# 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:** 7
**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:** [October 16, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/121 "2022-10-16T23:18:50Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > And it was a _dry_ mist. How is _mist_ dry? They use dehydrated water. ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/122 "2022-10-17T01:58:20Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > > [@Steven\_Maven](#): > > > > They only serve the top 1% of the top 1%, who give them billions of dollars. > > To be fair, the Democrats, for the most part, are not hugely different. What they enact primarily benefits the wealthiest Americans (who fund their campaigns) with an aim toward maintaining a nominally stable society in which the upperest crust can keep and expand their uppercrustiness and wealth. They are much subtler about it than the Republicans, but the net difference is vanishing. You’re not wrong. Bill Maher used to say that the difference between the two parties is that the Democrats are controlled by a slightly less scary group of special interests than the Republicans. My take is that the Democrats are indifferent to my personal needs and vision for the country as a whole, while the Republicans work actively against both of them. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/123 "2022-10-17T14:32:25Z")
Well, there is such a thing as “Dry Steam”, but you really wouldn’t want to walk through it… > **[Superheated steam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheated_steam)** > > Superheated steam is steam at a temperature higher than its vaporization point at the absolute pressure where the temperature is measured. > Superheated steam can therefore cool (lose internal energy) by some amount, resulting in a lowering of its temperature without changing state (i.e., condensing) from a gas, to a mixture of saturated vapor and liquid. If unsaturated steam (a mixture which contains both water vapor and liquid water droplets) is heated at constant pressure, its temperature wil... ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/124 "2022-10-17T14:39:51Z")
I was thinking it was the steam equivalent of dry ice. Or maybe a cloud of white powder. I would believe that Herschel is familiar with substances that produce clouds of white powder. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/125 "2022-10-17T15:21:37Z")
Talc. You mean talc. Of course you do. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/126 "2022-10-17T15:22:14Z")
Yes. Talc. 🤫 ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/127 "2022-10-17T15:26:13Z")
You’ve got to be careful with inhaling talc y’know. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/128 "2022-10-17T15:33:28Z")
Walker (paraphrased): “Oh, yeah, that’s my check, but I don’t know what it was for” Dude! She kept the reciept! Hey, **Cervaise**? Do you like Gladiator movies? 😁 ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/129 "2022-10-17T16:08:54Z")
I understood that reference. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/130 "2022-10-18T09:21:55Z")
Check this out. If you can, please vote for Warnock. Please. > ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/131 "2022-10-18T11:04:38Z")
Is he gonna be butthurt about this for thirty years like Cheato with the “short-fingered vulgarian” thing? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/132 "2022-10-18T11:31:05Z")
> [@Steven\_Maven](#): > > My take is that the Democrats are indifferent to my personal needs and vision for the country as a whole, while the Republicans work actively against both of them. Excellently put. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/133 "2022-10-18T11:51:10Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > It is, however, fair to say that the average basset hound is also smarter than HW. Basset hounds are also quite intelligent. They just don’t generally gaf. Mine used to pick people’s pockets, very carefully remove all the contents of their wallets and arrange them in a circle on the floor, and then sit in the middle looking proud of himself. I never did catch him in the process of doing it, so I could never figure out how a dog pulled stuff out of a wallet intact. But I digress. > [@k9bfriender](#): > > I’m pretty sure that the latter is the only thing that gay men have in common. (I know gay men who do _not_ like show tunes.) I have many things in common with the stereotypical gay man (including love of showtunes), but as one of them _isn’t_ “sexual attraction to other men” I consider that a reasonable indication that I’m not actually a gay man. Plus, showtunes are awesome. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/134 "2022-10-18T12:02:22Z")
I’m sure your basset hound was smart, and therefore must have been smarter than Herschel Walker by a very wide margin. But this is more along the lines of there being outliers in every group, like Walker being far over on the low side of the bell curve of human intelligence. Hounds are different than other working dogs who are selected and bred for capabilities that require intelligence, because traditionally their usefulness in scent tracking is innate, so they’re not specifically selected for the ability to learn things. But every breed has smart individuals. OK, enough digression, before I get yelled at! 🐕‍🦺 ---
**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:** [October 18, 2022, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/135 "2022-10-18T13:06:59Z")
Any reason we shouldn’t nickname Herschel Poca-heifer … like … today? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/136 "2022-10-18T15:05:58Z")
