Is this for real?

wrong robot · February 25, 2004 12:38PM

I just heard this via word of mouth, and that person didn't have a source, and I couldn't find one either, so maybe someone here has heard of this before, or has a source, or something

anyway, what I heard was that President Bush is trying to reclassify Jobs at fast food joints like McDonald's as 'manufacturing' jobs, because they 'build' hamburgers.

it seems absurd, but at the same time, the rationale behind this would be to alter statistics and make it look like not as many manufacturing jobs are being lost.

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any input?

giant · February 25, 2004 12:43PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/20/bu...rtner=USERLAND

wrong robot · February 25, 2004 12:52PM

thanks

kneelbeforezod · February 25, 2004 1:26PM

That's great. Up there with the reclassification of ketchup as a vegetable.

shawnj · February 25, 2004 1:30PM

(via Uggabugga)

pfflam · February 25, 2004 1:31PM

You just gotta wonder when Bush himself is going to start thinking about voting Democrat

I mean, he would do this simply to stack the propaganda with regards to the economy . . . doesn't it surprise you that he wouldn't even recognize that it means yet another form of lie . . . or at least a distortion of what people would think when they heard economic news?! . . . therefore a form of untruth . . .

fellowship · February 25, 2004 1:43PM

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Originally posted by pfflam

a form of untruth . . .

W means a double portion of U hence "double U"

ie: W = UU

or U x 2

I believe we are dealing with George U. Bush

The U stands for untruth. and ole George has a double portion of untruth so we call him W. for short.

Fellows

rageous · February 25, 2004 1:45PM

hahaha

awesome.

in a bad way.

wrong robot · February 25, 2004 1:45PM

Fellows,

but that reminds me of a great Douglas adams quote.

WWW is the only acronym that takes three times longer to pronounce than the words it stands for World Wide Web(3 syllables): WWW(9 syllables)

kneelbeforezod · February 25, 2004 1:50PM

This isn't for the benefit of people who are starting to feel suspicious about the Bush admin, it's for the benefit of the faithful who want to be told how many new manufacturing jobs there are at the end of 2004 compared to at the end of 2003 (who cares where they came from).

These people want to believe that Bush is doing a good job, so they'll turn a blind eye to the obfuscation behind it. Tie that in with the number of jobs 'created' by reclassifying immigrants currently living and working in the US illegally as guest workers and it makes for some handy election commercial stats... "George W Bush created 8 million jobs in 2004!"

...

Anybody know if there would also be a tax benefit to McDonald's for providing 'manufacturing' jobs instead of food service jobs? Might also be worth looking into...

kneelbeforezod · February 25, 2004 1:53PM

I guess it might work on the ignorant as well.

giaguara · February 25, 2004 3:45PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Fellowship

W means a double portion of U hence "double U"

ie: W = UU

or U x 2

I believe we are dealing with George U. Bush

The U stands for untruth. and ole George has a double portion of untruth so we call him W. for short.

Fellows

hah. cant agree more, fs.

giaguara · February 25, 2004 3:47PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kneelbeforezod

That's great. Up there with the reclassification of ketchup as a vegetable.

yep. ketschup is a vegetable .. so to get your five a day, all you need is four guinness and ketchup .. on your fries. no wait, that#s SIX. so all you need is fine guinness a day ..

giant · February 25, 2004 4:02PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Giaguara

yep. ketschup is a vegetable .. so to get your five a day, all you need is four guinness and ketchup .. on your fries. no wait, that#s SIX. so all you need is fine guinness a day ..

Great. Now you got me thinking about Guinness and I still have an hour before I get out of the office.

giaguara · February 25, 2004 4:08PM

haha. giant, you won#t like knowing some friends of mine will be dieting next week.

dieting .. i mean, they always lose weight when they get cheap flights to ireland, and stay there for a week or 10 days to drink guinness. all day long, every day while in ireland. must be because of all the vitamins..

sammi jo · February 25, 2004 4:45PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Wrong Robot

Fellows,

but that reminds me of a great Douglas adams quote.

WWW is the only acronym that takes three times longer to pronounce than the words it stands for World Wide Web(3 syllables): WWW(9 syllables)

isn't WWW 6 syllables? dubyadubyadubya?

billybobsky · February 25, 2004 4:51PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sammi jo

isn't WWW 6 syllables? dubyadubyadubya?

um. if you are Ms. Dowd, it is. I believe the 9 syllables refers to the non-diminutive form of W being double-u. There is of course the late 1990's fad of saying dubdubdub, but fortuitously this faded with the last remnants of the furbies.

buzzardsbay · February 25, 2004 4:56PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Giaguara

and stay there for a week or 10 days to drink guinness. all day long, every day while in ireland. must be because of all the vitamins..

mmmmmmmm Guinness.

Vitamin G is an important supplement everyone should imbibe everyday.

Cheers,

Dan

anders · February 25, 2004 5:27PM

Soon millions of americans will get manufactoring jobs. They just need to reclassify making eggs into construction work and chickens into humans

drewprops · February 25, 2004 5:58PM

The lady DJ at cowboyculturalsociety.com just says "dub dub dub". I've started doing that, it's funny and easy to say. I gave up french fries for Lent last year and stayed off them, which has kept me out of fast food restaurants (good thing). I love standing at the end of the assembly line eating those things.

tigerwoods99 · February 25, 2004 6:20PM

That's funny as hell.

Is this for real?

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