While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year old Texas rancher whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Sarah Palin and her bid to be a heartbeat away from being President. The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle.' Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was. The old rancher said, 'When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post turtle.' The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain. 'You know she didn't get up there by herself, she doesn't belong up there, she doesn't know what to do while she is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put her up there to begin with.'And Susan, over at Kiss My Big Blue Butt says that McCain "has it floored in neutral." Yup!
Friday, September 26, 2008
Texans love a good turn o' the phrase
And would you believe it took a non-Texan (Thanks Freewheel!) to send this one to me:
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And working further along that analogy (this shows you how pessimistic I can get) there's likely an unfortunately high number of slack-jawed yokels who stare at the turtle and marvel at how purty it looks in the sunlight.
I would feel sorry for the post turtle, because it obviously doesn't want to be up there. By contrast, Palin agreed to be up on that post.
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