Posted on 01/03/2012 9:48:37 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
It was the kind of year that made a person look back fondly on the gulf oil spill.
Granted, the oil spill was bad. But it did not result in a high-decibel, weeks-long national conversation about a bulge in a congressman’s underpants. Which is exactly what we had in the Festival of Sleaze that was 2011. Remember? There were days when you could not escape The Bulge. At dinnertime, parents of young children had to be constantly ready to hurl themselves in front of their TV screens, for fear that it would suddenly appear on the news in high definition. For a brief (Har!) period, The Bulge was more famous than Justin Bieber.
And when, at last, we were done with The Bulge, and we were able to turn our attention to the presidential election, and the important issues facing us, as a nation, in these troubled times, it turned out that the main issue, to judge by quantity of press coverage, was: groping.
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Me too. After reading this year’s column, I resolve to use the phrase “Hyper Partisan Gasbaggery” more often.
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I first started reading Dave Barry in 1987 when his lookback at 1986 revealed that the real reason Reagan bombed Tripoli was not the Berlin disco bombing but because Gaddafi had erected a 365 foot tall upraised middle finger statue overlooking the Gulf of Sidra exclusion zone.
That and his “Keep Fit & Healthy Until You’re Dead” exercise book from 1985 and I’ve been a fan ever since.
Or was it when Dave wrote about the Leave It to Beaver show and wondered what it must have really been like for a boy to grow up being known all the while as “the beaver”?
“A Florida Driver’s License is in the Mail!” is another of his takes on outrageous headlines in the news.
Ping.
I have been a big Dave Barry fan for quite a while too. I don’t know if you were a fan of the TV show “24” but his live blog as the show was playing was a classic. He was funny as usual but the comments by the bloggers were at times hysterical. I only watched the show so I could keep up with the comments. For instance, whenever the word “perimeter” was mentioned(which was a LOT) you were supposed to take a shot of your favorite libation. During most of the shows you would have been dead drunk by the second intermission. Anyway, Barry is a hoot. His story of the dead whale disposal is a classic!
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