This Explains Donald Trump
Okay, so voting is a good thing. Unless you let people do it.
You would think that after a bridge in Hungry (yes, I know is Hungary. I was tired when I wrote this and … well, hungry.) it’s named The Stephen Colbert bridge by popular internet vote, even the British would understand that letting the internet vote on things is a bad idea.
A state of the art ship funded by the UK government for polar research may soon be christened “Boaty McBoatface” if online voters get their way.
In Hungry, they decided to ignore the will of the people and name the bridge after someone the powers that be liked better.
I’m pretty sure that the same will hold true for the Republican National Convention.
Thanks to Bryan for the heads up.
Shoot, I’d vote for Boaty McBoatface any day if there’s a chance he would beat Trump — for any damn thing.
1Hungry? Hungry, TX?
My Hungarian friends who fled their native Soviet-dominated Hungary long ago might get a little irritated.
(Magyars from Magyarország)
No goulash for ye Hungry TWMDBS’ers…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary
2The GOP guys wish they had a candidate as attractive as Boaty McBoatface or a Hungarian bridge.
The closest they’ve come is the sort of thing that might live under the bridge. Or on the bilges of a boat.
3Maggie … I totally agree with you on Boaty McBoatface … I love that name!!
Sandridge … I think everyone is hungry in TX, they just are not from Hungary … and they probably don’t have a clue as to how to even make goulash!!
LynnN … Love your identifying the RWNJs vacation spots “under the bridge” or on the bilges of a boat!! It just seems so right!!
4Marcia in CO,
5It’s cool.
Hungry, TX (in deep E-TX) is where Jeebus is fixing to perform the ‘Miracle of the Tacos, Burritos, an’ BBQ Brisket’ to feed the multitudes…oh yeah, and the ‘Water to Lone Star Beer’ thingie too (I like Shiner Bock meself).
I’d kill for decent goulash Or marry the little lady-whichever seemed more appropriate at that time.
6A recent message from the UK Electoral Commission on Twitter (where #boatymcboatface has been trending) reminds people that “You’ve voted for #BoatyMcBoatface, but are you registered to #VoteyMcVoteface in the May elections?” Gotta love British humor.
7I guess I’ve always been a ‘foodie’.
I was lucky to spend some formative years in a place chock full of different ethnicities and all those varied, genuine FOODS of many kinds.
Gawd, there was French, Canadian, German, Polish, Czech, Dutch, real ITALIAN, Hungarian, Greek, Mexican, Spanish, Chinese, Jewish, Nordic, Soul, basic ‘Murican, even First/Native People, and many more…drool…and now so many more to try: Caribbean, etc.
Thinking bakeries, food stores, meat markets, restaurants, etc.; yum, must be past dinnertime…
Anybody know where to get a muskrat dinner (frozen tv-type I guess)?
8https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskrat
Above post was supposed to have: “e platypus onion” as first line, dang it.
9e platypus onion 🙂 Just your luck. The one person you know who makes fantastic goulash is me and I’m a dude. The secret is in the spicing; be sure to use top quality Hungarian paprika.
“This Explains Donald Trump” … still waiting for a better explanation than the one offered by Jon Stewart.
10Have we REALLY sunk to such Drumpfian levels whereby we are comparing our goulashes??????
11Poor Micr, sounds like a daily plain ol’ ‘steak n’ taters’ guy, same breakfast, dindin and supper every day.
You want fries with that?
Besides which, around Drumpf, Detested Cruz, John “Chameleon” Kasich, and the others, we need to (Consumer Reports style) test GALOSHES instead of goulash.
12For best protection from all the R BUllSHit one must wade through.
@Sandridge
Sameness is ok most of the time. Mickey Dees is never. One does not live by the properly cooked steak alone. One needs the properly cooked meat of the winged fowl as well as that of the free ranging Sus scrofa. Plus veggies and fruits in abundance. And dy-no-mite goulashes! 😉
Now galoshes are a different story, as are Gauloises.
13Dang – I was trying to vote for boaty mcboatyface but it seems they are being overwhelmed.
14Thank you, Sandridge … such great commentary from you this beautiful 21st day of March!!
15@Sharon
For some reason that “boaty mcboatyface” reminds me of the meter of one of my fav Doctor Who lines delivered by actor David Tennant, “You’re mister thick thickity thick face from thicktown thickannia. And so is your Dad!”
16Micr, Sus scrofa schnitzel are the best! Smothered in mushrooms hunter style or buried gypsy style in sauteed onions and peppers.
We will soon be enjoying our Cuban cigars legally. Thanks Obama!
