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H.L. Mencken said it in 1920
GoodReads ^ | 1920 | H.L. Mencken

Posted on 09/24/2013 5:29:59 AM PDT by Tazzo

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To: freedumb2003

“I know s#it’s bad right now with all that starvin’ bulls#it. And the dust storms. And we runnin’ out of french fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution.”
President Camacho


21 posted on 09/24/2013 7:04:26 AM PDT by svcw (Stand or die)
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To: svcw

Camacho even talks like Obama


22 posted on 09/24/2013 7:25:26 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: SMARTY
Was Mencken EVER wrong?

Rarely!

It is the dull man who is always sure,
and the sure man who is always dull.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

23 posted on 09/24/2013 8:39:52 AM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: svcw
“I know s#it’s bad right now with all that starvin’ bulls#it. And the dust storms. And we runnin’ out of french fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution.”

President Camachoobozo

FIFY...

24 posted on 09/24/2013 9:26:45 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. (Yogi Berra))
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To: Tazzo

I prefer Being There. Chauncey Gardner, anyone?


25 posted on 09/24/2013 10:06:52 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: cajungirl

http://www.etsu.edu/cas/history/documents/menckenbath.htm

Henry L. Mencken’s article “A Neglected Anniversary,” published in the New York Evening Mail on December 28, 1917.

Not a plumber fired a salute or hung out a flag.
A history of the bathtub in America


26 posted on 09/24/2013 5:13:43 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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