# Damn. Wrong president, wrong son. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 28, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-wrong-president-wrong-son/405839 "2007-05-28T23:55:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-wrong-president-wrong-son/405839/1 "2007-05-28T23:55:01Z")
The title says it all in reference to [this thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=422623) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-wrong-president-wrong-son/405839/2 "2007-05-29T00:02:22Z")
Gee, I wonder who you mean? ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-wrong-president-wrong-son/405839/3 "2007-05-29T00:04:27Z")
There’s a similarity, though. President Coolidge had a son who died of a blister. President GHW Bush had a son that became a blister. And a deadly one, at that. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-wrong-president-wrong-son/405839/4 "2007-05-29T00:08:02Z")
Coolidge’s son died because effective antibiotics had not been invented/discovered. I can’t regret their advent – even if they might have saved some unworthy lives. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-wrong-president-wrong-son/405839/5 "2007-05-29T00:13:45Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Coolidge’s son died because effective antibiotics had not been invented/discovered. I can’t regret their advent – even if they might have saved some unworthy lives. [/QUOTE] There’s always a fly in the ointment, isn’t there? I guess that’s the law of Conservation of Difficulty. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-wrong-president-wrong-son/405839/6 "2007-05-29T01:44:18Z")
Man, even for a Bush-bashing thread this is lame. Wanna put some work into it next time? ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-wrong-president-wrong-son/405839/7 "2007-05-29T01:56:22Z")
[QUOTE=asterion] Man, even for a Bush-bashing thread this is lame. Wanna put some work into it next time? [/QUOTE] It must have somehow escaped your notice that this is really a GQ post. Maybe I should have posted a notice to that effect at the bottom of the page. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-wrong-president-wrong-son/405839/8 "2007-05-29T02:15:31Z")
Give it a fucking rest. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-wrong-president-wrong-son/405839/9 "2007-05-29T10:36:46Z")
When come back, bring sense.