Comments on: Rep. John Boehner Gets Huge Overnight

Rep. John Boehner Gets Huge Overnight

P-Soque — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:14:41 -0800

Boehner Gets Huge Overnight The Congressman with the unfortunately spelled last name was elected House Majority Leader last week--it was only a matter of time....(embedded movie).

By: BobFrapples

BobFrapples — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:23:49 -0800

Pronounced Bay-ner. That is all.

By: gigawhat?

gigawhat? — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:25:59 -0800

Why does the huge Boehner post get 1 comment?

By: NationalKato

NationalKato — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:26:54 -0800

This thread gave me a Bayner.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:28:16 -0800

P-Soque covers huge Boehner. News(Filter) at 11:00.

By: P-Soque

P-Soque — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:01:43 -0800

Have to watch the video...I guess I should have made that more clear in my post...

By: MaxVonCretin

MaxVonCretin — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:11:40 -0800

And so the latest "contagious media" deluge begins. Are we going to get a desperate "LOOK AT ME!" FPP for every one of these moronic things, or will some kind soul please take the time to do this again? PS - video wouldn't play.

By: jonson

jonson — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:11:50 -0800

I'll show them! I'll show them how many Boehner's the Joker can make!!!

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:13:23 -0800

Great, now we've all been p-soqued.

By: P-Soque

P-Soque — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:20:50 -0800

Fair enough, fair enough. I apologize for the stupid post.

By: lemonfridge

lemonfridge — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:30:10 -0800

they cant show Boehners on TV can they?

By: banishedimmortal

banishedimmortal — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:41:00 -0800

In case you couldn't get enough of jonson's post above: Batman's Greatest Boner (Juvenile, but I laughed)

By: billysumday

billysumday — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:15:35 -0800

I really enjoyed that. Thank you.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:16:27 -0800

I bet that pig was p-soqued.

By: wakko

wakko — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:23:53 -0800

threads like this make me proud to be a 'merkin

By: absalom

absalom — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:26:36 -0800

i'm not sure what that was, other than awesome.

By: 3.2.3

3.2.3 — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:05:48 -0800

pronounced fark.

By: billysumday

billysumday — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:07:08 -0800

To clarify, I enjoyed TPOFTEOA's deleted comment, not this post. This post is pretty poor.

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:12:45 -0800

I'm waiting for the really subtle wit regarding Senator Mike Crapo (pronounced "Cray-po").

By: anthill

anthill — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:17:09 -0800

Bohner in the Crapo?

By: anthill

anthill — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:17:25 -0800

I barely know her!

By: rkent

rkent — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:24:39 -0800

Damn it! Quicktime pulled a boehner, I can't watch this file.

By: clevershark

clevershark — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:40:02 -0800

They say he's a man of firm convictions. A pillar of the community, even.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:01:55 -0800

Where did the pig go?

By: HTuttle

HTuttle — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:16:06 -0800

Stand back when he gets together with the whip. Especially if they're planning on pushing some pork. Fill'er Buster?

By: crunchland

crunchland — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:17:09 -0800

Anything with Yakety Sax is comedy gold.

By: Balisong

Balisong — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:43:54 -0800

You brought her, you Bohner!

By: kalimac

kalimac — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:50:19 -0800

I must agree with crunchland. That made me giggle joyfully.

By: Ndwright

Ndwright — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:06:44 -0800

Anything with Yakety Sax is comedy gold. Amen to that.

By: stavrogin

stavrogin — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:37:41 -0800

How does he get "bay-nor" out of that name? A bit of googling reveals that Korean has something that looks like a silent O, but only at the beginning of a word. I guess he sort of looks Korean. Getting your name changed is not that big of a deal when the alternative is to say "It's pronounced BAY-NOR!" ten times a day for the rest of your life. He could get his name changed to "John OOIOO" and go by Mr. EYE.

By: arto

arto — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:38:49 -0800

Refresh my memory, here--is Boehner the guy with very little taint? Or does he have the regular amount of taint?

