[sully777]

"It's an old farmer's joke and has nothing to do with sex or masturbation........SHEESH I can not believe that people don't understand that."

Well I'm an old farm girl. So I know from farmers' jokes.

The first lines of the joke (beginning with the Yale and Andover reference) were funny, and Laura could have stopped after the "George tried to milk a horse" part and still have gotten a good laugh.

In fact, the audience was obviously amused up to that point.

But did you see (and hear) the audience's reaction after the "male horse" line? THEY clearly didn't think it had "nothing to do with sex or masturbation."

Let's face it: It was a crude joke, and that was obvious to everybody. Unless you just fell off the turnip truck.

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Turnip truck? Horse breeding is big business in my neck of the woods. I know one rancher that milks his stallions by hand, puts the stuff on dry ice, and sells the product at incredible prices to other breeders. If you want to nitpick, there are ranchers that milk male horses. Maybe Laura Bush was referring to this practice?

Now, I can't comment on the appropriateness of the rancher's livelihood, but I can vouch for his character, and to tell you the truth the guy is a real jerk off. And you know, the horse-milker would probably find this humor funny because he has a head for it. Not me. I'm not that kind of schmuck. Like you, it rubs me the wrong way too.

[bgsugar]

Wish there was a poll to see if Laura would beat Hillary as President. She did very well at the microphone.

[farmer18th]

But did you see (and hear) the audience's reaction after the "male horse" line?

If Laura Bush made a joke about George keeping a whore house at his Crawford ranch, this crowd would still call her "classy" and, even more incredibly, "funny."

The party that ended slavery, that had heroic ideals, that knew the difference between humor and trash-culture is either dead, or close to it. When a Republican First lady can get up there and repeat pandering gag lines for a pack of divorce-culture buffoons from the National Press Club, we are in sad, sad shape.

[pissant]

I dislike all crude jokes. I'm such a prude, as you well know. (just be sure not to look at any of my threads...)