LePetomaine 2008

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

What? Like he'd do a worse job?

[flakey_foont]

1. That's

HEDLEY!!!

The GUV

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

2. What the hell are you worried about?

This is 1874. You'll be able to sue her!

[gmoney]

3. "The Great Farter"

http://www.johnbarber.com/pujol.html

Read about the original "Le Petomane" that no doubt inspired the name of the Blazing Saddles Governor... a performing fart artist!

And get the Straight Dope:

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_394

[terrya]

4. "We gotta protect our phony baloney jobs!"

I'd vote for Governor LePetomaine, except that:

1) He lived over 130 years ago

2) He'd have that snake-in-the-grass Hedy Lamarr as his chief of staff

3) He's a fictional character. :-)

[tekriter]

5. But I LIKED his secretary...

"hello boys, I've missed you..."

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

7. Would he invade Iraq?

Decimate Social Security? Take 100,000 cops off the street?

I'd say that even a dead fictional character makes a better Chief Executive than the one we've got...

And I, too, like his secretary.

[BigMcLargehuge]

6. Give the governor a harumph!

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

8. I didn't get a harumph out of that guy!