Feel the Johnson.

Okay, I can’t help laughing my ass off every time I see a “Feel the Johnson” sign on the news. Even funnier is a guy wearing a “Feel the Johnson” T-shirt. Someone in Johnson’s campaign didn’t think this through.
For those who might be in the dark…

OK, I already knew that “Johnson” is a slang term for penis, but what does “Feel the Johnson” mean?

By the way, I like how former MLB pitcher Randy Johnson was called the “Big Unit.” Yeah, he’s tall, 6’ 10", but “unit” also means the same thing. :smiley:

Just a guess: It may refer to Gary Johnson the 2016 Libertarian Party candidate for President. It may be a take off on “Feel the Bern” (Bernie Sanders’ slogan).

I’ve never personally seen one.

Edit: I mean I’ve never personally seen a sign or shirt that says that.

I’ve seen one variant, that says, “You’ve felt the Bern, now feel the Johnson.” It’s definitely a play on the Sanders campaign.

Actually, I think they thought it through quite well. It evokes Bernie, it works as a Bernie parody, and it works (if you’re of that mindset) as a clever catchphrase for Johnson with multiple levels of meaning. Of course no mainstream candidate would have done it, but this is Johnson. If a bunch of kids that want to vote for him think it’s cool and buy some T-shirts and it adds a little bit of attention to the campaign, it’s a win for him. Basically, the catchphrase is about as serious as he is.

The NSFW version for the more crude folks:

I’m reasonably sure this started on social media and the campaign has nothing to do with it. The Johnson campaign is not selling “Feel the Johnson” shirts. The person or people who did come up with it originally (I’m assuming there was some parallel thinking with multiple people) did think it through.

ETA: The official slogan seems to be “You in?” Feel the Johnson is much better.

Magician and Libertarian Penn Jillette has been using the Feel My Johnson / Feel the Johnson phrases in many YouTube videos about the presidential race. Not saying he was the first to use the phrase for use in this campaign, but has been out there.

And I seem to recall Bill Weld (Johnson’s running mate) using the phrase himself in at least one interview.

The Big Unit referred to his Big Johnson. But God compensated by giving him that face. :stuck_out_tongue:

Not only that, but the Big Unit’s Johnson was Randy!

Just being known as “Randy Johnson” already sounds like a Porn Name anyway.

I expect they know exactly what they’re doing. Any publicity is good publicity.

Yes, it seems pretty clearly intentional to me.

A while back I had a nice variety of Big Johnson t-shirts. Someone picked up on the innuendo and I was told not to wear them to work.

Since it’s not an official campaign shirt, I am curious what the campaign thinks about it.

Also, I’m curious what most people who see the shirt think about it. Especially considering how the other grassroots promotion I’ve seen is “Google Gary Johnson” written in chalk various places. I’d think a significant number of people who see the shirt would just think it was a crude t-shirt, maybe think it was just parodying the Bernie slogan, not knowing that it was about another candidate.

Huh.

I thought this thread was going to be about the flap lever in Piper Cherokees and early Cessna Skyhawks.

If only this guy was running against some guy/gal named Evinrude…

Link safe for work...well beside the whole Johnson inuendo thingy..

Look at those BIG assed Johnsons at about 3:30 !

This thing only has 42 thousand views?

An internet travisty!

Wait, that first post was crap!

Better quality, more view, probably the original

My name is Raymond J. Johnson Jr.

Now you can call me Ray,
or you can call me J,
or you can call me Johnny,
or you can call me Sonny,
or you can call me Junie,
or you can call me Junior;
now you can call me Ray J,
or you can call me RJ,
or you can call me RJJ,
or you can call me RJJ Jr."

“but you doesn’t hasta call me Johnson!”

I recently saw a bumper sticker promoting the former New Mexico governor, but its text was the oh-so-prosaic “Gary Johnson – Libertarian for President”.

It’s definitely a play on Feel the Bern. For the whole two weeks that Lincoln Chafee was in the race, there was a joke on parts of the Internet about Feel the Chafe. It was inevitable a slogan like Sanders’ would get adapted to other candidates for humor.