#1 2008-11-08 16:00:47
About our new President, including...
• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream
• His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars
• He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia
• He can speak Spanish
• While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead
• His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea
• He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn't
• He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia
• He can bench press an impressive 200lbs
• He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed by his full name
• His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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#2 2008-11-08 16:17:28
Damn, I didn't know he was a lefty!
Is it too late to change my vote?
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#3 2008-11-08 16:17:52
That list is so Tiger Beat-ish!
I read every word.
My favorite: He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds. Tongues will wag, I'm sure.
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#4 2008-11-08 16:35:11
• He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn't
Awright, we have us another smoker! Think he rolls his own, too, Dec?
• He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal
Yeah, I'm still waiting on my book deal.
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#5 2008-11-08 17:10:02
• He is able to leap tall buildings in just two bounds. Insists he was able to do it in one before he took up smoking.
• A mathematical prodigy, figured out how to divide by zero at the age of three. To this day he refuses to share the secret with the world.
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#6 2008-11-08 17:22:06
Chuck Norris Barack Obama can judge a book by its cover
Chuck Norris Barack Obama doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
Chuck Norris Barack Obama uses a night light. Not because Chuck Norris Barack Obama is afraid of the dark, but the dark is afraid of Chuck Norris Barack Obama.
Chuck Norris Barack Obama is not capable of hitting a target on the broad side of a barn. Every time he tries, the whole damn barn falls down.
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#7 2008-11-08 18:12:12
sic wrote:
Chuck Norris Barack Obama can judge a book by its cover
Chuck Norris Barack Obama doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
Chuck Norris Barack Obama uses a night light. Not because Chuck Norris Barack Obama is afraid of the dark, but the dark is afraid of Chuck Norris Barack Obama.
Chuck Norris Barack Obama is not capable of hitting a target on the broad side of a barn. Every time he tries, the whole damn barn falls down.
Chuck Norris Barack Obama was a strong supporter of Mike Huckabee's bid for the Republican nomination.
Doesn't quite work. Or does it...
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#8 2008-11-08 19:16:40
Zookeeper wrote:
sic wrote:
Chuck Norris Barack Obama can judge a book by its cover
Chuck Norris Barack Obama doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
Chuck Norris Barack Obama uses a night light. Not because Chuck Norris Barack Obama is afraid of the dark, but the dark is afraid of Chuck Norris Barack Obama.
Chuck Norris Barack Obama is not capable of hitting a target on the broad side of a barn. Every time he tries, the whole damn barn falls down.Chuck Norris Barack Obama was a strong supporter of Mike Huckabee's bid for the Republican nomination.
Doesn't quite work. Or does it...
Chuck Norris Barack Obama is never late. If he ever is late, time better slow the fuck down.
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#9 2008-11-08 19:21:12
• He has read every Harry Potter book
I thought that was kind of neat. He and his daughter read the books aloud together, and then they go see the movie once they're done with the book. Maybe I connect with that because I remember my Dad reading The Hobbit to my brother and I when I was in first or second grade.
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#10 2008-11-08 19:39:55
They mentioned the Harry Potter business in the Obama Infomercial. I was also impressed and a little touched by that in spite of myself, because my own niece was the right age for those books, and was entranced with them for years while growing up. I don't know if the Harry Potter series made her (my niece) a bookworm, but she started with them, and has been reading like a fiend ever since.
I know it's trite and sentimental, and completely irrelevant to what kind of presidency we're in for, but goddamn those Obama girls are cute. The older one, actually, looks to be turning into a genuine beauty; she has her mother's features and her father's slender build. And the seven-year-old could NOT have been cuter interrupting her daddy at the Democratic Convention. I guess I am sentimental and trite enough to be tickled at the thought of her clattering around the White House and giggling.
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#11 2008-11-08 21:18:47
• He is a secret Muslim.
I knew it!
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#12 2008-11-08 22:17:36
And he still owes me $23.
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#13 2008-11-08 23:03:53
Taint wrote:
And he still owes me $23.
Will you settle for a puppy?
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#14 2008-11-09 01:43:54
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#15 2008-11-09 02:23:38
• His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso
There is a nude descending a staircase in the White House?
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#16 2008-11-09 09:28:02
Deimos wrote:
• His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso
There is a nude descending a staircase in the White House?
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Marcel Duchamp on the left; Pablo Picasso on the right.
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#17 2008-11-09 10:59:12
George Orr wrote:
Deimos wrote:
• His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso
There is a nude descending a staircase in the White House?
Marcel Duchamp on the left; Pablo Picasso on the right.
Goddammit, you stole my thunder on the one thing I'm qualified to get sanctimonious about.
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#18 2008-11-09 18:15:52
Did you have to choose something from the Blue Period?
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#19 2008-11-09 18:45:44
pALEPHx wrote:
Did you have to choose something from the Blue Period?
One Hallowe'en, years ago, I had two friends who each independently came up with Picasso-themed costumes. One went as Guernica (you had to unroll her for the full effect), and the other as the artist's Blue Period. It was a, sort of, cumulative costume.
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#20 2008-11-09 18:53:34
choad wrote:
• He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn't
Awright, we have us another smoker! Think he rolls his own, too, Dec?
Doubt-Full - He's a rather busy man and, unlike us, he can afford to chain-smoke prefabs. Still, with every-body going on about the first black president . . . Hell, I'm more impressed that a smoker was elected.
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