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Cagey B
2008-05-08 2:52:31 PM  
Let the dastardly Dr. Suess name the White House? Appalling! Have we all forgotten the Suez Canal Incident already?
 
cfroelic
2008-05-08 2:56:21 PM  
James Madison was the second President of the US, and took office in 1797? Nice research there Mr. Pollard. Dumbass.
 
thalassatx
2008-05-08 2:56:47 PM  
Who wrote this? Harold and Kumar???
 
Megain
2008-05-08 2:58:06 PM  
submitter: Teddy Roosevelt was an idiot for naming the White House because that sounds too much like White Castle. Also says Dr. Suess should have named it instead. Then the article gets a little weird

who the hell is dr. suess?
 
Coronach
2008-05-08 3:04:10 PM  
Then the article gets a little weird

no, actually, then the article ends
 
Szech
2008-05-08 3:04:29 PM  
Maybe MC Breed could convince Obama to paint the white house black.
 
Visualingo
2008-05-08 3:06:23 PM  
Szech: Maybe MC Breed could convince Obama to paint the white house black.

Hey, there ain't no future in your frontin'.
 
ThatGuyGreg
2008-05-08 3:07:18 PM  
cfroelic: James Madison was the second President of the US, and took office in 1797? Nice research there Mr. Pollard. Dumbass.

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Disapproves.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-05-08 3:10:00 PM  
Damn them for not anticipating the naming of a cheap hamburger chain 100 years in the future!

Red Square?
Blue Mosque?

How pedestrian.
 
Ruca
2008-05-08 3:11:45 PM  
Sure, cause a rhyming name like Chouse House or Louse House would sound more "majestic".
 
bogey
2008-05-08 3:13:05 PM  
Calling it the White House has the ring of humility to it. It fit's in with calling our fearless leader "Mr. President" instead of "Majestically Magnificent Imperial Grand Poo-Bah"

I'll give him bonus points for spelling Slyders correctly.
 
ansiz
2008-05-08 3:13:24 PM  
If you think this blog is awesome, you should definitely read some more of this guy's work. Like his blog that compares buying coffee at Starbuck's to buying porn.

I'd post a sample of it but it's worth reading the whole thing sense it is pretty evident this guy considers himself quite the high-brow intellectual.
 
bogey
2008-05-08 3:16:28 PM  
Where's Bob the Angry Flower when I need him?
 
EvilEgg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-05-08 3:16:45 PM  
Don't the Brits have Downing Street? I would think that would be more comparable to The White House
 
ExJerseyGirl
2008-05-08 3:17:17 PM  
Megain: submitter: Teddy Roosevelt was an idiot for naming the White House because that sounds too much like White Castle. Also says Dr. Suess should have named it instead. Then the article gets a little weird

who the hell is dr. suess?

I suspect he meant Dr. Seuss.
 
aba
2008-05-08 3:25:19 PM  
mmmmm


White Castle.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-05-08 3:25:47 PM  
EvilEgg: Don't the Brits have Downing Street? I would think that would be more comparable to The White House

I think that's more akin to calling the White House "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-05-08 3:47:31 PM  
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"YOU!!! Wayne E. Pollard! I'm gonna kick your ass!"
 
ansiz
2008-05-08 3:51:12 PM  
Diogenes: EvilEgg: Don't the Brits have Downing Street? I would think that would be more comparable to The White House

I think that's more akin to calling the White House "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."

It is more comparable to the White House, but Downing Street is pretty much how they refer to it, there isn't really another name.
 
ZAZ [TotalFark]
2008-05-08 4:08:11 PM  
If a voter hits a lever and a punch card hangs a chad
and a loser sues a winner and a country gets all mad
and the victor lives in D.C. in the same place as his dad
Would you call it a big white house or "Iraq war-planning pad?"
 
Lionel Mandrake
2008-05-08 4:25:43 PM  
James Madison became the President in 1797...

That's some serious FAIL right there.
 
EmployeeOfTheMinute
2008-05-08 4:31:33 PM  
Masturbatorium is not yet taken...
 
Fibber McLiarson
2008-05-08 4:32:07 PM  
ansiz: If you think this blog is awesome, you should definitely read some more of this guy's work. Like his blog that compares buying coffee at Starbuck's to buying porn.

I'd post a sample of it but it's worth reading the whole thing sense it is pretty evident this guy considers himself quite the high-brow intellectual.

What's his Fark ID?
 
Arcanum
2008-05-08 4:32:59 PM  
not bad, ZAZ.

I thought the conspiracy lunatics thought the masons named it the white house because that's it's at the white point of the pentagram formed by the streets that points to the white house.

(yeah, I know).
 
Hang On Voltaire
2008-05-08 4:33:04 PM  
Wasn't Adams the first to live in the White House? Didn't he write (or say) that quote about wise men in this house etc etc?
 
StormnMormon
2008-05-08 4:34:36 PM  
I wish I could be a journalist...the simplest, laziest job i've ever seen.
 
Cerebral Ballsy
2008-05-08 4:35:19 PM  
That's not an article.. that was a bad standup routine.
 
redTiburon
2008-05-08 4:35:35 PM  
Wayne E. Pollard obviously slept through most of Mr Hand's classes.
 
Hosebeatings
2008-05-08 4:36:01 PM  
bogey: Calling it the White House has the ring of humility to it. It fit's in with calling our fearless leader "Mr. President" instead of "Majestically Magnificent Imperial Grand Poo-Bah"

This. It says we don't NEED to call it something spectacular.
 
idrow
2008-05-08 4:36:07 PM  
Doesn't the leader of the free world deserve to live in a residence with a more stately name?


