# Cockburn gets "cock" burn on opponent. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 30, 2018, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791 "2018-07-30T04:19:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/1 "2018-07-30T04:19:41Z")
Interesting topic and coincidental name. Virginia congressional candidate Leslie Cockburn gets a [burn](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/299065/usage-of-burn-as-a-form-of-mockery-how-did-it-start) in on an opponent [who has an interest in sasquatchii with more than just\* feet \*that are big](https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2018/07/us-congress-candidate-denver-riggleman-exposed-as-bigfoot-erotica-devotee.html). ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/2 "2018-07-30T11:54:40Z")
Eh mostly harmless unless it’s some sort of dog whistle. I’m more concerned about the campaigning with supremecists thing that was mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/3 "2018-07-30T13:59:43Z")
Okay, I’m confused… > [@](#): > > his alleged devotion to nude drawings of mythical ape creatures Aren’t all drawings of “ape creatures” “nude”? Is Bigfoot supposed to wear pants? And did anyone else [think of this](http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_343_29-famous-photos-made-filthy-with-needless-censorship/) when looking at the censored drawings? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/4 "2018-07-30T16:23:09Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Interesting topic and coincidental name. Virginia congressional candidate Leslie Cockburn gets a [burn](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/299065/usage-of-burn-as-a-form-of-mockery-how-did-it-start) in on an opponent… Cry me a river. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/5 "2018-07-30T17:05:33Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Cry me a river. Physiologically impossible. The average human produces only [64 liters of tears in their lifetime](https://www.lostateminor.com/2014/12/20/chair-filled-many-litres-tears-youll-cry-lifetime/), nowhere enough to produce a river. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/6 "2018-07-30T17:22:47Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Physiologically impossible. Here’s a hint: check my location. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/7 "2018-07-30T17:23:37Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Physiologically impossible. > > The average human produces only [64 liters of tears in their lifetime](https://www.lostateminor.com/2014/12/20/chair-filled-many-litres-tears-youll-cry-lifetime/), nowhere enough to produce a river. Pay attention, dude–why would you explain it to that poster using liters? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/8 "2018-07-30T17:25:22Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Pay attention, dude–why would you explain it to that poster using liters? Because it shows liter-ship. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/9 "2018-07-30T17:34:14Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Here’s a hint: check my location. What, land of teensy-weensy rivers? ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/10 "2018-07-30T20:51:00Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > What, land of teensy-weensy rivers? Isn’t a teensy-weeny river called a burn? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/11 "2018-07-30T21:03:33Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Pay attention, dude–why would you explain it to that poster using liters? What should we use, Gallonz? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/12 "2018-07-30T21:28:22Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > Isn’t a teensy-weeny river called a burn? Yup. It was supposed to be a pun. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/13 "2018-07-30T22:08:53Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Yup. It was supposed to be a pun. Huh. I thought you were talking about [the Chornaya](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chornaya_River_(Crimea)). ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/14 "2018-07-31T00:56:12Z")
I just want to say I’d rather have Olivia Wilde erotica. Not because I’m a misogynist, but because I’m a speciesist. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/15 "2018-07-31T19:07:04Z")
Lying Republicans lying about their interest in Bigfoot erotica - > **['Bigfoot erotica' row turns Virginia congressional race ugly](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45009077)** > > A Virginia election has taken a turn for the weird as two rival candidates argue about Bigfoot sex. > [@I just really hate that the BBC had to hear about this](#): > > He told the Conservative Review that the image was a prank from friends who were joking about a book he is currently writing: The Mating Habits of Bigfoot and Why Women Want Him. > > The book, he says, will be “a sort of joke anthropological study on Bigfoot believers”. > > Skip Twitter post 2 by @LeslieCockburnEnd of Twitter post 2 by @LeslieCockburn > A second tweet from Ms Cockburn referred to the book, and superimposed Mr Riggleman’s face on the cryptid’s shoulders. > > Mr Riggleman says he has found his rival’s attacks “hilarious”. > > “I didn’t know there was Bigfoot erotica, even with all my Bigfoot studies,” he said. Sure, dude. Pull the other one. You just _happen_ to be writing a book with a suggestive Bigfoot title and you just _happen_ to be posting Bigfoot erotica on your IG but you had No. Idea … For the Sasquatch Curious, I note that the Kindle edition of seminal author, Dr. Chuck Tingle’s, “Bigfoot Pirates Haunt My Balls” is only $3 right now. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/16 "2020-06-14T19:22:59Z")
[And bigfooter gets trampled](https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/06/14/former-liberty-u-staffer-ousts-bigfoot-erotica-author-in-virginia-gop-primary/). ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/17 "2020-06-14T20:10:06Z")
Oh, god. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/18 "2020-06-14T21:35:43Z")
LOVE the final paragraph: > [@](#): > > In summary, Bob Good, the anti-gay Christian who can’t read a damn set of rules, defeated the author of Bigfoot erotica partly because he officiated a gay wedding, in an election that looked more like hundreds of people ordering takeout from the only restaurant in town, and will face off against the eventual Democratic nominee in a race where he may not even be on the ballot. > > Welcome to America, home of democracy and competence. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/19 "2020-06-14T23:17:40Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Physiologically impossible. > > The average human produces only [64 liters of tears in their lifetime](https://www.lostateminor.com/2014/12/20/chair-filled-many-litres-tears-youll-cry-lifetime/), nowhere enough to produce a river. But geographically possible. The [Salhyr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salhyr) is a Crimea river. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791/20 "2020-06-14T23:30:49Z")
From 2018? What gets me is that the reporter who wrote the piece obviously doesn’t know the definition of “running mate”. > [@](#): > > She accuses her running mate of being caught on camera campaigning with a white supremacist, and goes on to expose him as a devotee of Bigfoot erotica. StG [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cockburn-gets-cock-burn-on-opponent/818791.md?page=2)