"I bought a... er.... I bought some, um, hardware stuff today. You know, tools and such. For fixing my... um... car? When it breaks, you know. Just like all you good folk do. One item I bought is amazing! It has a long wooden handle with some kind of metallic top that appears perfectly suited for pushing sharp things into other things. You know, for.... um.... fastening things together?" Aide interrupts quietly: "It's called a "hammer," sir."
"Ah yes! A... what did you call it? A ham-mer. Truly a remarkable invention! In fact, I plan to meet with the clever entrepeneur who invented this... what was it called again? And congratulate him on his American Ingenuity!"
@6 - I was using list in the generic more-than-one thing sense. He probably never has gone to a grocery store with a list in his life. That's woman servant's work.
@7,10 Clearly they are not average people, but I think that comparing Michelle Obama, who I am sure has made a trip to Target that was not a photo op, to Mitt Romney who has grown up insulated tells us a thing or two about who has had experiences that correlate and help them to relate with regular folk, and who is a tourist.
The wild cherry stuff was caffeine-free, according to the report. Not so the Diet Coke.
Therefore, the cherry flavoring could transform caffeine into not-caffeine only via some sort of quantum entanglement between the Pepsi and Coke products. Or maybe the magic underwear has extra super powers. Or perhaps the Diet Coke was decaffeinated retroactively.
They left me a list of what we actually needed, but no way was I going to try to interpret their childish scrawls, much less touch it.
Aide interrupts quietly: "It's called a "hammer," sir."
"Ah yes! A... what did you call it? A ham-mer. Truly a remarkable invention! In fact, I plan to meet with the clever entrepeneur who invented this... what was it called again? And congratulate him on his American Ingenuity!"
List? Sounds like he wandered around and picked up a couple things he likes. I doubt he's shopped for himself in years, if ever.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/29…
Sure, it's phony, but every candidate pulls this sort of stunt from time to time, so I guess I can't criticize him too much.
"Hey Tim, how about you and me sit down with an ear of corn and 6 to 12 Pepsis and do some down-home fat-chewin'!"
http://lds.about.com/library/weekly/aa12…
The wild cherry stuff was caffeine-free, according to the report. Not so the Diet Coke.
Therefore, the cherry flavoring could transform caffeine into not-caffeine only via some sort of quantum entanglement between the Pepsi and Coke products. Or maybe the magic underwear has extra super powers. Or perhaps the Diet Coke was decaffeinated retroactively.