# "Ah Wanna Buy Me a Huntin' License" -John Kerry
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [October 25, 2004, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008 "2004-10-25T05:35:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 6
### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/101 "2004-10-27T18:56:13Z")
I’m not a Democrat, btw.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/102 "2004-10-27T19:05:50Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#):
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> I’m not a Democrat, btw.
Well, good. Now I only need to be ashamed to be against Bush. Honestly, **Dio** , lately you are coming across more and more as the **Ralph124c** of the left. Is that really where you want to go?
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/103 "2004-10-27T19:14:42Z")
Diogenes, you’re starting to look like an ass even to me, and I am normally entirely on your side. Your behavior in this thread has been pretty poor even by Pit standards, and your argument is without merit.
You with your rabid attack on Bush for the songbird issue are behaving no better than those who have been rabidly attacking Kerry for _his_ hunting photo-op.
But what really pisses me off is your slam of ducks. Ducks are not fucking rodents (and neither are doves!), neither literally nor metaphorically. The vast majority of them are migratory and mostly they do not fester, disease-ridden, in cities the way pigeons or rats do. Ducks are beautiful creatures, and they are the fastest birds in level flight. You slam them and I’m gonna come after you and kick your ass!!!
:wally
😃
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/104 "2004-10-27T19:19:59Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#):
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> Well, good. Now I only need to be ashamed to be against Bush. Honestly, **Dio** , lately you are coming across more and more as the **Ralph124c** of the left. Is that really where you want to go?
We’re a week a way from from the election. My nerves are fried.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/105 "2004-10-27T19:54:44Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#):
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> We’re a week a way from from the election. My nerves are fried.
With that in mind, maybe you should take a break from the boards until after the elections? You’re normally one of my favorite posters, but you’re acting like an incredible asshole in this thread. I mean, never mind which version of the anecdote is more correct. Either way, it’s incredibly unimportant. Surely, no one here (with the possible exception of the OP) actually thinks the ability to shoot a bird has any bearing on how well you can govern, right? You don’t think that. **Una** doesn’t think that. Was it really necessary to call her a “fucktard” over something of such miniscule consequence? It seems to me to be a gigantic over-reaction.
I hope you take this in the sense that it was meant, which was sincere concern for a poster I greatly respect, and not any sort of a veiled attack.
Be well, **Dio**.
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### Author:  [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/106 "2004-10-27T20:55:56Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#):
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> Doves, ducks, whatever, they’re all fucking rodents, what’s the difference?
Okay. This quote was worth the last twenty postss of pure vitriol.
**Dio** , trust me, I understand how your nerves feel. Try being a yellow dog dem in Georgia, just watch where you point that thing.
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### Author:  [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/107 "2004-10-27T21:47:46Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#):
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> Doves, ducks, whatever, they’re all fucking rodents, what’s the difference?
And don’t get him started on Limey fish.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/108 "2004-10-27T23:29:35Z")
Ok, I’ve had some time to cool down, kill some random pedestrians in the new GTA game and give some more money to Kerry. I feel better.
I got part of the story wrong on Bush and the killdeer and I was too short, dismissive and hostile about **Una** ’s correction.
My apologies to **Una** , as well as to **Braniac** for the “suck my balls” post.
I hate admitting I’m wrong but I was wrong so there it is.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/109 "2004-10-28T00:20:24Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#):
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> I feel better.
Cool, good. I prefer digging out an old Might & Magic or Wizardry for offing some poor bastards, but whatever. 🙂
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### Author:  [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/110 "2004-10-28T01:10:56Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> Incidentally, whatever happened to _that_ George Bush?
Well, you’re a newspaperman, **Marley**. There may be two sides to this question too.
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### Author:  [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/111 "2004-10-28T21:25:01Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic
My apologies to **Una** , as well as to **Braniac** for the “suck my balls” post.
I hate admitting I’m wrong but I was wrong so there it is.[/QUOTE]
Apology accepted. Although I will nurse a bitter grudge for misspelling my name. 😉
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### Author:  [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/112 "2004-10-28T23:16:49Z")
God…
This election needs to be settled fast, I am so sick of stupid threads like these going into the minutae of every single thing that happens in a campaign. It reminds me of Sean “New York City” Hannity blasting Kerry for shooting skeet.
Look,
They are both rich and were always well-off. Hunting is a rich man’s as well as a poor man’s sport. They are both prone to doing things that portray themselves in a way to make them seem more like “the common man” I am really sick of it.
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/113 "2004-10-29T04:53:40Z")
> [@](#):
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> Nobody goes hunting for recreation and drags along a gaggle of camera crews.
Only for a hundred years or so. IMDB lists a couple of brief Teddy Roosevelt documentaries of his hunting trips.
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/114 "2004-10-29T05:28:11Z")
> [@](#):
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> **Una** : I don’t get into these debates on here.
More’s the pity. You are quite good at it. (I was a national forensic judge years ago, for what it’s worth.)
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### Author:  [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/115 "2004-10-29T10:41:30Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#):
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> We’re a week a way from from the election. My nerves are fried.
Am I REALLY a Right-Wing Crackpot??
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### Author:  [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/116 "2004-10-29T13:09:52Z")
> [@Zoe](#):
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> Only for a hundred years or so. IMDB lists a couple of brief Teddy Roosevelt documentaries of his hunting trips.
And that pisses me off too. Again, I don’t care who does this crap, it’s annoying. Stop it with the staged media events already.
And good on ya’, **Diogenes**.
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### Author:  [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/117 "2004-10-29T13:29:44Z")
> [@ralph124c](#):
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> Am I REALLY a Right-Wing Crackpot??
That’s just a rhetorical question, right? 😉
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### Author:  [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/118 "2004-10-29T13:32:07Z")
> [@ralph124c](#):
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> Am I REALLY a Right-Wing Crackpot??
You’re kidding, right?
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### Author:  [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/119 "2004-10-29T13:38:55Z")
> [@GaWd](#):
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> You’re kidding, right?
Do you _think_ he’s kidding?
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### Author:  [@chula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chula)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-wanna-buy-me-a-huntin-license-john-kerry/271008/120 "2004-10-29T16:00:30Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#):
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> And, anyway, having resided online among you Americans for a few months, the one thing I’ve come to appreciate is your dedication to tortured interpretations! Not surprising in a country where one in what (20? 50?) have some formal legal background. And where, even as we speak, lawyers in Colorado and no doubt elsewhere are preparing avenues for costly exploration in anticipation of a torturous outcome to next week’s main event. An outcome that they can perhaps dictate as much as merely benefit from.
Hate to contribute to a stupid hijack, but it’s more like [one in 350](http://august1.com/pubs/articles/lawyers.htm). As that article points out, comparing lawyers in different legal systems is like comparing apples and oranges, but considering that unlike nearly every other country, formal legal education takes place almost exclusively at the graduate level, it’s not surprising that the per capita number of lawyers in the United States is relatively low.
It sounds like you joined the SDMB just to reinforce your own ignorance about Americans. You’re not going to get very far with that.
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