Why is Laura Bush referred to as pickles?

[fujiyama]

never did figure that one out?

[kera]

1. she might have been preserved in amber

[PartyPooper]

2. You're probably too young. Remember the "Dick Van Dyke Show" on TV?

There was a character named "Pickles". Not a particularly noteworthy character.

Try googling. You just might be amazed at the parallels.

:smoke:

[Eye and Monkey]

3. Here you go. Aug 9, 2002, on DU

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=printer_format&om=16309&forum=DCForumID40

Pickles = Laura Bush"
Posted by arwalden on Aug-09-02 at 04:57 PM

Origin Uncertain.
Possibily after Pickels Sorrell (Buddy's wife) on the Dick Van Dyke Show?

[JohnOneillsMemory]

4. 'Rob Petrie's' comedy writing partner, Buddy, called his wife Pickles.

Buddy was played by Morey Amsterdam. Pickles was never seen, just the butt of all of 'Buddy's' wife jokes.

Ah, the Dick Van Dyke show. Dancer Mary Tyler Moore as Laura Petrie weighed about 80lbs. in her capri pants. She was a skeleton.

[oustemnow]

7. Mmmm, a young Mary Tyler Moore in capri pants

she was completely drool-worthy on the Dick Van Dyke Show.

I've since come to muse over whether the way she'd occasionally whine "Rob" on the show was the way she called out his name in the midst of lovemaking.

Yes, I'm an intensely lonely and pathetic man.

[Atman]

5. Named after W's brain

Actually, my wife, who is an APRN, tells me that Bush's inability to complete sentences and his new lower lip chewing and many of his affectations are consistent with "pickled brain syndrome," an obviouly non-technical term for simply being fried from years of alcohol abuse.

6. Upper Class Nicknames!

Girls in rich families older than dirt
Who go to sororities have nicknames that flirt.
Muffy and Fluffy, and Soo-Soo are given,
One woman I know is called "Fuzzy Pink" Niven!

Named after her choices in warm fluffy slipper.
And then there's the name of Mrs. Gore: Tipper.
There's Maxie and Whizzwee, the names are absurd!
But those are the names of the matrons I've heard.

I've heard some called Poochie or Peaches like that.
It's an Ivy League custom of the monied eclat.
I'd bet it's a name she picked up in college
At least SHE (unlike Dubya) acquired some knowledge.

At Vassar or Bryn Mawr where lineage glisters,
Or any old college known as "Seven Sisters"
The wildest of names, on dance cards you'll see
As debutants vie for their "Mrs." Decree!

After marriage the custom is keeping the 'name'
Even if in later years, it seems rather lame.
Long gone is her girlhood, but that name still tickles,
And THAT is the origin of the First Lady, "Pickles"!

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[LividLiberal]

8. I think that's what dipshit calls her.