# Pick your SDMB Member for POTUS! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 2, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047 "2007-11-02T19:40:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/101 "2007-11-05T21:31:57Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Well, if **Sampiro** is your VP running mate, after you’re elected, that means you’ll have to stay away from _him_, you know. [/QUOTE] That’s what I meant. Obviously, I need an undersecretary of Humor and Paranoia. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/102 "2007-11-05T21:36:40Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] That’s what I meant. Obviously, I need an undersecretary of Humor and Paranoia. [/QUOTE] Ooh! Ooh! Can I be your head of [Paranoia](http://www.paranoia-live.net)? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/103 "2007-11-05T21:38:26Z")
[QUOTE=Tapiotar] I’ll vote for you, **Kythereia** , if you let me move to Canada. Also, I don’t need a pet beaver; as a female, I am already equipped. Could I have a stalwart Mountie instead? If their aren’t enough Mounties available, I’ll accept a hockey player instead. [/QUOTE] Of course! A night out with a cute Mountie / hockey player of your choice is mandatory for new immigrants. [QUOTE=Sunspace] Sounds good! Will you be declaring Tim Horton’s to be a strategic national resource? Are the Mounties female? And will you finish metricating the country? I’m sick of this muddle. And will your computers be running MOOSE, the operating system with antlers? [/QUOTE] Of course not. Tim Horton’s is delicious Canadian goodness that needs to be shared with the rest of the world. It’s our gift to the globe. See above re: Mounties. Metric is in and MOOSE is out, as I would have no idea how to even use it. **WhyNot** , should we have a diplomatic summit soon? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/104 "2007-11-05T21:48:12Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] That’s what I meant. Obviously, I need an undersecretary of Humor and Paranoia. [/QUOTE] Ah, pish-posh, p’tosh, and p’shaw, my dear. In my best Angela Lansbury impression, _Nothing’s gonna harm you, not while I’m around…_. In fact, as a gesture of good will, I will give you my most trusted bodyguard, Fetchund. Fetchund my dear, take excellent care of her- in fact, if you excel at _taking care of her_, there just might be a governorship for life of Montana in it for you should, Og forbid, I ever become President and Autocrat of the Americas (except for the part along the Canadian border of course, which will be well armed and under my direct control until Ginger is installed as puppet Goddess Empress). (Whispered aside to my trusted advisors: lesbians like Montana don’t they? Lots of dogs and pickup trucks and rifles and all… hmm… it occurs, I like dogs and pickup trucks and rifles… I wonder what else lesbians like that I might… a moment while I log onto a web site or too… nope, it ends at pickup trucks and rifles and dogs- I’ll have to make some state visits to Fetchund though once she proves she can take care of WhyNot.) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/105 "2007-11-05T21:56:08Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] (except for the part along the Canadian border of course, which will be well armed and under my direct control until Ginger is installed as puppet Goddess Empress). [/QUOTE] Hey! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/106 "2007-11-05T22:15:59Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] Hey! [/QUOTE] Does this mean that there will be a smack-down Battle of the Goddesses? Will it be on pay-per-view? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/107 "2007-11-05T22:28:55Z")
Ok, If \*\*Skip Magic \*\* were president, he could just ban terrorists. If **Lobstermobster** were president, she could illustrate her soultions to problems. If **Kimera** were president, she would make cosplay a law. If **Hal Briston** were president, we would have farm aid reform. If **Eve** were president, the state of the union addresses would be much more interesting. So I’ll go with **Eve**. ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/108 "2007-11-05T22:41:16Z")
[![](https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2119/1878447687_69712273e3_o.jpg) ](https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2119/1878447687_69712273e3_o.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/109 "2007-11-05T23:01:23Z")
Pissing off us nerds is a bad idea. We control all the technology. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/110 "2007-11-05T23:04:54Z")
[QUOTE=Scuba\_Ben] Ooh! Ooh! Can I be your head of [Paranoia](http://www.paranoia-live.net)? [/QUOTE] _looks around nervously_ Why? What have you heard? **Sampiro** , that sounds lovely, dahling. (Quick someone get me \*\*Askia \*\*on the line…) **sturmhauke** , did I mention that if I’m elected, Mountain Dew will replace water in all the public fountains? ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/111 "2007-11-05T23:11:21Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] _looks around nervously_ Why? What have you heard? **Sampiro** , that sounds lovely, dahling. (Quick someone get me \*\*Askia \*\*on the line…) **sturmhauke** , did I mention that if I’m elected, Mountain Dew will replace water in all the public fountains? [/QUOTE] Hey, you heard her, folks! So, \*\*WhyNot, \*\* how you doin’? Well, I went to Montana in my pickup to GET my dog, but no rifles were involved. (She was pretty little - a leash was sufficient.) **Sampiro** , you don’t know what you are missing out on. But, far be it from me to instruct you! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/112 "2007-11-05T23:13:38Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] [![](https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2119/1878447687_69712273e3_o.jpg) ](https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2119/1878447687_69712273e3_o.jpg) [/QUOTE] Yeah but I freely acknowledge I’m a nerd, so no vote for you! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/113 "2007-11-05T23:20:16Z")
Socks? ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/114 "2007-11-06T01:00:46Z")
I am alarmed at the turn this political campaign is taking…the veiled threats hinting at a potential assassination of **WhyNot** , the assassination attempt disguised as seduction, all arranged by a power-hungry VP. Too much violence in US American life. So I’ve got the perfect solution – let’s elect a Canadian for POTUS! I suspect that Canadians, for the most part, confine their violent tendencies to the hockey rink. Therefore, I nominate **Kythereia** for POTUS! And maybe **Sunspace** for veep – think what he’ll do for the solar power industry. ( **Kythereia** , you are providing me with both a Mountie and a hockey player for suggesting this, right? A hockey player _with teeth_, if it’s not too much trouble.) ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/115 "2007-11-06T01:16:27Z")
Did anyone else notice how **lobstermobster** ’s flag shows only six states? Is this worrying to anyone else? Also, I’ve heard she’s in the Family. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/116 "2007-11-06T01:24:23Z")
I’d like to nominate **diggleblop.** A step up from the current administration. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/117 "2007-11-06T01:30:05Z")
Personally, I think **WhyNot** and **Sarahfeena** would make awesome co-presidents. ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/118 "2007-11-06T01:30:17Z")
Dear **Sampiro** , Note that **WhyNot** has not returned to this thread. I, um… err… trust that she has been kept _very well_ and may not be visiting again. Soon, I mean. Montana is awfully beautiful, I’m thinking. We still on? Wait - the election hasn’t been held yet? Oh… shoot. Uh - I’ll just be busy over here in Minnesota. Maybe untying some people… things. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/119 "2007-11-06T02:30:25Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] Did anyone else notice how **lobstermobster** ’s flag shows only six states? [/QUOTE] They’re not states. They’re continents. > [@Tapiotar](#): > > …let’s elect a Canadian for POTUS! I suspect that Canadians, for the most part, confine their violent tendencies to the hockey rink. Therefore, I nominate **Kythereia** for POTUS! Hey cool, eh? > [@Tapiotar](#): > > And maybe Sunspace for veep – think what he’ll do for the solar power industry. Aww… _blush_ :: crackies fingers together, rolls up sleeves :: ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047/120 "2007-11-06T03:02:21Z")
[QUOTE=Fetchund] Dear **Sampiro** , Note that **WhyNot** has not returned to this thread. I, um… err… trust that she has been kept _very well_ and may not be visiting again. Soon, I mean. [/QUOTE] I’m afraid rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-sdmb-member-for-potus/425047.md?page=7)