# Flaming G. Bush, President of the People? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 13, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915 "2004-07-13T16:17:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/21 "2004-07-14T05:01:55Z")
> [@manhattan](#): > > … > Can’t you guys even change the animals? Razorbacks are from Arkansas. Make 'em longhorn steers or something… He gets off the plane with a longhorn steer under each arm? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/22 "2004-07-14T05:42:32Z")
> [@JRootabega](#): > > I’ve always wanted to learn things about George W. Bush. Can somebody give me some information about him? I know he is a president, but what exactly is a president? Also, when was he elected? > > Thanks! 🙂 As you can see, the real deal is that George Bush grew up in Texas, lives in Washington DC and is President of the United States! Thanks for asking! what, that wasn’t directed at me? :::slinks away::: ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/23 "2004-07-14T06:40:23Z")
> [@aegypt](#): > > Well, anybody who has: > > 1. a brain > 2. a heart > 3. one or more of the following: (a) a newspaper from the past four years, (b) a television set, or (c) an Internet connection > > already knows that Bush is it disgrace not only to himself, but to his nation, mankind, primates in general, mammals, vertebrates (if he really does have a spine) and the entire animal kingdom. Possibly to plants and fungi as well, but I’m feeling generous. So, which of those is **Shodan** missing? Or shall we just opt for “all of the above”? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/24 "2004-07-14T06:43:48Z")
Flaming G. Bush. Porn name, forgotten member of the Village People, or depression-era blues guitarist? ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/25 "2004-07-15T15:51:02Z")
I thought it sounded more like an STD. ---
**Author:** ![Ninja\_Pizza\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f04885/32.png) [@Ninja\_Pizza\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ninja_Pizza_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/26 "2004-07-15T15:59:39Z")
> [@clayton\_e](#): > > I thought it sounded more like an STD. Ow! It’d take more than a shot of penicillin to clear **that** up. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/27 "2004-07-15T16:58:18Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > And **Jinx** has been around since 1999! I thought this board\* fought\* ignorance! How wonderful to find evidence to the contrary. > > Another Bush thread…really… :rolleyes: You been around for a year and you are JUST finding this out? And hanging chads a MECHANICAL failure? More like HUMAN ERROR. Not emptying the catch basin, not pushing pin all the way in. I voted in FL during that election. My votes counted. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/28 "2004-07-15T17:39:16Z")
> [@Jinx](#): > > I’ He’s not my President. I didn’t vote to elect… What a great idea! Let’s all claim that “he’s not my president” everytime someone gets elected and we didn’t vote for him. Can we also say “I’m taking my marbles and going home?” Why not just simplify things to: “Whaaaaaaaaaa!” ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/29 "2004-07-15T18:25:44Z")
I have a better idea! If you are legally able to vote and you don’t, if you complain about the outcome afterwards, we get to punch you in the face! ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/30 "2004-07-15T19:30:55Z")
> [@UncleBill](#): > > I voted in FL during that election. My votes counted. Dang, I only got to vote one time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/31 "2004-07-15T20:51:03Z")
I lived in Miami-Dade County, official motto: _Vote Early, Vote Often!_. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/32 "2004-07-16T00:08:12Z")
Aegypt… I apologize for not conforming to how you believe people should act. I am forever shamed for not thinking like Aegypt. I am lost. I am alone. I am inferior. Lament. -SPOOFE _Laughing At Absurd Generalizations Since 1981_ ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/33 "2004-07-16T19:32:13Z")
Who is this ‘Flamingo Bush’ you all speak of? An exotic dancer? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/34 "2004-07-16T19:46:49Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Who is this ‘Flamingo Bush’ you all speak of? An exotic dancer? Hopefully, sometime soon, a neurological mechanism will be perfected to purge from my memory certain horrendous mental imagery, such as you have suggested, without resort to massive doses of psychoactive chemicals. Which are often expensive and not immediately available for emergency consumption. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/35 "2004-07-17T03:46:31Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > He gets off the plane with a longhorn steer under each arm? How about an armadillo under each arm? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/36 "2004-07-17T03:57:00Z")
Hmmmm. Maybe. Does he have to be smarter than an armadillo? ---
**Author:** ![stockton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@stockton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stockton)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/37 "2004-07-17T04:46:50Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Who is this ‘Flamingo Bush’ you all speak of? An exotic dancer? If you’re thinking of dancers, I’m pretty sure you’re looking for the word “FLAMENCO.” Just a hunch. Flamingos eat shellfish and turn pink and shift from leg-to-leg and get left outside in the cold a lot. Hmmm, maybe you WERE thinking of the current CinC, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/38 "2004-07-17T04:51:33Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Hmmmm. Maybe. Does he have to be smarter than an armadillo? Not smarter. Just more determined. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/39 "2004-07-17T05:06:26Z")
> [@stockton](#): > > If you’re thinking of dancers, I’m pretty sure you’re looking for the word “FLAMENCO.” > > Just a hunch. Flamingos eat shellfish and turn pink and shift from leg-to-leg and get left outside in the cold a lot. Hmmm, maybe you WERE thinking of the current CinC, after all. I was picturing him, skinny hairy legs and all, with a couple of fans made of pink feathers. Yeah, I think "flamingo’ about covers it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915/40 "2004-07-17T05:16:14Z")
I’m a little out of my depth here, I’ll ask for more knowledgeable opinion. If I were gay, would that image be more repulsive, or less? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flaming-g-bush-president-of-the-people/254915.md?page=3)