# A shout-out? from a VP candidate? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 3, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304 "2008-10-03T13:11:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/61 "2008-10-03T17:19:57Z")
> [@frankzafka](#): > > wait.. this wouldn’t be complete without elucidator compsing his 84000th inane post whilst Dio sucking his cock. Sorry Dio is not literally sucking his cock. I’m sure he has a family that misses him and the tard time he furiously hammers at the keys on this site. And then you accuse other posters of being infantile? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/62 "2008-10-03T17:20:00Z")
> [@frankzafka](#): > > Thanks for subjective shit. But why waste your time? Christ people this is supposed to be..sorry it’s the pit…carry on. I thought your panties were a little bunched there. ---
**Author:** ![frankzafka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@frankzafka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frankzafka)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/63 "2008-10-03T17:20:29Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > I think that was genuine. Biden’s a pretty devoted family man; takes the train home to Delaware every night. (Maybe Amtrak will get some proper funding in the Obama/Biden administration.) > > I don’t really care about candidates’ personal quirks, nor whether Palin’s folksiness was real or fake. I care about the policies they’ll be behind when they’re in office – for Christ’s sake, why do people base their votes on personality? > > ETA: I was hoping there’d be some questions about dinosaurs. Nice try to camoflage yourself to be non-partisan until the last sentance. What does Barney have to do with personality? If you wish to be stupid shout it out to the masses and not the 58 people on this bankrupt, both financially and idealistically, board. ---
**Author:** ![frankzafka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@frankzafka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frankzafka)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/64 "2008-10-03T17:21:38Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > And then you accuse other posters of being infantile? you sticking up for those two clowns..the paragons of the spirit of this board??? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/65 "2008-10-03T17:22:03Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Well, I’m pretty sure that I am, in fact, better than her at almost anything that doesn’t involve field dressing or birthin’ babies. But that certainly has nothing to do with the question at hand. > > \*Are \*you okay with how she presents herself? I’m not asking if you think she can handle the job, or if she’s smart enough, or cute enough, or whathefuckever enough. I’m asking you if you’re actually good with that downhome shitkicking image she portrays. Word. We’re not even done with the current pinhead shitkicker in chief and we’ve got another ignoramus with a fresh new steamin’ cowpie standing at the ready to sully our sensibilities. “Ya hey dere, Joe…winky, folksy blah, blah, blah”…aaaah, shaddup already. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/66 "2008-10-03T17:22:17Z")
> [@frankzafka](#): > > Nice try to camoflage yourself to be non-partisan until the last sentance. What does Barney have to do with personality? If you wish to be stupid shout it out to the masses and not the 58 people on this bankrupt, both financially and idealistically, board. Science isn’t a partisan issue. The woman believes that dinosaurs and humans co-existed. That’s just stupidity and willful ignorance. She’d rather believe what her (witch doctor) preacher tells her than what science has discovered. That sort of person doesn’t belong anywhere near policy. ---
**Author:** ![frankzafka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@frankzafka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frankzafka)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/67 "2008-10-03T17:23:28Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > I thought your panties were a little bunched there. Yawn..In China.1:22 am. Have to work in the am. Keep me up, please. Idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/68 "2008-10-03T17:24:11Z")
I could almost forgive the winking, the failure to fully pronounce nearly any word ending in G (especially words ending…forgive me endin’ in ING) and the ‘I’m just an Alaskan mom that don’t know nothing about no politickin’ ’ attitude but the ‘shout out’ was completely out of place in that environment. ---
**Author:** ![frankzafka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@frankzafka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frankzafka)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/69 "2008-10-03T17:27:50Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Science isn’t a partisan issue. The woman believes that dinosaurs and humans co-existed. That’s just stupidity and willful ignorance. She’d rather believe what her (witch doctor) preacher tells her than what science has discovered. > > That sort of person doesn’t belong anywhere near policy. Don’t be a moron. Bush was the last Dinosaur cum Neandertal go between and nothing has come of it. You’re looking for boogie men and there’s just nuttin there. There’s plenty of other bonifide shit of hers to pick apart. And you know it. Be smart enough to find them. ---
**Author:** ![frankzafka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@frankzafka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frankzafka)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/70 "2008-10-03T17:32:29Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > I could almost forgive the winking, the failure to fully pronounce nearly any word ending in G (especially words ending..forgive me endin’ in ING) and the ‘I’m just an Alaskan mom that don’t know nothing about no politickin’ ’ attitude but the ‘shout out’ was completely out of place in that environment. And I find your Cali penchance for mispronouncing “y’s” and “l’s” cute and quite frankly butresses everything my midwestern parents thought about your “fruits” that I heard growing up. Pronounciation is fair game, right? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/71 "2008-10-03T17:34:54Z")
Look, she didn’t fall off the stage, nor did she soil herself or puddle on the floor. She exceeded my expectations. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/72 "2008-10-03T17:38:34Z")
