# BBQ US political threads **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 8, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-us-political-threads/263677 "2004-09-08T20:57:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-us-political-threads/263677/21 "2004-09-09T10:08:29Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Hint to investors. Do NOT invest in any company that backs life insurance for hamsters. Whoops! Well, at least I still have that Royal Bank of Nigeria thing going for me. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-us-political-threads/263677/22 "2004-09-09T10:12:12Z")
I knew you tighty righty types would come in handy 🙂 Note to self…avoid hamsters, invest in Nigeria. Thank you boys 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-us-political-threads/263677/23 "2004-09-09T10:13:10Z")
> [@Brutus](#): > > Whoops! Well, at least I still have that Royal Bank of Nigeria thing going for me. Damnit, **Brutus**!!! How the hell will I make money on the 419 deal if you keep messing it up?!? :mad: Asshole. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-us-political-threads/263677/24 "2004-09-09T10:16:24Z")
Awwww **duffer** now I’m confused! Hamsters or no? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-us-political-threads/263677/25 "2004-09-09T10:17:49Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Lib, dear, sweetie, we know that YOU post in the pit because you like calling us other, more stupid, people names. Most of US, however, post in here because we want to call the CANDIDATE names. You mean candidates like Duffer? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5245084&postcount=30](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5245084&postcount=30) ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-us-political-threads/263677/26 "2004-09-09T10:18:43Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > Awwww **duffer** now I’m confused! Hamsters or no? You make it so difficult to love you. It’s like I understand how Tony Soprano feels. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-us-political-threads/263677/27 "2004-09-09T10:25:36Z")
But is it Tony in lust or Tony in bump off mode! These details matter (I may have to buy a bullet proof get up!). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-us-political-threads/263677/28 "2004-09-09T10:26:19Z")
I’d like to be a [Libertarian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialist) too, but my porridge doesn’t taste sweet enough. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-us-political-threads/263677/29 "2004-09-09T10:28:15Z")
You’re just too impatient. Sometimes, you have to wait in the sugar lines all day. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-us-political-threads/263677/30 "2004-09-09T10:33:49Z")
Alas. If only the richest Scotsmen _weren’t_ so stereotypically miserly! ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-us-political-threads/263677/31 "2004-09-09T10:43:07Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > But is it Tony in lust or Tony in bump off mode! These details matter (I may have to buy a bullet proof get up!). 🙂 Tony in fun, playful mode. I don’t have enough airline miles. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-us-political-threads/263677/32 "2004-09-09T10:47:18Z")
> [@Slacker](#): > > Try finding someone in North Texas who doesn’t have his head lodged up his ass that you can discuss politics with. I have no hope of helping change the outcome of the election here. > > However, if enough people from Iowa read what I have to say… who knows. 😉 Hehe, right with ya there. I’m a tree-hugging, puppy lovin’ hippie transplant from Chicago, stuck in Republican Hell, myself. (Although, really, I guess we should call it Liberal Hell, since Texas has _got_ to be the version of Hell liberals go to when they die). _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-us-political-threads/263677/33 "2004-09-09T11:23:43Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Tony in fun, playful mode. I don’t have enough airline miles. 😉 Bugger 😃 Badda bing badda boom Good thing you are my almost fav conservative then 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-us-political-threads/263677.md?page=1)