United
> >>> States didn't announce that his butt's been wiped to the national press
> >>> corps on the South Lawn of the White House pretty much gives away the
> >>> game regarding which is the more worrisome behavior from an official at
> >>> that level.
> >>
> >> Well, *you* can't say for sure that he didn't prove the Riemann
> >> hypothesis...
> >>
> >>> "Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I thought she was going to be
> >>> here."
> >>>
> >>> Now go ahead and tell me Biden "probably" didn't say that also. Spin it
> >>> away and keep pretending that adding a stray 'e' to the end of the word
> >>> is the greater offense.
> >>
> >> It hasn't nearly the inherent foot-in-mouth cachet of 'potatoe'.
> >
> > Sure, he's just seeing dead people. But quasi-misspelling a word is the
> > more serious concern because "cachet".
>
> On the off-chance that you actually still don't get it: Quayle's
> laborious mis-instruction of a 12-year-old on national TV, about a
> common spelling known to %99.9 of viewers, is the historical pinnacle of
> unassisted political pratfalls, at least in my recall. But if you
> really think that any one of Biden's public missteps compares, by all
> means do trot it out.

They do compare and not favorably for Biden. You just say they do not
because Democrat.

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>In article <u1u5b1$2pa8u$2@dont-email.me>,
> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>
>> BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> >moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>> >> On 4/20/2023 6:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> >>> In article <EOh0M.1703390$8_id.1506554@fx09.iad>,
>> >>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> On 4/20/2023 4:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> >>>>> In article <7eh0M.2530405$vBI8.290746@fx15.iad>, moviePig
>> >>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> On 4/20/2023 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> >>>>>>> In article <Vmd0M.1319057$t5W7.770176@fx13.iad>, moviePig
>> >>>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the
>> >>>>>>>>> current Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of
>> >>>>>>>>> stupid things Quayle ever did just this month, right?
>> >>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed
>> >>>>>>>>> and reduced to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered
>> >>>>>>>>> school bus.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude
>> >>>>>>>> and circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I
>> >>>>>>>> disagree.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display
>> >>>>>>> of Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned
>> >>>>>>> sorority girl" demeanor of Harris.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> You appear to be playing "neurologist" to argue that 45-year-old
>> >>>>>> Quayle's mental agility exceeds 80-year-old Biden's
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I'm arguing no such thing. I'm merely pointing out the vastly
>> >>>>> different reaction of the media and the entertainment elites to a
>> >>>>> simple misspelled word (which wasn't actually even misspelled--
>> >>>>> Quayle's spelling is considered a legitimate alternate) versus the
>> >>>>> daily parade of gaffes, stumbles, and mental lapses of the current
>> >>>>> president and his baked vice president, and innocently wondering why
>> >>>>> there would be such a dramatic disparity. Then I remembered that
>> >>>>> Quayle had a (R) after his name, while Biden and Harris have a (D).
>> >>>>> Mystery solved.
>> >>>
>> >>>>>> until, say, Biden farts the State Of the Union.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> "My butt's been wiped!"
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Good point ...unless you know that Biden very probably didn't say this
>> >>>
>> >>> "Very probably" LOL!
>> >>
>> >> "LOL" doesn't give a ridiculous assertion credibility. The fact is that
>> >> the audio in question is so fuzzy that it lends itself to anything
>> >> critics dream up. Like "talking dogs" who, when they utter four yelps,
>> >> are claimed to have said "elevator" or "jelly donut".
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> The fact that you can't say for sure that the president of the United
>> >>> States didn't announce that his butt's been wiped to the national press
>> >>> corps on the South Lawn of the White House pretty much gives away the
>> >>> game regarding which is the more worrisome behavior from an official at
>> >>> that level.
>> >>
>> >> Well, *you* can't say for sure that he didn't prove the Riemann
>> >> hypothesis...
>> >>
>> >>> "Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I thought she was going to be
>> >>> here."
>> >>>
>> >>> Now go ahead and tell me Biden "probably" didn't say that also. Spin it
>> >>> away and keep pretending that adding a stray 'e' to the end of the word
>> >>> is the greater offense.
>> >>
>> >> It hasn't nearly the inherent foot-in-mouth cachet of 'potatoe'.
>> >
>> >Sure, he's just seeing dead people. But quasi-misspelling a word is the
>> >more serious concern because "cachet".
>>
>> Why are you talking like moviePig?
>
>Maybe I was kicked in the head?

