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I love this election so much, I want to marry it!

stinky fish

“You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.”

“You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called ‘change,'” Obama continued, “it’s still gonna stink after eight years.”

–The Greatest Orator of Our Time

One weekend, many years ago, without any warning, my employer built a speed bump at the entrance to the employee parking lot. It was a beaut, too; uncommonly deep and high. Like a ski slope. Sadly, there was no time to paint it danger orange. I came whipping in the back way in my two-seater weaselmobile, hit that thing at speed and shot into the air like a free bird. I had just enough time to look down at the ground in astonishment and think, “I’m airborne! Why am I airborne?”

So, Senator Obama, I feel yer. You do not like this place you are at, and you don’t know how you got here. Both Obama and John McCain have used the “lipstick on a pig” line before without controversy. It’s a fairly common expression. But the audience reaction makes it clear they drew a connection to Sarah “Lipstick on a Pitbull” Palin this time. So he doubles down with a “stinky fish” remark? Oy!

Of course he didn’t mean it that way. If he’d had time to mull it over, he wouldn’t dare. But Sarah Palin is worrying him like a loose tooth, and she plucked the remark right out of his head for him. There’s a reason pshrinks make patients free-associate: sometimes we blurt things that have meaning.

Like maybe Mister Hopey von Changerstein has…woman issues.

Update: well, well, well. According to the first comment on this post at Pajamas Media, Obama used “lipstick on a pig” in more speeches than one, and the crowd reacted in a way that made it clear they made the Palin connection. The commenter gives links to two YouTubes, which I can’t reach from work. If he’s described them accurately, then Hopé Changelio didn’t just blurting out something foolish. He meant it. Correction: oops. My bad. This is why I shouldn’t post until I see the YouTube. It was the “flipping the bird” thing he apparently did twice (and in exactly the same spot in the speech).

Comments


Comment from steve
Time: September 10, 2008, 9:25 am

So he doubles down with a “stinky fish” remark? Oy!

Of course he didn’t mean it that way. If he’d had time to mullet over, he wouldn’t dare.


Comment from JuliaM
Time: September 10, 2008, 9:34 am

“Like maybe Mister Hopey von Changerstein has…woman issues.”

I’m sure Michelle will help him resolve them… 😉


Comment from Jill
Time: September 10, 2008, 10:26 am

“You can dress a douchebag in an Armani suit, but he’s still a douchebag.”

Ms. Jillie von Crabbypants, when asked for comment on Brrrrack Obama’s statements regarding Sarah Palin.

(wait – did you hear that? It sounded like a toilet flushing someone’s presidential hopes down the crapper)


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: September 10, 2008, 10:29 am

I love this election so much, I want to marry it!

So now Uncle B has to compete with three men and a woman?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: September 10, 2008, 10:46 am

I seem to recall an episode of Pee Wee’s Playhouse (I loved that program) where he had a ceremony with a box of cereal or a bicycle or something stupid like that. He was good with the riffing about childhood taunts (in this case, “if you love it so much, why don’t you marry it?”).

Oof! Just got off the phone after more than an hour with a client I’m building a Powerpoint presentation for. The topic is a bunch of boring engineering-ese, with lots of forms and flowcharts, about how to file a certain kind of paperwork.

This girl is very young and bouncy and so painfully not an engineer. She’s all like, “you know what we don’t have enough of? Fabulousness, that’s what! Could we have lots of yellow and bright colors and things moving around on the screen? The other people in the office tell me that’s not the way to go, but I say people are visual creatures and all of our stuff is way too boring!”

I don’t think fabulousness is in my repertoire, which is good because fabulousness is to engineer as cross is to vampire.


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: September 10, 2008, 10:59 am

Just joshing with you, Ms. Weasel.

Speaking of Uncle B, where’s the audio clip of him reading off a grocery list?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: September 10, 2008, 11:09 am

Just as well I explain this stuff, Musli. Not doing so occasionally causes…complications. Heh. I’d forgotten about the grocery list.

Updated the main post. If Obama used that expression more than once and got a crowd reaction both times, we aren’t talking stupid slip of the tongue now. He meant it — stinky fish and all.

Makes me think of this:

obama flips hillary the bird

He’s a passive-aggressive little shitbird, isn’t he?


Comment from Jill
Time: September 10, 2008, 11:14 am

Dr. Freud, your slip is showing.

🙂


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: September 10, 2008, 11:21 am

Oi, Stoatie!! As a Professional Dilbert, I RESEMBLE that remark!!! 🙂


Comment from Auric Goldfinger in Texas
Time: September 10, 2008, 11:30 am

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence. Three times is passive-aggressive shitbirdism.


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Comment from Scubafreak
Time: September 10, 2008, 11:37 am

Ya know, he has also been going around calling Sarah Palin the “Moose Shooter” and “Moose Killer”. Maybe we should start sending his campaign offices moose antler hats whenever he is in town….. 🙂


Comment from Lemur King
Time: September 10, 2008, 11:54 am

At about 3:30am this morning I stuck some lipstick on a pit bull for grins. Really quick dirty messy but it gets the point across. Wait till Palin actually gets pissed off.

http ://lemurking.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/obama-shows-he-has-the-right-stuff/


Comment from bad cat robot
Time: September 10, 2008, 11:59 am

O Great Ghu — we’ve got an outbreak of bouncy non-engineers here too! They keep trying to quote improve our morale unquote with stupid reindeer games. Right now, I swear on my 69th Edition of the CRC Manual of Physical Constants, they have set up a frikkin mini-golf course all through the Engineering floor, and the cube next to mine is Hole 5. I successfully dodged the Mandatory Signup but I *still* get bothered by everybody else who is being a team player and doing the course. Gaaaaaah. I even put up police tape but they don’t take the hint.


