# Has anybody ever gotten a bigger head faster for less reason than Joe the Plumber? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 25, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552 "2008-10-25T20:20:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/21 "2008-10-25T23:26:24Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Reference? (I love Mike Judge, btw) His movie, _Idiocracy_. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/22 "2008-10-25T23:27:04Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Reference? (I love Mike Judge, btw) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/) Haven’t seen it myself. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/23 "2008-10-25T23:28:07Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Reference? (I love Mike Judge, btw) [_Idiocracy_, one supposes.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/) On preview: Unless it’s _Rio_, by Duran Duran, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/24 "2008-10-25T23:29:00Z")
Damn, if it’s half as good as _Office Space_, I’ll have to see it. As for Mr. the Plumber, doesn’t anyone see the obvious? Porn ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/25 "2008-10-25T23:31:19Z")
I have to say a guy who thinks he is going to pull $250,000 from a plumbing business he does not yet own and does not have a license for may have already had a big head before he got national media attention. I’m sure he and his boss have discussed him buying the businesses. And if it goes the way a million other “you work for me and when I’m ready to retire you can buy the business” transactions go - Joe/Sam’s boss is going to discover his client list for an established business is worth more than Joe has managed to save - and Joe/Sam’s boss needs that money to retire - and so he’ll sell his business to someone who can afford to write him a big check and say “sorry, Joe - this is what the business is worth and I need the money.” ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/26 "2008-10-25T23:42:59Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Damn, if it’s half as good as _Office Space_, I’ll have to see it. > > As for Mr. the Plumber, doesn’t anyone see the obvious? > > Porn Er … [yeah](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10359574&postcount=4). ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/27 "2008-10-25T23:49:00Z")
[The Obama campaign has cut off any more interviews with WFTV](http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2008/10/obama-campaign.html). I wish they hadn’t done that. I get that the questions were sub-moronic, but cutting them off makes the campaign look afraid, which is not warranted considering how well Biden handled it. On the plus side, Drudge is hyping the video now, so righties expecting to see Biden get “grilled” (as per Drudge’s typically tendentious headline) are going to be in for a surprise. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/28 "2008-10-26T00:26:06Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Er … [yeah](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10359574&postcount=4). :smack: Don’t mind me-it’s been a long day at work. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/29 "2008-10-26T00:35:21Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I would bet we’ll see Joe’s plumbing in a porno before we see him in a seat in congress. I wouldn’t be surprised if Larry Flynt already has a mail out for him. It would make a good sequel for the Palin porno. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/30 "2008-10-26T01:14:21Z")
_I’m here to fix the plumbing._ You can imagine what happens next. He fixes the plumbing? … with apologies to the Coen Brothers … ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/31 "2008-10-26T01:17:56Z")
And Ashley Todd can be his costar. Bowachickawowwow… ---
**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:** [October 26, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/32 "2008-10-26T01:25:50Z")
Surely one of those _Survivor_ winners has to be in the running. ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/33 "2008-10-26T01:25:57Z")
Kato Kaelin? Jessica Hahn? Kim Kardashian? ---
**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:** [October 26, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/34 "2008-10-26T02:13:23Z")
> [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](#): > > Kato Kaelin? > Jessica Hahn? > Kim Kardashian? What did the last one do? The name rings some kind of bell… ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/35 "2008-10-26T02:24:05Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Mike Judge is a fucking prophet, man. From over here it sure looks like he was way too, ejem, conservative. I expect to see Dwayne Elizondo Camacho on the Republican ticket within my lifetime. [QUOTE=Jack Batty] Hey, at least she did something. A little more than just talking to the candidate, if you see what I’m getting at. [/QUOTE] _Nods head in agreement… keeps nodding head… nod-nod-nod._ 😉 ---
**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:** [October 26, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/36 "2008-10-26T02:31:08Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > From over here it sure looks like he was way too, ejem, conservative. I expect to see Dwayne Elizondo Camacho on the Republican ticket within my lifetime…😉 I _hope_ the opposition is too smart for that, so far. But, a Sarah Palin candidacy wouldn’t be all that far off. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/37 "2008-10-26T02:59:04Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > From over here it sure looks like he was way too, ejem, conservative. I expect to see Dwayne Elizondo Camacho on the Republican ticket within my lifetime. “Barack Obama – his shit’s all fucked up and he talks all faggy. I’m Dwayne Comacho and I approve this bitch.” ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/38 "2008-10-26T03:03:23Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > What has this idiot done to merit any attention in his life, Wait, I thought it wasn’t necessary for people to have experience to run for office anymore? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/39 "2008-10-26T03:09:09Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Wait, I thought it wasn’t necessary for people to have experience to run for office anymore? Why, because you’re a Palin supporter? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552/40 "2008-10-26T03:10:36Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I thought Bush was dumb and unqualified. Then I saw Palin, and I thought, no SHE’S dumb and unqualified. Now we’ve got the Republicans literally touting some random dumbass off the street as a contender for congress. Mike Judge is a fucking prophet, man. I bet if you ran through all the folks running for the House in 2008 you’d find several people no more qualified than the plumber guy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-gotten-a-bigger-head-faster-for-less-reason-than-joe-the-plumber/469552.md?page=3)