What a Revoltin' Development!
I'm not a John McCain supporter, but I feel compelled to defend him against Chuck Norris's charge that he's too old to run for president. I've worked with Chuck Norris, and to borrow a phrase from his idol Mike Huckleberry, he's got the IQ of brocolli. Norris is one of those people who, when you're having a conversation with him, will stare blankly into space without ever hearing one word you said and then answer with a non-sequitur. He won some martial arts championships when he was young and became a film extra and stunt double, a career where you look tough and pretend to get hit. He parlayed that into movie stardom by taking Steve McQueen's advice and letting other characters do most of the talking so that audiences won't notice you don't know what you're doing. I don't deny him the right to support a candidate, even if he is a bonehead, but it seems to me when he starts slamming other candidates, especially for something as meaningless as their age, he's way out of line. Hopefully few people will listen to him beyond those close-relatives of apes who cite the bible as proof Darwin had it all wrong.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:27 AM
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Didn't some people have the same complaint about Reagan being too old?
Thanks for the true info on Chuck Norris. I saw him making his comment on the news tonight and later McCain's saying something about his 95 year old mother taking over....or something like that... old age allows me to not remember the exact wording.
Katherine
I believe that McCain is an honorable man who has been hit with some really nasty comments. The same thing with Obama who has been attacked by Clinton. If this keeps up, it will turn me against Hillary as I have had it with dirty politics. Can't say about Norris as I have a hard time taking Huckleberry very seriously so did not pay attention to Norris's rantings.
In this time of film industry strife, I would like to commend John for the abundant use of costumed extras in this cartoon. It’s true that John might have created a revolutionary war effect with only two or three soldiers in the foreground, but instead he has chosen to show his solidarity with striking union workers everywhere by peopling his drawing with a literal army of men. In turn we hope that Local 706 in Burbank, which represents 1600 makeup artists and hair stylists who are not yet on strike, will return the gesture, showing their fraternity and sorority to strikers everywhere by giving Jeremy’s mother a free make-over.
>>by peopling his drawing with a literal army of men<<
Hey... one has a ponytail!
Jean, may I remind you that back in those days men often wore pig tails. (In fact, if memory serves, even pigs wore pig tails before it become so fashionable to do so.) It’s true of course that we can not see the face of the soldier wearing one, and yes she may be in fact a woman, but until I hear otherwise from the artist I will persist in assuming that she is a he. After all the song goes “Give me some men who are stout-hearted me who will fight for the cause they adore.”
>>Jean, may I remind you that back in those days men often wore pig tails<< I knew that! *wink* LOL
It gets worse Il Prof...
"Start me with ten,
Who are stout-hearted men
And I’ll soon give you ten thousand moorrre"
Talk about being out numbered! (((LOL)))
hmmmm... you must not have girls in your families. You're terminology is incorrect.
Hair gathered at the nape of the neck is a "ponytail". Hair gathered on either side of the face is referred to as "pigtails".
(((LOL))) Like I said... one has a ponytail!
>>Hair gathered at the nape of the neck is a "ponytail". Hair gathered on either side of the face is referred to as "pigtails". <<
You are absolutely right, as my dear friend and compeer Porky Pig would be the first to attest. As far as I can tell from John’s drawing, that soldier in question –-as yet unidentified by the artist as either male or female-- is yes! wearing a pony-tail rather than a pig-tail. Lest we forget, the original lyrics of a song go: “Yankee Doodle went to town/A-riding on a pony/Stuck a feather in his hat/And called it macaroni.” History tells us that Yankee Doodle was not yet aware of the numerous gradations of Italian pasta available in any super-market—among them, bucatini, linguine or ziti. If that is the case surely then he could not tell the difference between a pig and a pony. How many of us can?
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