Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Tommy's Mind Is A Sword

Tommy (Will He Run?) Thompson brings the Journal Sentinel's DC bureau chief along to an event and our famous/infamous former Governor gets off a classic double-whammy negative:
“I’ve never really thought I would ever not got back into (politics) sometime,” he said.
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9 comments:

  1. James RowenJune 15, 2011 at 6:59 PM

    The mystery remains.

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  2. AnonymousJune 15, 2011 at 7:23 PM

    nothing tops his drunken speech at lambeau field. by the way, i remember the headline that the title of this entry alludes to. it made jay leno. sounds like something rep. weiner would tweet.

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  3. citydemJune 15, 2011 at 8:51 PM

    Too left wing to tea party
    Too right wing to hang out with working people
    Poor Tommy, he's grown old....

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  4. A. WagJune 15, 2011 at 10:46 PM

    Encephalafollus Tommy.

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  5. AnonymousJune 15, 2011 at 10:56 PM

    A. Wag might mean Encephalocele Tommy.

    I'm not one for correcting spelling. I just had no idea what the word was and neither did Ixquick. Major points for knowing that word and don't look at the Wikipedia picture, it's too sad. I was laughing at how hard I worked to look up the joke until I saw the sad picture of someone who really has Encephalocele.

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  6. A. WagJune 16, 2011 at 12:27 AM

    Sorry to have sent you on a wild Goggle/Goose chase. I was trying to "spell" the word that Tommy made up and then mispronounced during his term as US Secretary of Health and Human Services. Of course he said it to a live audience as well as to multiple cameras (I believe it was a press conference) so his gaffe became rather widely broadcast. If you don't recall the incident, you shouldn't feel bad. It was the Bush administration and mispronouncements of both the intentional and unintentional kinds were filling the air. It was hard to keep it all straight. To this day, I pronounce 'strategy' as 'strategery'. I just can't help myself.
    Anyway, I'm sure I misspelled the erroneous term as Tommy, realizing his mistake in the middle of saying it, trailed off in some muffled 's' and 'f' sounds. I'll try one more time so that you can get the gist: ensnawphullawphullusphsph.
    If I'd spelled it this way in the first place, you maybe wouldn't have had to work so hard to find a real disease. Sorry for your trouble.

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  7. A. WagJune 16, 2011 at 1:26 AM

    Tommy was probably trying to say
    "Encephalitis."

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  8. AnonymousJune 16, 2011 at 10:45 AM

    Thanks for the reference, Wag!

    I did enjoy my goose chase, just not that it ended on the sad, sick-baby picture.

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  9. aJune 16, 2011 at 11:54 AM

    Yes, I didn't take your advice and went there. Should have listened to your warning. It's hard to get out of one's mind.

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