It is funny, as are some of the comments...
["I heard Fred Thompson was the man who taught Leonidas"]
"If Fred Thompson was at Thermopylae the movie would have been called 1."
Jack Bauer calls Fred Thompson "sir"... and means it.
Chuck Norris wears Fred Thompson pajamas...
Now I'm impressed. I really, really, really hate those clamsheel things. Actually I've always been impressed by Fred Thompson. Can you imagine a bigger contrast between two who call(ed) Tennessee home than that between Al Gore and Fred Thompson.
THOMPSON, Fred Dalton, a Senator from Tennessee; born in Sheffield, Ala., on August 19, 1942; attended the public schools in Lawrenceburg, Tenn.; graduated from Memphis State University 1964; received J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University 1967; admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1967 and commenced the practice of law; assistant U.S. attorney 1969-1972; minority counsel, Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (“Watergate Committee”) 1973-1974; special counsel to Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander 1980; special counsel, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations 1980-1981; special counsel, Senate Intelligence Committee 1982; member, Tennessee Appellate Court Nominating Commission 1985-1987; actor; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in the November 8, 1994, special election to fill the unexpired portion of the term ending January 3, 1997, left vacant by the resignation of Albert Gore, Jr.; took the oath of office on December 2, 1994; reelected in 1996 for the term ending January 3, 2003; not a candidate for reelection in 2002; chair, Committee on Governmental Affairs (One Hundred Fifth and One Hundred Sixth Congresses; One Hundred Seventh Congress [January 20, 2001-June 6, 2001]); resumed acting career.
Bibliography
Thompson, Fred D. At That Point in Time: The Inside Story of the Senate Watergate Committee. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1975.
what is his voting record?
Hey, Hollyweird, try these Republicans on for size. How's Jeri Kehn for First Lady, compared to Bubba?
That he'll be able to speak to the camera (thus the American People).
Fun thread. Thanks.
Here’s a few new (I think) one’s. :O)
* Fred Thompson never has to stop at a traffic light because of a Homeland Security directive requiring all lights to turn green whenever he approaches.
* Does a bear @#$% in the woods? Only with signed notarized permission in triplicate from Fred Thompson.
* When Fred Thompson empties his pistol at the firing range, it reloads itself out of respect.
* When Fred Thompson gave blood in Alaska, it fulfilled the Red Cross’s entire quota for 6 months.
* Fred Thompson once opened a stuck jar of pickles by winking at it.
* Fred Thompson uses a machine gun as a back scratcher.
* If you play Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” backwards, you will hear Fred Thompson loading his shotgun. (LOL)
* Fred Thompson reheats leftovers by staring at them.
* Fred Thompson can throw a 95-mph fastball ……. with his foot.
* Fred Thompson uses the St. Louis Arch as a hand exerciser.
* Fred Thompson runs a 4 minute mile in 42 seconds.
* Any stop signal that turns red when Fred Thompson approaches is immediately sent to the factory for reprogramming.
More here:
http://www.imao.us/archives/007723.html
This list of Fred Thompson facts is STILL growing...
http://www.imao.us/archives/cat_fred_thompson_facts.html
(Don’t forget to check out the comments to the entries.)
* Fred Thompson does not need to escape from a black hole; the black hole has to escape from Fred Thompson.
* Black holes cannot escape from Fred Thompson; he swallows them to cure his occasional indigestion, which he gets because everyone else doesn’t think like Fred Thompson.
* Fred Thompson can initiate a fusion reaction by putting just a pinch of hydrogen between his cheek and gum.
* Fred Thompson created the heaviest known element, Thompsonium, by grabbing two atoms of Einsteinium and knocking them together.
* The half-life of Thompsonium is half as long as it takes Fred Thompson to lose interest in exotic, superheavy elements, which is an immeasurably brief instant.
"Fred Thompson can know both the exact position and momentum of a particle. Furthermore, he knows Schroedinger's cat is dead because he personally strangled it."LOL!!
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Forgot one ...
Jack Bauer wears Fred Thompson underwear.
