Perry Mistakes Mannequin for Person

[kpete]

Perry Mistakes Mannequin for Person
Rick Perry attempted to call on a mannequin at a question-and-answer session at the Squat-N-Gobble restaurant in Bluffton, South Carolina, the Los Angeles Times reports.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/01/13/perry_mistakes_mannequin_for_person.html

After Perry left, walking by a mannequin wearing a Squat N’ Gobble T-shirt whose hand was raised above her head – a hand Perry tried to call on during a question-and-answer period -- a spirited discussion broke out in the restaurant, with some patrons waving Nobama ’12 bumper stickers. It was resolved, it seemed, after they determined that someone had left without paying their bill – and a Perry staffer agreed to pick up the tab.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-perry-pivots-away-from-romney-focuses-on-defense-20120113,0,3974138.story

[Aerows]

1. I'm sorry

But "Squat-N-Gobble"? That sounds ... upscale.

[Whisp]

5. I'm still laughing...

don't they have it in reverse tho, wouldn't you gobble first, then squat?

oiy. lol.

[Aerows]

29. I know, I'm rather at a loss here

LOL.

[kpete]

6. oh yeah...

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. "Don't cross the family"? I'm going to need more information. nt

[Aerows]

28. I know

I'm not sure I want to know what that means.

[Fire Walk With Me]

30. Google brings up pretty much only Mafia references. Probably not what this means.

Yeah, I agree, something weird going on there...

[sarcasmo]

20. Love that promo

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Maybe it should be the other way around.

Greasy food can do that to a person.

[KamaAina]

26. Amazingly, it actually is!

There is a small chain of creperies in San Francisco also called Squat & Gobble!!

http://www.squatandgobble.com/

So not only did Rev. Goodhair ask a piece of plastic for a question, he did so at a place that shares its name with something in a place that has lots of gay people!! If it were still worth running attack ads against him, Santorectum would be all over it like santorum on bedsheets!

[Aerows]

27. I'd eat at the one in San Francisco

The one where this occurred ... not so much.

LOL

[The Genealogist]

35. "Squat-N-Gobble restaurant" sounds like

a turkey is going to come out and mess in your dinner as some sort of entertainment. The name turns me off completely.

[Aerows]

40. At least someone understood

I was rather ... stunned. LMAO.

*grin* it figures Perry would disgrace himself at a "restaurant" named Squat-N-Gobble.

sorry

[Solly Mack]

2. A case of like calling out to like.

[Crankie Avalon]

3. Finally, a kindred spirit for him!

[GReedDiamond]

4. He probably thought that the mannequin...

...would present less of a mental challenge to him than an actual living person (teabaggers excepted).

After all, Perry is almost as smart as a mannequin.

[dkf]

7. Maybe he thought that was Mitt Romney. Hahaha.

[DeathToTheOil]

18. My thought exactly

[Erose999]

8. So Perry got caught trying to dine & dash?

[tanyev]

11. Oh, dear God. Someone toss that man on a plane and send him back to Texas.

I don't really want him back here, but this is just getting too embarrassing. Clearly he's incapable of being embarrassed for himself, but someone in his campaign needs to think about how this is representing Texas.

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

[BadgerKid]

12. Perry never ceases to amaze.

I swear he's channeling Bush.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. The upside: he makes GWB look smart

and that's not easy to do.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. I would have expected something like that

from Romney since you could say it takes one to know one.

But this sounds more like one of those Bush brain-farts, as where he allegedly waved to Stevie Wonder.

[Glimmer of Hope]

15. Video pretty please?

[csziggy]

32. Video at this link

But it doesn't actually show the mannequin and the story seems to debunk the claim that Perry didn't know it was one.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/01/rick-perry-mannequin-squat-n-gobble.html

Scroll down.

[spanone]

16. squat-n-gobble? ....

[sabrina 1]

17. Lol! n/t

[sarcasmo]

19. Perry to Mannequin

Didn't I fire you a few years back?

[Gold Metal Flake]

21. I think he's a stoner.

He doesn't act sober, but he doesn't act like a juicer, either.

[SidDithers]

22. That's OK. I often mistake Perry for a mannequin...nt

Sid

[treestar]

23. Perry is taking over for Cain

Somebody has to be the comedy candidate!

[pinboy3niner]

24. Well, they say that turnabout is fair play nt

[KamaAina]

25. Wasn't that an episode of Two and a Half Men?

Where Charlie's stalker Rose got married* to "Manny Quinn"?

I don't know what's funnier, Rev. Goodhair calling on plastic or the very notion of "Squat 'N Gobble"!

[stevedeshazer]

31. Total stab here...Callista Gingrich? n/t

[csziggy]

33. Here is a picture of the mannequin!

Calling All Inanimate Objects: Rick Perry Will Now Take Your Questions

[FarLeftFist]

34. GREATEST THREAD TITLE EVER.

[JI7]

36. maybe he thought it was Romney

[The Genealogist]

37. I'm trying to imagine what might be said over the police scanner if someone

called 911 on Perry at the restaurant. "Yep, we got a nutjob down to the Squat & Gobble trying to talk to the mannikin again. Can we get a bus over there?"

[originalpckelly]

38. In other news Rick Perry was mistaken for a person by a mannequin at Squat n Gobble.

[marasinghe]

39. Philip K. Dick was a prophet.

as always - life imitating art; and an intellectual sheep dreaming of an android alive.

[Nye Bevan]

41. I'm beginning to think he's on the payroll of the Romney campaign,

to try to make Mitt look good by comparison.

[opihimoimoi]

42. Its the Return of DONN KNOTTS

[MineralMan]

43. Known in the Midwest as Kum & Go

Not really, of course. Gas stations and convenience stores, not restaurants.

[spanone]

44. mannequin mistakes perry for person

i'm sure the mannequin has more intelligence than the rickster