Comments on: Hello, sailor!

Hello, sailor!

kirkaracha — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:38:08 -0800

"Even our least vigilant Republican social commandos have noticed that Mr. Bush has been peppering his otherwise delightful litany of patriotic jingoism and pleasantly embroidered CIA-intelligence recaps with the effeminate mating call 'fabulous'--three giddy syllables that are tantamount to coyly cooing, 'Hello, sailor!'"

By: nofundy

nofundy — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:42:37 -0800

Yes, he is. A Monica will not do. It must be a Michael.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:45:35 -0800

"Dr. Condoleezza Rice is an honest, fabulous person, and America is lucky to have her service. Period." - Bush today, asked why Condi is still around.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:48:12 -0800

Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. But don't go calling him one or he'll get mad and do something dumb to prove his manhood - like attacking North Korea.

By: Joeforking

Joeforking — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:48:27 -0800

Oh, be nice!

By: pjgulliver

pjgulliver — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:59:21 -0800

Man, if Bush is gay, that's going to lower the reputation of homosexuals everywhere.

By: Perigee

Perigee — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:01:32 -0800

Bwaaaa-haha!! Oh well, so much for me going Nelly. You can have him - we don' want him...

By: orange swan

orange swan — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:03:22 -0800

So, gay male MeFiers, if Bush WERE gay, would you send that "fabulous" right back at him?

By: the fire you left me

the fire you left me — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:03:57 -0800

Well, it's not like Laura ever puts out.

By: pmurray63

pmurray63 — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:04:21 -0800

This reminds me of Robert Klein's "Six Clean Words You Can Say Anywhere" routine, where he points out that men never use the word "adore," as illustrated by this conversation: "Is he straight or is he gay?" "I don't know. I think he's gay." "How do you know?" "Well, he said 'adore'." "That does it. Let's get the son of a bitch!"

By: /\/\/\/

/\/\/\/ — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:21:06 -0800

Every time I hear or see the phrase "Hello, sailor!" I immediately flash back to... Commandment 12592 Oh ye who go about saying unto each other: "Hello sailor": Dost thou know the magnitude of thy sin before the gods? Yea, verily, thou shalt be ground between two stones. Shall the angry gods cast thy body into the whirlpool? Surely, thy eye shall be put out with a sharp stick! Even unto the ends of the earth shalt thou wander and Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last. Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:37:34 -0800

This is kind of baffling to me. The Betty Bowers site and most of you guys are using "gay" as an epithet, meant to humiliate Bush for some perceived lack of masculinity. Since when is it acceptable to bash someone by joking about their sexual preferrence, and why the double standard?

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:49:13 -0800

not even close.

By: elwoodwiles

elwoodwiles — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:51:08 -0800

It's meant to humiliate Bush by associating him with a group he doesn't approve of. That's the power of 'gay.' Straight people, especially straight people who have strange feelings toward Brad Pitt or lime green thongs, react with fear and anger when they get pointed out as being possibly gay. So really, this isn't a double standard, it's just an attempt to use Bush's own prejudices against him. Could you imagine a press conference where this question got asked? Bush would have one of those "You can't handle the truth!!" freak-outs. preview: quonsar, you are a strange, strange man.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:59:25 -0800

/\/\/\/: I was wondering why this post was conjuring up images of walls with cyclops-shaped holes in them. Thanks for reminding me. *Moves into dark place. Gets eaten by a grue.*

By: jfuller

jfuller — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:46:29 -0800

> It's meant to humiliate Bush by associating him with a group > he doesn't approve of. Mm-hmm. Homos, per the fpp. So it's OK to throw the word homo around now? Thanks for the memo.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:58:38 -0800

"Dr. Condoleezza Rice is an honest, fabulous person, and America is lucky to have her service. Period." - Bush today, asked why Condi is still around. CunningLinguist (and kirkaracha) I gotta admit, as soon as I read the word "fabulous" in today's article about that, I thought exactly the same thing... is he or isn't he? jfuller, I think the memo you missed was the one on ironic uses of language.

By: jfuller

jfuller — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:15:23 -0800

> the memo you missed was the one on ironic uses of > language. Ah. The way we used to use it in the fourth grade.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:18:10 -0800

jfuller: bend over. remove stick from ass.

By: elwoodwiles

elwoodwiles — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:22:41 -0800

jfuller: Would it be overly cynical of me to think you object more to the association of the word 'homo' with Bush then to the word 'homo' itself? It's clearly being used in a ironic way to color Bush's own perspective of homosexuals.

By: mazola

mazola — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:32:09 -0800

Is President Bush a Homo? Sapien? The jury's still out.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:51:40 -0800

God damn it. We can't smoke fags, we can't act gay when we're happy, we can't be feeling a bit queer, and we can't wear purple or own anything with a rainbow on it. This aggression will not stand, man! A line must be drawn, and I'm drawing it here.

By: mdn

mdn — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:01:02 -0800

Since when is it acceptable to bash someone by joking about their sexual preferrence, and why the double standard? did you go to the site? It's making fun of crazy christian fundies more than it's making fun of bush. Betty Bowers, the best christian on earth, uses out-of-date epithets and has strange backwards prejudices that mean that she reacts against normal healthy relationships by declaring her own superiority and insisting on the dirty nasty gross-out nature of those that are different from her.

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:09:48 -0800

Er, gotcha.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:20:29 -0800

I adore the word "fabulous." I find the word "adore" absolutely fabulous.

By: badzen

badzen — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:10:11 -0800

just for /\/\/\/, so he can go read those fine, fine words again : Play Infocom Adventures Online

By: mischief

mischief — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:41:06 -0800

The little Shrub is at least gay friendly. Look at how far gay unions have come while under his watch. Yes, yes, he pays lip service by publicly condemning the issue, but we all know how much he lies. ;-P