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RIP President George H.W. Bush

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by UPChip, Dec 1, 2018.

  1. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    I really hope she's now dating the singer from The Mentors.
     
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  2. HappyCurmudgeon

    HappyCurmudgeon Well-Known Member

  3. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Didn't she have some pretty serious medical issues? I expect since they are still married she is still covered to an extent under his benefits, which are probably substantial considering his time in the Senate and two terms at the Veep. Pretty good reason to stay married, if both parties can live with it.
     
  4. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    That's a perfect description of how I imagine the Gores getting freaky. I picture Jimmy Stewart going, "Oh, Mary, oh, mary."
     
  5. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I don't know what medical problems she has, but the two of them have to be worth several hundred million dollars. I doubt a health insurance consideration accounts for why they don't get a formal divorce.
     
  6. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    The royalty checks from inventing the internet have to be pretty spectacular.
     
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  7. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Yup. He cashes them and then puts the money in a lock box. A lock box.
     
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  8. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    I don't agree with Snopes here:

    What Gore actually said:

    I think a "reasonable interpretation" is exactly the kind of jokes we've been hearing for almost two decades.
     
  9. Hermes

    Hermes Well-Known Member

    I laughed in 2000 just like everybody else, but damn if in 2008 I didn't wish Al had gotten that lock box built.
     
  10. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    It doesn't matter much. I always took it as more of a joke about his self importance, as a lot of people perceived it, as it was about what he literally said.
     
    Last edited: Dec 6, 2018
  11. Hermes

    Hermes Well-Known Member

    Most failed Presidential candidates get one joke about them. Al got inventing the internet, the lock box AND Manbearpig. What a legacy.
     
  12. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Maybe, maybe not.

    But do you like paying more for anything when you don't have to? I'm sure his government health-care plan is far, far cheaper than anything that can be found on the open market for a single 70-year-old women who has already had thyroid surgery.
     
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