I seem to remember the 2nd Bush ( “W” ) had a completely tone deaf and glib reply to a single mother asking a question to him in a town hall type thing.
When she mentioned she worked 3 jobs just to get by, his reply, replete with his trademark smirk, was “You work three jobs? Uniquely American isn’t it? I mean, that is fantastic that you’re doing that.”
Does Barbara Bush count ?
I still remember this one. Stay patrician, Babs:
Sports teams won’t work for New York State, again because of the upstate/downstate divide. Downstate roots for Yankees/Mets, Giants/Jets, Rangers/Islanders, while upstate roots for the Red Sox, Bills, and Sabres.
I’m afraid I may have started the hijack about sports teams and local rivalries. That wasn’t the OP’s point.
AIUA, his point was things that the entire county, state, or even country would all know and mostly agree on, but yet the pol was so out of touch with us ordinary schlubs that he/she doesn’t know it.
Also, I almost made a faux pax here a moment ago with a partisan political comment. Then, ref @Colibri’s well-aimed whack upside my head last time, I took a look at the thread’s category.
This is IMHO and partisanship is not on the menu here. Maybe with this comment I can save somebody else from the same mistake.
Actually, it was more like gentle chiding.
I agree completely it was delivered diplomatically with no anger. But it was still a formal Warning. Which I took with the appropriate degree of seriousness. All good.
I can’t find any official warning issued by me. You do have a warning by another mod, but it wasn’t me. Perhaps I issued you a note at some point.
In Minnesota, it might be being brave enough to eat lutefisk.
Crap, now I really stepped in it. It was Chronos who whacked me a couple weeks ago. The whole point of mentioning who did it was the happenstance that you’d just posted above me.
I know some folks get you two confused. But at my point in this game I sure oughta know better. Color me :embarrassed:.
Should’ve then invited them to a game of one-on-one.
Perhaps “Vashon” means something to you. It doesn’t for me, so whatever the joke is, is lost to me.
I introduced it as a joke meaningful only to current or former St. Louis residents. Following up on @Jas09’s equally locals-only comment.
It’s easy to tell us apart. I’m much better looking than Chronos.
Which has, of course, complicated the Senate race this year. As the Republican nominee is Tommy Tuberville, former coach of the Auburn Tigers.
And to totally belabor the joke, Vashon was initially founded as a High School for black students. It is still almost entirely minority (99%). It would be very surprising to find a white alumnus.
For some reason, in St. Louis, one of the most common introductory questions people ask each other is “what high school did you go to?”. It seems to be relatively unique to St. Louis.
Nope, not unique at all. In the Iowa city of my youth, that was usually one of the first few questions.
Much the same for my home city of Green Bay, though it’s much smaller than St. Louis, I suspect that that’s why it’s a noteworthy introductory question for a larger city like St. Louis – it’s probably more common for smaller cities, where there are only a few high schools, and where more of the people may be lifelong residents.
For cold-blooded cynical politicians, seems like the sensible answer would just be to pick the majority team. Aren’t there considerably more Bama fans in Alabama than Aubies?
Yeah, he was wrongly showed as being ignorant of typical scanner technology.
“Then the details of the story started to dribble out. Andrew Rosenthal of The New York Times hadn’t even been present at the grocers’ convention. He based his article on a two-paragraph report filed by the lone pool newspaperman allowed to cover the event, Gregg McDonald of the Houston Chronicle , who merely wrote that Bush had a “look of wonder” on his face and didn’t find the event significant enough to mention in his own story. Moreover, Bush had good reason to express wonder: He wasn’t being shown then-standard scanner technology, but a new type of scanner that could weigh groceries and read mangled and torn bar codes.”
Apparently his not knowing the price of milk was true, although like others here I could be stumped on that too (produce and cheap wine are another story)