# Joe the Plumber Becomes Joe the War Correspondent **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 7, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-becomes-joe-the-war-correspondent/480295 "2009-01-07T22:22:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Alienhand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Alienhand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alienhand)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-becomes-joe-the-war-correspondent/480295/101 "2009-01-13T02:50:07Z")
Oy vey. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-becomes-joe-the-war-correspondent/480295/102 "2009-01-13T15:34:05Z")
Enough. The time has come to put Joke the Plumber on the Cosmic Ignore List. > [@Cervaise](#): > > * * * > > My German is rusty. I bet the Germans have a word for this. Would _putzschmerz_ work? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-becomes-joe-the-war-correspondent/480295/103 "2009-01-13T17:45:10Z")
Maybe, but I’m sticking with softly weeping until the Germans come through. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-becomes-joe-the-war-correspondent/480295/104 "2009-01-13T18:13:46Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > What’s wrong with Bill Moyers, by the way? I thought he was pretty middle of the road. Is he on the right wing list of evil liberal conspirators now? Did he say something factual about Bush or something? I know this is a couple of days old now, but I assume he might have meant Bill Maher. Whatever your opinion of Bill Moyers, you can’t argue that he’s breaking out of a career in the entertainment industry to suddenly pretend he’s interested in world events, unlike his other examples. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-becomes-joe-the-war-correspondent/480295/105 "2009-01-13T23:22:32Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > We need a word for “so completely hilarious that I laughed until I shit myself, and yet simultaneously so utterly horrifying that I now pray for a comet to shatter our world into fragments and bring an end to our bad joke of a so-called civilization.” > > My German is rusty. I bet the Germans have a word for this. Kriegschwein. For those who remember…😃 ---
**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:** [January 13, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-becomes-joe-the-war-correspondent/480295/106 "2009-01-13T23:29:14Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Kriegschwein. > > For those who remember…😃 {ahem} [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=279280&highlight=roman+flaming](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=279280&highlight=roman+flaming) ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-becomes-joe-the-war-correspondent/480295/107 "2009-01-14T02:36:16Z")
Meh. If you’ve seen one _flugenflammenschwein_, you’ve seen them all. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-becomes-joe-the-war-correspondent/480295/108 "2009-01-14T18:41:15Z")
> [@furt](#): > > Why, exactly, do people have a problem with this? Bias, lack of qualification, what? Isn’t that enough? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-becomes-joe-the-war-correspondent/480295/109 "2009-01-14T18:57:48Z")
I long for the day when Joe the Plumber becomes Joe the Unknown or just “who?”. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-becomes-joe-the-war-correspondent/480295/110 "2009-01-14T19:01:59Z")
Basically, the answer to a trivia question. If we are lucky, it will be considered a difficult question in an advanced category. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-becomes-joe-the-war-correspondent/480295/111 "2009-01-14T19:11:24Z")
I’ll take “People Who Fell Into Industrial Aluminum Crimping Machines” for $1000, Alex. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-becomes-joe-the-war-correspondent/480295/112 "2009-01-14T22:25:19Z")
You know, _there was_ a time when only _mobsters_ had nicknames like _Joe the Plumber_. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-becomes-joe-the-war-correspondent/480295/113 "2009-01-15T04:31:05Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > I’ll take “People Who Fell Into Industrial Aluminum Crimping Machines” for $1000, Alex. 😃 Thanks, I needed that. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-becomes-joe-the-war-correspondent/480295/114 "2009-01-15T05:15:55Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > I’ll take “People Who Fell Into Industrial Aluminum Crimping Machines” for $1000, Alex. Joe The Dibber? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-becomes-joe-the-war-correspondent/480295/115 "2009-01-15T07:01:19Z")
If, following Hurricane Katrina, Fuji TV had decided to send over a member of [Morning Musume](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=501622) so they could film her flouncing around Louisiana in 20 pounds of plastic Hello Kitty accessories pretending to be a reporter by asking inane questions in fractured English to evacuees whose houses had been flooded or destroyed, I wouldn’t blame any NO residents one bit for finding her presence offensively insulting. I also don’t blame anyone in Israel or Palestine for looking at JtP the same way. He’s kind of like the American Borat, except I don’t think he’s in on the joke. At least by being kept out of Gaza, he’s less likely to inadvertently get anyone hurt (I honestly couldn’t give a crap about his own well-being). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-becomes-joe-the-war-correspondent/480295.md?page=5)