The man has a great sense of humor!
"You think my ankle-biting is bad, heh, just you get a load of this!"
Why do only GOPers have a good sense of humor?
"My feet are sore from KICKING A$$!"
I imagine when Rummy chews on something, it's located a little further north on the body. The VP should have blamed ankle-biting on Barney Bush, or perhaps a certain female woofer (rhymes with "rich") who doesn't like him named Maureen Dowd.
"At least his ankles aren't the size of Hillary's. Those suckers are THIS BIG!"
With a dress shoe on one foot and a leather mocassin on the other, he'll end up with a painful hip in short order. Anything containing cherries or extracts, will hold back gout. Cherry pie, cherries, cherry jam, etc. Been there, done that.