The Joke's on the Post (Bush snookers liberals)

Oregon Magazine ^ | August 1, 2002 | Larry Leonard

[WaterDragon]

...."The problem with the French," Bush confided to Blair, "is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur." (snip)

I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that Bush did tell that joke...(snip)

Link to article here.

[spokeshave]

They invented the bidet

[seeker41]

They had too, they had stinky bums. Not very romantic, a solution was necessary.

[Chad Fairbanks]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and engage in a little defense of the French, at least as far as the Bidet is concerned - give them a LITTLE credit - after all, they could just as easily do it the way they do in some countries and just use their hand...

[spokeshave]

Probably why the islamics are flocking into France....regarding the bidet as the highest level of civilization

[reformed_democrat]

No wonder George keeps winning. The opposition press rode into town on a truckload of pumpkins.

This bears repeating. Many, many times.

[TontoKowalski]

Lol. In which movie or book was it that someone thought the bidet was a place to wash one's hair?

I can't remember, and I have no idea why that little thought popped up. I just know I'll not be able to sleep until I get the answer.

[gcruse]

Well, since entrepreneur is a French word to begin with, and sounds like it, I wouldn't believe that story no matter who reported it.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Crocodile Dundee?

[eddie willers]

since entrepreneur is a French word to begin with

Errr...that's kinda the point of the joke.

[okie01]

"Well, since entrepreneur is a French word to begin with, and sounds like it..."

And that is what makes it such a good joke.

[Young Werther]

I remember a snippet in Playboy many years ago. It traced the phrase "grasping the wrong end of the stick". It seems that in the Middle Ages le Crapper, (remember. Sir Thomas Crapper was knighted by Queen Victoria for the invention of the valveless water closet - the modern commode!!!) didn't have TP. A stick was provided for removing the fecal matter! How's that for gentile? At night, with no lights you might grasp the wrong end of the stick and voila you emerged with a sh#tty attitude!

Question, why is it okay to pay homage to Sir Francis Bacon and the Earle of Sandwich when you have a bacon sandwich and yet taking a crap or excusing oneself to go to the crapper is "impolite"?

[gcruse]

I know. For the Post to believe it, if that's what is the point of all this, they get to be either stupid or viciously partisan. Both work for me.

[TontoKowalski]

Yes. Thank you. It was Croc Dundee.

[THX 1138]

This bears repeating. Many, many times.

Problem is, liberals have no sense of humor.

[Chad Fairbanks]

and yet taking a crap or excusing oneself to go to the crapper is "impolite"?

It is? Crap. Now I have to have a long talk with my mother about my upbringing...

;0)

[Chemnitz]

Myth: Thomas Crapper invented the toilet.

Fact: No one in the know about Thomas Crapper would ever make this statement. In his research, Grabowski has created a detailed history of Crapper's business life. The man holds nine patents: Four for improvements to drains, three for water closets, one for manhole covers and the last for pipe joints. Every patent application for plumbing related products filed by Crapper made it through the process, and actual patents were granted.

The most famous product attributed to Thomas Crapper wasn't invented by him at all. The "Silent Valveless Water Waste Preventer" (No. 814) was a siphonic discharge system that allowed a toilet to flush effectively when the cistern was only half full. British Patent 4990 for 1819 was issued to a Mr. Albert Giblin for this product.

There are a couple of theories on how Thomas Crapper came to be associated with this device. First, is that Giblin worked for Crapper as an employee and authorized his use of the product. The second, and more likely scenario, says Grabowski, is that Crapper bought the patent rights from Giblin and marketed the device himself.

http://www.plumbingworld.com/historythomas.html

[gortklattu]

A good French Laugh

[tophat9000]

From the Urban Legends Web site...www.snopes2.com

Did George W. Bush really say "The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur"? (29 July 2002)

Status: False.

[reformed_democrat]

liberals have no sense of humor.

Long ago (1997), after my "conversion," I tried to convince my unreformed_republican husband that the media would turn on Clinton as soon as other countries started laughing at him. When the photo of the German parade float featuring Clinton groping the Statue of Liberty showed up on the net, I declared to my long-suffering spouse that the end was nigh. The media would never risk it's reputation covering up for a laughing stock.

My husband, ever the gentleman, does not bring up this conversation.

The media cannot bear being ridiculed, but they value their agenda more than their reputation. They believed then, as now, that ignoring Clinton's glaring failings would make the boy president the golden god they so desperately wanted him to be.

I'm still making predictions, but I'm more cautious. My latest future-gazing tells me that, within ten years, the NY Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, and all the other bastions of American Media will be viewed with the same respect as the National Enquirer, the Starr, and all those other full-color weeklies that rise up above the Mounds Bars in supermarket checkout lines.

I can hardly wait.