# Bush = Bad

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-bad/168582>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 14, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-bad/168582 "2003-04-14T06:41:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-bad/168582/21 "2003-04-14T11:52:43Z")

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> He used = instead of == in a comparison context. As C is as permissive as a stoned hippy, it happily assigned the value referenced by Bad to the place in memory referenced by Bush. As the = operator always returns a true result when used in a conditional context, the conditional code will always be executed and he’ll probably have fubared his code by losing a variable’s value.

I just hope he overloaded the assignment operator of the president class to check for self-assignment.

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-bad/168582/22 "2003-04-14T12:08:55Z")

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Insulted = yellow goo  
Dissed pus.

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**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-bad/168582/23 "2003-04-14T13:08:00Z")

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Matriarchal = branch

Distaff.

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**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-bad/168582/24 "2003-04-14T13:44:28Z")

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Old Faithful

This gush

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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-bad/168582/25 "2003-04-14T14:23:21Z")

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Actually, that is incorrect. Bush: Bet=2, Vav=6 and Shin=300. Therefore, Bush=308. Bad (“ra”): Resh=200 and Ein=70. Therefore, Bad=270.

308!=270 =\> Bush!=Bad.

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**Author:** ![Jerrybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jerrybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerrybear)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-bad/168582/26 "2003-04-14T14:25:07Z")

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Bush and Clinton=bad, very bad

Ralph Nader=GOOD!!! VERY GOOD!!!

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