# Herschel Walker (need I say more?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 7, 2022, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861 "2022-10-07T01:34:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/321 "2022-11-26T00:50:10Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > [Octaman](https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/The_Octaman) would like to have a word with you. He’s a one-woman monster, not indiscriminate like Walker. For that matter he’s a good parent, who takes action when his children are kidnapped! He does admit though to having difficulties with modern ideas of consensual relationships, a weakness he was working on prior to recent events. Well, really I was referring to the fact that some species of octopus have detachable sex organs, so they actually do donate their whole organ to the cause. If Herschel is a hybrid, he may have that capability. > **[This Species Of Octopus Has A Detachable Penis](https://www.iflscience.com/octopus-has-detachable-penis-30252)** > > This Species Of Octopus Has A Detachable Penis ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/322 "2022-11-26T01:42:36Z")
I’m not sure which of our cites was weirder, which is saying quite a lot. I’ll get back to you! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/323 "2022-11-26T01:45:20Z")
(cues up King Missile; BTW, the singer was able to go to law school with the royalties from this song) [King Missile - Detachable Penis - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDiILrNbM4) Possibly NSFW. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/324 "2022-11-26T02:17:56Z")
Heheh, love that band. My favorite song from them is: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KIXz_vzROrw/hqdefault.jpg "King Missile - Take Stuff From Work") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIXz_vzROrw) ---
**Author:** ![lum\_s\_husband](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lum_s_husband/32/3698_2.png) [@lum\_s\_husband](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lum_s_husband)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/325 "2022-11-26T02:36:45Z")
All penises are detachable; the trick is _re_attaching them. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/326 "2022-11-26T03:21:05Z")
(Cues up John Wayne Bobbitt porn video; BTW, JWB was able to buy a small amount of cocaine with the royalties from this video) What? You thought I was actually going to link to that? Very NSFW. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/327 "2022-11-26T03:42:14Z")
Eons ago, my brother and I were skiing with my then-girlfriend, an heiress who had grown up on skis and raced. I was (in truth, still am) a mediocre but enthusiastic skier. My brother had lived in Lake Tahoe for a while and skied 70-80d/year. He was advanced but not expert. To me, my GF on skis was poetry in motion. To my brother, however, he pointed out flaws in her technique that seemed both picayune and invisible to me. Point is: you have to be Just So Good to be able to evaluate whether somebody who’s clearly better than you is a LOT better than you. This evening, I watched Mmmmargaret Hoover interview Raphael Warnock. I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard him speak at length before, but all I could think of is: Herschel Walker’s supporters must be, to rhetoric and intellect, what I was – back then – to evaluating accomplished skiers: uniquely incapable and unqualified of rendering a worthwhile opinion about somebody far more advanced than myself. Warnock was erudite, measured, and thoughtful. And Walker? I … I just can’t. He’s a fucking train wreck. I simply can’t believe there’s even a runoff coming. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/328 "2022-11-26T03:54:14Z")
His, “supporters” don’t really support him. They just want him there to vote they way he’s told. They don’t care that he is functionally cognitively impaired. All the better. As the one lovely right wing talking head remarked, she didn’t care if he aborted a nest full of endangered baby eagles she just wanted control of the Senate. She didn’t get that, but they still want as little of an advantage as possible for the Democrats. I think they’d boost someone in a vegatative state to run if it was possible. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/329 "2022-11-26T04:26:22Z")
Some people will vote for anything as long as it calls itself a Republican, or at least not-a-Democrat. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2022, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/330 "2022-11-26T05:38:05Z")
You are describing a classic Dunning-Kruger effect. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/331 "2022-11-26T11:00:38Z")
All in all, Mr. Walker is out of his league. He is embarrassing himself and being used as a cat’s paw by others. While it is just to report on his activities while he is running for office, it seems wrong for him to be otherwise in the public eye. I feel more pity for the man than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/332 "2022-11-26T15:05:54Z")
