Newfound Very Minor Respect
Posted by TFG on June 24th, 2005
“Try as I may, Governor, I’m not going to wait that long,” Gov. Perry said. “Adios, Mofo.”
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry, to a mediot, over an (unrealized) open mic
I had only barely heard this on the radio before I went to Paradise, and had forgotten it. Pretty dang funny audio, as I recall. I know we’re supposed to be all happy-happy and love each other and encourage a spirt of bipartisan hand-in-hand cooperation and it’s probably not the smartest thing a governor ever said, but this is one of my failings — I love a man (or lady) whipping on the press. I wish I could find the audio — it’s so smarmily frat-boy evil. heh heh
Reminded by Banjo, who also asks the rhetorical question “[...] why the poker craze? Couldn’t it have been Scrabble?” I give a suitably rhetorical (bull-poop) answer. The real answer is — ain’t nobody playing Scrabble for money that I know of. You think poker is big, wait until they unleash Scrabble-for-Dough. 150,000,000 liberal arts majors will be on that so fast, the interwebs will break.
Oh, and good closing lines: Don’t forget to feed Tina, & Adios, mofo…*
* Not you, Banjo.
June 25th, 2005 at 12:14 am
I am so looking forward to this election. Did you hear Strayhorn’s description of herself when she announced? It was priceless - a laundry list of attacks on Perry in her usual way. Looks to be a good ‘ole fashioned mud-slinging.
And then just wait till John Sharp makes up his damn mind.
June 25th, 2005 at 12:49 am
Nobody heard Strayhorn’s announcement. Perry’s special session announcement and prior leaks sucked up every bit of her political oxygen. Pretty hilarious stuff!
June 25th, 2005 at 9:37 am
Strayhorn’s schtick is about as tiresome as schticks come. I hope she gets thrashed and retires so I don’t have to listen to that crap a minute longer.
And I hope the idiot Dems can field someone that isn’t a cartoon character. But the Dems are idiots…QED.
June 25th, 2005 at 3:35 pm
“Adios, mofo” is the best quote by a Texas governor since Preston “Drive Friendly” Smith’s comment to protestors chanting “Free Lee Otis” - “Sheeit, I like frijoles, too.”
June 25th, 2005 at 4:51 pm
Where would the Mecca of Scrabbling For Dough be?
Some Ivy League university town?
June 26th, 2005 at 1:17 pm
I’m thinking a sleepy midwestern college town, somewhere in Indiana or Iowa. But most likely, just the Internet. A mecca would be kind of counter-intuitive.
July 6th, 2005 at 9:30 pm
texasjew,
““Adios, mofo” is the best quote by a Texas governor since Preston “Drive Friendly” Smith’s comment to protestors chanting “Free Lee Otis” - “Sheeit, I like frijoles, too.”
personally i prefer ann richards refering to the river rapids as being so stong that it was like every whore in el paso had flushed the comode at the same time.