One is a #StableGenius...— Thomas Reich (@gollum1419_g) January 7, 2018
The other is a jackass...
RT for Mr Ed. #ImpeachTrump pic.twitter.com/YBXL3GHSKH
But some of us oldies notice the oldness problem:
My students seem not to have heard of #StableGenius Mr. Ed. You see, it was a TV show 1961-66. Mr. Ed made more sense than most back then. He still does. Learn and sing the theme: https://t.co/AFWWFHioNm— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) January 6, 2018
No, no, no, Larry, singing old TV theme songs is not a way to get the youngsters to see that Baby Boomer 1960s culture is cool right now. The anti-Trump idea is to make Trump seem senile, so leaning into your oldness is not the best move.
And watch out. There are a lot of people who hear "stable" and think of Jesus:
Have any evangelical leaders come out to explain that Jesus was also a #StableGenius ?— A Staten Island Guy (@DanFiorella) January 7, 2018
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Don't put down Mr. Ed. He hit an inside-the-park home run off of Sandy Koufax.
Yesterday was the Epiphany (or maybe today, I'm a little fuzzy on whether the Church changed it to a Sunday thing), when the Three Wise men from the East visited the Babe in the Stable. Maybe Trump's tweets represent some kind of worldly epiphany.
A horse is a horse of course of course!
"Jason said...
Don't put down Mr. Ed. He hit an inside-the-park home run off of Sandy Koufax."
Meh. So did Dale Long and Ron Hunt.
Isn't it racist to say this kind of stuff about a president? I definitely think it's racist to compare our president to an animal.
And a new movement is born:
May the Horse be with you.
If the last senile President was Reagan, let's do that again. I liked peace, prosperity, and fewer nuclear weapons.
So, just as Scott Adams predicted, the opposition can't help themselves. They will snark about stable genius, and the words will be forever linked with Trump.
> the words
Has to be visceral
Word play on "stable" is too literate to stick
Etymology gives the majority a headache
The picture of a horse next to Trump helps, but it won't get far enough.
Persuasion fail.
Funny how that works. If I do a quick word association test for "genius", I now get: Trump, Gauss, Einstein, Newton, Dirac, Shakespeare.
Caligula knew about stable politics.
Meade's reaction to the Mr. Ed stuff was: "I love Mr. Ed." I.e., associating Trump with Mr. Ed was giving us a reason to like him.
Horses are very well loved animals. If Trump is a horse, good for Trump.
Or to borrow another 60s phrase, Donald Trump is a real trip.
Spanish children get presents in their shoes today.
And Mr. Ed was a genius, for a horse.
Mr. Ed is one of those shows which we remember fondly from our childhood, but if you watch it now it's mostly annoying.
In the 60's several Dodgers appeared on sitcoms as themselves. Leo Durocher (then a Dodger coach trying to finagle his way into Walt Alston's manager job) was on The Beverly Hillbillies and The Munsters, too. They all had the same plot: sitcom character (Jethro, Mr. Ed, Herman Munster) has amazing ability to play baseball but cannot play in the majors due to an eccentricity. Comical hijinks abound.
Wiiiiiiillbur.
Today's guest: Dear Abby, Abigail van Buren.
If Trump is Mr. Ed, Hillary is "MyMother the Car." RIP Jerry Van Dyke.
Jason said...
Don't put down Mr. Ed. He hit an inside-the-park home run off of Sandy Koufax.
"I'll show 'em who's the brains of this outfit."
Hilarious, but he forgot to touch second base, which is the opposite of the accusations against Trump.
I think the juxtaposition of Mr. Ed and The Donald is funny as hell. And it fails as an insult on almost every level. It seems to reinforce the Trump genius comparison. A genius is a genius of course. It is what it is.
Whatever talents Trump has, Einsteinian genius isn't one of them. (btw, did I mention I'm a Mensa candidate?)
Genius plus stability. How much you want to bet Trump has read the works of Edward E. Smith?
More blessed Gutenberg:
https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/smithee-graylensman/smithee-graylensman-00-t.txt
"That's all, I think. Mathematicians, physicists," the librarian ticked
off upon pink fingers. "Astronomers, philosophers, and this new
classification, which hasn't been named yet."
"The H.T.T.'s." Kinnison glanced at the label, lightly lettered in
pencil, fronting the slim packet of cards. "Aren't you going to run them
through, too?"
"No. These are the two I mentioned a minute ago--the only ones higher
than seven hundred fifty."
"A choice pair, eh? Sort of a _creme de la creme_? Let's look 'em over,"
and he extended his hand. "What do the initials stand for?"
"I'm awfully sorry, sir, really," the girl flushed in embarrassment as
she relinquished the cards in high reluctance. "If I'd had any idea we
wouldn't have dared--we call you, among ourselves, the 'High-Tension
Thinkers.'"
"Us!" It was the Lensman's turn to flush. Nevertheless, he took the
packet and read sketchily the facer: "Class XIX--Unclassifiable at
present... lack of adequate methods... minds of range and scope
far beyond any available indices... Ratings above high genius (750)...
yet no instability... power beyond any heretofore known...
assigned ratings tentative and definitely minimum."
He then read the cards.
"Worsel, Velantia, eight hundred."
And:
"Kimball Kinnison, Tellus, eight hundred seventy-five."
...
And:
Donald Trump, Tellus,...who knows?
Mr. Ed is a horse not a jackass. If Mr. Ed were a jackass, his feelings would be hurt by the post. But he's a horse, so he just laughs it off.
And Mr. Ed's not just a horse. He's a Strong Horse.
There seems to be some confusion between Mr. Ed and Francis the talking mule.
reader said...
There seems to be some confusion between Mr. Ed and Francis the talking mule."
Either of those two are still smarter than that ass Obama never mind Hillary.
Was it Wellington who said, when someone mentioned that he was born in Ireland, that not everyone who is born in a stable is a horse?
Mr. Ed was mildly annoying, but he was a good horse, a loyal horse, a strong horse, a wise horse, of course.
So I clicked on the Mr. Ed video. It brought memories of having watched the show. Then youtube put the next two suggested videos. They were both episodes of Roadkill. Obviously, it's based on my recent youtube viewing, but I thought it was funny. (I did summer theater at Occidental College in 1984 with David Freiburger, one of the hosts of Roadkill and the editor of Hot Rod magazine. It's a really entertaining show for gearheads.)
Mr. Ed wasn't a horse: he was a zebra: a lady Zebra named Amelia.
https://www.snopes.com/lost/mistered.asp
This sort of thing is only horribly racist and disrespectful when the target is a Democrat.
How to hit .300 against Sandy Koufax:
Only play on Yom Kippur.
How to hit against pitchers like Sandy Koufax:
1.) Start swinging as soon as his lead foot plants the ground.
2.) Hope it's not his curve.
How to catch R.A. Dickey's knuckleball:
Wait for it to stop rolling and then pick it up.
RE: Mr. Ed wasn't a horse: he was a zebra: a lady Zebra named Amelia.
Be sure to read the rest of the story, too.
http://www.snopes.com/lost/false.asp
So the left will use a photo of a electrically shocked horse to attack the president. Got it.
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