Hahahahahaha

On 4/21/2023 12:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <Pbw0M.2224025$iS99.970188@fx16.iad>,
> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>
>> On 4/21/2023 2:42 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>> On 4/20/2023 6:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>> In article <EOh0M.1703390$8_id.1506554@fx09.iad>,
>>>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 4/20/2023 4:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <7eh0M.2530405$vBI8.290746@fx15.iad>, moviePig
>>>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 4/20/2023 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>>>> In article <Vmd0M.1319057$t5W7.770176@fx13.iad>, moviePig
>>>>>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the
>>>>>>>>>>> current Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of
>>>>>>>>>>> stupid things Quayle ever did just this month, right?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed
>>>>>>>>>>> and reduced to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered
>>>>>>>>>>> school bus.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude
>>>>>>>>>> and circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I
>>>>>>>>>> disagree.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display
>>>>>>>>> of Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned
>>>>>>>>> sorority girl" demeanor of Harris.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You appear to be playing "neurologist" to argue that 45-year-old
>>>>>>>> Quayle's mental agility exceeds 80-year-old Biden's
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm arguing no such thing. I'm merely pointing out the vastly
>>>>>>> different reaction of the media and the entertainment elites to a
>>>>>>> simple misspelled word (which wasn't actually even misspelled--
>>>>>>> Quayle's spelling is considered a legitimate alternate) versus the
>>>>>>> daily parade of gaffes, stumbles, and mental lapses of the current
>>>>>>> president and his baked vice president, and innocently wondering why
>>>>>>> there would be such a dramatic disparity. Then I remembered that
>>>>>>> Quayle had a (R) after his name, while Biden and Harris have a (D).
>>>>>>> Mystery solved.
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> until, say, Biden farts the State Of the Union.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "My butt's been wiped!"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good point ...unless you know that Biden very probably didn't say this
>>>>>
>>>>> "Very probably" LOL!
>>>>
>>>> "LOL" doesn't give a ridiculous assertion credibility. The fact is that
>>>> the audio in question is so fuzzy that it lends itself to anything
>>>> critics dream up. Like "talking dogs" who, when they utter four yelps,
>>>> are claimed to have said "elevator" or "jelly donut".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> The fact that you can't say for sure that the president of the United
>>>>> States didn't announce that his butt's been wiped to the national press
>>>>> corps on the South Lawn of the White House pretty much gives away the
>>>>> game regarding which is the more worrisome behavior from an official at
>>>>> that level.
>>>>
>>>> Well, *you* can't say for sure that he didn't prove the Riemann
>>>> hypothesis...
>>>>
>>>>> "Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I thought she was going to be
>>>>> here."
>>>>>
>>>>> Now go ahead and tell me Biden "probably" didn't say that also. Spin it
>>>>> away and keep pretending that adding a stray 'e' to the end of the word
>>>>> is the greater offense.
>>>>
>>>> It hasn't nearly the inherent foot-in-mouth cachet of 'potatoe'.
>>>
>>> Sure, he's just seeing dead people. But quasi-misspelling a word is the
>>> more serious concern because "cachet".
>>
>> On the off-chance that you actually still don't get it: Quayle's
>> laborious mis-instruction of a 12-year-old on national TV, about a
>> common spelling known to %99.9 of viewers, is the historical pinnacle of
>> unassisted political pratfalls, at least in my recall. But if you
>> really think that any one of Biden's public missteps compares, by all
>> means do trot it out.
>
> They do compare and not favorably for Biden. You just say they do not
> because Democrat.

In 30 years, no one will remember Biden, much less one of his gaffes.

(And surely you meant to "just say" Progressive Socialist Democrat...)

