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Super Bush

Ethan Hawke

18:27 / 25.10.02

Truly hilarious GOP Flash ad.

A muscular G.W. Bush saves Granny from the democrats.

The Apple-Picker

18:30 / 25.10.02

Ow, Todd. You hurt my great abs with that thing.

Linus Dunce

18:33 / 25.10.02

Woah! That is quite ... unbelievable in its illiteracy. But maybe it's well-targeted.

Voluntary accounts for younger workers? Quite Darwinian if you think about it. Only the rich baby turtles make it to the sea.

Ethan Hawke

18:47 / 25.10.02

Here's the DNC Flash Ad the Republicans were responding to.

Linus Dunce

19:03 / 25.10.02

Well, it makes a little more sense now. But it's still a piss-poor execution.

Do all US retirees use wheelchairs? Don't remember there being that many rolling around.

Maybe it's a reference to FDR?

The Apple-Picker

21:21 / 25.10.02

Do all US retirees use wheelchairs?

Obviously, dummy. We also have robots here that eat old people's medicine. The robots are hard because they are made out of metal.

The Apple-Picker

22:17 / 25.10.02

If you're an old person, you should protect yourself.

Linus Dunce

11:55 / 26.10.02

Now I understand, thanks. It's been a few years since I could watch Saturday Night Live. (My favourite then was Kevin Starr trying to get ketchup out of a bottle with the help of OJ Simpson and Louise Woodward.)

But I still reckon it's Roosevelt's wheelchair -- look at the spokes, definitely 1930s engineering. They're all arts graduates, the people who make these things, ya know.

Jack Fear

16:07 / 26.10.02

Roosevelt usually used a regular kitchen chair with little tiny furniture casters on the bottom. He didn't want anybody to know he was crippled: he wanted them to think he just sat down all the time, presumably because he was rude.

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