# Axis of Assholitude: An Evening with the Joe's
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [March 24, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875 "2011-03-24T18:36:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/1 "2011-03-24T18:36:27Z")
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:
> **[Gawker](https://www.gawker.com)**
>
> Gawker. It's a website on the internet.
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”.
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### Author:  [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/2 "2011-03-24T18:43:22Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/3 "2011-03-24T18:50:27Z")
“Joe” is evidently not a name to be reckoned with. (Sorry, **joebuck20**.)
Arpaio is reducing himself by appearing with those two.
Has Plumber ever actually had anything to say since that one day in 2008, when he didn’t know what he was talking about?
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/4 "2011-03-24T18:50:36Z")
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:”
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### Author:  [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/5 "2011-03-24T18:52:46Z")
The transcript will be comedy gold!
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/6 "2011-03-24T19:26:59Z")
They should change the name to Vortex of Stoopid.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/7 "2011-03-24T19:43:09Z")
> [@joebuck20](#):
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> …
>
> I submit this for your amusement:
>
> [Gawker | The Website](http://gawker.com/#!5785387/meet-the-republicans-devastating-triple-threat-the-joes)…
[One of the links](http://gawker.com/#!5785028/the-years-most-bizarre-arrest-steven-seagal-was-riding-in-the-tank) 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”.
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### Author:  [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/8 "2011-03-24T20:28:59Z")
Will there be coffee at the event?
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/9 "2011-03-24T20:32:14Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#):
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> Will there be coffee at the event?
The Joe will be served by Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabbadoo.
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### Author:  [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/10 "2011-03-24T20:53:18Z")
> [@Smeghead](#):
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> The Joe will be served by Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabbadoo.
That’s the worst name I’ve ever heard.
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### Author:  [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/11 "2011-03-24T21:04:23Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> [One of the links](http://gawker.com/#!5785028/the-years-most-bizarre-arrest-steven-seagal-was-riding-in-the-tank) 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”.
:eek:
Wow, that’s just a major lawsuit waiting to happen.
And what the hell is Seagal doing in Arizona? I thought he was a deputy in Louisiana.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/12 "2011-03-24T21:50:15Z")
Top of the agenda: screwing in a light bulb.
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### Author:  [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/13 "2011-03-25T01:02:39Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#):
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> Will there be coffee at the event?
There will be plenty of Joe.
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### Author:  [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/14 "2011-03-25T01:51:15Z")
What about Joe Momma jokes?
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/15 "2011-03-25T02:03:30Z")
> [@joebuck20](#):
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> “America’s most influential and conservative Joe’s”\*
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.
> [@joebuck20](#):
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> \*This is the way they have it spelled in their promos with an apostrophe between the “Joe” and the “s”.
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_.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/16 "2011-03-25T02:29:52Z")
I see that Sharron Angle will also be there! How could this event get any better?!??!!!
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/17 "2011-03-25T03:09:59Z")
That event just cries out for Sarah and Michelle, and not the one person with the last name of Gellar. _I_ cry out for her.
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### Author:  [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2011, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/18 "2011-03-25T03:21:43Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> That event just cries out for Sarah and Michelle, and not the one person with the last name of Gellar. _I_ cry out for her.
Who are Joe Sarah and Joe Michelle? I’ve never heard of them.
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/19 "2011-03-25T03:34:13Z")
> [@tomndebb](#):
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> 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_.
Yes, it makes sense to use Joe’s so as not to confuse it with the very common word Joes. 😕
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axis-of-assholitude-an-evening-with-the-joes/575875/20 "2011-03-25T04:33:26Z")
So many mens names are used as euphemism for a pecker, how did it happen that “Joe” wasn’t one of them?
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