October 1, 2012
Obama will displace Rodney Dangerfield...
... as the most famous person I've been able to watch in action from my office window. He will be here at the University of Wisconsin, Thursday at noon speaking on Bascom Mall, which is a lovely sloping lawn with academic buildings hemming in the space along the sides and a big old Abe Lincoln statue at the top. Smack in the middle of that space, back in the 1980s, Dangerfield directed himself in "Back to School."
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But which will create the most comedic memory?
I'm thinking that Rodney had a better screenplay than our President. Certainly more cogent.
If one is going to lie, slander and otherwise be demagogic, might as well be in a pretty setting, eh?
Good grief.
This close to the election and he has to shore up MADISON?
Alan Metter was the director of Back to School. Alan Metter = Rodney Dangerfield?
Sally Kellerman's line about Vonnegut still cracks me up.
I find driving down to the Union all but impossible because of all the Construction. And now they'll put the President down there? Let us all welcome GridLock to Madison for a couple hours.
Maybe he should arrive by boat.
Will they let you remain in your office as Obama speaks?
(I'll stop posting now ;) )
Are you sure you are worthy to look upon His Magnificent Presence?
Let us know if he starts on time.
Rodney - a guy who gets no respect.
Zero - a guy who gets way too much respect.
Tag: Why Rodney is not like Zero.
Campaign stop or fundraiser?
You seem to get the people who don't get no respect.
"Maybe he should arrive by boat."
Paddleboard.
"Alan Metter was the director of Back to School. Alan Metter = Rodney Dangerfield?"
In the scene I observed, it certainly appeared that Dangerfield was the director and not just the main actor, but I could be wrong.
"Will they let you remain in your office as Obama speaks?"
He's going to shut down the whole university? Ridiculous!
I have climbed Bascom Hill. It is a glacial drumlin and surprisingly steep. I would not climb it to see Obama.
Madison Man said:
Maybe he should arrive by boat.
10/1/12 11:38 AM
What need has he for a boat? Can't he just walk on Lake Mendota?
He shut down my place of work and he wasn't even coming to see us. He was doing fundraisers, three of them, at the local dive bar.
I worked from home that day since POTUS coming to town is basically like a military checkpoint. If you can avoid it, avoid it.
I hope it rains. But I'm not a racist.
Let's see - Ryan speaks to the AARP and tells them a few things they don't want to hear.
Obama goes to Madison. And appears on The View and Letterman. He won't be interviewed by Chris Matthews, because hey, you never know, even Chrissie Tingles might inadvertently ask him a tough question.
Ann, do you mean you have to evacuate your office?
Will students be let out of classes? Will attendance in class be an issue?
If I were a teacher there, I'd schedule a test or quiz for Thursday to ensure attendance in class.
Obama goes to college campuses for the crowds. Students are going to ditch class to go see him.
This is his only trick to pack em in these days.
Expect classes to be cancelled though for the "civics lesson".
You Stay Classy San Diego!
Comparing the first black president to a comedian? That's quite racist - I hope that doesn't make people in the middle vote for Obama out of pity.
I'd be surprised if they allowed people to stay in the rooms overlooking the speech.
Especially anyone with some wild, rightwing blog.
Heh.
Ann Althouse said...
In the scene I observed, it certainly appeared that Dangerfield was the director and not just the main actor, but I could be wrong.
That was the ruse Dangerfield employed to get Althouse on the "casting couch".
Obama closing the deal was a little more complicated, involving a lesser of evils three-way with McCain ;)
When Rodney Dangerfield was at the UW, remember the 'Grand Lakes University' sign on the pedestrian bridge?
I'm told he came to the Law School and used the facilities.
2nd stall.
Is this how small your life is?
He's going to shut down the whole university? Ridiculous!
Was there a lot of disruption/closings on campus when the President spoke on the Library Mall?
"Was there a lot of disruption/closings on campus when the President spoke on the Library Mall?"
Yes.
Look at his shadow on the opposite wall.
Any time Zeus revealed himself in all his glory to whatever nymph he was seducing/ravishing, she bought the farm.
