Joe the Plumber appreciation thread

[Sage 703]

Is this what happens when the GOP is afraid of losing Virginia?  This is the back of an official GOP mailer going out around the Commonwealth.
 
     <img src="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/images/2008/10/16/122416544620081016vagopevileye5.jpg" alt=" - " />
 
   Full article here, as well as context on the full mailer.

[sonickteam2]

thank link has Obama ahead in North Dakota.
 
 really? north dakota??? no way.

[walkonby]

joe the plumber blog radio appreciation set on siruis left of center right now.  channel 26.  xm sucked; that's why they don't exist anymore.

[Sage 703]

Originally posted by very sonick:
  thank link has Obama ahead in North Dakota.
 
 really? north dakota??? no way.

The most recent polling - and the only poll conducted in October - has him ahead, but there hasn't been an additional poll confirming it yet.  Could be just one outlier.  But North Dakota - and Montana, for that matter - has been surprisingly close for the entire campaign.
 
   http://www.pollster.com/polls/nd/08-nd-pres-ge-mvo.php

[azaghal1981]

Originally posted by sweetcell:
   

Originally posted by ixkpd-bk:
   

Originally posted by K8teebug:
  I miss Mario and Luigi.

See: Immigration Reform. [/b]

my candidate for POTW. [/b]

Ditto.

[walkonby]

mario and luigi were born in america.

[sweetcell]

nope - japan.

[walkonby]

Originally posted by sweetcell:
  nope - japan.

nope.  redmond, washington.  mario came from nintendo's landlord, and luigi came from a pizza shop owner.  both based in america.  the creator was from japan.

[sweetcell]

just to be clear, we're talking about mario and luigi from the mario bros video game.
 
 you said "born in america" - those characters were created (aka "born") in japan, because that's where someone came up with them, designed them, coded them, etc.  yes, in the story, they are plumbers in NYC.
 
 </dork>

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

nerds

[walkonby]

the names/identities of the characters (thus born) were created in america.  nothing to do with where they work.
 
 and yes, i am a dork.  thank you.

[nkotb]

Yeah, this back and forth is even too geeky for me.
 
 

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  nerds

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by kosmo:
  awesome.... the buzz on the intertubes is that joe the plumber isn't even registered to vote, is somehow related to charles keating, was on msnbc rattling off gop talking point and is against social security... do i smell an unvetted plant?

update: cause it's the fair and balanced thing to do... mr. jt plumber is indeed registered just under a slightly different spelling of his name, probably just a data entry typo but something that could have gotten him disenfranchised were he a newly registered voter in oh...

[azaghal1981]

Latest is that he doesn't even have a plumbing license and owes a bunch of money in back taxes.
 He also admitted to NBC that Obama's tax increase won't be affecting him at all.
 
 
 Yet another epic fail for McCain.

[walkonby]

next thing we know, he really is not bald.