.....or he’d realize what character he bears a shocking resemblance to.
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Uh… yeah. Stamps commemorating a major cultural icon of the late 20th and early 21st centuries? That sounds reasonable really.
But hey, yanno, it was all better back in the day.
You kids better get off my lawn or I’m callin’ the cops!...
I’m thinking the USPS should come out with a line of stamps celebrating prominent Republicans success stories, like Roy Cohn, Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Oliver North, Ed Meese, all Bushes, John McCain, Duke Cunningham, Tom DeLay, etc…
...and then follow that up with a series celebrating American innovations in torture…
...and then a series on ‘Big’ Dick Cheney, featuring all the different scowls he can make on demand…
I’ve worked with a guy who used to collect Cinderella stamps from sometime back, now he collects french congo stamps but they have been doing this for years.
Hindrocket—isn’t he that guy who wears an yellow onion on his belt? Very fashionable . . .
They already have a nixon stamp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_stamps_of_the_United_States
Of course, I found Hindrocket’s favorite stamp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:0AynRand.jpg
Stamps are not currency, there is nothing sacred or particularly special about being on a stamp.
I’m too lazy to look it up, but I think the only requirement is that if actual people are pictured, they have to have been dead for something like 10 years. It was a big deal when they did the Elvis stamp as soon as the time limit had expired.
Rational Person: Did you complain when the USPS issued Tweety Bird and Sylvester stamps? Or Daffy Duck?
Hindrocket: But now you’re talking the classics. That’s different.
Rod Serling made it! Cool!
“We cannot put the face of a person on a stamp unless said person is deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead.”—J. Edward Day, Postmaster General, 1962. Day was replying to a request from an individual to be honored with a stamp. The letter was never mailed.
This is a joke, right? Hindrocket is really some liberal trying to make conservatives look bad, right? Right? Because otherwise I’d have to think that Hindrocket is the biggest—no that, just can’t be possible.
Sadly, no. (snork) Powerline is not only a real conservative blog, but a few years ago, at the height of media infatuation with wingnuttery, Time called it the best blog on the internet.
Time called it the best blog on the internet.
Yeah, but that’s Time. /snark
Seriously though, how can someone not have seen the Simpsons? They’re ubiquitous. You’d figure that by now he’d have seen an episode by accident at least.
The post currently second from the top (link) has a truly egregious graph. Even ignoring the question of whether the numbers are trustworthy, the graph is an utter misrepresentation of its own supposed data. Did they think we’d just fail to notice that the vertical distance between 12 and 16 is about six times as large as the distance between 8 and 12?
I’m too lazy to look it up, but I think the only requirement is that if actual people are pictured, they have to have been dead for something like 10 years.
I believe that you can also not be a member of royalty (possibly just a named foreign head of state) ex. Grace Kelly, who could not be referred to as “Princess Grace” on her commemorative stamp.
Shorter Hindrocket: Dear Mr. President, there are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. P.S., I am not a crack-pot.
Longer Hindrocket: We can’t bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell ‘em stories that don’t go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. “Give me five bees for a quarter,” you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…
Cyan: Did they think we wouldn’t notice that the actual decade of greed was the decade in which Republicans controlled congress and the debt quadrupled?
Really, five years does not a decade make. Are republicans really that stupid? Do they forget that the war that their coloring book president started is costing billions every day? Gah. I don’t have enough energy right now.
But Cyan, how else are they going to fit the giant font on the picture?
[Singing]: “Hindrocket’s in flight. Right wingnut delight! Right wignut delight!”
Wow, I thought I’d seen every Simpsons, but the clip with this post was totally unfamiliar. It must be from the Ullmann show.
I wonder if Hindrocket is ever going to figure out how to use the internet. Bugs Bunny has been on a stamp: as has mickey, bambi, the lion king, a hershey’s kiss, famous power boats, yoda, jesus, madonna and child, stamps (that’s right, stamps with pictures of other stamps) jim thorpe, elvis, Martin Luther, Roberto Clemente… This took me three minutes to find. Stamps are not currency, there is nothing sacred or particularly special about being on a stamp.