Yeah. Good pickup on the Dunning-Kruger aspect – textbook. In the middle of the worst of COVID, I informally declared those two the ultimate winners of the pandemic. I guess it’s some from Column A and some from Column B: they don’t know _and_ they don’t care about Walker’s profound and innumerable deficiencies. Sigh. On a lighter note, it does remind me of this one minute clip from “Kentucky Fried Movie:” [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JGjTT9IhTU) > **Transcript from the YouTube video for those who don't get/prefer the linked content:** > > > [@](#): > > > > Loo : And who are they? > > Dr. Klahn : Refuse, found in waterfront bars. > > Loo : Shanghaied? > > Dr. Klahn : Just lost drunken men who don’t know where they are and no longer care. > > Prisoner #1 : Where are we? > > Prisoner #2 : I don’t care! > > Loo : And these? > > Dr. Klahn : These are lost drunken men who don’t know where they are, but do care! And these are men who know where they are and care, but don’t drink. > > Prisoner #3 : I don’t know who I am! > > Prisoner #4 : Yeah. and I don’t drink. > > Dr. Klahn : Guards! > > [moves prisoners] > > Dr. Klahn : Do you care? > > Prisoner #5 : No. > > Dr. Klahn : Put this man in cell #1, and give him a drink. > > Guard : What do you drink? > > Prisoner #5 : I don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/333 "2022-11-26T15:17:41Z")
Well, don’t ordinary people have a right to a sub-mediocre person to represent them? Senators can’t be all Bill Bradleys, ya know. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/334 "2022-11-26T16:13:29Z")
What a gift Senator Walker would be to the late night comics. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/335 "2022-11-26T18:54:04Z")
[Roman Hruska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Hruska#Mediocrity_comments), is that you? ---
**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:** [November 27, 2022, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/336 "2022-11-27T01:05:40Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > What a gift Senator Walker would be to the late night comics. You know, in the horrible event that Walker wins the run-off election, I think the late night comics should just lay off him. I honestly don’t think it’s very nice to mock the disabled. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/337 "2022-11-27T02:57:28Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Walker got hold of a competitive swimmer to help make a new ad, and is now demonizing the transgender community in the hope of cornering the bigot vote. The specific angle on this is the old trope of biological males competing in women’s sports, a problem that is of great concern to precisely no one, although it will definitely rile up the bigots and maybe even cause a few more nightclub shootings. > > [https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/11/21/herschel-walker-new-ad-transgender-athletes-jennings-newsroom-vpx.cnn](https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/11/21/herschel-walker-new-ad-transgender-athletes-jennings-newsroom-vpx.cnn) That advert implies that Riley Gaines was denied her victory because she had to compete with a man. [Actually, no](https://readlion.com/2022/11/15/university-of-kentucky-swimmer-riley-gaines-was-tossed-into-the-transgender-athlete-debate-come-on-in-she-says-the-waters-fine/). She tied with Lia Thomas for 5th place. If Lia Thomas had been banned from the race, Riley Gaines would still have taken 5th place. And her statement that Lia took an award that belonged to a woman is also misleading. Lia came first in a different women-only race. If Lia had been banned, then a female from birth would have won, but it wouldn’t have been Riley Gaines. She didn’t lose because of unfair competition. She lost because she isn’t good enough to win. Some people are born to be champions. Riley Gaines is born to be 5th. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/338 "2022-11-27T06:41:52Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > They don’t care that he is functionally cognitively impaired. All the better. Yes, I think Walker’s lack of intellect is what allows him to be acceptable to Republican voters. Intelligent black people are prone to radical ideas of racial empowerment to overcome structural oppression. Walker meanwhile reminds them of those loveably harmless comedy relief blacks of their childhood, ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/339 "2022-11-27T18:49:45Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Some people are born to be champions. Riley Gaines is born to be 5th. I remember some decades back there was an Austrian downhill racer who _consistently_ came in fourth in international competition. The medal winners would change but there he always was, not quite on the podium. He got the nickname “Franz IV.” ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/340 "2022-11-27T20:04:47Z")
Someone needs to give Herschel the " Person Woman Man Camera Tv" test. I have my doubts he could pass it as bigly as Trump did. The reference would probably go right over his head. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861.md?page=18)