If it applies to the King of the Gods, it probably applies to the King of the Sort Of Gods.
Hey!!! The Fonz was @ UW regularly when his daughter attended a few years back.
What about the Dalai Lama?
I wonder if there will be any people protesting Barry for completely ignoring Wisconsin during the recall campaigns?
Probably not.
This close to the election and he has to shore up MADISON?
10/1/12 11:34 AM
Of course, he doesn't have to shore up Madison. Just as a diabetic requires insulin, Barry needs his daily fix of Adoration from the Masses. Getting his ass kissed by the media doesn't quite cut it.
exhelodrvr1-you went there. Ha! With the "no respect" guy. Ha ha!
That's racist.
Springsteen won't be there to warm up the crowd. How about opening your window and CRANKING 'The Times They Are a-Changin'?
I wonder who will introduce Obama. Jim Doyle probably isn't available. Tammy Baldwin, maybe? Mark Pocan? Soglin?
How do they prevent a law professor from hanging an embarrassing banner from her window? Peer pressure?
And didn't Susan Sarandon turn up to cheer on the drumbeaters?
"I wonder who will introduce Obama. Jim Doyle probably isn't available. Tammy Baldwin, maybe? Mark Pocan? Soglin? "
Karleton Armstrong?
... as the most famous..
I could be mistaken... Obama-phone video aside... but I think this is a backhanded compliment coming from Althouse.
Goggle bias on "Famous"... footwear, quotes, footwear coupons, scientologists, dave’s, quotes about life, smoke, love quotes, movie quotes, birthday.
How do they prevent a law professor from hanging an embarrassing banner from her window? Peer pressure?
10/1/12 1:11 PM
Heh. I'd love to see someone hang a Ryan - Math poster out the window. Speakin' truth to power and all that.
But of course, nobody will.
How about a vlog with video (as seen from the office window) and a running commentary between Althouse and Meade?
How do they prevent a law professor from hanging an embarrassing banner from her window? Peer pressure?
That's "fire in a crowded theater".
I wonder if there will be any people protesting Barry for completely ignoring Wisconsin during the recall campaigns?
Most likely there will be no actual signs about it 'cause outside signs will be banned from the event. But I wouldn't be surprised to see some "comfortable shoes" thrown on stage while he's speaking...lots of folks are still pissed about that.
"Springsteen won't be there to warm up the crowd. How about opening your window and CRANKING 'The Times They Are a-Changin'?"
"Born in the USA" ?
(Raaaaaacist!)
I keed, I keed.
I hope he totally nails the Triple Lindy off the high platform.
Doors open at Noon, I see (on Bascom Hill). (What doors?)
Anyway, I'm guessing that means BHO shows up around 3. The rain may hold off, we'll see.
Where's Professor Turgison when we need him?
Where's Professor Turgison when we need him?
Obama can talk about how he was there marching with all the teacher's unions in the picket line during their big battler with Gov. Walker.
"purplepenquin said...
But I wouldn't be surprised to see some "comfortable shoes" thrown on stage while he's speaking...lots of folks are still pissed about that."
No way that will happen.
"Free Obamaphones to the first 2000 who make it to the Hill!"
Ghost of Rodney: Take my president...please.
Why do Jewish men die before their wives? Because they WANT to. (budda-bump)
He's going to shut down the whole university? Ridiculous!
You'd think shutting down a skydiving operation 25 miles away would be ridiculous too, but I've seen it done.
He showed up at Kent State last week. Had a very large crowd, short notice - just like this one. There must be something to the "showing up at colleges to get a big crowd" theory. I'm sure if he showed up in my town square there wouldn't be a big crowd.
No way that will happen.
Now that you mention it, probably not. If it is similar to the gated-event Kerry had at the State Capitol then they will only allow the very-faithful to get close enough to throw anything...the regular crowd will be behind a separate barricade that is further away.
The Rodney Dangerfield movie was pretty funny.
I don't expect Obama to be that entertaining.
What about the guy with the marbles and slingshot.
Oh wait -- that's the bike thread. Never mind.
