Tuesday, November 11, 2008

"Wonderboy"

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Calvin Coolidge called Herbert Hoover "Wonderboy". Derisively. Because he disdained Hoover's propensity for interfering in everything...especially the economy, which Coolidge, an actual Conservative...disapproved of.

Coolidge said of Hoover:

"That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad."

I think we have found the perfect sobriquet for the FNG* .

The Gunslinger

*fucking new guy
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2 comments:

  1. I worked with a guy we called Wonderboy, because we were always wondering where he was. Problem with the new one is that we do....

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  2. Good one. You're right...too bad Obie just won't disappear.

    I think I'm going to be made sick at the sycophantic coverage he's going to get for the foreseeable future.

    Even the "newscasts", are gag-inspiring.

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