(tongue in cheek for those with no sense of humor)

So Mr. Obama is now President, and my life hasn't changed one bit. What a gyp! Where's the jobs? Where's the improved middle class lifestyle?

(sent at exact moment he took office)

You sent it 5 minutes too late, Roger. Barack Obama legally became president at noon eastern time, a few minutes before he took the Oath. Taking the Oath has no legal meaning.

See. That's what he meant. We want instant results!!! 5 minutes is too long and too late!

Get with it.

(To continue with the tongue in cheek!)

Impeach.

I knew I should have voted for someone else.

I did!!!

Pat Paulsen is rolling in his grave...

http://www.paulsen.com/pat/

I voted for Snoopy. A dancing beagle in the White House!!

..does this mean that we can kick Dubya's azz now?

that's been going on for years...
what's an "azz"?...oh...Do unto others AS you would have others do unto you!

I guess now Dubya can go back to his old ways of boozing, snorting, and running companies into the ground. At least this time it won't be a nation.

>>old ways of boozing, snorting, and running companies into the ground

emphasis on the "old"...none happened the last 8 years...

What started out as a fun, joke thread, as usual has turned into a Bush bashing thread.

Typical.

Therefore then, I post this:

http://obamaclock.org/

Finally, Instant Weight Loss without any exercise!

Yeah. That's the kind of scale I need.

If my belly gets any bigger, I'll have to stop taking showers and take baths because my feet won't get wet!

Taking the Oath has no legal meaning.

Then he shouldn't have wasted time taking it. There's work to do!!!


" I promise to faithfully execute the previous President... I mean execute all those in office... nevermind



The speech should have consisted of.....

"...As I look out across Washington, I see an awful lot of slackers. Get back to work people! And, pick up your trash when you go. Don't be leaving your trash in my yard. Go home, go to work. Do your part. For those of us staying.... PARTY TIME!!!!!

Like the 'Instant News Camera'..

..just add water

> Then he shouldn't have wasted time taking it [the oath of office]. There's work to do!!!

Darn tootin!! We're an instant gratification culture. We want everything on-demand. We have podcasts. We have on-demand cable TV. We have fast food. We have mail-order Chinese and Russian brides. There's no time for all this pomp and circumstance.

But we have...."TRADITION!!!"

See. That's what he meant. We want instant results!!! 5 minutes is too long and too late!

Get with it.


We (MOST OF AMERICA) wanted results from DUHbya at some time. WE GOT NOTHING! 8 years and 11 TRILLION in debt! So much for results......

And if everything in life was based on "TRADITION", Broadway, we'd still be listening to music on cyllindre phonographs, by gas light..........

But we have...."TRADITION!!!"

No, you're thinking Fiddler on the Roof.

That had "Tradition"

'Instant News Camera'..

I always wanted to market a little packet of tasteless powder called Instant Water.

Directions:

Empty contents into container
Add 2 cups of water
Stir until disolved.

Makes 2 cups.

Serving suggestions:
heat water first for a warm beverage.
Add icecubes for a refreshing summertime treat.

...we'd still be listening to (recorded) music on cylinder phonographs, by gas light..........

What else is there?

I always wanted to market a little packet of tasteless powder called Instant Water.

I saw a can of dehydrated water once at a camp in Canada I went to as a kid.

Those were the directions; Add water and stir!

> ...we'd still be listening to (recorded) music on cylinder phonographs, by gas light..........

That darned recorded music put so many musicians out of work! Don't get me started on how many workers in the whale hunting and candle making industries lost their jobs to those gas lights!

Guess THIS is over with:

http://www.backwardsbush.com

.

I gave up on instant gratification on January 1, 2000 when I didn't find a Jetson's flying saucer parked in my driveway.

The only politician we can trust is Oscar the Grouch. "A fish head in every garbage can."

Patience is virtue!

i can be virtuous as long as my unemployment checks keep coming

We live in a society of instant gradification AND short attention spans. They probably will gripe about him at first, but will forget.

"...we'd still be listening to (recorded) music on cylinder phonographs, by gas light.........."

*sighs and shakes head*
You know Roger, you REALLY need to stop editing the spelling of my posts. Much of the irony of my post was lost in your edit!

(Thomas Edison was even known to sometimes use the traditional spellings on his cyllindre record boxes--see the box for an "EDISON GOLD-MOULDED RECORD" for example. Of course, when you come right down to it, we've no-one to blame but Noah Webster himself for ruining the English language and purging much of its majesty and grandeur.........)

Motozak2:

Do you have a link that shows that package, or know the time frame that it was used? Is it rare? I don't think I have ever seen one that stated anything other than "Record", as in "Amberol Record" or "Blue Amberol Record" or "Gold Moulded Record" or "Edison Record".

I just do that to keep fresh, in case the farm and dairy paper here in town ever hires me as a proof reader....

;-D

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/EdisonRecords1903Ad.jpg
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/447/ed1906xs0.jpg
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/5716/ed1908bb4.jpg (I actually have one of both of these! Unfortunately the records inside are Blue Amberols, not Gold Moulded.)

Apparently Edison used the Gold Moulded brand from about 1902-1912 or so.

History lessons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Records,
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/,
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/history.php,
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/history-goldmoulded.php and
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/history-blueamberol.php

Thanks for the links... these are similar to the containers that I have seen/collected, but I don't see the word "cyllindre" or for that matter "cylinder" on these containers, and would question that Edison would bother to identify them as such until, perhaps the time that he produced the flat "Diamond Disc", which was past the era of the "Gold Moulded series". Am I missing something?

No. I spelt it as "cyllindre" as part of the joke, keeping with the tradition stuff I was lambasting Broadway about. I've never seen or read of any Edison record packaging that spells it that way either.

(That's not to say that such packaging doesn't exist, and for all I know it very well might.....)

Ok, "I always enjoy a joke as soon as I know about it"*

* Monty Python or perhaps Beyond the Fringe?