DUmmie FUnnies 04-08-08 (No Mere Mortal May Say The Sacred Name Of Barack Obama)

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | April 8, 2008 | DUmmies and PJ-Comix

[PJ-Comix]

Eliot Spitzer's hooker is back in the news and you can find out more about this over at NewsBusted in their latest edition which came out today.

On Sunday, I attempted to teach my nephew, Ken, how to swim. He is nine and waaaaay too old to not know how to swim, especially for someone living in Florida. It turns out he has a paranoid fear of water to the extent that he would hold the side in only the shallow end of the pool and wouldn't let go. He absolutely believed he could not float. When I tried to drag him into deeper water, he went into a complete panic and refused to even TRY to learn how to swim.

Fortunately, at the same time some guy was teaching his kids to swim in the deep end of the pool. They were only five and six. They couldn't swim well but at least they made the ATTEMPT to swim and both of them finally made it across the deep end on their own.

So I pointed that out to Ken and told him those kids were looking at him like he was a big pansy. That sort of shamed him into at least trying to swim, especially after I kept reminding him not to humiliate himself due to the way the little kids were looking at him. By the end of the session, Ken was able to stay afloat and swim up to ten seconds at a time. Mainly he lost his fear of water so I told him he only needs to keep practicing.

I remember that by the time I was seven, I was swimming perfectly. Of course, I never had a fear of the water. So I guess the answer on how to teach kids how to swim when they have an irrational fear of the water is to have younger kids swimming nearby and using humiliation as an incentive to give it a try.

[Army Air Corps]

In before da ping.

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

TOP 10, BAY-BEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! ;)

[Hoodlum91]

Should he be He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named?

Works for me.

[ladtx]

I take it these quotes are jr high kids attempting a political discussion? No adult would actually make such comments.

[wideawake]

IB10, and it’s amazing to me how many DUers casually admit that their political anxieties have them on prescription drugs.

[NeoCaveman]

top 10

[Always Right]

Does this make Hillary the anti-Bama?

[MindBender26]

When I was 10, my father taught me how to swim in Clearwater (Florida) by simply throwing me into the deep end of the pool.

Learning to swim wasn't the worst thing. Getting out of the big burlap sack first was the hard part!

:~)

[Greg F]

Too wierd. The world has gone mad.

[bcsco]

If this were the wild wild west, we could send a posse pussy out for him.

Nothing gender based or sexist implied. It fits better with their martial tendencies.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Shame is a fabulous motivator.

[luvie]

Holy Obama!!

[Mr. K]

Geez.. the hatred in their voices.. it must be so sad to walk around through life with those feelings indside.

Democraps are so caring and giving and helpful- except to conservatives whose heads should explode.

[bcsco]

As a little kid I spent my summers near, by, or on the water in Southern Wisconsin. But I never could develop a decent dive. It was only as a young teenager on family vacation in California that I learned to dive properly. The motivation? A young lady I met at our motel who taught me how. No better motivation that that :)

[darkangel82]

So did he learn to swim, or do you have to be Eeevil Uncle PJ again today? I learned when I was 5, although I did not live in Florida then.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

“We must stone him for saying the sacred name.”

“Which sacred name?”

“Obama.”

“Stone him.”

“Obama. Obama. Obama.”

[Condor51]

You're right, I'm already on Nexium because of this election.

Nexium, ha!
Moonbat fibber, I know you mean Lithium and Thorazine.

[PJ-Comix]

I had a lot of difficulty swimming at first because I lived in Ohio so I only had access to fresh water lakes. When I moved to Florida at age seven, the saltwater bouyancy of the ocean was a very pleasant surprise and I immediately began swimming with complete ease. A little over a year later we moved to Puerto Rico and my swimming expertise came in handy body surfing the waves there. I really enjoyed that.

Main thing is to have no fear of the water.