Please enlighten me....

[Bassic]

I would like to know the reason why a lot of people here use * instead of the Chimps name when posting on this site.

Thanks

[bryant69]

1. I think it's a doonesbury thing?

Cause he wasn't really elected president - future history books will have a list of Presidents and his name will have an asterix next to it showing he wasn't erally elected.

I could be wrong though.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[tk2kewl]

2. I think it's form Vonegut...

an asterisk looks kind of like a certain puckered part of the anatomy

[Bassic]

Ah I see.

Would not have thought of it on my own, thanks a bunch Bryant.

[Mnemosyne]

4. You are right and

many of us can't bring ourselves to even give him the respect of typing his name.

[Bassic]

7. And well we should not.

[NMDemDist2]

6. yup that's why n/t

[mcscajun]

3. Primarily these...

The requisite asterisk (*) that generally appears next to 'questionable achievements' in record books...and his (s)elections are certainly questionable.

...G. Trudeau's use of the * to designate Bush in his Doonesbury comic strip.

[Bassic]

5. I was not familiar with that particular convention. Thank you.

[Kazak]

8. Ever read Vonnegut?

[Bassic]

10. Actually no I haven't

[Kazak]

23. Please remedy that immediately. :)

Start with Breakfast of Champions to figure out how has any relevance...

[Mr_Spock]

9. The Chimp is merely an * in the history of the USA

*

[Bassic]

11. Unfortunately I myself think

he will long be remembered. Hopefully as the man who tried and failed to destroy liberty.

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. Remembered like Burr and Arnold. nt

[Bassic]

20. Quite. But remembered nonetheless.

Adn really the world needs to remember huim just like it needs to remember Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot.

[oscar111]

12. Donesbury began the asterik with Bush1, not 2

IIRC.

it was because 1 was such a non-entity. Soft voice, zero personality, no charisma, subhuman ideas.

Might be wrong about 1. The adjectives apply to both tho.

[oscar111]

14. Vonnegut is a Progressive

has said so many times

Good chap

reminds me a lot of Prarie Home Companion's host G Keeler. Both Progressives.

[bertha katzenengel]

13. I do it in the spirit of Roger Maris' entry in the stats.

61*

Yeah, he's president -- with a big fat caveat....

[Javaman]

15. After the supreme court appointed him*...

A senator, his name escapes me at the moment, stated that he* will forever, because of the nature of his* appointment, not elected, have a astrix next to his* name. Or something to that effect.

[stellanoir]

16. Historically

the * has been placed after a President's name who "won" the electoral college but not the popular vote. I think there had only be one prior to *.

[Bassic]

19. The electoral college seems like an obsolete tradition to me

But I guess if it serves those in power, they're not going to change it.

[stellanoir]

22. Yup an obsolete tradition indeed

as are our elections with partisan control of the vote tallies.

It's so-o-o pathetic.

[rasputin1952]

18. I never capitalize the 'B' when typing bush...I do it for his father, but

not for the cretin.

It is just a minor show of disrespect, and means little in the grand Scheme of Things...but it means a lot to me...:)

[Bassic]

21. Which is quite understandable.