I don't get how this makes him cool. If your friend said that you'd roll your eyes. Those kind of jokes are only funny when you are trying to be dumb. I understand why the situation is funny here, but the guy isn't funny

The guy at the end of the thread: "Oh yeah, Reilly? Well, the Jerk Store called, and they're running out of you."

That's OK, cause they've got plenty of you, and you're their best seller.

toonz: Beatle_Matt: Methinks Conrad missed the joke...or Grassley didn't know he was making one...

seriously. you get the feeling she DID say the same thing but it was about legislatin'

I agree. I didn't get the impression that Grassley was making a joke, especially with the response that Conrad gave. I think that a joke is being read into this that wasn't intentional. Funny, but unintentionally funny.

Some Democrats know what to do when a Republican starts talking smack about family members...

He should have called him "Trebeck."

Zousand: Had a D-man said that to a R-man, Fox news would've broken out its Pitchforks and torches and gone to DEFCON 9.

/11

Pssst. DEFCON levels go from 1 to 5. And they work backwards. DEFCON 1 is the "ZOMG! THE WORLD'S ENDING!" one.

So DEFCON 9, if it existed, would be for, say, a hangnail.

But that minor criticism aside, yes, you are spot on.

/DEFCON Nazi?

I can't tell whether those guys actually get along and it's just good-natured joking, or whether one guy was trying to bait the other into a fight.

I've got no problem with old men having a sense of humor, but it's a bit unprofessional to make a "I just porked yer wife!" joke during official Senate business.

Apik0r0s: Something tells me Grassley has already decided not to run again.

I dunno. His seat isn't even on 538's top fifteen Senate races for 2010, and if Grassley retired, the seat would be very competitive since Iowa is the definition of a swing state. But if he doesn't retire, he's a shoo-in, as he hasn't had a close race since he entered the Senate in 1981.

Why do I have a sudden hankerin' to watch Idiocracy?

/hot, like Conrad's daughter

I'm glade this guy is my senator. He has always been a straight shooter even if I don't agree with him I know where he's coming from. Plus I also go to UNI where he also went so he has a lot of visits

phansen: I'm glade this guy is my senator.

I think you mean Gladé.

The guy at the end of the thread: "Oh yeah, Reilly? Well, the Jerk Store called, and they're running out of you."

Cat Food Sandwiches: That's OK, cause they've got plenty of you, and you're their best seller.

Damnit.

Think The guy at the end of the thread, think....

Life support...the life support machine company called... I got it! You're beat, Cat Food Sandwiches! You just screwed yourself...(runs back into thread)

indylaw: I can't tell whether those guys actually get along and it's just good-natured joking, or whether one guy was trying to bait the other into a fight.

I've got no problem with old men having a sense of humor, but it's a bit unprofessional to make a "I just porked yer wife!" joke during official Senate business.

You should watch some of the epic grumpiness sometimes between Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter.

Anyway if you think this is unprofessional and silly, you guys ought to man up and watch Canadian Question Period sometimes. Our MPs take lack of decorum to a new level. Shouting at each other is required, people heckle constantly either in favour or in opposition, depending on who's talking, every question is just an attempt to bash the other side (frequently it's deserved), and every answer is similarly just a setup to bash the other side. It's kind of like a terrible internet flamewar with a couple hundred people involved heckling.

One recent example involved Peter MacKay. Backstory: Belinda Stronach, who retired recently to go back to being a gorgeous billionaire businesswoman, used to be a Conservative and was dating Peter MacKay, another Conservative and scion of an old Conservative family of Nova Scotia. When she switched over to the Liberals, on the day of a key vote that prevented the Conservatives from toppling the government, he dumped her (controversy has raged for years over whether her departing the Conservative party was her dumping him.) Peter MacKay, being kind of a douche and a total opportunist, immediately got on a plane to his home province and posed for the press in a field doing farm yardwork, with his neighbour's borrowed dog, to show how epically traumatized he was and win sympathy votes. So one day during the previous session of Parliament he and some Liberal MPs were yelling at each other across the aisle on something totally unrelated to the question at hand. One Liberal MP, noting MacKay's seeming outrage about something, yells, "Where's your dog?" and he shouts back "You already have her!"

Stay classy, Canadian House of Commons.

EchoMike: img10.imageshack.us

That commercial makes me LOL every time, which makes me feel dirty.

The guy at the end of the thread: The guy at the end of the thread: "Oh yeah, Reilly? Well, the Jerk Store called, and they're running out of you."

Cat Food Sandwiches: That's OK, cause they've got plenty of you, and you're their best seller.

Damnit.

Think The guy at the end of the thread, think....

