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President Queeg (Original Post)
Auggie
Feb 2017
OP
I get it, but I refuse to put Humphrey Bogart and Twitler in the same sentence.
kairos12
Feb 2017
#6
deminks
(11,018 posts)1. Strawberries.
Iggo
(47,572 posts)2. THAT's what it is! Thank you!
I was thinking Nixon? No. The way I remember him, he could give it as well as take it in a face-to-face.
But this meltdown. This is fucking Queeg.
Brother Buzz
(36,478 posts)3. Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them.
They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers...
Auggie
(31,204 posts)7. Yeah, but substitute "strawberries" with "fake news"
Brother Buzz
(36,478 posts)8. Well, there you go
There are times I believe the orange anus is using a scrip right out of Mad Libs. With a little bit of free association you never know where where it will go. Anything's possible with Commander Cuckoo-Bananas in charge.
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)4. Yes and Yes.
Paladin
(28,276 posts)5. THAT'S the image I got, watching trump today:
Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny," coming apart at the seams. Genuinely appalling.
kairos12
(12,877 posts)6. I get it, but I refuse to put Humphrey Bogart and Twitler in the same sentence.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)9. Ha!!
Sadly, only a handful of Americans will get that reference.