# I have to admit, this made me chuckle. spreadingromney.com **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 13, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359 "2012-01-13T02:20:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359/1 "2012-01-13T02:20:14Z")
> **[Romney](http://spreadingromney.com)** > > Romney 1. To defecate in terror. 2. Former Governor Mitt Romney I guess someone was bound to do it. I wonder if it will be successful as a Googlebomb for “Romney”? ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359/2 "2012-01-13T17:56:40Z")
Wanna tell those of us at work what’s in that link? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359/3 "2012-01-13T18:01:24Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Wanna tell those of us at work what’s in that link? > [@](#): > > (rom-ney) v. > > 1. To defecate in terror. > See also: santorum That’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359/4 "2012-01-13T18:11:44Z")
Meh. Someone’s trying too hard. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359/5 "2012-01-13T18:22:17Z")
Yeah, it’s just not that funny. And if the joke is that Romney’s shitting himself in fear of Santorum, then the joke is already out of date. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359/6 "2012-01-13T18:26:15Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Yeah, it’s just not that funny. And if the joke is that Romney’s shitting himself in fear of Santorum, then the joke is already out of date. According to Rachel Maddow last night, it’s evidently about Romney’s dog on the roof of his car during the 12 hour trip. After hours of driving the dog shot liquid shit down the back window and Romney stopped the car, and hosed off the dog and window at a gas station. I don’t know if that’s actually the case, but it’s what I heard. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359/7 "2012-01-13T19:34:25Z")
I hadn’t heard that it was related to the dog story. I had heard about the dog on the roof but hadn’t heard the part about it relieving itself. The site itself isn’t hilarious. I just found it amusing that someone was trying to replicate the Santorum Google bomb. I suspect it won’t work this time since there are already so many links to legitimate Romney sites. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359/8 "2012-01-13T20:34:51Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > According to Rachel Maddow last night, it’s evidently about Romney’s dog on the roof of his car during the 12 hour trip. After hours of driving the dog shot liquid shit down the back window and Romney stopped the car, and hosed off the dog and window at a gas station. You forgot the part about putting the dog BACK in his carrier on the roof of the car for the remainder of the trip. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359/9 "2012-01-13T20:38:58Z")
Well, at least he didn’t just tie it to the back of the car and drive off. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359/10 "2012-01-13T21:17:58Z")
Thing is, he’s revealed to be a cheap sumbitch. Some of us are cheap because we have no choice, but this guys rich as shit. He could have called in a helicopter rescue for his dog. He could have had the dog transported in complete comfort and safety, for less money that he makes while being asleep. For ten minutes. He doesn’t need to mount poor old Fido on top of the car like the Joad family transporting Granny. (Or was that the Clampetts? Or the Sacketts? Whatever…) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359/11 "2012-01-13T22:30:05Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > Meh. Someone’s trying too hard. “Santorum” works because he has an unusual name that sounds like it might be a technical term for a substance; nobody would have thought of naming assjuice “Reagan” or “Clinton” (“Bush” being already, otherwise, employed in this sort of context). And “Romney” don’t sound like no verb to me. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359/12 "2012-01-14T01:40:55Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I hadn’t heard that it was related to the dog story. I had heard about the dog on the roof but hadn’t heard the part about it relieving itself. > > The site itself isn’t hilarious. I just found it amusing that someone was trying to replicate the Santorum Google bomb. > > I suspect it won’t work this time since there are already so many links to legitimate Romney sites. There’s a link on that site ([here’s](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/05/mitt-romneys-dog-incident_n_1187114.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=1331116,b=facebook)the link) that points to the story on [Boston.com](http://Boston.com) that describes the family trip, and it details the liquid brown poop running down the back of the family station wagon. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359/13 "2012-01-14T01:45:22Z")
What’s also funny is that Dan Savage has just continued his “rebranding” of the “esteemed” former Senator from Pennsylvania by defining the word “rick” thusly: To remove with one’s tongue (combines the words “remove” and “lick”). Which makes “Rick santorum” a most unpleasant sentence. [Link](http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=11589595)(scroll down). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359/14 "2012-01-14T02:05:30Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > What’s also funny is that Dan Savage has just continued his “rebranding” of the “esteemed” former Senator from Pennsylvania by defining the word “rick” thusly: To remove with one’s tongue (combines the words “remove” and “lick”). > > Which makes “Rick santorum” a most unpleasant sentence. > > [Link](http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=11589595)(scroll down). 😃 See, now **that’s** a **verb!** ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359/15 "2012-01-14T04:14:02Z")
Y’know, I was really confused about why Dan Savage would do this googlebombing weirdness…when I realized I was thinking about part-time ornithologist and hatemonger Mike Savage. Not the same person at _all_. Whoops. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359/16 "2012-01-15T00:40:33Z")
> [@Hung\_Mung](#): > > Y’know, I was really confused about why Dan Savage would do this googlebombing weirdness…when I realized I was thinking about part-time ornithologist and hatemonger Mike Savage. Not the same person at _all_. Whoops. Which one was in _The Wonder Years_ again? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-admit-this-made-me-chuckle-spreadingromney-com/609359/17 "2012-02-14T03:45:58Z")
Looks like this has made it to the front page. > **[Google](https://www.google.com/#q=romney)** > > Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. Here’s a screen capture for posterity. > **[Mitt Romney's Google Results Sabotaged With Dog Poop](https://www.wonkette.com/p/mitt-romneys-google-results-sabotaged-with-dog-poop)** > > Your Wonkette was performing its routine of googling "Romney" at the start of each morning for daily affirmation when lo, what was this third result that appeared? "SpreadingRomney.com," a dictionary page defining the verb "Romney" as "defecating in [Mitt Romney](http://spreadingromney.com)