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nycbos

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Mon Jan 16, 2017, 04:17 PM Jan 2017

Biden Sadly Realizes This Could Be Last Time He Throws Lit Firecracker Into Press Conference

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NEWS IN BRIEF
January 16, 2017

Politics · Politicians · Joseph Biden

WASHINGTON—Growing suddenly introspective as he flipped open his Whitesnake Zippo lighter in a West Wing hallway, Vice President Joe Biden reportedly came to the sad realization Monday that this could be the last time he tosses a lit firecracker into a White House press conference. “Aw shit, after today, I might never get another shot to whip an M80 into the Press Briefing Room again—end of an era, man, end of a goddamn era,” said Biden, who smiled wistfully while recalling all the “kickass” times he launched a handful of bottle rockets at the audience of unsuspecting “ink slingers.” “Back in the Senate, Orrin Hatch used to get his panties in a knot when I chucked a fat little cherry bomb under his seat. I shit you not, that fucker pissed himself more times than I could count. Don’t get me wrong, though, Ol’ Joe’s gonna keep on flinging bangers into crowds after I blow this joint, but hell, it’ll never be the same as this.” At press time, Biden was reportedly tying together the fuses of several firecrackers to give the press corps “something they’ll never fucking forget.


http://www.theonion.com/article/biden-sadly-realizes-could-be-last-time-he-throws--55055

I am going to miss The Onion's Biden articles.

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Biden Sadly Realizes This Could Be Last Time He Throws Lit Firecracker Into Press Conference (Original Post) nycbos Jan 2017 OP
So many classics. Miles Archer Jan 2017 #1
my comment on my fb share- mopinko Jan 2017 #2
I love that guy! (Love The Onion, too!) longship Jan 2017 #3

mopinko

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2. my comment on my fb share-
Mon Jan 16, 2017, 05:03 PM
Jan 2017

ya know, i have wondered aloud many times how impossible it is getting to make satire these days, with irony completely dead and all. but god bless the onion for their joe biden jokes.
i will also greatly miss this man, and thank him for bringing his wonderful sense of humor to the white house. you have launched a million yucks, sir, at a time when your country really needed you.
i know you will continue throwing bangers into press conferences wherever you go next. probably with your dying breath.
thanks for everything, sir. everything. you were a bfd.

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