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(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Spiffy St. Paul, Minn. elementary school to be renamed "Barack and Michelle Obama Service Learning Elementary"   (startribune.com) divider line 288
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gustakooka [TotalFark] 2009-05-01 03:26:23 PM  
Let's go, BAMOSLE, Let's go!

\clap clap

 
dahmers love zombie [TotalFark] 2009-05-01 03:35:06 PM  
They're going to service who now? The Secret Service may not like this.

 
Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark] 2009-05-01 03:39:04 PM  
Good Lord...I voted for the guy and I like the job he's doing, but this is ridiculous. Schools should not be named after people who have only been on the job 3 months. Wait at least a full term.

 
phlegmmo 2009-05-01 03:46:28 PM  
Change you can achieve in.

 
Triaxis 2009-05-01 03:46:53 PM  
Fitting for an indoctrination center.

 
Community Agitator 2009-05-01 03:47:02 PM  
When the snow melts in Minnesota, is there something in the water?

 
EvilEgg [TotalFark] 2009-05-01 03:47:25 PM  
Lionel Mandrake: Good Lord...I voted for the guy and I like the job he's doing, but this is ridiculous. Schools should not be named after people who have only been on the job 3 months. Wait at least a full term.

THIS!

I like him, but you have to wait and see how his tenure turns out.

 
Oberon_fx 2009-05-01 03:47:58 PM  
What's their school mascot? A Portuguese Water Dog?

 
Snarfangel [TotalFark] 2009-05-01 03:48:23 PM  
What mascot will they have?

 
MedianJoe 2009-05-01 03:48:27 PM  
pfft! Republicans will just rename a couple more steets and whatever to Reagan. Or maybe just rename the entire state of Iowa to Reagan.

 
chefaj 2009-05-01 03:48:33 PM  
Spiffy my ass.

When will this world-wide circle jerk get busted for the indecent exposure that it is?

 
Iis 2009-05-01 03:48:40 PM  
Hey, what ever became of the "George Bush School of learning real good"

 
Shaggy_C 2009-05-01 03:48:46 PM  
What a lame name for a school. Too many words.

 
Englebert Slaptyback 2009-05-01 03:48:58 PM  

Lionel Mandrake


Good Lord...I voted for the guy and I like the job he's doing, but this is ridiculous. Schools should not be named after people who have only been on the job 3 months. Wait at least a full term.


I think it's more about the unprecedented election than about the service heretofore.

 
EL_FABREZ 2009-05-01 03:49:08 PM  
Let the reeducation of our youth begin.

 
DarnoKonrad 2009-05-01 03:49:36 PM  
Take THAT George W. Bush Wastewater treatment facility.

 
chefaj 2009-05-01 03:49:51 PM  
Community Agitator: When the snow melts in Minnesota, is there something in the water?

Piss. And obvious stickyness from the my above post.

 
icallhimgamblor [TotalFark] 2009-05-01 03:49:53 PM  
I hear the neighboring "short bus" school will be named after Michelle Bachmann.

 
Ikam 2009-05-01 03:50:15 PM  
Lionel Mandrake: Good Lord...I voted for the guy and I like the job he's doing, but this is ridiculous. Schools should not be named after people who have only been on the job 3 months. Wait at least a full term.

I feel the same way. Hell,I even helped campaign for the guy, c'mon now, lets not get crazy here. What if we (those who support the guy) are all wrong and he does turn out to really suck, then do you really want your school named after him?

 
Snarfangel [TotalFark] 2009-05-01 03:50:21 PM  
Oberon_fx: What's their school mascot? A Portuguese Water Dog?

That'll teach me to ponder in thought. :)

 
pd771 [TotalFark] 2009-05-01 03:50:50 PM  
Even if you like Obama, why the fark is his wife's name going on the school too?

 
Pechorin 2009-05-01 03:51:02 PM  
EL_FABREZ: Let the reeducation of our youth begin.

We can't even educate them, what makes you think we can reeducate them?

 
fireclown 2009-05-01 03:51:27 PM  
I gotta say, that has a creepy "cambodian year zero" quality to it.

And shouldn't your state have both senators in place before nonsense like this happens?

 
Listerine 2009-05-01 03:51:39 PM  
chefaj:
this world-wide circle jerk


lol that's exactly what it is. People were changing things as soon as he got elected, so at least they're not inconsistent in their circle jerking.

 
spidermann [TotalFark] 2009-05-01 03:51:57 PM  
Sweet.

 
Giltric 2009-05-01 03:52:23 PM  
But does it have electrolites?

 
Spoonfed'sBuddy 2009-05-01 03:52:25 PM  
Why not call it the "Hey guys we're a blue state just like you and we're trying really hard to fit in so you won't call us a flyover state anymore because it hurts our feelings doncha know"?

It's just as wordy and it's a bit more honest.

 
MyRandomName 2009-05-01 03:52:31 PM  
Englebert Slaptyback: Lionel Mandrake

Good Lord...I voted for the guy and I like the job he's doing, but this is ridiculous. Schools should not be named after people who have only been on the job 3 months. Wait at least a full term.


I think it's more about the unprecedented election than about the service heretofore.


So you won't mind when the same shiat happens when a woman, japanese, chinese, indian, irish, italian, etc, etc is elected?

