# NEWS FLASH - Al Gore is officially president by law! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 14, 2000, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-al-gore-is-officially-president-by-law/41160 "2000-11-14T15:48:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2000, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-al-gore-is-officially-president-by-law/41160/21 "2000-11-14T19:49:56Z")
Hey, I’m sorry, occupational hazard (I’m the parent of a teen, PLUS I work with convicts, showing disapproval is an essential job skill for both) I’ll put my glasses back up my nose and y’all can call **Arnold** names, now. mmmkay? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2000, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-al-gore-is-officially-president-by-law/41160/22 "2000-11-14T23:50:02Z")
wring, I think you meant “you can all go back to your fulsome praise of Arnold”. No need to apologize, fellow members and moderators (that means you, o fearsome UncleBeer). I’m not the kind of person that says “you will behave in such and such a fashion in MY thread”, because the thread doesn’t belong to me, it belongs to all of us here at The Straight Dope, and, like a stream of water in the gulf of the mighty Mississippi, threads have a way of finding their own path through the shoals of the SDMB. But I didn’t want to accept the accusation that I had started this thread with the intent purpose of provoking another acrimonious discussion. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2000, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-al-gore-is-officially-president-by-law/41160/23 "2000-11-14T23:57:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \* > **wring, I think you meant “you can all go back to your fulsome praise of Arnold”.** you meen I didn’t say that??? :eek: 😕 Oh, yea, \*\* Arnold\*\* you’re so phattttttttttttttttttttt ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-al-gore-is-officially-president-by-law/41160/24 "2000-11-15T00:28:26Z")
Dave Barry for President! ---
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-al-gore-is-officially-president-by-law/41160/25 "2000-11-15T00:41:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stofsky \* > **[snip] Like the Repub FL SOS picking which of two adjacent statues she likes [snip]?** [Bill Clinton] I did _not_ have sexual relations with that statue. [/Bill Clinton] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tiggeril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggeril/32/7234_2.png) [@tiggeril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiggeril)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-al-gore-is-officially-president-by-law/41160/26 "2000-11-15T00:44:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wring \* > **I’ll put my glasses back up my nose** 😕 That sounds painful… ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-al-gore-is-officially-president-by-law/41160/27 "2000-11-15T00:49:30Z")
ouch. yep, I meant (and I also DO know how to spell “mean”) … well, you know, it’s better as a visual. I’ve got this “look” I give the guys out at the county jail when they spot me (which means they’ve met me BEFORE… when they weren’t in jail) I pull my glasses down to the end of my nose and look over the top (as if I could actually see anything that way, but I digress). It also worked wonders on my kid who’d immediately confess to whatever he’d done in the prior week… well. um. Yea, yeah **Arnold** ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-al-gore-is-officially-president-by-law/41160/28 "2000-11-15T00:56:18Z")
Oh, Arnold, you’re so incredibly amazingly awesome. Your profound jocularity is a true inspiration to this poor, humble uneducated person of the _very_ 😉 female persuasion. \ 😃 ::Strains of the MASH theme song run in the background as Father Mulcahy can be heard to say rather loudly “Jocularity! Jocularity! Jocularity!”:: And, AETBOND417, I just have to say: BWAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAHAAAAA!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-al-gore-is-officially-president-by-law/41160/29 "2000-11-15T01:33:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by purplebear \* > **if for no other reason than that the American people are tired of mediocrity and lies and half-truths and evasions and…\.** So why vote for Bush? :running: FWIW, who was the last politician who never lied to the American people? ---
**Author:** ![justwannano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-al-gore-is-officially-president-by-law/41160/30 "2000-11-15T01:38:23Z")
I think that we should blame the WWF for this whole damned mess.Imagine getting wrestling fans to vote.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-al-gore-is-officially-president-by-law/41160/31 "2000-11-15T01:39:15Z")
> [@](#): > > Smoking marijuana? Sheesh. You make that sound like it’s a bad thing. At least he didn’t drive afterwards I think they drive real slow…Or did I just get that from Cheech and Chong? But, about these two JOKERS. We all should feel embarrassed about voting for one of them. I came close to not voting, running late at work that day. BUT we can all safely assume that neither Bozo will be there more than 4 years. I hope. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-al-gore-is-officially-president-by-law/41160/32 "2000-11-15T01:45:22Z")
This election is starting to look more WWF by the minute…hey, maybe that’s how they should settle it, with a Bush-Gore wrestling match. I want the beer concession! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![justwannano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-al-gore-is-officially-president-by-law/41160/33 "2000-11-15T02:34:47Z")
Yeah but who would be the special guest referee???How about Ralph Nader…But maybe thats already being done by the Florida Secy of State. ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-al-gore-is-officially-president-by-law/41160/34 "2000-11-15T02:37:43Z")
Yeah! With a Bill Clinton/Kenneth Starr and a Monica Lewinsky/Hillary Clinton undercard! Jesse Ventura could be the emcee; we could put it on pay-per-view, with the proceeds used to pay down the national debt! ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-al-gore-is-officially-president-by-law/41160/35 "2000-11-16T00:45:26Z")
Nah, do it Thunderdome style - “two men enter, one man leaves.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-al-gore-is-officially-president-by-law/41160.md?page=1)