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The Burge Is Working [Dan Collins]

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Support the Burge.

[UPDATE: As per Paul Z’s comment, somebody might want to put together something with this.]

I sent an idea to Serr8d, and here’s what he came up with:

31 Replies to “The Burge Is Working [Dan Collins]”

  1. Jeff G. says:

    I’m waiting for my hair to grow out so that I can pick up a $400 cut and make a bid for VP on the ticket.

    At the very least, I can sure help out during softball games.

  2. happyfeet says:

    Speaking of vp ambition, I think Richardson said more than he meant to the other day…

    “It’s critically important I show strength in my own region,” he said. “It doesn’t mean I have to win, but I have to be a major player here.”

    In the english I grew up speaking, that says “pick me! pick me!” That article also kind of sparkles juxtaposed with the one McGeehee
    linked the other day.

  3. Dan Collins says:

    I wonder whether I could be Surgin’ General.

  4. SarahW says:

    I can be the atrophy wife

  5. JHoward says:

    Come on you two; this is serious business.

  6. Natalie says:

    Jessica’s Well: Surging the Burge since 5:17pm yesterday.

    So I have seniority.

  7. Paul Zrimsek says:

    Have you heard about the Burge?
    Everybody knows that the Burge is the, uhhh, wurge.

  8. happyfeet says:

    There is no link. I will put one here.

  9. Lesley says:

    Up here in Uffda Land, we pronounce Mr. Lutefisk/Lefsa/Krumkake’s name Bur-gee (hard g). But ya never know, Dave might be wanting to flee from his ethic roots to a more cosmopolitan (read Frenchie-sounding) last name. Trust me, that will NOT go over well with his base: the muscle car, hot dish and craft fair crowd.

  10. BJTexs says:

    You cannot resist the urge …to elevate TEH BURGE!!!

    Burgeheim Steamroller, baaabeee!!!

  11. SarahW says:

    Burge – You CAN HAS IT!

    (Or, u can haz pritty cheez)

  12. McGehee says:

    Fred better move fast, or the Burge-meister will have grabbed all his support.

  13. R30C says:

    you’re wrong about the muscle car crowd Lesley

  14. B Moe says:

    I need one of those bumper stickers for a race car I crew on, if someone can get me one drop me an email: gibson330 @ gmail.com

    Seriously, I want one bad.

  15. mojo says:

    Burge is the wurge?
    (papa-oo-mow-mow)

  16. SarahW says:

    Burge wurge

    Well, that’s better than “rockin pneumonia”, I guess.

  17. The candidate dilemma…

    Fear not, America. Dave Burge has deigned to lead you. If it doesn’t work out, of course, there’s always Fred Thompson….

  18. SarahW says:

    Hey, how do you really pronounce “Burge?”

    Is it Burge as in ham”burg”er or “ham”burg”y?
    or Burge as in “metallurgy”
    or Burge as in “purge?”

  19. Dan Collins says:

    Sarah–it rhymes with “Heisman.”

  20. dicentra says:

    I’m duly impressed by the punctuation on the bumper sticker. “On” should have been capitalized because in this context it is not a preposition but part of the verb “Bring,” whereas “the” retains its status as article, thus meriting the lower case.

    I think I’m in love…

  21. dicentra says:

    It doesn’t rhyme with “sauerkraut”?

    TW: chance refused. No, the chance was missed because I can’t remember the proper line from Monty Python, drat my aging memory.

  22. Lesley says:

    R30C – I was just jokin’ around.

  23. happyfeet says:

    I don’t get the muscle car crowd sensitivity thing.

  24. Lesley says:

    Happy Feet – my joke was lousy. I was playing up Dave’s comic genius for all things Scandihoovian, and thus, a huge base of voter support. Believe it or not, Sweden is home to more restored classic American cars than anywhere else in the world (outside the US). Swedish Greasers Cruising in American Cars

  25. SarahW says:

    Lesley wasn’t blowing kakelugn fumes…. Those swedish muscle-car types, well, they don’t like the affricates. At least not the voiced ones.

  26. happyfeet says:

    But I thought I had gotten your joke. “Hot dish” is totally Iowa, and Iowa is funny, apart from Chuck Grassley, who is now certifiably out of his era and is scaring the children.

  27. Lesley says:

    Sarah – tee hee (I had to look up affricates, thanks for the erudition), and atrophy wife was brilliant.

    Happyfeet – I’ve lived in the Midwest almost all my life and grew up thinking racial prejudice had something to do with whether your last name ended in “son” or “sen.” I actually know people with Hummel Figurine Collections, who display Swedish, Norweigan or Danish flags at the end of their docks, who have matching family sweater collections (especially popular for holiday photos) and whose mothers’ always put shredded carrots in orange jello. Don’t get me started on tuna noodle casserole….is it any wonder I love Iowahawk?

    and yes, Chuck Grassley is scary.

  28. happyfeet says:

    I have people in Iowa, sometimes Christmas there. I really like it up there. Mostly the people. I’ve seen those holiday photos on the fridge at home, but I guess I had thought it was something peculiar about *them* – the monochromatic peeps in the picture – good to know they weren’t improvising.

  29. McGehee says:

    I guess I had thought it was something peculiar about *them*

    Nope. I too have people in Iowa, descended from taciturn, asocial Scots.

    The “normal” Iowans have been keeping a wary eye on Iowa’s McGehees since 1894.

  30. B Moe says:

    Back in my days as a touring musician, we passed a store in Sioux Falls, Iowa called:

    Shoes to Vacuum II

    We didn’t get a chance to investigate, but it lead to many hours of speculation on the road afterwards.

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