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Ice2SeeYou
Title: Sexual Tyrannosaurus
Joined: Sep 28 2008
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Every time I hear Palin or anyone else refer to McCain as "the Maverick," I just want to shit.
It just seems like another douchey way to attract stupid rednecks to McCain's side. "Yeeehaawwww! The Maverick, baby! Whoooohooooo!"
I'm not sure if he can fly an F-14 Tomcat (maybe he can), but I bet he sucks at volleyball.
(If Sarah Palin were to adopt the nickname "Goose" I'd be more likely to vote for him, however.)
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Dr. Jeebus
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
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McCain has been a "Maverick" long before the election. It's not something he just recently tacked on. It's something people call him because of his habit of voting against the party at times.
It's not always used in a positive context, either. He was on the receiving end of a lot of hate for a very long time for this.
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Rycona
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Title: The Maestro
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The one and only true Maverick:
Even the ones before him are imitators.
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Tyop
Title: Grammar Nazi
Joined: May 04 2008
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I see your Mel Gibson and raise you a Tom Cruise:
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Cattivo
Joined: Apr 14 2006
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It has been used ad nauseam lately, but it is descriptive of his personality in the Senate.
And Rycona, I'm a sucker for poker references like that. 
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Optimist With Doubts
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Kubo
Joined: Aug 24 2005
Location: Mount Holly, NJ
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The one and only true Maverick:
Even the ones before him are imitators. |
Bullshit. Maverick was a goddam cheater in that last game. As were the rest of the players. Odds of being dealt a royal flush = 1/>600,000. Odds of being dealt a straight flush = 1/72,000. Odds of being dealt a four of a kind = 1/about 4000. Given, they weren't dealt those cards at the outset, but the odds of those three hands showing up in ONE game of draw poker is about 1/holyfuckillion.
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Thou, because I am wroth, be not dismayed, for I shall win the strife, whoever circle round within for the defence. This their insolence is not new, for of old they used it at a less secret gate, which still is found without a bolt. Above it thou didst see the dead inscription; and already on this side of it
descends the steep, passing without escort through the circles,
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Cattivo
Joined: Apr 14 2006
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Yeah, it was total B.S., but for a midnight movie in which I didn't have any sort of expectations for, it was entertaining. Incredibly stupid and poorly written, but still mindlessly entertaining.
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
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McCain's not cool enough to work for Sigma.
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mjl1783
Joined: Aug 13 2008
Location: Watertown, NY
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Every time I hear Palin or anyone else refer to McCain as "the Maverick," I just want to shit.
It just seems like another douchey way to attract stupid rednecks to McCain's side. "Yeeehaawwww! The Maverick, baby! Whoooohooooo!" |
Yeah, because it's so much less vacuous than "change," which seems like a douchey way to attract rabid, frothing Bush haters. Maybe if people decided they weren't going to let themselves be cowed by stupid buzzwords and talking points, we wouldn't have to put up with them.
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| It has been used ad nauseam lately, but it is descriptive of his personality in the Senate. |
I think the "Maverick" label is more of a gimmick-y media creation really. It's not like McCain is the only moderate Republican in Congress, or the only one doing bi-partisan work. Huckabee, Romney, Giuiani, all managed to piss off the hard-core conservatives for being too liberal as well.
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| It's not always used in a positive context, either. He was on the receiving end of a lot of hate for a very long time for this. |
Partly that, partly because of the rather nasty primary battle he got into with Bush. Either way, he made up for it with Palin. Why right-wingers aren't completely insulted by her though, I'll never know.
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
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| Kubo wrote: |
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The one and only true Maverick:
Even the ones before him are imitators. |
Bullshit. Maverick was a goddam cheater in that last game. As were the rest of the players. Odds of being dealt a royal flush = 1/>600,000. Odds of being dealt a straight flush = 1/72,000. Odds of being dealt a four of a kind = 1/about 4000. Given, they weren't dealt those cards at the outset, but the odds of those three hands showing up in ONE game of draw poker is about 1/holyfuckillion. |
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ReeperTheSeeker
Joined: Aug 26 2007
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When John McCain says "Fuck the war, we need to get our fucking economy back in order, then we can go back to Iran . . . i mean iraq.", then i'll consider thinking about calling him a maverick. But really, a true maverick does not do politics, they grab the chain gun and start mowing shit.
