# "Algore" - why is that funny?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/algore-why-is-that-funny/43233
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 29, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/algore-why-is-that-funny/43233 "2000-11-29T18:42:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@DavisMcDavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavisMcDavis)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/algore-why-is-that-funny/43233/1 "2000-11-29T18:42:24Z")
Can someone please explain to me why connecting Al and Gore together into Algore is considered witty? The only thing I’ve heard is that Rush Limbaugh said it once, but I can’t see how that would make it funny, either. He never seemed particularly witty, to me. Constipated, yes, but not witty.
Weren’t the people that liked Limbaugh supposed to be “Dittoheads”? And how is that a positive thing? If I called my followers “sheep” or something, I think they’d be insulted, if they stopped to think about it…oh, wait…never mind.
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### Author:  [@malden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malden)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/algore-why-is-that-funny/43233/2 "2000-11-29T18:49:15Z")
I refer you to [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=40903).
I don’t fully get it either. I seriously doubt all those people actually knew the meaning of the word “algor.”
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### Author:  [@Mr.Zambezi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Zambezi)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/algore-why-is-that-funny/43233/3 "2000-11-29T19:05:37Z")
Well, if he is dancing then you have an algore-rhythm. (rim shot)
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### Author:  [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/algore-why-is-that-funny/43233/4 "2000-11-29T21:32:59Z")
Huh - I thought it was because Leiberman always refers to him as “Al Gore” repeatedly. Kind of annoying after a while. “Al Gore and I…” this and “Al Gore and I…” that.
Esprix
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### Author:  [@DavisMcDavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavisMcDavis)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/algore-why-is-that-funny/43233/5 "2000-11-29T22:20:48Z")
Thanks for the link, malden! Guess I’m not the only one…
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### Author:  [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/algore-why-is-that-funny/43233/6 "2000-11-29T22:39:10Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Mr.Zambezi \*
> \*\*Well, if he is dancing then you have an algore-rhythm. (rim shot) \*\*
No, you have the opposite of rhythm.
Play that funky music, white boy!
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### Author:  [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2000, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/algore-why-is-that-funny/43233/7 "2000-11-29T22:42:44Z")
I refer you also to [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=46559) thread…at least before it got MPSIMSy.