The Bush Presidency Called, They Want Their Joke Back

Cidu Bill on Jul 9th 2010

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22 Responses to “The Bush Presidency Called, They Want Their Joke Back”

  1. paperboy Jul 9th 2010 at 05:34 pm 1

    Damn you, Bill Clinton; I voted for you!!

  2. ShadZ Jul 9th 2010 at 05:41 pm 2

    I think the joke is that he said ‘irregardless’, ’supposebly’ and ‘nucular”, not that he believed Iran had nuclear weapons.

  3. Pirk Jul 9th 2010 at 05:53 pm 3

    people who misspeak are referred to as dips?

  4. paperboy Jul 9th 2010 at 06:10 pm 4

    The point is: The time for Bush jokes has passed. If you didn’t think of them when he was President, you whiffed.

  5. Judge Mental Jul 9th 2010 at 06:14 pm 5

    I often heard George Bush mocked for saying ‘nucular’. He may have also been mocked for saving ‘irregardless’ and ’supposebly’, but I don’t remember that.

    Pirk@3
    Merriam Webster defines a “dip” as “a stupid or unsophisticated person”. While not all people who misspeak are “stupid” or “unsophisticated”, if the errors come at a frequency of 3 per sentence, I don’t think its a reach to speculate they are one or the other.

  6. MrKenneth Jul 9th 2010 at 06:20 pm 6

    Anyone out there caught the elocution of our current resident of the White House when he does not have his teleprompter? He is better than W………but not a great deal better.

  7. furrykef Jul 9th 2010 at 06:40 pm 7

    George W. Bush is hardly the only person who pronounces it “nucular”. The WMD’s thing only figures into it because it’s the most obvious context the word nuclear/nucular would be used.

  8. turquoise cow Jul 9th 2010 at 07:00 pm 8

    I don’t recall W. ever saying “irregardless” or “supposebly.” My mind shudders to even type the words, and I am troubled even more by the fact that my spell-checker, which is usually quite accurate, did not put a squiggly red line under “irregardless.”

    I do hear those words spoken on a regular basis, however. And I fear that “strategery” may be entering the vernacular as an actual word due to his influence. Although I have only heard it spoken in a joking manner so far, it won’t be long before someone starts using it with seriousness. Sigh.

  9. turquoise cow Jul 9th 2010 at 07:00 pm 9

    And I wouldn’t be surprised if he did use the words, as I didn’t often listen to his speeches…

  10. Judge Mental Jul 9th 2010 at 07:30 pm 10

    And to be clear, W. didn’t say “strategery” . That was Will Farrell impersonating him in an SNL skit.

  11. Kilby Jul 9th 2010 at 07:32 pm 11

    Given the speaker’s curly hair, it is hardly likely that he is intended to be GWB. He is more likely to be some dip who actually believed in the warmongering lies that GWB propagated.

  12. ty Jul 9th 2010 at 07:40 pm 12

    Is “dip,” referring to a stupid person, actually in common use, except in a joke such as this? I have heard dipstick and dipsh*t, but not dip. As for the joke itself, it goes back at least 30 years, to a BC strip, and later a BC collection, Dip In The Road.

  13. Igelino Jul 9th 2010 at 07:41 pm 13

    “irregardless” duzn’t get marked as wrong cuz it’s in Mr. Gates vokabellery.

  14. guy Jul 9th 2010 at 09:53 pm 14

    I’m just surprised Gary Larson didn’t call…

  15. Frank the curmudgeon Jul 10th 2010 at 12:39 am 15

    Does the bigger dip currently live at the Blair or White House?

  16. CIDU Bill Jul 10th 2010 at 12:45 am 16

    Frank, you can disagree with everything Obama says and does, call him naive, a Communist, a Kenyan and a Muslim, but the one thing you really can’t claim is that he’s stupid (ie: a “dip”).

  17. Mark M Jul 10th 2010 at 09:05 am 17

    Bill, not saying I necessarily think this makes Obama a “dip”, but there is the notion that he’s lost without a teleprompter, and there’s the “57 states” remark, etc.

  18. ShireNomad Jul 10th 2010 at 03:06 pm 18

    This is also why Boondocks is in permanent reruns.

  19. MrKenneth Jul 10th 2010 at 10:08 pm 19

    Speaking of words creeping into written usage, how many people have seen the Valley Girls “like” appearing in print. It is certainly in the spoken arena. Sad to say, on of my grown children will use that far more frequently than I find comfortable.

  20. Mark in Boston Jul 11th 2010 at 02:00 pm 20

    President Eisenhower always said “nucular”.

  21. Adam! Jul 12th 2010 at 07:58 pm 21

    ‘Supposably’ is a great word (meaning, naturally, “capable of being supposed”) and it’s clear that ‘Nuke-ular’ means “of, relating to, or resembling Nukes”. ‘Irregardless’ is nonsensical, but sadly it’s in the OED.

    Unrelated, this comic has nothing to do with W.

  22. Todd Jul 17th 2010 at 06:28 pm 22

    I don’t think W was really stupid, either, just in over his head, and not the world’s greatest public speaker.

    As for “warmongering lies”, ItsaDamn Shame wanted us to believe he had weapons of mass destruction, and probably faked evidence of such. Sure, there was evidence to the contrary (not sure what since you can’t prove a negative, but the liberal media says it was there), but Bush had to decide which evidence he believed, and he wanted to see DamnShame turned into a smear on the road.

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