In article <qZz0M.2297577$iU59.1003657@fx14.iad>,
moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:

> On 4/21/2023 12:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> > In article <Pbw0M.2224025$iS99.970188@fx16.iad>,
> > moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 4/21/2023 2:42 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >>>> On 4/20/2023 6:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>>>> In article <EOh0M.1703390$8_id.1506554@fx09.iad>,
> >>>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 4/20/2023 4:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>>>>>> In article <7eh0M.2530405$vBI8.290746@fx15.iad>, moviePig
> >>>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On 4/20/2023 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> In article <Vmd0M.1319057$t5W7.770176@fx13.iad>, moviePig
> >>>>>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the
> >>>>>>>>>>> current Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of
> >>>>>>>>>>> stupid things Quayle ever did just this month, right?
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed
> >>>>>>>>>>> and reduced to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered
> >>>>>>>>>>> school bus.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude
> >>>>>>>>>> and circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I
> >>>>>>>>>> disagree.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display
> >>>>>>>>> of Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned
> >>>>>>>>> sorority girl" demeanor of Harris.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> You appear to be playing "neurologist" to argue that 45-year-old
> >>>>>>>> Quayle's mental agility exceeds 80-year-old Biden's
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I'm arguing no such thing. I'm merely pointing out the vastly
> >>>>>>> different reaction of the media and the entertainment elites to a
> >>>>>>> simple misspelled word (which wasn't actually even misspelled--
> >>>>>>> Quayle's spelling is considered a legitimate alternate) versus the
> >>>>>>> daily parade of gaffes, stumbles, and mental lapses of the current
> >>>>>>> president and his baked vice president, and innocently wondering why
> >>>>>>> there would be such a dramatic disparity. Then I remembered that
> >>>>>>> Quayle had a (R) after his name, while Biden and Harris have a (D).
> >>>>>>> Mystery solved.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>> until, say, Biden farts the State Of the Union.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> "My butt's been wiped!"
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Good point ...unless you know that Biden very probably didn't say this
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "Very probably" LOL!
> >>>>
> >>>> "LOL" doesn't give a ridiculous assertion credibility. The fact is that
> >>>> the audio in question is so fuzzy that it lends itself to anything
> >>>> critics dream up. Like "talking dogs" who, when they utter four yelps,
> >>>> are claimed to have said "elevator" or "jelly donut".
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> The fact that you can't say for sure that the president of the United
> >>>>> States didn't announce that his butt's been wiped to the national press
> >>>>> corps on the South Lawn of the White House pretty much gives away the
> >>>>> game regarding which is the more worrisome behavior from an official at
> >>>>> that level.
> >>>>
> >>>> Well, *you* can't say for sure that he didn't prove the Riemann
> >>>> hypothesis...
> >>>>
> >>>>> "Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I thought she was going to be
> >>>>> here."
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Now go ahead and tell me Biden "probably" didn't say that also. Spin it
> >>>>> away and keep pretending that adding a stray 'e' to the end of the word
> >>>>> is the greater offense.
> >>>>
> >>>> It hasn't nearly the inherent foot-in-mouth cachet of 'potatoe'.
> >>>
> >>> Sure, he's just seeing dead people. But quasi-misspelling a word is the
> >>> more serious concern because "cachet".
> >>
> >> On the off-chance that you actually still don't get it: Quayle's
> >> laborious mis-instruction of a 12-year-old on national TV, about a
> >> common spelling known to %99.9 of viewers, is the historical pinnacle of
> >> unassisted political pratfalls, at least in my recall. But if you
> >> really think that any one of Biden's public missteps compares, by all
> >> means do trot it out.
> >
> > They do compare and not favorably for Biden. You just say they do not
> > because Democrat.
>
> In 30 years, no one will remember Biden, much less one of his gaffes.

Very few remember Quayle, either, let alone his spelling bee. Walk down
the street and ask 100 people who Dan Quayle even is and I'd be
surprised if even five of them could tell you.