 
Chinchillazilla [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-05-01 03:52:51 PM  
Shaggy_C: What a lame name for a school. Too many words.

Everyone's just going to call it BAMOSLE.

 
pd771 [TotalFark] 2009-05-01 03:53:06 PM  
Is getting deep dicked by the President enough to get your name on a school now? Why don't we have the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski School of Oral Studies?

 
Tequila Monster 2009-05-01 03:53:07 PM  
EvilEgg
2009-05-01:

Lionel Mandrake: Good Lord...I voted for the guy and I like the job he's doing, but this is ridiculous. Schools should not be named after people who have only been on the job 3 months. Wait at least a full term.

THIS!

I like him, but you have to wait and see how his tenure turns out.


Exactly! President Obama has plenty of time to become a great leader or a miserable failure. Lets find out which before we go naming things after him.

 
ElusiveWookiee [TotalFark] 2009-05-01 03:53:39 PM  
Well, that just rolls right off your tongue, doesn't it?

MedianJoe: pfft! Republicans will just rename a couple more steets and whatever to Reagan. Or maybe just rename the entire state of Iowa to Reagan.

I think there may be a few streets left in a couple of cities not named "Dr. Martin Luther King _______" too...

 
Snarfangel [TotalFark] 2009-05-01 03:53:40 PM  
Ikam: Lionel Mandrake: Good Lord...I voted for the guy and I like the job he's doing, but this is ridiculous. Schools should not be named after people who have only been on the job 3 months. Wait at least a full term.

I feel the same way. Hell,I even helped campaign for the guy, c'mon now, lets not get crazy here. What if we (those who support the guy) are all wrong and he does turn out to really suck, then do you really want your school named after him?


As an alum of Richard M. Nixon High (Go, Fighting Plumbers!), I can't see any problem with this.

 
Chaim Witz 2009-05-01 03:53:49 PM  
What can I say, there's a lot of gay in the water here.

 
dreadprophet 2009-05-01 03:54:05 PM  
pd771: Is getting deep dicked by the President enough to get your name on a school now? Why don't we have the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski School of Oral Studies?

/snert

 
Control_this [TotalFark] 2009-05-01 03:54:29 PM  
The Obama monument will be beautiful. How soon do we start construction?

 
Aidan [TotalFark] 2009-05-01 03:54:46 PM  
MyRandomName: Englebert Slaptyback: Lionel Mandrake

Good Lord...I voted for the guy and I like the job he's doing, but this is ridiculous. Schools should not be named after people who have only been on the job 3 months. Wait at least a full term.


I think it's more about the unprecedented election than about the service heretofore.

So you won't mind when the same shiat happens when a woman, japanese, chinese, indian, irish, italian, etc, etc is elected?


If it's an Irishman, I hope we have the sense to at least name a bar after him. (Didn't we already have Irish in the white house before now? I know we've had some heroic drinkers...)

 
Community Agitator 2009-05-01 03:54:56 PM  
Ballots were cast on Thursday by students, staff, and community members, and when they were counted this morning, the Obama name came out on top. The final tally was 526 to 328

Close enough for a recount.

 
Morton_toes 2009-05-01 03:55:08 PM  
Chinchillazilla: Shaggy_C: What a lame name for a school. Too many words.

Everyone's just going to call it BAMOSLE.


How is that pronounced? Bamboozle?

/it does seem a bit soon.

 
DarnoKonrad 2009-05-01 03:55:19 PM  
pd771: Is getting deep dicked by the President enough to get your name on a school now? Why don't we have the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski School of Oral Studies?

Jesus.

This shiat happens all the time. (new window)

 
ohdoublereally [TotalFark] 2009-05-01 03:55:32 PM  
Kool-aid to be served with lunch.

 
sh0x 2009-05-01 03:55:35 PM  
They should just change it to "Elementary Public Education Center Resisting Oversimplification of Pedagogical Nomenclature"

 
Sheldawg 2009-05-01 03:55:48 PM  
Seriously? Spiffy tag? I hope this is ironic. Obama's great, but that is a stupid name. That is not a statement about him wanting to create more service in the community, or about his presidency or anything. This is just an objectively stupid name.

 
ScottMpls 2009-05-01 03:55:49 PM  
It's a magnet school ... let them have their fun.

 
I Said [TotalFark] 2009-05-01 03:55:54 PM  
I like Obama. Voted for him and generally support his actions in office so far.

That said, I hope, that as a direct result of some decision he makes, this school is forced to close.

 
Listerine 2009-05-01 03:56:02 PM  
Control_this: The Obama monument will be beautiful. How soon do we start construction?

Didn't you get your tweet? Construction begins next week, where the WW2 memorial used to be. See you there comrade!

 
PumpUpDaFark 2009-05-01 03:56:30 PM  
I thought that said Service Learning Laboratory.

 
Dark Overlord 2009-05-01 03:56:44 PM  
This is beyond insanity! We have a Cynthia McKinney Parkway and she's a bloody loon. The people he has surrounded himself with are corrupt law-breakers and the media has made this guy into an (almost) religious figure. Hubris. Read about it.

 
tetheredswimming 2009-05-01 03:56:54 PM  
Retards. It doesn't roll trippingly off the tongue.

 
Al_Ed 2009-05-01 03:56:57 PM  
Oberon_fx: What's their school mascot? A Portuguese Water Dog?

Lap dog.

 
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