# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 78
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1541 "2010-05-04T00:30:25Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Feeling generous, I see. Someone musta got some last night. > > -Joe Ever since I first saw the name **Clothahump** I have always pictured a… shall we say socially unsuccessful guy humping a pile of clothes, desperately pining for a woman, any woman, when absolutely no fucking rational woman would have anything to do with him. As I’ve come to know Humpy in the years since, I can only assume his name was a Freudian slip, the image it draws up in my mind only cemented by his utter boorishness. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1542 "2010-05-04T00:39:58Z")
> [@niblet\_head](#): > > Ever since I first saw the name **Clothahump** I have always pictured a… shall we say socially unsuccessful guy humping a pile of clothes, desperately pining for a woman, any woman, when absolutely no fucking rational woman would have anything to do with him. As I’ve come to know Humpy in the years since, I can only assume his name was a Freudian slip, the image it draws up in my mind only cemented by his utter boorishness. > **[Spellsinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothahump)** > > Spellsinger is a series of fantasy novels by American writer Alan Dean Foster. At present the series consists of eight books: > The story initially deals with the characters of Jonathan Thomas Meriweather, referred to by the locals as Jon-Tom, when he is unwillingly pulled into a fantasy world by the turtle wizard Clothahump. Having been, at the moment of his transportation, high on cannabis, Jon-Tom initially thinks it is all a dream brought on by the drugs. He soon finds out differently: he... ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1543 "2010-05-04T01:18:01Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [Spellsinger - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothahump) I think the other one makes more sense. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1544 "2010-05-04T12:24:04Z")
Not really stupid, nor an idea, but funny non-the-less. [Bored Republican Florida State Senator caught looking at internet porn during (yet another) abortion debate.](http://trueslant.com/level/2010/05/03/bored-florida-state-senator-caught-viewing-porn-on-senate-floor/) ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1545 "2010-05-04T17:16:52Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Not really stupid, nor an idea, but funny non-the-less. [Bored Republican Florida State Senator caught looking at internet porn during (yet another) abortion debate.](http://trueslant.com/level/2010/05/03/bored-florida-state-senator-caught-viewing-porn-on-senate-floor/) I’m as much a fan of rampant Republican hypocrisy as the next guy, but not only was this not really stupid (well, it is kinda), nor an idea, it’s not even porn. The image was of women in bikinis. But yeah, it’s still somewhat boneheaded to view titillating material, on a company computer no less, when one should be working. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1546 "2010-05-04T17:37:05Z")
Some of those women were probably topless. It’s hard to tell because of the black bar someone superimposed over the pic, but if they weren’t I doubt the bar would have been added. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1547 "2010-05-04T21:29:35Z")
[http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-05-06/news/christian-right-leader-george-rekers-takes-vacation-with-rent-boy/](http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-05-06/news/christian-right-leader-george-rekers-takes-vacation-with-rent-boy/) Technically, we don’t know if he’s a republican. But the odds are pretty good. (and the goods? pretty odd.) ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1548 "2010-05-05T19:49:04Z")
Not specifically Republican, but from the Obama-deranged crowd: [Muslim Obama wants to bring down America!](http://wonkette.com/415215/wingnuts-are-furious-about-obama-reading-a-best-selling-book-by-a-newsweek-writer) ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1549 "2010-05-05T21:05:44Z")
Best. Comments. Evar! ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1550 "2010-05-05T22:04:28Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > [Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with "rent boy"](http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-05-06/news/christian-right-leader-george-rekers-takes-vacation-with-rent-boy/) > > Technically, we don’t know if he’s a republican. But the odds are pretty good. (and the goods? pretty odd.) > [@Digital\_Stimulus](#): > > Not specifically Republican, but from the Obama-deranged crowd: > > [Muslim Obama wants to bring down America!](http://wonkette.com/415215/wingnuts-are-furious-about-obama-reading-a-best-selling-book-by-a-newsweek-writer) Come on now the pit is a pretty big place. This thread is for Stupid Republican ideas. If the idea is not clearly a republican idea, there are other threads. You could even start one if their isn’t ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1551 "2010-05-05T22:40:29Z")
