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Maria the Lost ([info]mariagoner) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2005-09-15 00:58:00
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Bush's Beddy Bye
All Georgie Bush did was ask Nanny Rice if he could go take a wee wee now. So why did the internet go nuts?

http://www.livejournal.com/community/ohnotheydidnt/3499003.html

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[info]tardis
2005-09-15 05:28 am UTC (link)
Is anyone wanking that he used the question mark wrong?

It's just a shame to see this devolve into political wank.

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[info]chopperbetty
2005-09-15 08:57 pm UTC (link)
Is anyone wanking that he used the question mark wrong?

Yeah, seriously! That's the only thing that seems (somewhat) noteworthy about this to me.

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[info]ruby_tuesday
2005-09-16 10:10 pm UTC (link)
Dude, seriously. All I can think about when I see that note is, "ARRGH YOU ARE USING THE QUESTION MARK WRONG!"

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[info]atalantapendrag
2005-09-15 05:52 am UTC (link)
Has Snopes weighed in on this yet? I can't be arsed to check.

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[info]miss_padfoot
2005-09-15 05:58 am UTC (link)
I wondered the same thing. A search for "bush bathroom note" yielded only one result, and it was something completely different. So no, I don't think so.

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[info]gutsy_bunny
2005-09-15 06:51 am UTC (link)
They have now.

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[info]hellespont
2005-09-15 01:15 pm UTC (link)
From Snopes:

We've left this as "undetermined" for now to allow for the possibility that the President was merely responding to or adding comments to a note written by someone else.

So perhaps Bush is the one who approves the bathroom breaks for all the others. There's a 1984 joke or something in there, but I have to go to class now.

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[info]also_not_a_pipe
2005-09-15 06:13 am UTC (link)
The fact that he's apparently highlighted "I MAY NEED A BATH" makes me sporfle, but otherwise I'm fairly skeptical. Photographer standing three inches from Bush's left ear to get that shot? Not so much with the credibility.

I guess it's what I get for beiung a history major. If I were poli sci, I'd be able to identify all the world learders' thumbs. But as it is, I'm probably gonig to have to wait a couple of decades so that I can get into an ivory tower bitchfight about whose hand it might have been writing the note.

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[info]eljuno
2005-09-15 06:34 am UTC (link)
The photographer wasn't necessarily wicked close. You can do amazing things with a telephoto lens.

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[info]tangentialone
2005-09-15 06:38 am UTC (link)
I know; if you ever watch those nature shows where it looks like the photographer's in serious danger of being eaten by the lions...

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[info]entelodont
2005-09-15 02:42 pm UTC (link)
Why would a photographer be zooming in on random shit he's writing? 99% of the time it can't be anything very interesting, so it seems unlikely they'd so it.

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[info]vigilanterodent
2005-09-16 02:36 am UTC (link)
You never know, you could accidentally happen upon him writing, "Have you gotten back with Satan's lawyers re: unholy contract signed in the blood of children?" I suppose if you're tired of taking general photographs of a bunch of politicians sitting around talking, you'd be looking for amusement wherever you could find it.

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[info]erototoxin
2005-09-16 02:42 am UTC (link)
Yeah, the 1% that it's interesting is worth all the rest!

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[info]felinephoenix
2005-09-16 01:43 pm UTC (link)
I heard the photographer deciphered the message by screwing around with the original image -- the photographers hadn't been todl to take pictures of his notes. But that could be a lie, like many I've heard.

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[info]luthe
2005-09-15 03:38 pm UTC (link)
I saw the photo on the Reuters site originally, so I think it's legit.

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[info]tangentialone
2005-09-15 06:41 am UTC (link)
Why does someone always have to bring up the supposed stupidity/crappiness of someone else's icon?

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[info]miss_padfoot
2005-09-15 07:06 am UTC (link)
Or their lack thereof?

(Well, people don't usually do that, but that comment struck me as particularly dumb.)

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[info]tangentialone
2005-09-15 05:45 pm UTC (link)
I mean, I understand the habitual icon love threads, but jeeze.

To be fair, though, the other person brought up the whole icon=character thing, so it's almost a natural extension of that.

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[info]rachelmap
2005-09-15 07:38 am UTC (link)
Newsflash! President Bush goes to the toilet like all the rest of us do! He's human after all!

Why is everybody wasting their time on this? Is watching him arrange his potty breaks going to make him govern any better?

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[info]jrs1980
2005-09-15 08:59 am UTC (link)
I think it's just the shock that Condi didn't make him go before he left the White House.

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[info]vigilanterodent
2005-09-15 01:59 pm UTC (link)
It's just the way he phrased it that makes me giggle.

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[info]kookaburra
2005-09-15 02:05 pm UTC (link)
Well, hey, when I've got to go, my syntax isn't the first thing on my mind, y'know?

(Though I must admit, if I were a world leader, I'd be writing dirty notes all the time and sending them anonymously to other people at the conference. And then blame France. Or Canada. BLAME CANADA!)

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[info]o_o
2005-09-15 08:40 pm UTC (link)
Why stop at dirty notes?