Comment from Lemur King
Time: September 10, 2008, 12:12 pm

BCR, try getting your hands on some putrescene.

Pure essence of rotting animal. MMMM-mmmm! That’ll get the mind off golf in the cube farm. It’s a hint of the lead-pipe kind.

(that is a joke, not a suggestion of illicit activities, whoever might be monitoring this)

http ://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?sid=49895575&loc=ec_rcs


Comment from Gnus
Time: September 10, 2008, 12:20 pm

A little fabulousness never hurt anybody, not even an engineer.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: September 10, 2008, 12:23 pm

Fabulousness makes my teeth hurt.

My favorite color is gray.

And not one of those bright grays, either.


Comment from Lemur King
Time: September 10, 2008, 12:33 pm

Sorry, missed the fabulousness thing earlier. This brings us back to a discussion we had a long time ago about adding more flair to engineering. Such as the victorian Jules Verne touch – arches and the like. How about some non-bright grey arches? More in the “flair” direction?


Comment from Matt
Time: September 10, 2008, 12:36 pm

Gnus, you couldn’t be more wrong. If I have to put up with even a little fabulousness I will definitely hurt people, and furniture, and major pieces of state infra-structure and …

Weasel said:

And not one of those bright grays, either.

Great line. When can we expect some lipstick/pig/O’bama graphics?


Comment from Allen
Time: September 10, 2008, 12:43 pm

This election just keeps on giving. I’m keeping my eye on Slow Joe though, he’ll definitely give us some fabulousness.

“Hey Chuck stand up…oh what the heck am I saying.”

I’ll bet you there are some folks somewhere who are thinking, “Oh God why didn’t we pick Hillary?”


Comment from Dawn
Time: September 10, 2008, 12:49 pm

Fabulousness…oh Stoaty, you should try it. It’s so fun being a girl!


Comment from Dawn
Time: September 10, 2008, 12:54 pm

Lipstick on a pig

http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/2/2a/Piggylife.jpg


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: September 10, 2008, 12:56 pm

I’m afraid “matronly” is about as much as I can manage, Dawn. I went directly from “coltish” to “dowdy”. I look like I should have the keys to someplace very unpleasant hanging from my apron strings.

I blame hammertoe. I can’t wear heels for more than a few minutes.

Allen, that was beautiful. At least…being at work, I haven’t seen the clip yet, but the description is priceless. For them what missed it, Slow Joe invited a man in a wheel chair to stand up and testify.


Comment from porknbean
Time: September 10, 2008, 12:59 pm

“Like maybe Mister Hopey von Changerstein has…woman issues.”

I’m sure Michelle will help him resolve them..

I’m sure Michelle is the reason why he has issues.
*wondering if the claims of the crackhead having a homo encounter with him a few years back is true. I bet him being on crack is.*


Comment from porknbean
Time: September 10, 2008, 1:09 pm

Lipstick on a pig. I’m more of the practical sort.
I prefer boots on a pig…

http ://farm4.static.flickr.com/3057/2845519271_aa6cbc0663_o.jpg

Nicked from the ABC photostream. Said the little pig refused to walk through the mud without her boots. She lives on a farm in the UK.

When I hear the word ‘fabulousness’, I think ‘flaming ghey’.


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: September 10, 2008, 1:22 pm

You know, if the Dems get any dirtier in their attacks on Palin, the election night coverage is going to have to be anchored by Mike Rowe……


Comment from Jill
Time: September 10, 2008, 1:29 pm

I read that the little piggie boots were actually pencil cups the lady farmer and her husband kept on their desks.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1025428/Pig-Boots-The-worlds-porker-afraid-mud.html


Comment from Allen
Time: September 10, 2008, 1:35 pm

Sweas, I can’t quite imagine what that guy in the wheelchair was thinking. I don’t know who is advising Obama, but they appear to have skipped class a lot from Electioneering 101.

Poor old Joe isn’t even in the match, it’s Obama vs. Palin and Joe is just kind of wandering around. It would be sad if it wasn’t so damn funny.


Comment from porknbean
Time: September 10, 2008, 1:41 pm

Awww…lumme some pigs. The husband says when we retire on our acreage, I can get me one. A little pink one that will grow into a honking big one.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: September 10, 2008, 1:47 pm

My mother had a little white piglet that she painted with food coloring to look like a piggy bank and led around the mall on a leash.

I don’t remember what happened to it when it grew up.

I fear the worst.


Comment from Dawn
Time: September 10, 2008, 2:06 pm

I want your mom to be my mom!
I bet you miss her.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: September 10, 2008, 2:11 pm

Dawn, she was 50% delightful and 50% scaredtheshitoutofme. But I do miss her.


Comment from Dawn
Time: September 11, 2008, 1:45 pm

Yay, you fixed it!


Comment from Casey
Time: September 12, 2008, 2:18 pm

Get over this you stupid idiots. This is a fucking joke. Grow up and let’s talk about issues. This is all the conservatives have to attack Obama with…that’s great.


Comment from Pupster
Time: September 12, 2008, 2:21 pm

I like turtles!


Comment from highpockets
Time: September 13, 2008, 3:39 am

Casey,
I have read this entire thread laughing.
I missed your /s <tag.
If hope you hope is only hope if you change hope to um, um ,um, um, um, change , community agitator , um, um, Sal said, um ,um, um, um, change, hope change works this time.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: September 13, 2008, 4:56 am

Oh, thanks for pointing that out, highpockets.I didn’t even see Casey up there.

Casey! Dude! Please stay! We don’t get nearly enough trollage here, and that makes me sad. I lumme some troll.

I’ll make you the official sweasel.com troll if you like. You guys like…titles and seals and stuff, right?

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