# How dare you, you shoe chucking terrorist!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 14, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157 "2008-12-14T20:56:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/61 "2008-12-16T00:08:26Z")

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> [@minlokwat](#):
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> 1. And now the big “What if…” If Bush had caught the shoe in mid flight, and hurled it back at the thrower à la the security guard from the scene from **Super Bad** , he would have erased eight years of utter ineptitude, and would forever have been regarded as THE MAN. Alas.

this was my thought as well. a quick catch and wing it right back would have been very nifty.

i also thought, yep, shoes and pretzels… if either had proved fatal, that would be quite a legacy.

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**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:** [December 16, 2008, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/62 "2008-12-16T05:21:52Z")

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> [@Biggirl](#):
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> It’s not funny!

It’s absolutely sandalous.

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**Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/63 "2008-12-16T06:58:43Z")

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My Pun-O-meter just exploded.

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**Author:** ![Influential\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Influential\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Influential_Panda)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/64 "2008-12-16T07:19:42Z")

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> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#):
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> Shoe bombers.
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> Remember?

Ah, a shoeicide bomber.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/65 "2008-12-16T23:20:19Z")

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Bush’s Press Secretary got hit with a shoe.  
[http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/12/16/white-house-press-secretary-sports-black-eye/](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/12/16/white-house-press-secretary-sports-black-eye/)

Oh well. Not the first White House Press Secretary that left Washington with a black eye.

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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/66 "2008-12-17T02:37:29Z")

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[Sock and Awe.](http://www.sockandawe.com/)

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