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Are you telling me I need a martini? LOL!

We need political geek flashcards, with pictures and questions.

Samples:

Who took Chelsea Clinton's cat?

What type of car did Colin Powell own?

Which rock star toured Africa with a Treasury Secretary?

What corporation did Secretary O'Neill head before signing onto the cabinet?

What daughter of a political family visited President Clinton while HIllaary was out of town?

Which famous Republican wife was a homecoming queen?

Which Republican senator was in the Junior Miss contest? And which TV correspondent was as well?

I have a million things like this stored in my brain, rodguy. Perhaps it's why I can't find my car keys sometimes...storage overload!

Oooo, Ooooo! I know a couple of those!

Which rock star toured Africa with a Treasury Secretary?

Bono, and the Treasury Secretary in question is the subject of the next question

What corporation did Secretary O'Neill head before signing onto the cabinet?

He was CEO of Alcoa (and chairman, I think)

I know both of those because I know (knew) Paul O'Neill. Before he headed Alcoa he was President of the company I still work for. I was the PC guy who worked on his PC and he was one of my early adopters of PC stuff in that company in the early 80s. I got to know him pretty well.

I have a million things like this stored in my brain, rodguy. Perhaps it's why I can't find my car keys sometimes...storage overload!

I'm counting on an auxiliary memory unit being available soon from someplace like Radio Shack. It will go along with the Star Trek like vision system that they'll plug into me to replace my failing eyes. Of course, there are issues with both of those ideas. The vision system will have to be highly computerized, maybe even complex enough to be considered AI. What if that system decides that there are certain things just too nasty to show me? Say there's a really ugly lady and the system chooses to show me someone really nice looking, as in Shallow Hal? Or how about there's a truck bearing down on me and the system decides to spare me the anxiety of seeing it coming? Or would the memory system selectively edit out or add certain things to my memory? And I can only hope that it's not based on Windows software. Can you imagine a "blue screen of death" type error for either system?

I have to tell you, MM...(as I hang my head)...that I flunked your political geek test!! (I always lose at games anyway, so no biggie)..

I could only answer ONE question...Bono traveled with O'Neill, right??

I do not know the rest..

BUT, I think you may have stumbled on a new FReeper game!!! How fun!!

Chelsea Clinton's cat was given to Clinton's secretary, Betty Currie.

Colin Powell owns a Volvo, which he spends his off-time tinkering with.

The rock star Bono toured with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill.

Secretary O'Neill was the CEO of Alcoa.

Eleanor Mondale. daughter of Fritz Mondale, visited Clinton privately while Hillary was out of town. (As an aside, finding this out sent Monica Lewinsky into a tizzy.)

Lynn Cheney was a homecoming queen at her high school in Wyoming.

Elizabeth Dole was in the Junior Miss contest. So was Diane Sawyer.