# The Zero Factor & GW **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 3, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zero-factor-gw/152557 "2003-02-03T18:55:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Greensabre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Greensabre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greensabre)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zero-factor-gw/152557/1 "2003-02-03T18:55:55Z")
It seems as though much hate is being vented in the direction of our (beloved?) president George Bush. Because of this anger, a troubling thought came to my mind: The Zero factor. The zero factor states that a president who takes office on a zero year (20, 40, 60) will die or have his life threatened. For example, Roosevelt ('40) and Kennedy ('60). Has anybody heard about this? and if so or if not, are you worried about a premature end to our president’s term? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zero-factor-gw/152557/2 "2003-02-03T18:57:49Z")
Since the choice ‘80’ wasn’t omitted when I first read about this regarding Reagan it seesm to have undergone some retroactive continuity here. It’s crap. ---
**Author:** ![bayonet1976](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bayonet1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bayonet1976)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zero-factor-gw/152557/3 "2003-02-03T19:54:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance \* > \*\*Since the choice ‘80’ wasn’t omitted when I first read about this regarding Reagan it seesm to have undergone some retroactive continuity here. > > It’s crap. \*\* No doubt. But Reagan was shot. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zero-factor-gw/152557/4 "2003-02-03T20:15:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bayonet1976 \* > \*\*No doubt. But Reagan was shot. \*\* Yeah, but the conspiracy people put GHW Bush in Dallas when JFK was shot, and Hinkley was a family friend of the Bushes. So, I’d say GW Bush is safe from the most recent zero factors. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bayonet1976](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bayonet1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bayonet1976)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zero-factor-gw/152557/5 "2003-02-03T20:33:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Icarus \* > \*\*Yeah, but the conspiracy people put GHW Bush in Dallas when JFK was shot, and Hinkley was a family friend of the Bushes. So, I’d say GW Bush is safe from the most recent zero factors. 😃 \*\* But what of the anarchists, man! ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zero-factor-gw/152557/6 "2003-02-03T20:47:55Z")
What about us? Oops… ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zero-factor-gw/152557/7 "2003-02-03T20:52:51Z")
…why of course you can see our membership files, Mr. Ashcroft, they’re right over here… ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zero-factor-gw/152557/8 "2003-02-03T20:57:23Z")
“Yeah, but the conspiracy people put GHW Bush in Dallas when JFK was shot” :rolleyes: C’mon! Everybody knows that Richard Nixon was the one in town that day. And what was he there for? He was a lawyer for Pepsi. And what soft drink got a licensing deal in the Soviet Union thanks to Nixon? Pepsi. And what country imploded, leaving it’s citizens open to the rampages of unchecked capitalism, including the placing of Pizza Huts and KFC’s on every Russian streetcorner? That’s right… the USSR! Ergo, Kennedy was shot as part of a long-term conspiracy by Pepsico to bring down the Communist order. The conspiratorial brilliance of this plan is shown by the fact that Bush #1 is blamed for the whole New World Order mess, when, in fact, the works were in place 30 years prior at the behest of the Soda Empires (you don’t want me to go into Coca-Cola and their ownership of the Eisenhower Presidency, oh no, you don’t. Trust me.) ---
**Author:** ![Greensabre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Greensabre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greensabre)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zero-factor-gw/152557/9 "2003-02-03T21:12:46Z")
what? pepsi and kennedy? I’ve never heard such a proposterous idea. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zero-factor-gw/152557/10 "2003-02-04T00:35:17Z")
Then what accounts for the Pizza Huts and KFCs on every **American** street corner? ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zero-factor-gw/152557/11 "2003-02-04T00:35:50Z")
1840 Harrison was elected, dies of pneumonia month or so later 1860 Lincoln wass elected, is shot and killed in second term 1880 Garfield was elected, shot and killed in 1881 1900 McKinley was elected, shot and killed the next year. 1920 Harding was elected, dies in 1923 1940 FDR reelected, he dies in his fourth term in 1945. 1960 JFK was elected - shot in Dallas 1980 Reagan was elected - he was shot, but lived though 2 terms There is a strange pattern here. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zero-factor-gw/152557/12 "2003-02-04T00:56:03Z")
It is, of course, an interesting coincidence. And I have proved – even to the satisfaction of Gerald Posner – that the actual murdered of JFK is Superman. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Greensabre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Greensabre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greensabre)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zero-factor-gw/152557/13 "2003-02-04T15:40:24Z")
_bump_ thanks, DreadCthulhu, I was hoping there would be a list like that. I think something might happen to GW… but it seems the chain was “broken” at Reagan.