Thursday, January 26, 2012
Obamanopoly
I settled in to watch the President's State of the Union Address on Tuesday evening. I ran through the channels and settled on CNN (I don't know why). I logged on to Twitter, so I could comment. Almost immediately, I received a BlackBerry alert, informing me that I had a Facebook message. I checked and there it was... http://obamanopolythegame.com . Wow! Right when the President of the United States starts his State of the Union Address, some joker sends me an old (circulated) e-mail about the Monopoly game and how things would be if (thunder roar please) Obama's brand of socialism takes hold. How tired...
Anyway, the speech starts...here are my tweets (you figure 'em out):
* I want to play by the "same rules" as Congress and the White House...
* Hey, who's going the watch the watchers...and regulate the regulators...
* Wow, it's like he hasn't even been president the last three years...
* Ooh, it looks like John Kerry got hit by an ugly stick...or a big bottle of ketchup..
* That's it! Let's "give" people jobs...that'll do it...
* Why don't we first put a "cap" on the salaries of college professors and administrators...
* Comprehensive Immigration Reform? Where've you been the last three years?
* If each of us eats one fewer hot dog every day, we could save trillions over the next millennium.
* OMG! Another Bush mention...
* He'd score big points if he'd just fire the worst AG in American History...no, not Janet Reno.
* Finally, something we can all agree on...NO NUKES IN IRAN!
Then, I got bored (it wasn't one of his better speeches)...so I opened the Obamanopoly e-mail. It wasn't what I thought...actually it was a drinking game, listing all kinds of less than witty reasons to take a drink (i.e. if he mentions the word "children," etc.). I thought to myself, hey, I can come up with a better game...take a drink every time he says, "I," "me," "myself," etc. But true to form, my old college roommate already invented that game. I got a call from his wife...he passed out about ten minutes into the speech...
Anyway, the speech starts...here are my tweets (you figure 'em out):
* I want to play by the "same rules" as Congress and the White House...
* Hey, who's going the watch the watchers...and regulate the regulators...
* Wow, it's like he hasn't even been president the last three years...
* Ooh, it looks like John Kerry got hit by an ugly stick...or a big bottle of ketchup..
* That's it! Let's "give" people jobs...that'll do it...
* Why don't we first put a "cap" on the salaries of college professors and administrators...
* Comprehensive Immigration Reform? Where've you been the last three years?
* If each of us eats one fewer hot dog every day, we could save trillions over the next millennium.
* OMG! Another Bush mention...
* He'd score big points if he'd just fire the worst AG in American History...no, not Janet Reno.
* Finally, something we can all agree on...NO NUKES IN IRAN!
Then, I got bored (it wasn't one of his better speeches)...so I opened the Obamanopoly e-mail. It wasn't what I thought...actually it was a drinking game, listing all kinds of less than witty reasons to take a drink (i.e. if he mentions the word "children," etc.). I thought to myself, hey, I can come up with a better game...take a drink every time he says, "I," "me," "myself," etc. But true to form, my old college roommate already invented that game. I got a call from his wife...he passed out about ten minutes into the speech...
# posted by mediacopp : 7:05 PM
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