Tag: GW
Dec 10 2009
Watch This
Jan 16 2009
Bush Swearing Out Ceremony
Did you ever hear National Lampoon’s “Missing Basement Tapes”?
It contained a swearing out ceremony for Dick Nixon. It was Rev. Billy Graham:
“Gawd Damn you Richard Nixon! Richard Nixon, you Son-of-a-bitch, you lied your ass off to the American People. Now f**k off!”
We need to organize a Bush Swearing-Out Ceremony for GW, Cheney and the whole gang posthaste.
Hell, we could do it right here. I know I need the opportunity to vent. What say you?
Alternatively, we could take a no pants subway ride:
Jan 16 2009
A Link For The Moment (Railroad)
I was looking for some history and got some ideas:
: Where does the expression “to ride some one out on a rail” come from?
: Thanks for any information.
TARRED AND FEATHERED – “At Salem, on September 7, 1768, an informer named Robert Wood ‘was stripped, tarred and feathered and placed on a hogshead under the Tree of Liberty on the Common.’ This is the first record of the term ‘tarred and feathered’ in America. Tarring and feathering was a cruel punishment where hot pine tar was applied from head to toe on a person and goose feathers were stuck into the tar. The person was then ignited and ridden out of town on a rail (tied to a splintery rail), beaten with sticks and stoned all the while. A man’s skin often came off when he removed the tar. It was a common practice to tar and feather Tories who refused to join the revolutionary cause, one much associated with the Liberty Boys, but the practice was known here long before the Revolution. In fact, it dates back even before the first English record of tarring and feathering, an 1189 statute made under Richard the Lionhearted directing that any thief voyaging with the Crusaders ‘shal have his head shorne and boyling pitch powred upon his head, and feathers or downe strewn upon the same, whereby he may be known, and so at the first landing place they shal come to, there to be cast up.’ Though few have been tarred and feathered or ridden out of town on a rail in recent years, the expression remains to describe anyone subjected to indignity and infamy.” From “Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins” by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997).