> [@frankzafka](#): > > Don’t be a moron. Bush was the last Dinosaur cum Neandertal go between and nothing has come of it. You’re looking for boogie men and there’s just nuttin there. There’s plenty of other bonifide shit of hers to pick apart. And you know it. Be smart enough to find them. It is a problem. Someone who believes in creationism has a vested interest in appointing supreme court justices who are amenable to it. I’ve said it before, a president Palin (which could happen if McCain gets within ten feet of the controls for Air Force One) would just have to get five likely supreme court candidates who are willing to be evasive about their evangelical bend and she’ll get one two or three in over the course of her term (I believe three of them will be over the average lifespan by that time). If that happens say goodbye to abortion rights and say hello to moments of prayer in school, intelligent design in science class, and the ten commandments (the christian version of course) on the walls of every public building. She’s a mental midget. Creationists are ignorant and delusional, all of them. Every single one. They don’t belong setting policy. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/73 "2008-10-03T17:39:34Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Look, she didn’t fall off the stage, nor did she soil herself or puddle on the floor. She exceeded my expectations. Personally, I felt that if she did soil herself, some Pubbie woulda come along and explained “Hey, she did fine: she didn’t pick it up and eat it like a Snickers bar, did she?” ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/74 "2008-10-03T17:39:49Z")
> [@frankzafka](#): > > And I find your Cali penchance for mispronouncing “y’s” and “l’s” cute and quite frankly butresses everything my midwestern parents thought about your “fruits” that I heard growing up. > > Pronounciation is fair game, right? Not really in this case since I grew up in the midwest. (Central Ohio to be precise) I’m not sure what you mean though about misprouncing y’s and l’s. Unless you’re referring to spanish words, in which case the argument doesn’t hold up. ---
**Author:** ![frankzafka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@frankzafka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frankzafka)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/75 "2008-10-03T17:40:38Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Look, she didn’t fall off the stage, nor did she soil herself or puddle on the floor. She exceeded my expectations. Perhaps where you come from not pissing or shitting yourself is aiming high? Probably your parents’ fault, however. Next life you can maybe be a Govenor. Or maybe not… ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/76 "2008-10-03T17:43:50Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > the failure to fully pronounce nearly any word ending in G (especially words ending..forgive me endin’ in ING) That’s the first I’m readin’ about that on this board. Holy crap, that bugged me. I understand droppin’ the G in casual speech, but it seems way out of place in a formal event. It never bugged me more than several years ago, when I was talkin’ to a guy who did that even with words not endin’ with a present participle. “Chicago is the home to the Chrystler Buildin’.” _Shudder_ Is it a midwest thin’? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/77 "2008-10-03T17:44:43Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > It is a problem. Someone who believes in creationism has a vested interest in appointing supreme court justices who are amenable to it. I’ve said it before, a president Palin (which could happen if McCain gets within ten feet of the controls for Air Force One) would just have to get five likely supreme court candidates who are willing to be evasive about their evangelical bend and she’ll get one two or three in over the course of her term (I believe three of them will be over the average lifespan by that time). > > If that happens say goodbye to abortion rights and say hello to moments of prayer in school, intelligent design in science class, and the ten commandments (the christian version of course) on the walls of every public building. > > She’s a mental midget. Creationists are ignorant and delusional, all of them. Every single one. They don’t belong setting policy. Yeah, but as a combination senator/VP, just think of the possibilities!! ---
**Author:** ![frankzafka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@frankzafka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frankzafka)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/78 "2008-10-03T17:45:33Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > It is a problem. Someone who believes in creationism has a vested interest in appointing supreme court justices who are amenable to it. I’ve said it before, a president Palin (which could happen if McCain gets within ten feet of the controls for Air Force One) would just have to get five likely supreme court candidates who are willing to be evasive about their evangelical bend and she’ll get one two or three in over the course of her term (I believe three of them will be over the average lifespan by that time). > > If that happens say goodbye to abortion rights and say hello to moments of prayer in school, intelligent design in science class, and the ten commandments (the christian version of course) on the walls of every public building. > > She’s a mental midget. Creationists are ignorant and delusional, all of them. Every single one. They don’t belong setting policy. So, if she becomes President, which I highly doubt, Creationism will rule the land and supplant all accumulated knowledge? Just like Obama has stated he doesn’t think same sex marriage is equal to het marriage. So gays will be outlawed? Come on idiot.. Think before posting next time. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/79 "2008-10-03T17:46:07Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > That’s the first I’m readin’ about that on this board. Holy crap, that bugged me. I understand droppin’ the G in casual speech, but it seems way out of place in a formal event. > > It never bugged me more than several years ago, when I was talkin’ to a guy who did that even with words not endin’ with a present participle. “Chicago is the home to the Chrystler Buildin’.” _Shudder_ > > Is it a midwest thin’? I’ve heard it in the South mostly. I can’t say that I’m familiar with Alaskan regionalisms, so I don’t know if that is ‘typical alaskan’ or if it is an affectation she put on to sound more…down home I suppose is a term that would fit. ---
**Author:** ![frankzafka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@frankzafka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frankzafka)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304/80 "2008-10-03T17:49:40Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > Not really in this case since I grew up in the midwest. (Central Ohio to be precise) > > I’m not sure what you mean though about misprouncing y’s and l’s. Unless you’re referring to spanish words, in which case the argument doesn’t hold up. Western Illiniois–my point stands in your pronunciation, in spades. Hint: I like Ohio. We just think you’re quaint. And our Coulmbus friends say I speak like an Alambama sth or other. As an aside have you notice Appalachian drawl has crept towards you as of even date? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-from-a-vp-candidate/466304.md?page=5)