Prepare for the Shocker!

November 14, 2008 6:00 AM

President Bush delivers a shocker. President George W. Bush poses with members of the Arizona State University Men's and Women's Track Team Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008, during a photo opportunity with 2008 NCAA Sports Champions at the White House. Normally, like most world leaders, he just throws up the devil horns.
posted by ph00dz (30 comments total)

Well I, for one, am completely unsurprised.
posted by baphomet at 6:02 AM on November 14, 2008

ASU Pitchfork
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 6:03 AM on November 14, 2008 [1 favorite]

Heh heh. Hey, Laura! Heh heh. Two in the stink and one in the plink! Heh. Stop squirming!
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 6:04 AM on November 14, 2008 [5 favorites]

I was all set to make a comment about how this is probably the coolest thing Bush has ever done, but thanks to ROU_Xenophobe, my keyboard is now covered in vomit.
posted by The Card Cheat at 6:05 AM on November 14, 2008 [4 favorites]

I'm usually not so censor-y, but if there were one hand gesture that could just GO AWAY, I would choose the Shocker. Hate. It. Pitchfork or no.
posted by fiercecupcake at 6:07 AM on November 14, 2008

Bush has been equally adept with one finger, though sometimes he gets it stuck in the wrong place.
posted by twoleftfeet at 6:08 AM on November 14, 2008 [1 favorite]

Obligatory link.
posted by iviken at 6:09 AM on November 14, 2008

West Staines Massiv!
posted by gman at 6:09 AM on November 14, 2008 [2 favorites]

Gentlewo/men, start your Photoshops!
posted by you just lost the game at 6:10 AM on November 14, 2008

George doesn't seem like the kind of guy to remember the lube.
posted by R. Mutt at 6:11 AM on November 14, 2008

Cheney: We have to make absolutely sure that we don't squander whatever political capital you have left at this.

Bush: Of course!

Cheney: Seriously, we're gonna need to pardon a whole lot of people, get some controversial executive orders issued, do some majorly important stuff in this last couple months we have left.

Bush: I know! Why are you talking to me like I'm an idiot!

Cheney: I just want to make this as clear as possible. We can't have you wasting the tattered remains of your gravitas on, like, giving the shocker in a press photo or something.

Bush: The shocker? What's that?

Cheney: You know, the hand thing? Two in the pink, one in the stink?

Bush: ... ?

Cheney: Like this? (forms Shocker)

Bush: Oh! Ha ha, I get it! Shocker! (forms Shocker) Ha ha! Two in the-

Cheney: Okay, shut up. Forget about that. Can I get your assurance that you won't do anything that stupid until you're out of office? We have some serious shit to work on.

Bush: Of course!

(one week passes)

Bush: (to ASU Track Team) Hey! Guess what I just learned!
posted by Greg Nog at 6:11 AM on November 14, 2008 [18 favorites]

I am not surprised at all. I always suspected Bush was a Satanist.
posted by RussHy at 6:12 AM on November 14, 2008

Shocker? Devil horns? I just think of that gesture as the Dumb Jock Slash Fratboy Hand Signal.
posted by DU at 6:15 AM on November 14, 2008

ROU_Xenophobe - I'm signing up for a second account just so I can favourite that shit twice.
posted by gman at 6:16 AM on November 14, 2008

RussHy, I'm not so sure it's that Bush is a Satanist...I just think Satan tricked him into thinking he was God, then used his position as the head of his Vice Presidential Exploratory Committee to nominate himself...the rest, as they say...
posted by baphomet at 6:22 AM on November 14, 2008 [1 favorite]

this is the only photo available where everyone isn't naked and actually using the old "bowling ball grip".
posted by kitchenrat at 6:25 AM on November 14, 2008

previously
posted by nímwunnan at 6:28 AM on November 14, 2008

Anyone know where I could find a higher-resolution pic of shocker Bush? That's screaming to be my new profile pic.
posted by Dr-Baa at 6:48 AM on November 14, 2008

previously
posted by kliuless at 6:48 AM on November 14, 2008

Unless your partner has three holes down there (and who am I to judge) what they are doing in that photograph is not the shocker. It may be the stupid, but it's not the shocker.
posted by datter at 6:54 AM on November 14, 2008

Unless your partner has three holes down there (and who am I to judge) what they are doing in that photograph is not the shocker. It may be the stupid, but it's not the shocker.

OR one of the two is rather large.
posted by gman at 7:08 AM on November 14, 2008

The "devil horns" are better known to Texans as the Longhorns, for the University of Texas football team. Hook 'em, horns!
posted by Nelson at 7:08 AM on November 14, 2008

I don't why it's such a big deal. Don Knuth does it.
posted by A dead Quaker at 7:12 AM on November 14, 2008

Hook 'em, horns!
posted by bjgeiger at 7:13 AM on November 14, 2008

I'm actually pretty certain that Kirk Hammett is showing an example of The Shocker.

On closer inspection, the bass player is applying it to Lars.
posted by mannequito at 7:14 AM on November 14, 2008

(Warning: rest of the photostream I linked to is NSFW.)
posted by A dead Quaker at 7:15 AM on November 14, 2008

The batshit insanity of the infowar link is the only thing that saves this post from being a complete waste of bytes.
posted by KirkJobSluder at 7:16 AM on November 14, 2008

That's not his finger in your stink.
posted by srboisvert at 7:25 AM on November 14, 2008

Minor derail: does this joker drink himself to death in five years, or does he hang out at his Presidential Library long enough to see every fifth grader in America being taught he was the worst President ever?

Because I know he doesn't have the smarts or the fortitude to reform his image and become a foreign policy "elder statesman", like Nixon.
posted by orthogonality at 7:32 AM on November 14, 2008

I learn all sorts of things in the blue. I am very sorry to have learned this, and wish I could now go back to my former state of purity and unlearn it. (Goes to kitchen, scrubs brain)
posted by nax at 7:32 AM on November 14, 2008 [1 favorite]