Doesn't Wayne E. Pollard have anything of greater importance to write about?
 
Great Janitor
2008-05-08 4:36:43 PM  
Maybe, and just maybe, it was named the White HOUSE and not White Palace or Castle or anything else 'stately' because the office of president is something that anyone in this country can achieve (despite what elitist may think, even a commoner can become president. The chances of it happening, however, isn't great), and the name 'White House' reflects that better than, Palace does, because while anyone can live in a house, Palaces go to those who won the birth lottery.

Just my theory however.
 
Gunny Highway
2008-05-08 4:37:19 PM  
Wouldnt the British equivalent be 10 Downing St.? Because in that case I'd say the "The White House" is better.
 
you_idiot
2008-05-08 4:37:23 PM  
This is the most idiotic and pointless "article" I've ever read. And I include Fark thread postings.
 
foetidilla
2008-05-08 4:38:14 PM  
James Madison became the President in 1797

That's some fine reporting there, Lou
 
Klippoklondike [TotalFark]
2008-05-08 4:40:02 PM  
During Teddy's campaign for re-election he was shot by a would-be assassin. Did he run to the hospital for medical treatment. Nope. Did he cancel the speech he was scheduled to give? No sir. Instead, he delivered his scheduled speech with a bullet lodged in his chest and blood seeping into his shirt. He spoke for ninety minutes.

So I don't care if he sucked at naming things, Teddy Roosevelt was the definition of a man's man.
 
I Said
2008-05-08 4:40:16 PM  
I like "White House".

So go fark yourself mr. stupid writer.
 
Hosebag
2008-05-08 4:40:26 PM  
Article missed the burning of the White House during the War of 1812... after which it pretty much had to be rebuilt.

Also, Downing Street isn't quite comparable either... in the US, the head of state and head of government are the same, whereas in any system using the Westminster Parliament system the two are separate. In Canada, the Governor General resides at Rideau Hall (which is the Queen's official residence in Canada), while the Prime Minister resides at 24 Sussex Drive.
 
Yossarian22
2008-05-08 4:41:25 PM  
(Then again, those White Castle Slyders are pretty damn tasty -- and I bet that their approval rating over the past 80 years is probably higher than the approval ratings of most presidents.)

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/wants a slyder
 
original_tindrum
2008-05-08 4:42:17 PM  
Some day, when English is like Latin, the people will thank us for having simple names for things that actually mean something. Can you imagine the Colosseum being called "The Cogito Ergo Sum Memorium UFIA Colosseum"?

Actually, that would be funny, but the point is, Colosseum means "Big" and whatever -eum means. Shoulda payed more attention during the show "Wordsmith". I wish my dad was that guy from Wordsmith, he had a cool mustache.

I lost my train of thought.
 
Great Janitor
2008-05-08 4:42:28 PM  
Gunny Highway: Wouldnt the British equivalent be 10 Downing St.? Because in that case I'd say the "The White House" is better.

Actually, the British equivalent IS 10 Downing Street. My understanding is that it's just referred to as it's address so that it doesn't take any power (for lack of a better word) from Buckingham Palace.
 
Begoggle
2008-05-08 4:42:48 PM  
Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, Mr. Whiny Poll-tard
 
elcahun
2008-05-08 4:42:52 PM  
The article has been fixed on Huffington.com and all comments removed.

What a loser.
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-05-08 4:43:06 PM  
If this was satire, it was poorly done.

If it was not, it was also poorly done.
 
John Denver
2008-05-08 4:43:55 PM  
Wasn't the fundamental reason for the founding of the USA to be rid of leaders the likes of which reside in large castles?

Also, the castle is a method of defending the leader from, among other things, the very people they rule. So, I suspect that the author missed the point that having the leader of a democracy reside in a castle would send a mixed message.
 
ArcadianRefugee
2008-05-08 4:44:47 PM  
The British have Buckingham Palace. The French have Élysée Palace.

The British have royalty. The French once had royalty. Thus, "palace".

Americans (citizens of the United States) have never had royalty. We have one guy whom we elect to lead us. For that, he is given some special treatments, but he is still just a guy. "Just a guy"s live in houses, no matter how big and fancy.
 
Gunny Highway
2008-05-08 4:44:52 PM  
Hosebag: Article missed the burning of the White House during the War of 1812... after which it pretty much had to be rebuilt.

Also, Downing Street isn't quite comparable either... in the US, the head of state and head of government are the same, whereas in any system using the Westminster Parliament system the two are separate. In Canada, the Governor General resides at Rideau Hall (which is the Queen's official residence in Canada), while the Prime Minister resides at 24 Sussex Drive.

Oh ok that makes sense. I am another person who likes the "White House". I think it was named that to make it seem ordinary and the president is supposed to be an ordinary citizen. I am probably reading into it too much though.
 
Fireproof [OhFark]
2008-05-08 4:45:31 PM  
Klippoklondike: So I don't care if he sucked at naming things, Teddy Roosevelt was the definition of a man's man.

Teddy Roosevelt dug the Panama Canal by dropping his pants and dragging his giant testicles across Panama.

/We need some TR facts in the mold of the Chuck Norris ones.
 
wylkyn
2008-05-08 4:45:45 PM  
And that was when Wayne realized that his Storytronic 6000 just didn't work.

/back to the drawing board
 
The Slush
2008-05-08 4:47:10 PM  
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat

If this was satire, it was poorly donefarking retarded.

If it was not, it was also poorly donefarking retarded.

FTFY
 
OZZ
2008-05-08 4:47:19 PM  
Hehe typical yank, omits the place getting torched in 1812.

I would have loved to have seen that.
 
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