# Use of Willard vs. Hussein at the conventions **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 25, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-willard-vs-hussein-at-the-conventions/632616 "2012-08-25T16:29:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-willard-vs-hussein-at-the-conventions/632616/41 "2012-08-29T00:17:22Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > It would make for an interesting drinking game. > > Every time some one says ‘Hussein’ you have to drink. I like it. Someone start saying “Hussein.” I think I’m ahead of the game so far. Also I refuse to believe that Willard is his real name until Mitt releases his birth certificate. I’m still pretty sure his real name is “Mitthew.” ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-willard-vs-hussein-at-the-conventions/632616/42 "2012-08-29T00:26:19Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > It’s more fun to call him Wilfred Mittington Romney the Third, anyway. That sounds like an awesome name for a cat! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-willard-vs-hussein-at-the-conventions/632616/43 "2012-08-29T02:25:36Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Actually, it’s mostly NPR news. But lately they’ve been mostly horserace, horserace, horserace, and presenting political speeches unchallenged. The horserace is what’s fun, though. Debating actual policy is pretty damn esoteric, boring, and it’s not like there’s anything you or I can do about it. But campaigns are fun. The speaches are fun when they’re good, and easy to make fun of when they’re bad, debates are a fine opportunity for heckling, and following the polls, and trying to figure out what it means that Romney is gaining is this one state, and Obama’s increased his lead in the other is pretty exciting. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-willard-vs-hussein-at-the-conventions/632616/44 "2012-08-30T14:01:02Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > That sounds like an awesome name for a cat! Almost as good as Mittens. 🙂 And you can’t call the guy Wilfred without thinking of a puckish, hallucinatory, pot-smoking dog–which would make those who do his bidding a bunch of spineless, schizophrenic lawyers. Hm…Life is really creepy sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-willard-vs-hussein-at-the-conventions/632616/45 "2012-08-30T16:45:36Z")
I think Wilfred should legally change his name to Joe Six Pack. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-willard-vs-hussein-at-the-conventions/632616/46 "2012-08-30T17:43:47Z")
So we’re a few days into the RNC Convention. Has anyone watching it been keeping a Hussein count? ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-willard-vs-hussein-at-the-conventions/632616/47 "2012-08-31T18:12:02Z")
Zero? ---
**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:** [August 31, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-willard-vs-hussein-at-the-conventions/632616/48 "2012-08-31T20:14:18Z")
I thought Mittens was his actual familial knickname. Like Muffy or Kippy or Scabbers. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-willard-vs-hussein-at-the-conventions/632616/49 "2012-09-01T02:00:19Z")
Aren’t all those, including Mittens, cat names? ---
**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:** [September 1, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-willard-vs-hussein-at-the-conventions/632616/50 "2012-09-01T14:30:53Z")
Scabbers was a rat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-willard-vs-hussein-at-the-conventions/632616.md?page=2)