As the original OPer, I hereby extend this thread to include Stupid Teabagger Ideas/Delusions/Whatevers Of The Day. > [@Digital\_Stimulus](#): > > Not specifically Republican, but from the Obama-deranged crowd: > > [Muslim Obama wants to bring down America!](http://wonkette.com/415215/wingnuts-are-furious-about-obama-reading-a-best-selling-book-by-a-newsweek-writer) [QUOTE=Hysterical Teabagger] THIS WILL CURDLE YOUR BLOOD AND CURL YOUR HAIR [/QUOTE] Well, that part was true. My blood and hair curdled just at the thought that such Stupid is out there, walking around among us. And yeah, that is a picture from before he took office. It took them 1 1/2-2 years to notice this picture of him reading this book? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1552 "2010-05-05T22:45:39Z")
Naw, they noticed it, it’s just the Green branch of the movement; they recycle. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1553 "2010-05-05T22:46:56Z")
_laugh_ ---
**Author:** ![Batfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Batfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batfish)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1554 "2010-05-05T23:15:26Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > And yeah, that is a picture from before he took office. It took them 1 1/2-2 years to notice this picture of him reading this book? In their defense, they’re not that familiar with books and reading. At least it’s not a [Koran Bible](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=562146). ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1555 "2010-05-05T23:19:32Z")
Maybe it’s taken them this long to look up “post” in the dictionary? ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1556 "2010-05-05T23:42:46Z")
No, it probably took them this long to look up “book” in the dictionary. It’s one of those big words you have to know how to spell before you can look up to see how it’s spelled and what it means. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1557 "2010-05-06T00:01:41Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > Best. Comments. Evar! May Michelle and my husband forgive me, but this one almost had me on the floor: [QUOTE=titinono] Their real fear is that, in “the post-american world”, everyone will have dicks as mammoth as Barry’s, and their nasty little teapot spouts won’t be able to compete. It’s so satisfying to know that every mormon housewife with an AOL account is seeing this photograph. Surely, after the screen grab, the next thing they notice is his obviously massive member? Hopefully they’re terrified: “I mean, Tammy, did you see that photograph? It looked like he stuffed the rolling pin down his pants!” [/QUOTE] I swear I didn’t notice the, ahem, bulge, until I read this comment, but I have to admit I did scroll back up and look after. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1558 "2010-05-06T00:08:27Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > May Michelle and my husband forgive me, but this one almost had me on the floor: > > I swear I didn’t notice the, ahem, bulge, until I read this comment, but I have to admit I did scroll back up and look after. > > :eek: Holy crap! That’s gotta be a well placed wrinkle. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1559 "2010-05-06T00:08:56Z")
Oh thanks so much. … can’t look at that picture now without being mesmerized. ETA: and yes, of course I scrolled back up to look. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1560 "2010-05-06T00:13:44Z")
I didn’t notice either (and went back and looked); I was just about to re-PM you about that comment. A few of my favorites: “The email forwarding logic of 20 friends for 3 days reaching every American needs to be explained in a simplier way. Would there ever be a case where the same 20 people just keep sending it to each other, ad infinitum” “Next they’ll see Obama reading “Who Moved My Cheese?” and assume he’s letting the furries take over.” "The author of the email may be more clever than we think. For example: “The name of the book Obama is reading is called: “The Post-American World…’ On one level it looks like he is just a clumsy writer, and that he meant: “The name of the book Obama is reading is: The Post-American World”, but really he is engaging in ingenious wordplay on the duality of what something is named and what it is called, with a subliminal message that Obama calls things what they are not named.” “Fareed Zakaria yadayadayada CNN[!] yadayada naturalized[!]… New York[!] … wine[!] … writes[!] … think[!] … New Yorker[!] … international[!] … OMG why isn’t he in Gitmo/Arizona already???” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=77) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=79)