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**Now Watch This Drive!**
It was a sunny Saturday afternoon, and Gary decided to impress his buddies at the park by showcasing his newly acquired golf swing. He strode up to the ball, took a deep breath like a pro, and swung with all his might. Unfortunately, instead of the satisfying crack of the club meeting the ball, there was a loud *thud* as the club spun right out of his hands and launched straight into the nearby pond, splashing a group of unsuspecting ducks.
The sight of Gary standing there, frozen in disbelief, while the ducks flailed in confusion as if they’d just been caught in a bizarre water show was priceless. His friends erupted in laughter, not only for the failed drive but also because Gary, in his moment of embarrassment, turned to them and dramatically declared, “Well, at least I’m keeping my shots aquatic!” Little did he know, the ducks might actually be better golfers than he was!
F
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee – I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee…that says, fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me…you can’t get fooled again.”
Y
Alright fine I’ll go listen to some j cole
S
Fool me 3 times, fuck the peace sign, load the chopper let it rain on you
I
One of my all time favorite lines. I love the GWB quote as well, don’t start no shit won’t be no shit.
H
That whole album is 🔥
Y
It really is, any time I see that quote or hear it I go out that album on start to finish
T
Dun dunnanunna dun dun dun
S
He realized that saying “shame on me” would be clipped negatively. Good idea to deviate but really, really poor execution
D
The fact that this little gaff is still talked about is so strange by today’s standards.
T
I never really thought about that, but if something like thia happened today it probably shouldn’t even be newsworthy (with how batshit everything is now)
T
Watergate was the biggest scandal through the 70s and even into the 80s, then Clinton/Lewinsky in the late 90s. The sum of both of these feel like an episode of Bluey in today’s standard.
I
I spit out my covefefe reading this
N
I’ve been thinking about Howard Dean battle cry lately.
W
I think it is still talked about because it sums up Dubya so well. It captures his essence. If a more intelligent seeming or eloquent president just fumbled that out of nowhere, it would live on like this. It lives on because it is the man distilled down to a 20 second clip.
I
If that is your sentiment then surely you would feel the same way about another president who had a tendency to make word salads
W
Trumps defining word salad might be “covfefe.” That might live on. Also a different media landscape and obviously a lowered standard.
G
They should have fired Obama for wearing that tan suit! The rule of law has meant nothing since!
F
Well, it’s a gaff that played into his weaponized persona of being a folksy, good ol’ boy that you could have a beer with This is around the same time Republicans started decrying “Ivory Tower” liberals, ie: anyone who went to college
_
I quote this sometimes and execute it poorly on purpose.
C
Yeah we know Dad
_
Damn it, boy.. you’re messin up my street cred.
V
Hard to stop talking once you’ve started, but he could have turned it around. Something like, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice… well, let’s not let that happen.” could have been fine, everyone would have been okay with that, but he just fumbled it. Would have been even better if he just didn’t say anything, though.
T
I think that’s pretty much exactly what he was trying to say. “You can’t get fooled again” can be read as “You’re now incapable of being fooled” and “You can’t allow yourself to be fooled again”. The second is pretty much what you said, but the way he said it made it sound like the first.
P
I think he lapsed into “The Who” cuz it felt familiar
L
Honestly, the pivot was genius. I dare you to do better under that pressure.
B
I had a book of “Bushisms”. He made a lot of gaffs during his presidency.
S
\> “Our aim and your aim is the same: To find lunatics, haters and punk trash and stop them. No more lunatics.”
B
“Too many OB-GYNS aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country”
X
I love that quote! Seeing it always makes me laugh 🤣
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F
I’ve never lied to you and I’ll never lie to you again.
S
I really do miss my daily calendar of Bushisms! 😂
P
Words of a Saint
P
Words of a Saint
E
🎶Can’t get fooled again🎶…. yeeeeeeah 😎
G
As a well experienced public speaker, I have never held this against him. It happens. Honestly, is was one of the few moments he wasn’t an intolerable clown. He flubbed a line and did his best to recover.
J
I use “Now watch this drive” as a transition out of any awkward conversation. It makes like 95% of the conversations more awkward, but the 5% that get the reference? Kills every time.
S
In stealing this idea. Nobody will understand, and I’ll just start giggling uncontrollably before I even finish the sentence, but I’ll smile about it.
J
What makes this work is he fucking kills that drive. 10/10.
I
every time 50% of th time obvi
X
Lmao.
L
Remember the days when we thought no Republican president could be dumber than Bush?
W
I remember!
M
Pepperidge Farm remembers
F
I membah!
J
I’d take 20 years of Bush instead of this dingleberry we have now.
J
George bush could be president for life and I’d breathe a sigh of relief.
D
Oh man. I’d elect a piece of toast President for life if it would mean a change.
W
Hindsight is quite the bitch, eh?
M
Nah, he is perfectly content with what Project 2025 is doing; his family gets half the blame for this current Supreme Court.
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