Life support...the life support machine company called... I got it! You're beat, Cat Food Sandwiches! You just screwed yourself...(runs back into thread)

Is there a swordfight going on somewhere? Guybrush, is that you?

hardercase: Ah, but they'll never match the subtlety of Dick Cheney's sly "Fark you."


Wasn't it "Go Fark yourself"?

Good to see some old fashioned ribbing going on in D.C.


It has been sorely missed.

/former C-Span junkie

RsquaredW: The guy at the end of the thread: The guy at the end of the thread: "Oh yeah, Reilly? Well, the Jerk Store called, and they're running out of you."

Cat Food Sandwiches: That's OK, cause they've got plenty of you, and you're their best seller.

Damnit.

Think The guy at the end of the thread, think....

Life support...the life support machine company called... I got it! You're beat, Cat Food Sandwiches! You just screwed yourself...(runs back into thread)

Is there a swordfight going on somewhere? Guybrush, is that you?

How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

hardercase: Ah, but they'll never match the subtlety of Dick Cheney's sly "Fark you."

no, Cheney told another Senator (don't remember his name) to 'go frkkk yourself' in the Senate Chambers. the only reason Cheney was not fined was because the Senate was not in Session.

as a side note.........

when will Hell's Kitchen chef Ramsey going to get so pissed off that he hops up upon one of those steel kitchen tables and takes a huge Shhitt. that would really boost the ratings!

Linux_Yes: hardercase: Ah, but they'll never match the subtlety of Dick Cheney's sly "Fark you."

no, Cheney told another Senator (don't remember his name) to 'go frkkk yourself' in the Senate Chambers. the only reason Cheney was not fined was because the Senate was not in Session.

Leahy. And it's spelled "because the Senate was not in Session", but it's pronounced "because he is the Unholy Prince of All That Is Evil....plus he has a shotgun."

Linux_Yes: hardercase: Ah, but they'll never match the subtlety of Dick Cheney's sly "Fark you."

no, Cheney told another Senator (don't remember his name) to 'go frkkk yourself' in the Senate Chambers. the only reason Cheney was not fined was because the Senate was not in Session.

That would be Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)...

just the way your mother likes it

Would love to see the Senate/House of Reps done in British parliamentary system for a few weeks. Weed out the morans.

/If we like it, we get to steal the idea.

bobbette: indylaw: I can't tell whether those guys actually get along and it's just good-natured joking, or whether one guy was trying to bait the other into a fight.

I've got no problem with old men having a sense of humor, but it's a bit unprofessional to make a "I just porked yer wife!" joke during official Senate business.

You should watch some of the epic grumpiness sometimes between Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter.

Anyway if you think this is unprofessional and silly, you guys ought to man up and watch Canadian Question Period sometimes. Our MPs take lack of decorum to a new level. Shouting at each other is required, people heckle constantly either in favour or in opposition, depending on who's talking, every question is just an attempt to bash the other side (frequently it's deserved), and every answer is similarly just a setup to bash the other side. It's kind of like a terrible internet flamewar with a couple hundred people involved heckling.

One recent example involved Peter MacKay. Backstory: Belinda Stronach, who retired recently to go back to being a gorgeous billionaire businesswoman, used to be a Conservative and was dating Peter MacKay, another Conservative and scion of an old Conservative family of Nova Scotia. When she switched over to the Liberals, on the day of a key vote that prevented the Conservatives from toppling the government, he dumped her (controversy has raged for years over whether her departing the Conservative party was her dumping him.) Peter MacKay, being kind of a douche and a total opportunist, immediately got on a plane to his home province and posed for the press in a field doing farm yardwork, with his neighbour's borrowed dog, to show how epically traumatized he was and win sympathy votes. So one day during the previous session of Parliament he and some Liberal MPs were yelling at each other across the aisle on something totally unrelated to the question at hand. One Liberal MP, noting MacKay's seeming outrage about something, yells, "Where's your dog?" and he shouts back "You already have her!"

Stay classy, Canadian House of Commons.

That is a thing of beauty.

Linux_Yes: as a side note.........

when will Hell's Kitchen chef Ramsey going to get so pissed off that he hops up upon one of those steel kitchen tables and takes a huge Shhitt. that would really boost the ratings!

totally off topic, but this made me laugh so hard. My husband watches that show sometimes, and I simply loathe "Chef." He's such a jackass.

Beatle_Matt: Methinks Conrad missed the joke...or Grassley didn't know he was making one...

yeah the second he said "yeah she said you were the biggest hit" you knew it had gone over his head

So when Obama makes a crack at mentally challenged people, they sweep it under the rug and make excuses. But if a right winger puts a perfectly awesome burn on someone, "BAAAWWWW THAT'S UNPROFESSIONAL"