"Hay Vladi, Tony likes you. Do u like him back?

Yes
No

Circle one.

Signed,
George!"

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[info]crickets
2005-09-15 09:02 pm UTC (link)
Heehee! Except Georgie has nicknamed him Pooty-Poot. For real. >.<

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[info]o_o
2005-09-15 09:17 pm UTC (link)
Heh. In Spain the satire magazines call him "Hijo de Putin," since it looks so much like "Hijo de puta" (Son of a bitch). Not terribly original either!

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[info]lenin
2005-09-15 09:35 pm UTC (link)
Could be a lot worse.

~~turdblossom~~

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[info]atalantapendrag
2005-09-15 09:43 pm UTC (link)
...He uses "Big O" a lot.

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[info]necronomist
2005-09-17 07:23 pm UTC (link)
"The Cobra - Maureen Dowd"

Cobra? She's more of those little annoying garter snakes that get stuck in drains or something.

Now, Bob Novak, I can see with that nickname

(Though he already got 'Prince of Darkness')

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[info]pipssister
2005-09-18 12:30 am UTC (link)
Methinks it's because she wrote Bushworld and Dubya has gotten all huffy, like he normally does.

Man, I want to be in the President Press Corps and get my own Dubya nickname now. Although not really, because apparently the journalists covering him get headaches trying to talk to him. Some of them have called his dog Barney to them so Bush has to go chase it and they can ask him questions. Although that could be very fun.

I can also understand why he calls Karen Hughes "Hurricane Karen." From the stories I heard of her, I wouldn't want to mess with her either. She ranks with Ari Fleischer in the "evil genius" category.

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[info]kookaburra
2005-09-16 03:02 am UTC (link)
And I would dot all my i's and j's with little hearts.

Kookaburra for 2008! Bringing new levels of maturity to our government!

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[info]marlo
2005-09-15 04:04 pm UTC (link)
Thank you. That exactly what was on my mind, too. And I hate Dubya.

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[info]wankismyfandom
2005-09-16 08:45 pm UTC (link)
I think it's just that people find it funny when someone like the President, who is so frequently presented in really formal circumstances, has to do the same things the hoi polloi do. It would be like catching the Queen of England asking around for a tampon (back when she'd have needed one).

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[info]sahz
2005-09-15 12:04 pm UTC (link)
I was just reading this!!

People are even wanking about whether his writing is cursive or print. Obviously a slow day/night for some.

I also love how the O.P gets her knickers in a twist every time someone calls fake

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[info]kookaburra
2005-09-15 02:09 pm UTC (link)
WHOA- that girl needs to watch her blood pressure! Geez!

Someone: "You know, I have my doubts..."
OP: "AISOIDJFISJDF! YOU'RE IN DENIAL!"
Someone: "No, not really."
OP: "Yes! Yes you're in denial, and you're a POOPY HEAD! WITH COOTIES!"

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[info]entelodont
2005-09-15 02:43 pm UTC (link)
The OP is NUTS.

Personally I think she's terrified of the fact that it may well be fake and that she'll look silly for posting it without a shred of doubt. So instead she decides to look like an idiot madwoman instead.

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(Anonymous)
2005-09-15 02:53 pm UTC (link)
I think the lesson we can all learn from this is that EVERYBODY poops.

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[info]wankprophet
2005-09-15 04:18 pm UTC (link)
No, nobody poops but you. [/gratuitous Family Guy reference]

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rowleyorama
2005-09-15 09:04 pm UTC (link)
You're a bad child and that's concentrated evil coming out the back of you?

(deleted and reposted for silly typo correction)

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[info]smo
2005-09-15 03:46 pm UTC (link)
Dude, totally photoshopped.

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[info]pepperlandgirl4
2005-09-15 05:10 pm UTC (link)
The picture that's been making the rounds is a cropped photo of one that's a bit further back (though you can still read the one that's further back). Both showed up on Yahoo's AP picture slide of the event, (I know that's where I linked my copy from when I put itin my LJ), so I can't imagine who would not only photoshop it but then submit it to Reuters and the AP and have both organizations run with it and distribute it...I mean, it's kind of their reputations on the line.

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[info]marylake
2005-09-15 09:16 pm UTC (link)
I swear, if I weren't scared of the amount of power he has, I'd be really fond of George W. Bush.

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[info]mastervex
2005-09-17 02:48 pm UTC (link)
Yay, someone else feels this way! He is cute sort of like a puppy, or a monkey. But I would honestly rather puppies and monkeys not be running the country.

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[info]platedlizard
2005-09-17 08:56 am UTC (link)
Don't know if that's real or not, but why the big fuss about him needing to go? If it is real, then it was written during a press conference or other public event, and such are rather choreographed with Dubya. Leaving for two minutes to use the Men's would mean rearranging the scheudule of a speech, for example. Also, chances are he has the SS with him, and they probably need to know about any minor change of plans.

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[info]platedlizard
2005-09-18 07:31 am UTC (link)
It got a mention on Wait, Wait! Don't Tell Me! so it's real. Probably. The rest of my point still stands.

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