Winston Churchill would have made an awesome Farker.

Winston Churchill was the man.

thecpt: * "You can put lipstick on a pig...it's still a pig." President Obama after Sara Palin's joke that the only difference between a soccer mom and a pitbull was lipstick...

I don't get this one, unless it really isn't clever at all because there doesn't seem to be anything there

The thing about pit-bulls was another stupid Palin non-sequitir without any real meaning. "Putting lipstick on a pig" is a common colloquial American phrase that means dressing or talking up someone worthless to try to trick people into thinking they're actually worthy. The implication being that the charade is unconvincing because the basic unworthiness of their character shines through any amount of window dressing.

Basically he took her stupid fake-saying that's not actually a saying anywhere and turned it into an actual common American saying that states that Palin is a worthless sham of a candidate. Clever bit of simple wordplay, not anything deep but pretty much on par with Churchill's stuff. Double points because it also showed that Obama was actually in touch with the "country" conservative types that Palin was pretending to represent.

That help? I know it's not funny now that I've explained it, but at least you know.

Did we really just credit Obama with a platitude that's been around since the 1800s? I think using other people's lines should have barred this list.

Bhruic: FTA "Charlotte Church is a nasty little piece of work with a fat head. I don't know who she and her scabby boyfriend think they are. He's a posing idiot who looks like a girl. And she's not even gorgeous." Cheryl Cole

I'm trying to figure out how that is the slightest bit witty, and failing.

Yeah, I read that, but all I got from it was, "I am a vacant, shallow, waste-of-space airhead bint."

"Michael Jackson's album was called Bad because there wasn't enough room on the sleeve for Pathetic."

FTA "Charlotte Church is a nasty little piece of work with a fat head. I don't know who she and her scabby boyfriend think they are. He's a posing idiot who looks like a girl. And she's not even gorgeous." Cheryl Cole

I'm trying to figure out how that is the slightest bit witty, and failing.

I'm pretty sure the rotting corpse of Rodney Dangerfield could've presently produced 30 funnier insults in the time I took to write this post.

NuttierThanEver: Skywolf Philosopher: Winston Churchill would have made an awesome Farker.

Dorothy Parker was the original Farkette, she was kind of bug deal

Mae West. Maaaan oh man. Mae West would have been hilarious.