That reminds me of a funny photoshop somebody did of Michele Obama's appearance in Madison... back in the hope and change days.
It was a moderately low turn out but the photoshop was... well you can imagine... it was like you couldn't fit a rumor.
Found it.
Free Student Loans!
Free Cell Phones!
Free Birth Control Pills!
Free Abortions if You Forget to Take the Free Birth Control Pills!
Pretty much sums up the speech, don't you think?
sydney said...
There must be something to the 'showing up at colleges to get a big crowd' theory.
Students respond to spontaneous text and IM-driven gathering.
I will be curious to see if the aging faculty are the oldest faces present. Also, will the State workers make the trek down State St. to join in?
ricpic said...
Ghost of Rodney: Take my president...please.
I tell ya', Henny Youngman gets no respect, no respect at all.
"Free Student Loans!
Free Cell Phones!
Free Birth Control Pills!
Free Abortions if You Forget to Take the Free Birth Control Pills!"
Ask not what you can do for your country. Don't even ask what you can do for yourself. Ask what your country can do for you by establishing a government that will increasingly tax those who earn so it can give free stuff to people who don't earn but pay for the free stuff by voting for that established government.
"He's going to shut down the whole university? Ridiculous!"
He will shut down all of Wisconsin... and no one will notice.
My mistake, EDH. You're absolutely right, it was Henny not Rodney with the "Take my wife...please" line.
Golly Gee Willickers, I just hope good old Moderate Republicans never bring up race, or say anything that would even upset a peach, because all those wonderful White women might pee in their pants. They don't like confrontation - well accept when they are getting hyper-aggressive in a White male's face.
Although the GOP now has zero chance of ever winning a presidential election again, I guess Jesus will give us a crown in heaven for being all nice and Christian-y?
John 10/1/12 5:11 PM said ...
"He will shut down all of Wisconsin... and no one will notice."
Please, don't shut Wis down; think of the cheese ...
(take off on 'think of the children')
Bada-bump
_Jim
I don't remember ever seeing anybody famous.
I saw Khruschev's limo in Vienna though. Darkened windows, high speed.
Obama will turn out that way.
How in the world are they going to make sure the only people who attend are those who RSVP'd? Good grief. Thank goodness I am not on campus that day. I hope you get some good 'crowd-size' photos Ann so we can accurately identify how many attend, 18k or 50k.
Meade responded to...
"I wonder who will introduce Obama?"
...with Karleton Armstrong?
BOOM!?
I wonder who will introduce Obama?
Professor Ann Althouse?
**crickets** ?
Don't fash yourself sweetie, he ain't gonna' break into Romeo's window speech. As far as ridiculous, what hasn't this "president" done that wasn't ridiculous? The only people worse than him are his endless sycophants in the media, getting all weeweed up when someone dares to question where Superfly was born. I mean if a brother claims in a book he wrote that he was born in Africa, I gotsta' believe him. He was there, right? Is that something you confuse?
Smartest president eveh' and he don't remember how many states are in the US, how to pronounce corpeman, or where he was born. I can actually understand the first 2. You're out smoking choom with Jay-z and Bey-once, you might still be a little treed up, and forget how many states there are...I can see that. And really, how many Harvard law professors really understand the English language. Hell, Bill didn't know what the definition of "is" was.(Pssst...Bill..."is" is getting a boot up your ass from your ugly harridan of a wife because you were getting hummers from your barely of age interns.)
"Where were you born?"
"Honolulu"
"Where were you born?"
"Hawaii"
"Where were you born?"
"Along time ago, in a galaxy far, far away"
"Where were you born?"
"Kenya."
Which answer was on a book written by the really, really smartest president evah'?(hint: if this was millionaire would you jump the question "Where were you born?")
Fuck Zero, and all his enablers. Buncha' dummies.
Aridog said...
Meade responded to...
"I wonder who will introduce Obama?"
...with Karleton Armstrong?
BOOM!?
More like CHOOM!
"The other little glitch is that it was reported that the cash smelled strongly of cannabis."
Dangerfield's sense of humor is eternal.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/RodneyDangerfieldGravestoneJuly2007.jpg
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