Not really a pitting, but knowing the way these things usually go on the SDMB, it’d probably wind up here sooner or later. Still, if the mods want to move it, by all means, go ahead and do so.
Anyway Joe Miller, Joe Arpaio and Joe the Plumber, aka “America’s most influential and conservative Joe’s”* are coming together for what’s being billed as the “launch of the historic effort to defeat Barack Obama.”
I submit this for your amusement:
Am I the only one that fears the black hole that will be created when three assholes come together?
*This is the way they have it spelled in their promos with an apostrophe between the “Joe” and the “s”.
I was around Joe Arpaio at several sheriff’s conventions. Attention-whoring windbag is the nicest thing I heard him called and that was by other sheriffs.
As I was driving to work today I saw a few warning signs up on the side of the road saying “Sheriff Chain Gang At Work.” My first thought was, “Who uses chain gangs any more?” My second thought was, “Oh, right, Arpaio. :rolleyes:”
One of the links leads to an arrest story, but I’m not sure the correct lesson to draw – “Don’t bring a tank to a cock fight” or “Don’t bring a cock to a tank fight”.
They can’t even get their claim right. Arguably, the most influential conservative Joe, (as opposed to most knee-jerk right wing Joe), is Lieberman.
While it has the effect of dragging fingernails across chalkboards for many folks, using an apostrophe to set off the plural from abbreviations, acronyms, and even proper names is a fairly common usage that does not actually reflect stupidity, per se.