CNN showed Herschel Walker at the debate flashing his honorary sheriff badge, though he was never in law enforcement of any kind. He also claimed to have worked for the FBI. Which led Andy Borowitz to post this article … 🤣 > **[Herschel Walker Claims He Is Honorary Power Ranger](https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/herschel-walker-claims-he-is-honorary-power-ranger)** > > “I can control the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord,” the Senate candidate insisted. “Raphael Warnock can’t say that.” Last Friday Bill Maher had a pretty wild hypothesis about why Republicans vote for reprehensible morons like Walker and Trump and some of the other nuts in Congress. He thinks it’s a way for them to say to Democrats, “we hate your woke socialist liberal policies so much that we’re willing to vote for these completely unqualified imbeciles instead of you”. There might be a grain of truth to that, arising of course from the way such “liberal” policies have been characterized and misrepresented by right-wing media. It’s implicit in the “Save America” slogan – that voting for Democrats will mean the end of American democracy as we know it, which is ironic because jeopardizing democracy is exactly what Republicans are actually doing, with election cheating, blatant lying, outright insurrectionist violence, and nominating imbeciles to important positions that they’re totally unqualified for. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/137 "2022-10-18T15:39:05Z")
My prediction for Mr. Walker: He will lose the election. He will refuse to concede. He will try to whip up a mini-insurrection, but fail at that in a comical way. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/138 "2022-10-18T15:57:33Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Last Friday Bill Maher had a pretty wild hypothesis about why Republicans vote for reprehensible morons like Walker and Trump and some of the other nuts in Congress. He thinks it’s a way for them to say to Democrats, “we hate your woke socialist liberal policies so much that we’re willing to vote for these completely unqualified imbeciles instead of you”. > > There might be a grain of truth to that, arising of course from the way such “liberal” policies have been characterized and misrepresented by right-wing media. It’s implicit in the “Save America” slogan – that voting for Democrats will mean the end of American democracy as we know it, which is ironic because jeopardizing democracy is exactly what Republicans are actually doing, with election cheating, blatant lying, outright insurrectionist violence, and nominating imbeciles to important positions that they’re totally unqualified for. It’s entirely true that they would vote for a pile of hot garbage as long as it had an (R) after its name, but it is driven entirely by tribalism and the kneejerk defense of anyone on their side. The justification that no matter how bad the Republican candidates are, the Democratic ones must be worse is _post hoc_ spin. Which is why, as the actual GOP continues to jettison any remaining non-batshit members, their claims about how bad the Democrats are get increasingly extreme and further removed from reality; they need to keep building bigger and scarier straw men in order to make their own people look better by comparison. Elections are no longer about policy positions or candidate qualifications (if they ever were, admittedly). They are - at least for Republicans - about winning for one’s side at all costs, no matter what. Democrats are still willing to at least vet out their worst candidates, although the worse the GOP get, the more the Dems are going to become the “never ever ever GOP” party which will inevitably end up resulting in nominations for “Garbage, Hot (D)” if the opposition can’t ever be considerable a viable alternative. Personally (as a registered independent), I’d love to have the option to choose between two qualified and coherent candidates based on policy positions. Instead, I seem to be increasingly left to choose between feckless incompetence (D) and delusional Dominionist proto-fascism (R). No wonder the country is the way it is. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/139 "2022-10-18T16:02:44Z")
Listen. Strange men standing in flood plains distributing badges is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a badge at you! I mean, if I went 'round saying I was a sheriff just because some moistened bint had lobbed a badge at me, they’d put me away! ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/140 "2022-10-18T16:11:23Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Elections are no longer about policy positions or candidate qualifications (if they ever were, admittedly). They are - at least for Republicans - about winning for one’s side at all costs, no matter what. I can understand the tribalism stuff, even if I don’t agree with it, but come on, at least find a member of the tribe that isn’t a complete disaster. They still exist, you know! John Kerry isn’t dead yet, is he? I mean, I’m a fan of my local football team, but with these guys, it’s like they decided to field a team where the quarterback is blind, the receivers are all in wheelchairs, the linesmen all have multiple prosthetics, and the coaches all played basketball in college. And then they wonder why they keep losing? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861.md?page=8)