On 4/21/2023 1:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <qZz0M.2297577$iU59.1003657@fx14.iad>,
> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>
>> On 4/21/2023 12:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article <Pbw0M.2224025$iS99.970188@fx16.iad>,
>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/21/2023 2:42 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/20/2023 6:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <EOh0M.1703390$8_id.1506554@fx09.iad>,
>>>>>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 4/20/2023 4:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>>>> In article <7eh0M.2530405$vBI8.290746@fx15.iad>, moviePig
>>>>>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 4/20/2023 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> In article <Vmd0M.1319057$t5W7.770176@fx13.iad>, moviePig
>>>>>>>>>>> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> current Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of
>>>>>>>>>>>>> stupid things Quayle ever did just this month, right?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed
>>>>>>>>>>>>> and reduced to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered
>>>>>>>>>>>>> school bus.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude
>>>>>>>>>>>> and circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I
>>>>>>>>>>>> disagree.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display
>>>>>>>>>>> of Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned
>>>>>>>>>>> sorority girl" demeanor of Harris.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> You appear to be playing "neurologist" to argue that 45-year-old
>>>>>>>>>> Quayle's mental agility exceeds 80-year-old Biden's
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm arguing no such thing. I'm merely pointing out the vastly
>>>>>>>>> different reaction of the media and the entertainment elites to a
>>>>>>>>> simple misspelled word (which wasn't actually even misspelled--
>>>>>>>>> Quayle's spelling is considered a legitimate alternate) versus the
>>>>>>>>> daily parade of gaffes, stumbles, and mental lapses of the current
>>>>>>>>> president and his baked vice president, and innocently wondering why
>>>>>>>>> there would be such a dramatic disparity. Then I remembered that
>>>>>>>>> Quayle had a (R) after his name, while Biden and Harris have a (D).
>>>>>>>>> Mystery solved.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> until, say, Biden farts the State Of the Union.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "My butt's been wiped!"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Good point ...unless you know that Biden very probably didn't say this
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Very probably" LOL!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "LOL" doesn't give a ridiculous assertion credibility. The fact is that
>>>>>> the audio in question is so fuzzy that it lends itself to anything
>>>>>> critics dream up. Like "talking dogs" who, when they utter four yelps,
>>>>>> are claimed to have said "elevator" or "jelly donut".
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The fact that you can't say for sure that the president of the United
>>>>>>> States didn't announce that his butt's been wiped to the national press
>>>>>>> corps on the South Lawn of the White House pretty much gives away the
>>>>>>> game regarding which is the more worrisome behavior from an official at
>>>>>>> that level.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, *you* can't say for sure that he didn't prove the Riemann
>>>>>> hypothesis...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I thought she was going to be
>>>>>>> here."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now go ahead and tell me Biden "probably" didn't say that also. Spin it
>>>>>>> away and keep pretending that adding a stray 'e' to the end of the word
>>>>>>> is the greater offense.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It hasn't nearly the inherent foot-in-mouth cachet of 'potatoe'.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure, he's just seeing dead people. But quasi-misspelling a word is the
>>>>> more serious concern because "cachet".
>>>>
>>>> On the off-chance that you actually still don't get it: Quayle's
>>>> laborious mis-instruction of a 12-year-old on national TV, about a
>>>> common spelling known to %99.9 of viewers, is the historical pinnacle of
>>>> unassisted political pratfalls, at least in my recall. But if you
>>>> really think that any one of Biden's public missteps compares, by all
>>>> means do trot it out.
>>>
>>> They do compare and not favorably for Biden. You just say they do not
>>> because Democrat.
>>
>> In 30 years, no one will remember Biden, much less one of his gaffes.
>
> Very few remember Quayle, either, let alone his spelling bee. Walk down
> the street and ask 100 people who Dan Quayle even is and I'd be
> surprised if even five of them could tell you.

Well, I may have to concede a bit here. I Googled for major political
gaffes, and few seem to remember 'potatoe' (...though, e.g., one site
called Reagan's live-mike "we're bombing Russia" gag the winner, which I
think hadn't enough eye-rolling humor to make it even a contender).

On 4/21/23 5:01 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>
>> A Washington state middle school was investigated for having students
>> and staff play a licking game that parents described as “highly vile.”
>>
>> Desert Hills Middle School in Kennewick had minor students and adult
>> teachers compete to lick marshmallow cream off either side of two clear
>> plexiglass panes, a video of the incident shows. The game was held at a
>> school pep rally on March 31.
>>
>> The school district opened an investigation into the incident.
>>
>> Superintendent Dr. Traci Pierce said in a statement to families on
>> Friday that the investigation has concluded. She called the incident
>> “not an appropriate activity.”
>>
>> “During the activity, some students felt very uncomfortable, and the
>> activity was highly disturbing for some students, parents, families,
>> and community members to watch on video,” Pierce said. “This activity
>> does not have district approval and will never be repeated in the
>> future.”
>
> Why is this surprising? This is what you get when you hire a bunch of
> pink-haired pronoun people who hang the hammer and sickle on the classroom
> wall to be teachers.

Fully indoctrinated in Oath Keeper horseshit.