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
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| McCain's not cool enough to work for Sigma. |
Thank you! I only wish I had the skill to do some "Maverick Hunter O" picture.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
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| Bullshit. Maverick was a goddam cheater in that last game. As were the rest of the players. Odds of being dealt a royal flush = 1/>600,000. Odds of being dealt a straight flush = 1/72,000. Odds of being dealt a four of a kind = 1/about 4000. Given, they weren't dealt those cards at the outset, but the odds of those three hands showing up in ONE game of draw poker is about 1/holyfuckillion. |
If I remember correctly, and I may not, the dealer -was- cheating in that last game. That's why Mav asked for the last card to be dealt by one of the other players.
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Greg the White
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I understand what you mean. When these political buzzwords keep getting repeated, it gets to the point where I'm genuinely angry every time I hear them.
Other ones I'm sick of:
"The Issues" (Nobody thinks you're being radical when you say "Let's debate the issues!")
"Liberal and Conservative" (Think outside of two terms you fucking zombies)
"Change" (Yeah, from both sides)
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
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| Greg the White wrote: |
I understand what you mean. When these political buzzwords keep getting repeated, it gets to the point where I'm genuinely angry every time I hear them.
Other ones I'm sick of:
"The Issues" (Nobody thinks you're being radical when you say "Let's debate the issues!")
"Liberal and Conservative" (Think outside of two terms you fucking zombies)
"Change" (Yeah, from both sides) |
John McCain is a pokemon named "My Friends"
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Greg the White
Joined: Apr 09 2008
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| Greg the White wrote: |
I understand what you mean. When these political buzzwords keep getting repeated, it gets to the point where I'm genuinely angry every time I hear them.
Other ones I'm sick of:
"The Issues" (Nobody thinks you're being radical when you say "Let's debate the issues!")
"Liberal and Conservative" (Think outside of two terms you fucking zombies)
"Change" (Yeah, from both sides) |
John McCain is a pokemon named "My Friends" |
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So here's to you Mrs. Robinson. People love you more- oh, nevermind. |
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JStrangiato
Title: El Hombre Strangiato
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| Greg the White wrote: |
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| Greg the White wrote: |
I understand what you mean. When these political buzzwords keep getting repeated, it gets to the point where I'm genuinely angry every time I hear them.
Other ones I'm sick of:
"The Issues" (Nobody thinks you're being radical when you say "Let's debate the issues!")
"Liberal and Conservative" (Think outside of two terms you fucking zombies)
"Change" (Yeah, from both sides) |
John McCain is a pokemon named "My Friends" |
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
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| Greg the White wrote: |
I understand what you mean. When these political buzzwords keep getting repeated, it gets to the point where I'm genuinely angry every time I hear them.
Other ones I'm sick of:
"The Issues" (Nobody thinks you're being radical when you say "Let's debate the issues!")
"Liberal and Conservative" (Think outside of two terms you fucking zombies)
"Change" (Yeah, from both sides) |
Honestly, if I hear "Main street, not Wall street" one more time...
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Kubo
Joined: Aug 24 2005
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| Kubo wrote: |
| Rycona wrote: |
The one and only true Maverick:
Even the ones before him are imitators. |
Bullshit. Maverick was a goddam cheater in that last game. As were the rest of the players. Odds of being dealt a royal flush = 1/>600,000. Odds of being dealt a straight flush = 1/72,000. Odds of being dealt a four of a kind = 1/about 4000. Given, they weren't dealt those cards at the outset, but the odds of those three hands showing up in ONE game of draw poker is about 1/holyfuckillion. |
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Haha. I did come off douchey. I've just seen that movie about 50 times, and every time I see it, I wonder why nobody gets shot for cheating at the outset. Angel wises up and pulls his gun after the hand is done with, but I guess he wouldn't have shot the cheating-ass Commodore since he beat him.
"I have two pair. Eights and eights."
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Thou, because I am wroth, be not dismayed, for I shall win the strife, whoever circle round within for the defence. This their insolence is not new, for of old they used it at a less secret gate, which still is found without a bolt. Above it thou didst see the dead inscription; and already on this side of it
descends the steep, passing without escort through the circles,
One such that by him the city shall be opened to us. |
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ReeperTheSeeker
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Ba'al
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JRA
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Somebody showed me a brilliant Sigma photoshop with John McCain's face on it, but it doesn't come up on the first page of the google search.
No 1st page google search = not worth my time.
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