As for the galoshes, thinking a good pair of ropers with extra pointy toes. All the better from which to launch the offending snacilbupeR.
17Micr, you sure that wasn’t Blackadder? Sounds more his style. As for most of the morons JJ tells us about, Peter Capaldi’s Doctor Who would say, “Shut up, shut up, shut up, shuttity up up up!”
Off topic but just throwing it in– “You may be cool, but you will never be as awesome as Peter Capaldi riding on a tank while playing the Doctor Who theme on a guitar”: (entrance about 20″ in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxJ6ouKcsD8
18Sandridge@1: Frozen Muskrat?
Never heard of it. Frozen Raccoon, however, really is or was a Swanson TV dinner. I read it in a book. Really.
eyesoars
19(No, it’s not, but it really was in a book.)
I cherish my copy of the Paprika Weiss Cookbook – all things Hungarian. His shop in NYC also had all the ingredients for a real fruitcake (as opposed to those hockey pucks & door stops y’all swap with friends every Xmas).
20@Rhea
Positive it wasn’t. D Tennant in episode The Girl in the Fireplace. Madam du Pompadour portrayed by the ever so delightful Sophia Myles.
I found Capaldi’s Yt of Oh Pretty Woman (thanks tonz Mr Orbison) and cut the initial riff out and made it the ring tone for when my little bride calls me. Thanks BBC America, Youtube and of course guitarist extraordinary P Capaldi and his used Yamaha SG-7!
BTW, love all the axe jokes.
21@pkm
Haven’t tried Sus scrofa schnitzel. Once I discovered feral hawg have little fatback such that bacon isn’t a viable option I relegated them to the vermin family, same as rats, mice, squirrels and possums. They are entertaining by how fast they run. Not as fast as a handloaded 7mm-08 round but fast by comparison to barnyard hawgs.
22Micr, there was a restaurant in the Eifel mountains near the Nürburgring that specialized in Sus scrofa schnitzel with all the terrific toppings available. Now that the varmints are roaming the hillsides here (the Sus scrofa, not the snacilbupeR), it’s one the menu items for the times I do the cooking. Much tastier than a pork or veal schnitzel with none of the gamy features of venison. Plus, I don’t get cussed out for killing Bambi’s father.
Donnie Drumpf just finished lying to AIPAC. Crooze is up next. I can’t/I won’t listen. Set KJ up with some Netflix animal stories. He’s happy. I am, too. 😀
23@pkm
Also dann verstehst du Deutsch?
(Mine’s rusty but aided and abetted by Google Translate.)
I was fortunate enough to ride around the ‘Ring in a Porsche 904 driven by its owner in a club event. Nowhere near the absolute speed, maybe 8 minutes 30 seconds, but fast enough that like AJ Foyt I might have dispensed with the seat belt.
24Micr, Ich spreche Deutsch. Aber nicht so oft wie ich mag würde, also es ist rostig.
After the Sunday races for a little money, we could race the track for fun. Had a sweet little BMW 3 series then. So we’d run a few laps, then have dinner at the restaurant I mentioned. Good times!
Wish someone would let me question Cruz, Drumpf and Kasich about AIPAC, Israel and Zionists. Dumpfpucks have no clue that not all Jews are Zionists nor that all Zionists are not Jews. Could twist them into pretzels faster than Dubya when confronted with Shia vs Sunni. Idiots think that a two state solution would be the end of Israel, instead of the beginning of peace for the region.
25@pkm
So re: “not all Jews are Zionists nor that all Zionists are not Jews”, do your read Stratfor as well?
26I voted for FLOATY McBoatyface myself.
27Gutte nacht!
28I was going to write this in German but I can’t conjugate German verbs after only four years of classes.
Read THE PROMISE and THE CHOSEN by Chaim Potok
29We have Blue States. We have Red States. We even have Purple States that are in the process of changing.
I wonder if we actually have any Orange States?
30If I ever get another boat, I am going to name it SV Boaty McBoatface. I hope the UK listens to the people who love this and name their pretty boaty Boaty.
31@AKLynne
OT of course but in my 20s I announced to my sainted father that I was gonna buy a sailboat and see what sailing was like. He removed the well-chewed cigar from his mouth and said “Why doancha just go stand with all your clothes on under your shower with the cold water going as hard as it will go an’ burn $100 bills at the same time? That’s what owning a sailboat is like.”
I bought the sailboat. And msf was right.
I’ve had some happy days in my old life, but the day a year or two later that I sold the sailboat to a guy in his 20s who said he wanted to see what sailing was like, was one of the happiest.
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