If you haven't got anything nice to say about Bush come sit next to me.

[live love laugh]

Bumper sticker spotted at Whole Foods today. :rofl:

[Seldona]

1. Friends don't let freinds vote republican.

Spotted at the supermarket. heh

[kimmerspixelated]

2. Perfectly Excellent!!!

[tbyg52]

3. Original:

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
~Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884–1980), daughter of Theodore Roosevelt,26th President of the United States, and his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee.

[live love laugh]

6. I edited to correct it because it was exactly like the original except

for the Bush part.

[BrklynLiberal]

7. She was quite a witty character. She is described here...along with her motto.

In 1902

In 1969

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wild thing
Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, an "ambulatory Washington monument" until her 1980 death, had her personal motto embroidered on a sofa pillow: "If you haven't got anything good to say about anybody, come sit next to me.''

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By Lawrence L. Knutson

June 7, 1999 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth invented herself and played the role with acid-tongued perfection for most of the 20th century. Her verbal skewer was as pointed as the stiletto she is said to have kept in her purse. She punctured and shattered precedents, sometimes with what she called "malevolent detachment," at other times with a sound like the crash of White House china.

Mrs. L, as many called her, didn't need a motto, but she had one, embroidered on a sofa pillow: "If you haven't got anything good to say about anybody, come sit next to me." In a city where gossip is currency, she was rarely alone.

She has been gone since 1980, when she died at 96, having been center stage in Washington since her father, Theodore Roosevelt, followed the slain William McKinley to the White House in 1901. The event filled Alice with "utter rapture."

But Longworth is having an active afterlife in the memoirs and biographies of other people. She is mentioned 10 times in "Personal History," the memoirs of Katharine Graham, the former publisher of the Washington Post. She appears 64 times in Carl Sferrazza Anthony's 1998 biography of first lady Florence Harding, cited in the index under such categories as "political informant," "spitefulness of," "unconventional behavior of," "extramarital affair of" and "WH (Warren Harding) disparaged by.
<snip>
Attracting enormous publicity, she smoked, drove her own car, plunged fully clothed into a swimming pool, placed a bet at a race track, was seen in public wearing a boa constrictor around her neck, set off firecrackers and shot at telegraph poles from a train; she was universally dubbed "Princess Alice" after she christened the yacht of Kaiser Wilhelm's brother.

"In the Progressive Era there was no star like the princess," Carl Anthony writes. "She became an idol to women around the world ... Shortly an 'Alice industry' was set in motion. When it was discovered that a particular gray-blue was her favorite color, 'Alice blue' was born ... Sheet music for the hit song 'Alice Blue Gown' became impossible to get because it kept selling out."
<snip>
Five, six and seven decades later, Longworth was, in her words, "an ambulatory Washington monument," still parading opinions. The stories are still being told, in print and at Washington parties. She forbade Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., to call her by her first name, saying the trash man had that privilege but he didn't. She adopted a trademarked wide-brimmed hat and told President Lyndon Johnson she wore it so he couldn't get close enough to kiss her.
<snip>

http://www.salon.com/people/feature/1999/06/07/longworth/

[Redstone]

4. I like it.

Redstone

[BlooInBloo]

5. Do they make benches that big?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. had an interesting visit to Mr. Doctor Dentist person.

I didn't tell him what I did, nor my political positions. Just said I was self employed and needed a check up and a cleaning.

Now, I live in the reddest part of Illinois. Extreme conservatives here. There are 17 churches within a 2 mile radius, and only two bars. Until 2005 every second car had a W or support the troop or a flag on its bumper.

He started in with the check up, then said something cryptic about IraqNam. Now, I know and love that word. I agreed with him that it was a mess. Then we started in on Gonzo. (this guy's parents snuck in from Mexico, and he is the highest educated in his entire family) And then we matched wits and thoughts about Bush/Cheney/Rove.

All of a sudden, the fear and trepidation that keeps me away from dental offices dissipated. I relaxed. During the cleaning, he said that he usually avoids politics, even though he feels strongly about it. He noted that more and more of his clients hate Iraq, Bush and more, and are willing to talk about the "I" word.

Impeachment talk in southwestern Cook County? Where they are more conservative than DuPage County?

Amazing.
As I left his office, happy, pain free, clean, and glad that there are no hidden problems, I saw a car parked in the office complex lot. Kansas plates. Kansas bumper sticker:

KANSAS - YES, we ARE that stupid.

[applegrove]

9. Love it!

[hlthe2b]

10. That person better find a VERY VERY large chair!

[Mandate My Ass]

11. One I spotted at Whole Foods about a week ago in PA

"Santorum? Nomore-um."

:rofl:

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