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Hypatia the Bearded Lady!
Hypatia Posted Sep 12, 2003
Sometimes things work out and sometimes they don't. That time they did. 
Last time they didn't. 
How about the Tilden/Hays election? That one didn't work out either. Hays made a dreadful president.
H
Hypatia the Bearded Lady!
J Posted Sep 12, 2003
He was against Taft, who was from Ohio, and Teddy Roosevelt, whose name I like
Rutherford B Hayes was from Ohio too 
Hypatia the Bearded Lady!
Hypatia Posted Sep 12, 2003
Do you have any idea how bad Taft was? I hate to bring it up, but he was in the bottom 5. We haven't had very good luck with Presidents from Ohio. 
You'll have a tradition to overcome when you run.
H
Hypatia the Bearded Lady!
J Posted Sep 12, 2003
Let's see...
William Henry Harrison
Ulysses S Grant
Rutherford B Hayes
James A Garfield
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
William Howard Taft
Warren Harding
(from memory 
)
So no modern Presidents and no great presidents... But we do have the only President to serve in two non-consecutive terms!
Hypatia the Bearded Lady!
Hypatia Posted Sep 12, 2003
You'll be a great president. 
So the curse will be broken. 
H
Hypatia the Bearded Lady!
J Posted Sep 12, 2003
Well obviously.
My first act - more BBC in america
And more sheep grazing pastures and libraries.
Hypatia the Bearded Lady!
Hypatia Posted Sep 13, 2003
That's a good beginning. I don't know how the BBC bit will fly with your conservative base in Ohio. But the other two will be hits. You could put the pastures next to the libraries so kids could learn about shepherding. And the libraries could use the extra parking.
H
Hypatia the Bearded Lady!
J Posted Sep 13, 2003
Deal!
I'm so used to the BBC now, I can't trust CNN. Least of all Fox news 
So I need it on TV!
Hypatia the Bearded Lady!
Hypatia Posted Sep 13, 2003
If you're President, you can have a live BBC reporter just come into the oval office and read you the news in person.
H
Hypatia the Bearded Lady!
Hypatia Posted Sep 13, 2003
News, diagrams, maps, tea and crumpets. What a deal.
H
Hypatia the Bearded Lady!
J Posted Sep 14, 2003
Well I'll have my own SIT room where generals and stuff can brief me
Why do I need this?
*wanders off*
Hypatia the Bearded Lady!
Hypatia Posted Sep 14, 2003
Why do you need to be president or why do you need news reporters and generals?
H
Hypatia the Bearded Lady!
Hypatia Posted Sep 14, 2003
You have a point. Unless you're terribly liberal they'll pillory you anyway. And you'll be the most powerful man in the world. It will be up to you to Make the news.
H
Hypatia the Bearded Lady!
Hypatia Posted Sep 15, 2003
Definitely not.
More mopderate, I would guess. Moderate is good. Extreme is bad.
H
Hypatia the Bearded Lady!
Hypatia Posted Sep 17, 2003
However, I would like a more liberal treatment of my contract. Now I'm lion taming as well, I have 4 jobs! And you'll have me cleaning up after the elephants if I'm not careful. Do you know how hard it would be to shovel s**t with an 8 foot beard?
Whereas you only have one job and a Napoleonic complex.
H
Hypatia the Bearded Lady!
J Posted Sep 18, 2003
I can't be Napoleon. I'm too tall
No, we'll have someone else cleaning the elephant excrememnt
Hypatia the Bearded Lady!
Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Sep 18, 2003
*a 
(<--just using it because that trapeze artist doesn't like it!) comes stumbling in*
A bearded lady? This I've got to see!
*The Clown from top to toe:
A several sizes too small bowler hat
An orange curly wig
A red nose in a sad face reminding you somehow of Droopy
A too big shirt with a pattern of big, brightly coloured flowers
Pink suspenders to hold up the
Black and white striped trousers draped around
A suspiciously big and rounded belly
Several sizes too big shoes*
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