# Palin's vigilantes **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 31, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417 "2010-03-31T02:40:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/61 "2010-03-31T15:00:05Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > How’s that plausible deniability thingy workin’ out for ya? > > “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?” I love people who reference that play. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/62 "2010-03-31T15:05:39Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Is the Subaru poltically relevent to something? Don’t know a Subaru from a Suburban, so I may need a clue here. I thought it was supposed to be Volvos? Since the Volvo went mainstream, breaking out from its traditional market of college professors and upper middle class NPR listeners from New England, the Subaru has become the liberal car of choice. Subarus are also known for being the preferred mode of transportation among lesbians. ([My Google search is my cite](http://www.google.com/search?q=subaru+lesbian).) /drives a Forester I’ve had for years. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/63 "2010-03-31T15:10:54Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Since the Volvo went mainstream, breaking out from its traditional market of college professors and upper middle class NPR listeners from New England, the Subaru has become the liberal car of choice. Subarus are also known for being the preferred mode of transportation among lesbians. ([My Google search is my cite](http://www.google.com/search?q=subaru+lesbian).) > > /drives a Forester I’ve had for years. Subarus and Saturns. Must be some secret “s” code… Do Volvo’s still have factory installed PBS bumper stickers on them? ---
**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:** [March 31, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/64 "2010-03-31T15:19:30Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?” It’s _turbulent_ priest. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/65 "2010-03-31T15:29:10Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Since the Volvo went mainstream, breaking out from its traditional market of college professors and upper middle class NPR listeners from New England, the Subaru has become the liberal car of choice. Subarus are also known for being the preferred mode of transportation among lesbians. ([My Google search is my cite](http://www.google.com/search?q=subaru+lesbian).) > > /drives a Forester I’ve had for years. Yes I had only ever personally heard it was a lesbian car. I’ve never heard of it as a liberal carmaker. It’s a stereotype to be sure but my understanding is that it’s based on Subaru’s legitimate early and continuing efforts to market specifically to gays and lesbians. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/66 "2010-03-31T15:43:54Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > It’s _turbulent_ priest. Actually, many scholars think it was > [@](#): > > “What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and brought up in my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric?” But that does not really roll off the tongue. I think I was remembering a Black Adder episode anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/67 "2010-03-31T15:49:31Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I think I was remembering a Black Adder episode anyway. It’s such a pity that Edmund Blackadder died in WW1: it would be fun to have him emigrate to the former American colonies and join the Tea Party movement. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/68 "2010-03-31T15:55:04Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > It’s such a pity that Edmund Blackadder died in WW1: it would be fun to have him emigrate to the former American colonies and join the Tea Party movement. Look for _Blackadder Scared Stupid_ in a big-box bargain bin near you. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/69 "2010-03-31T16:07:20Z")
[QUOTE=Sarah Palin] How’s that hopey, changey thing working out for ya? [/QUOTE] Somewhat better than the whole “crammy-throaty” thing for you and yours, eh Ex-Governor? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/70 "2010-03-31T16:12:30Z")
Much better than the sore loser thing is working for you. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/71 "2010-03-31T16:14:43Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > It’s such a pity that Edmund Blackadder died in WW1: it would be fun to have him emigrate to the former American colonies and join the Tea Party movement. Survival was not an attribute of characters in any series. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/72 "2010-03-31T16:39:01Z")
Looks like her peeps might be listening… [Link](http://themoderatevoice.com/67443/driving-with-an-obamabiden-bumper-sticker-can-be-dangerous/) ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy\_Moe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Cowboy\_Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy_Moe)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/73 "2010-03-31T16:41:49Z")
Curious, I always heard the Subaru / Lesbian thing was specific to the Forester model. [Cite](http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/otherfunstuff/tp/LesbianCars.htm)Anyways, another bemused Subaru driver checking in. I live in a snowy rocky mountain state so there are tons of them here, of course we are a deeply “red” state as well so go figure. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/74 "2010-03-31T16:54:02Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Palin’s an evil bitch in a homey package, but I think you are over reacting. “stop them and say” is just a turn of phrase and means nothing more than if she just said “walk up to them and say” or “call out to them and say”. Well, I’d believe that, if the ‘ramming incident’ hadn’t just made the news a day or two before. If she had said it a week earlier, it wouldn’t have meant anything. It seems from the perspective of an observer, to be a direct reference to that. Of course, where I am, Subaru means ‘that thing with the big wing and fart-can exhaust’ half the time, anyhow. ---
**Author:** ![Vihaga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Vihaga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vihaga)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/75 "2010-03-31T16:59:58Z")
I so need an Obama sticker for my Outback now. I already had to take the “Republicans for Voldemort” sticker off our other car, because when we moved to our current place, our new next door neighbor came over to tell us that we “must not have gotten the memo” about the town, because everyone was a Democrat and that they were really pleased to be getting some Republicans moving in. She then told me when their prayer group started, because she saw my husband’s linux shark on the car. My car’s been naked ever since, but I did not laugh while she was talking. I’m exceptionally proud of my self-control. ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/76 "2010-03-31T17:08:27Z")
> [@Cowboy\_Moe](#): > > Curious, I always heard the Subaru / Lesbian thing was specific to the Forester model. [Cite](http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/otherfunstuff/tp/LesbianCars.htm)Anyways, another bemused Subaru driver checking in. I live in a snowy rocky mountain state so there are tons of them here, of course we are a deeply “red” state as well so go figure. The Forester came out in 1997. I could swear I recall the Lesbian association with Subaru long before then. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/77 "2010-03-31T17:16:15Z")
> [@Vihaga](#): > > I already had to take the “Republicans for Voldemort” sticker off our other car, because when we moved to our current place, our new next door neighbor came over to tell us that we “must not have gotten the memo” about the town, because everyone was a Democrat and that they were really pleased to be getting some Republicans moving in. … Presumably she hadn’t read the Harry Potter books, because she’d been told they were about witchcraft, so she had no idea who He-who-must-not-be-named is. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/78 "2010-03-31T18:05:50Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Palin’s an evil bitch in a homey package, but I think you are over reacting. “stop them and say” is just a turn of phrase and means nothing more than if she just said “walk up to them and say” or “call out to them and say”. Also, what it is she suggests be said “hows that hopey changey thing etc” is not agressive or angry but just mildly teasing. > > Suggesting that she is hinting at support for physically stopping people for thuggish purposes is a stretch. Let’s comment on the substance and not just sound like whiney paranoids. Good thing all those teabaggers are paragons of logic and rationality, and could never interpret her words differently than you, or we might have something to be concerned about. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/79 "2010-03-31T18:31:00Z")
WTF makes a car (_any_ car) a “lesbian” car? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417/80 "2010-03-31T18:37:05Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > WTF makes a car (_any_ car) a “lesbian” car? 😕 You work on them with Snap-On Tools. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-vigilantes/534417.md?page=5)