"Shoots, Hides and Leaves"

[LiberalEsto]

Dan Froomkin's column on the WashPost website:

"Shoots, Hides and Leaves

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, February 13, 2006; 11:45 AM

Why isn't Dick Cheney on TV right now?

The vice president of the United States shoots someone in a hunting accident and rather than immediately come clean to the public, his office keeps it a secret for almost a whole day. Even then, it's only to confirm a report in a local paper."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/02/13/BL2006021300566.html

[Roland99]

1. AH HA HA HA HA HA HA!!

BTW, I loved the book: Eats, Shoots, and Leaves.

[Mabus]

2. Koalas are dancing in my head right now

because of an old joke with the same punch line.

[Roland99]

9. It was Pandas, right?

The panda eats a sandwich, fires a gun in the air and walks towards the door. When the waiter asks in confusion what he thinks he’s doing, the panda throws him a badly punctuated book on wildlife: “Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves”.


;)

[Mabus]

13. Not the version I heard

The one I'm thinking about involves a koala and a hooker but the overall premise is the same. :blush:

Found a "clean" copy of the joke I heard:

There was a Koala bear bear that decided it was tired of the boring life in Australia, and decided it would go to NY. On his first day there, he picked up a hooker for sex.

When he was finished having sex he got up to leave and the hooker said, "Eexcuse me but aren't you forgeting something?" To which the Koala replied, "I don't think so."

The hooker grabs a dictionary and looks up hooker and shows it to him. Hooker = A lady who has sex for money.

"Really", he said, and proceeded to look up Koala Bear in the dictionary to show her. Koala: An Australian marsupial that eats shoots and leaves.

[Roland99]

15. ah, that must be the original joke upon which this cleaned-up version

was based.


;)

[Mabus]

16. Keep on folding!

:hi:

[Roland99]

18. LOL!

Darn tootin'!


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x396309

[Mabus]

21. I try to get attention for Team DU whenever I can

;)

Thanks for posting the link.

[LiberalEsto]

23. Cheney's new Panda name

Shu Tyoo

[Roland99]

24. he he

[skylarmae]

3. kinda reminds me of a boyfriend I once had

come to think of it, he was a bad shot too....

[Roland99]

20. (rimshot)

:hide:

[Cassandra]

4. Or shoots hides, and leaves.

The joys of punctuation.

[dancingme]

5. CHENEYQUIDDICK.

[Mabus]

6. Bwhahahahahahaha

:rofl:

[Sydnie]

8. THAT's a keeper!

Welcome to DU!

[LincolnMcGrath]

17. I like that even better than my "Cheney's Chappaquiddick"

:yourock:

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. Chappaquiddick Cheney.

[Solly Mack]

10. "He didn't do anything he wasn't supposed to do." - Matalin

Ah - so there you have it!

Cheney was suppose to shoot Whittington!

lolololol

[Garbo 2004]

11. Kudos to Froomkin! LOL Thanks for posting. n/t

[WildEyedLiberal]

12. LOL

Awesome title. :rofl:

[KansDem]

14. Actually, this was a poor practical joke on the part of Cheney

They were hunting and chugging a fifth of Jack Daniels when:

Cheney: "Hey, Harry, wanna shot?"
Whittington: "Yo, Mr. VP. I'd like a shot!"
KA-BAM!!!
Cheney: "Har-har-har...Wanna'nother?"

[YDogg]

19. "The amiable-dunce act, unfortunately, is genuine."

Best line of the column today. :-)

Sad as that is.

[lapislzi]

22. Aw, geez...spit-take!

Funniest. Headline. Ever.

k + r!