All aboard, the sinking ship is leaving...

December 7, 2004 8:50 PM

A metaphor for the next four years? Apologies in advance, as this post might be better kept afloat at Fark, but one can't help think this it is a more represenative sign. After a mishap like this can you blame the dems?
posted by damclean2 (19 comments total)

As a side note, it took some fine piloting to get the aircraft into the lake and away from harming anyone, let alone having the pilots survive.
posted by damclean2 at 8:55 PM on December 7, 2004

All Hail Our Fearless Leader. If you don't like it, move to a democracy you pansy.
posted by fleener at 9:04 PM on December 7, 2004

Take that, Bush, you shit!
posted by puke & cry at 9:25 PM on December 7, 2004

What does Eelect George W. Bush mean, anyways?
posted by smackfu at 9:36 PM on December 7, 2004

Who cares about the crash -- I want to know how they managed to misspell the plane.
posted by ook at 9:37 PM on December 7, 2004

wow, my spelling sucked tonight
posted by damclean2 at 9:37 PM on December 7, 2004

"There's a saying around here- these parts- and I think it's, it's...they say, you know, 'Don't change streams, uh, pilots mid-lake'"
posted by paul_smatatoes at 9:39 PM on December 7, 2004

Eelect me once, shame on you; e-e-elect me twice, um, won't get eelected again.
posted by jenovus at 9:46 PM on December 7, 2004

I had hoped that some monkeys had gotten ahold of the plane but nope, just some GOPheads.

Water landing or hit a building, seems like a no brainer to me.
posted by fenriq at 10:02 PM on December 7, 2004

It's a tribute to touch screen voting. eElect, you know, like eBay and eCommerce.
posted by MikeKD at 10:23 PM on December 7, 2004

How can you misspell "elect" when you're painting a plane? And once noticed, why wouldn't you paint over the extra E? It's all very strange. Unless they were going for something like Deee-Lite . . . groove is in the heart.
posted by aladfar at 11:18 PM on December 7, 2004

The Extra E is for Extreme.
posted by TwelveTwo at 11:27 PM on December 7, 2004

Maybe just a missing R?
posted by damehex at 11:47 PM on December 7, 2004

R?! Damehex, you so crazy.
posted by TwelveTwo at 12:08 AM on December 8, 2004

I'm going to have to contact some old coworkers at Tuna's on the edge of Maule Lake. I worked there until March of this year, and I bet that must have created quite a stir at the restaurant. We used to stop everything whenever the fish were feeding. I can't imagine how things must have been when a plane crash-landed just off the dock.
posted by quasistoic at 12:49 AM on December 8, 2004

Fine piloting indeed. The only way this aircraft could have missed the buildings was for it to have reversed in slowly.
posted by Cancergiggles at 1:24 AM on December 8, 2004

This bush, is it mammalian pudenda or arbor vitae?
posted by nofundy at 4:47 AM on December 8, 2004

I sincerely hope that the person who painted the plane is not the same person who piloted it. I would assume that literacy is a requirement when applying (and working towards) a pilot's license.

All the same, I'm glad no one was hurt because that would impact the humour factor. This is pretty damn funny.
posted by purephase at 6:51 AM on December 8, 2004

It's loaded with missing ballot tapes.
posted by Slagman at 9:20 AM on December 8, 2004