It might have been nice if the world was protected from HIM the last 8 years.

Innocence is definitely not something we can accuse W of.

... maybe if we all chip in, and buy an island out in the middle of nowhere... and put a fence around it..........

... with NO GATE ...

The guy has been on an island for years already.....so to speak.
More Krakatoa than Atlantis sadly..........

Why waste a perfectly good island

There is plenty of ocean to ...........

We could protect him really well from other people by putting him on a long-term space shuttle.

Of course, I'm not sure that the rest of the universe would appreciate it.

Good point. I suppose sharks have to eat too.........

As long as sharks don't mind eating their own (I don't think they mind) it should work.

A guy in Texas walks into a bar, and heads over to the bartender and orders a shot and a beer. Drinks it right down. Then another one. And then another.
Then he stands up in the middle of the bar and says, "George W. Bush is a horse's ass".
As soon as he says that the biggest cowboy in the bar comes over and punches him right in the nose.
The guy gets off the floor kinda slow, his nose is tore up pretty good. And he says to the cowboy, "Hey, I'm sorry about what I said. I guess I was kinda drunk and I didn't realize you were such big Bush people around here".
And the cowboy replies, "We're not Bush people. We're horse people".

That joke is really funny. It took me a minute to process but when I got it I laughed!

LOL. That was funny...

Another saying around here: Damn straight.

The last Bushism?

January 21, 2009
by Benjamin Zimmer

The "Bushisms" industry, mined so thoroughly by Slate's Jacob Weisberg for eight long years, is now a thing of the past. But Weisberg's colleague at Slate, Christopher Beam, got an exclusive scoop on a behind-the-scenes eleventh-hour Bushism when he managed to get into a farewell party for the outgoing administration on Sunday night. Here's what Bush told the crowd, according to Beam:


"I am glad we made this journey," he went on. Then he engaged in a little reminiscence. "Remember the time in 2003 when Bartlett came to work all hung over?" Laughs. "Nothing ever changes."
He continued: "We never shruck—"
"Shirked!" someone yelled.
"Shirked," Bush corrected, smiling. "You might have shirked; I shrucked. I mean we took the deals head on."


I can only guess that Bush had in mind such pairs as stick/stuck and strike/struck, and tried to apply the same irregular preterite formation to shirk. This type of innovation isn't entirely out of the question — consider the relatively recent arrival of snuck as a nonstandard preterite for sneak. (Bush made the added metathetic innovation of moving the /r/ into the initial consonant cluster.) When corrected on shruck, however, Bush quickly turned it into an absurdist joke: "You might have shirked; I shrucked." That vaguely reminds me of the "irregular verb" exercises on the British television show, Yes Minister: "I have an independent mind, you are eccentric, he is round the twist."

Bush's creative conjugating is also a bit reminiscent of the scene in 30 Rock's "Christmas Special" episode (discussed here by Eric Baković), where Tracy Jordan says to Liz Lemon, "What's the past tense for scam? Is it scrumped? Liz Lemon, I think you just got scrumped!" Shruck makes about as much sense as a past-tense form of shirk — though as far as I know shruck doesn't carry any salacious double entendres like scrump does. But perhaps it should.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1044

annie, you speak my language--very cool! I'm proud to be your fellow Blunderite.