# The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making Part Deux (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083 "2020-06-22T03:36:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 489
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9787 "2021-02-13T04:42:28Z")
The only “Fang” I know of is Maxwell Smart’s dog, a secret agent in his own right, and almost as incompetent as Max: > **[Fang](https://getsmart.fandom.com/wiki/Fang)** > > Fang (Agent K-13) is a poorly trained CONTROL dog who accompanies Max and 99 on several missions in the first two years. Fang and Max were very close, as they were in the same graduating class at spy school \[Episode #34: "The Only Way to Die"\]. #1:... Happy to make my contribution to bring this thread closer to 10,000. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9788 "2021-02-13T04:45:52Z")
There’s also Cardinal Fang of the unexpected Spanish Inquisition. [![](https://i.imgflip.com/1c4f2w.jpg) ](https://i.imgflip.com/1c4f2w.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9789 "2021-02-13T04:47:10Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > The only “Fang” I know of is Maxwell Smart’s dog That was my only thought as well. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9790 "2021-02-13T04:55:14Z")
This dates me, but Phyllis Diller used to refer to her husband as “Fang.” There was also Soupy Sales’ dog [White Fang.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n43zAbwtiaI) [Fang](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/2/22/Fang.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100220154955) was also Hagrid’s dog in Harry Potter. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9791 "2021-02-13T04:55:28Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Who is **Fang**? 🤔 There’s also White Fang who appeared regularly with Soupy Sales. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/n43zAbwtiaI/hqdefault.jpg "Soupy Sales With White Fang Hilarity") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n43zAbwtiaI) ETA: YIKES! Ninja’d by @Colibri within just seconds, with the same link even! (GMTA!) (The Curator of Critters would know that kind of stuff, obviously.) ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9792 "2021-02-13T13:59:11Z")
Fang Lang survived the titanic… ---
**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:** [February 13, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9793 "2021-02-13T15:14:20Z")
**Fang** is my oldest. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9794 "2021-02-13T15:38:03Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > This dates me, but Phyllis Diller used to refer to her husband as “Fang.” Yeah, I was gonna say that… 👵🏽 But what did Buddy Sorrell/Morey Amsterdam call his wife on The Dick Van Dyke Show? Pickles ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9795 "2021-02-13T15:47:23Z")
Pickles was one of those “never seen” characters, like Phyllis Diller’s Fang or Norm’s Vera (?) or _“This is Carleton your doorman…”_ But later in the show she showed up. The actress did a great job, but even as a kid I thought “Darn, a cool comedy bit, undone.” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9796 "2021-02-13T15:55:20Z")
Pickles showed up in the show about Buddy’s Belated Bar Mitzvah, right? That was a fabulous episode. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9797 "2021-02-13T16:22:55Z")
Pickles appeared several times, played by two different actresses. First Barbara Perry, later replaced by Joan Shawlee. All of her appearances are actually in the first two seasons. She didn’t really become a completely unseen character until seasons 3-5. Oddly enough, she did not appear in the Bar Mitzvah episode, even though it would have been logical for her to do so. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9798 "2021-02-13T16:29:13Z")
Of Mrs. Colombo we do not speak. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9799 "2021-02-13T16:33:46Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > Oddly enough, she did not appear in the Bar Mitzvah episode, even though it would have been logical for her to do so. Oh. That’s interesting… thanks for the correction. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9800 "2021-02-13T16:54:01Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Of Mrs. Colombo we do not speak. Nor the public announcer at the 4077. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9801 "2021-02-13T16:56:22Z")
It’s an understandable mistake. Buddy’s mother does appear in that episode, although she has no lines, and after all, you’d think that Pickles would show up to the synagogue for something like that! ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9802 "2021-02-13T16:59:52Z")
Yanno, I’m getting the impression we’re just padding, now. ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9803 "2021-02-13T17:09:21Z")
I’m not padding. \>.\> \<.\< O.O - . - ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9804 "2021-02-13T17:34:56Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > And may I suggest that a St Mozart may be a better patron saint than St Cecilia. Aw. I chose St. Cecilia for my confirmation name because she was the patron saint of music. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9805 "2021-02-13T17:39:01Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > There’s also White Fang who appeared regularly with Soupy Sales. My two degrees of separation from Mr. Sales. He had his name formally changed to Soupy Sales in my town. The son of the chief of police was in my grade, so he got to the court procedure and ride in a car with Soupy. He (the kid) was a serious target of jealousy. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/9806 "2021-02-13T18:28:29Z")
St. Agatha of the Double Mastectomy seems to be oddly concurrent with Rafael the Unshaven’s sudden fixation with Breast Milk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=488) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=490)