The Great Jasper List of Political Things That Made Me Go "Eh?":
1) Lyndon LaRouche runs for office nearly every election. He is classified as an Independent candidate and his archenemy is the Queen of England. Supposedly she is responsible for the world cocaine market, and at the beginning of the Falklands war, the UK should have been nuked off the planet. I'm surprised he didn't use "God Save the Queen" as his campaign song.
2) Explode-a-Ferret, Fanciable Austrian Bloke et al were having a discussion of Political Moments That Make Us Go "Eh?" so naturally Explode-a-Ferret brings up Italy. He starts talking about how Mussolini's fascist/porn star granddaughter holds an important position in the Italian government. Fanciable Austrian Bloke said "well, she's not that bad!" Explode-a-Ferret stared at him in horror for a moment or two before saying "I don't even WANT to know!" It would have been funny if it stopped there, but supposedly FAB meant politically.
3) Our state capital, Denver, is the national headquarters for the Prohibition Party, promising a dry nation if elected. Their meetings generally draw about twenty people, all conservative Christians and many of them related.
4) Explode-a-Ferret says that in the UK you can run for parliament for 500 quid which leads to some rather peculiar political situations. Like Screaming Lord Sutch, for instance. Apparently his campaign is based on stilts and scary hats, and when they read his name on the TV he makes menacing faces. I've heard about him on the News Quiz but I haven't googled him yet. Info about him would be greatly appreciated.
5) In Austria, the Social Democrats are the punk party. They use Vienna slang and they don't come off as terribly well educated.
6) Back to the "Run for Parliament: Cheap!" issue: a reporter wounded in Sarajevo won an election because he was running against, among others, the candidate from the Aztec Transvestite Party. I don't even want to know.
If any of you have a List of Political Moments That Made You Go "Eh?" please send 'em in.
In the same vein, there was a note in New Scientist about French road signs. (It was on their list of road signs that made them go eh, I stole the idea and went a bit nuts). On a ring road, one sign read "Toutes Directions" whereas the other read "Autres Directions." The correspondent, worried that choosing an "other" direction instead of an "all" direction would land him in a weird French alternate reality, went towards "Toutes Directions."
2) Explode-a-Ferret, Fanciable Austrian Bloke et al were having a discussion of Political Moments That Make Us Go "Eh?" so naturally Explode-a-Ferret brings up Italy. He starts talking about how Mussolini's fascist/porn star granddaughter holds an important position in the Italian government. Fanciable Austrian Bloke said "well, she's not that bad!" Explode-a-Ferret stared at him in horror for a moment or two before saying "I don't even WANT to know!" It would have been funny if it stopped there, but supposedly FAB meant politically.
3) Our state capital, Denver, is the national headquarters for the Prohibition Party, promising a dry nation if elected. Their meetings generally draw about twenty people, all conservative Christians and many of them related.
4) Explode-a-Ferret says that in the UK you can run for parliament for 500 quid which leads to some rather peculiar political situations. Like Screaming Lord Sutch, for instance. Apparently his campaign is based on stilts and scary hats, and when they read his name on the TV he makes menacing faces. I've heard about him on the News Quiz but I haven't googled him yet. Info about him would be greatly appreciated.
5) In Austria, the Social Democrats are the punk party. They use Vienna slang and they don't come off as terribly well educated.
6) Back to the "Run for Parliament: Cheap!" issue: a reporter wounded in Sarajevo won an election because he was running against, among others, the candidate from the Aztec Transvestite Party. I don't even want to know.
If any of you have a List of Political Moments That Made You Go "Eh?" please send 'em in.
In the same vein, there was a note in New Scientist about French road signs. (It was on their list of road signs that made them go eh, I stole the idea and went a bit nuts). On a ring road, one sign read "Toutes Directions" whereas the other read "Autres Directions." The correspondent, worried that choosing an "other" direction instead of an "all" direction would land him in a weird French alternate reality, went towards "Toutes Directions."
posted by RACL at 7:48 PM
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