By: H-Bar

H-Bar — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:48:52 -0800

I hear Boehner has a larger than average taint, and he's exposed it a number of times on the House floor.

By: ericb

ericb — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:49:57 -0800

Boehner's landlord: A lobbyist.

"Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, who was elected House majority leader last week, is renting his Capitol Hill apartment from a veteran lobbyist whose clients have direct stakes in legislation Boehner has co-written and that he has overseen as chairman of the Education and the Workforce Committee. The relationship between Boehner, John D. Milne and Milne's wife, Debra R. Anderson, underscores how intertwined senior lawmakers have become with the lobbyists paid to influence legislation. Boehner's primary residence is in West Chester, Ohio, but for $1,600 a month, he rents a two-bedroom basement apartment near the House office buildings on Capitol Hill owned by Milne, Boehner spokesman Don Seymour said Tuesday. Boehner's monthly rent appears to be similar to other rentals of two-bedroom English basement apartments close to the House side of the Capitol in Southeast, based on a review of apartment listings."

By: ericb

ericb — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:51:46 -0800

Reform, Washington Style

"Only in Washington could an old pro like Boehner, an eight-term congressman with close ties to Washington's K Street lobbying culture, be seen as the fresh face of reform. Boehner's ever-present George Hamilton tan gives him the look of a man forever coming back from vacation. He does get around: over the years, he has made the most of controversial rules allowing members to accept free trips to luxury retreats around the world. Since 2000, Boehner has taken more than $150,000 worth of junkets paid for by private interests—ranking him in the top 10 of all members of Congress."

By: jonson

jonson — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:10:02 -0800

what was Protocols of the Elders of Awesome's deleted comment? Christ I hate when funny comments get deleted...

By: homunculus

homunculus — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:12:26 -0800

Here.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:15:13 -0800

I think mattamyn must have deleted it because s/he is one of those pork-hating vegan terrorists.

By: vkxmai

vkxmai — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:39:58 -0800

Boehner actually lives in Wetherington, a gated-community well outside of the City of Cincinnati (think 'white flight'). His family is in politics and with their unfortunate German last name, almost every year those crazy kids of Cincinnati's suburbs deface the "ELECT BOEHNER" signs in various nefarious ways. My favorite was the one where someone put a printed out "Ö" over the OE in his name.

By: moonbiter

moonbiter — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:51:26 -0800

I don't think it's "bay-ner" auf Deutsch. Oder?

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 01:28:42 -0800

In German, it would be pronounced Ber(h)ner, no?

By: effwerd

effwerd — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:33:22 -0800

I was assuming it was some German derivative. In German, when confronted by two vowels, the second one is pronounced in its long form. (From what I remember of my dalliance with German.)

By: effwerd

effwerd — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:38:18 -0800

Dammit, now I've got Yakety Sax stuck in my head.

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:39:12 -0800

In case you couldn't get enough of jonson's post Those words are the funniest thing here.

By: clevershark

clevershark — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 05:13:02 -0800

I wonder what could have prompted such a rapid rise for Boehner. Will it soon come to a climax and leave him to retreat hastily? Time will tell.

By: nofundy

nofundy — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 05:20:41 -0800

First official act: kill the ethics reform bill like a good corporate whore. Over $200,000 in corporate sponsored trips in teh last 2 years. A perfectly representative member of today's "conservative GOP. The "good hair" version of corporate fascism's ugly face.

By: moonbiter

moonbiter — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 05:43:33 -0800

Okay, I just asked my wife who is a native speaker. She says how you say it depends on your accent, but adds that "bay-ner" is a bit of a stretch. "oe" is basically the Anglicised form of "ö" as noted by vkxmai. The way she says it comes out something like "boo-ner" to my own Cincinnati-born ears.

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 05:56:53 -0800

For "ö", pronounce a long a while rounding your lips as if to pronounce a long o.

By: bashos_frog

bashos_frog — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 06:20:36 -0800

In case you couldn't get enough of jonson's post Or the pöst's jonson, even...