NPR today, on drive home - female newscaster used the term "Republic" in lieu of "Republican"

[peacebird]

It HAD to be intentional - I was so startled that I can't even tell you what the story was... I was too busy yelling "Yes! Let's see how they like THEIR party name truncated!"

I hope she starts a trend.....

:evilgrin:

[Rebellious Republican]

1. Oh jeez, now I am going to have to change my pseudonym to

"Rebellious Republic" :evilgrin:

:toast:

[Pirate Smile]

2. Someone posted earlier today that a Democratic Senator used it on

the floor of the Senate this morning.

:)

[peacebird]

4. Excellent! LOL!

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. We could shorten it even further to the "Public" Party

like Public restroom. "Publican" - isn't that another term for a barkeep? That might work as well.

[Rebellious Republican]

5. Since we are going that direction we might as well shorten that to

"Pubic". :evilgrin:

[C_U_L8R]

6. Or just Pubes

c'mon .. you were heading there anyway..harhar

[Rebellious Republican]

8. Damn. you got me!

:toast:

[C_U_L8R]

10. Yes indeed, a toast

To the pubes !!!

:toast:

[Up2Late]

14. I was about to say the same thing as in post #5, but I like your idea even better!

Cheers! :toast:

Here's to "The Pubes!":beer:

[blondeatlast]

9. Prick has a nice ring to it, actually.

No offense to the body part of which I am so fond on Mr. BAL...

[Cassandra]

12. They actually would prefer Private...

public is too suggestive of the common good.

[applegrove]

7. WhoooHOOO!

:woohoo:

[merbex]

11. Repugnant Party or Repugnant Senator

Those are my choices as comebacks

[Ian David]

13. Other ideas

"The Repo Party."

"The Gop," pronounced as an actual word, like "Gohp," and perhaps refer to them as "Goppers."

And finally, my favorite, "The Republick Party" and "The Republickers."

Unfortunately, we couldn't get away with calling them Repukes or Repubes or Pubes.

[truthisfreedom]

15. I've been pushing for Republan for years. They took away our "ic"... let's take away theirs!

Republan Party.

[C_U_L8R]

16. "Ick" sums them up for me