Minor election related incident at one of my favorite restaurants

[RummyTheDummy]

My wife and I live in a well-to-do suburb of Oklahoma City. Very strong Repug town. I call it the belly of the beast.

We went to one of our favorite Tex-Mex restaurants tonight and the table we were seated at was very close to some half drunk Repug spouting off about liberal this and liberal that. He was whining about the Liberals comparing Iraq to 'Nam.

After about three minutes I glared at him and they breifly stopped. Then the waiter came over and I asked to be moved. In a voice loud enough for them to hear, I said "yeah we want to move. There's an idiot on a political rant over there."

So he excuses himself and gets us another table. The guy seated caddy corner to us said "I'm a Republican and I don't want to listen to that crap either."

Anyway, now I cant go to a restaurant without having to deal with this crap. Im ready for this thing to be over. As we were getting up I gave the guy a look like I wanted to throw down right there and then. And given my 6-2, 280 pound football player build, you can bet the old fart believed it.

[necso]

1. "I'm a Republican and I don't want to listen to that crap either." n/t

[Kay Autic]

2. Please don't say it was Ted's??????

on a side note, the Dem. headquarters got a new allotment of yard signs in today!!

[RummyTheDummy]

3. Yep ,Teds Cafe Escondido

I must say the waiter was apologetic and moved us to a better table. The manager also came over and asked if everything was fine. I think it caused a little bit of a hub-ub with the staff.

[newyawker99]

15. Hi Kay Autic!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[bluestateguy]

4. In 1993

Bill Clinton had been president for only 6 months. I was about to start my high school senior year. I was on an airplane with my parents visiting the University of Arizona. Some beet-red faced, white haired fifty something man was sitting in first class getting drunk. He was bitching and moaning about all the new taxes he would have to pay under "Slick Willy". He was very loud and it was hard to ignore. Then it got worse. He started yaking about how he and a bunch of his ex-Marine buddies should just go up to Washington and shoot the president. I was mortified. I should have said something, or called the Secret Service, but I did not. Nowadays something like that, on an airplane no less, would land one in detention, or even Gitmo.

[krkaufman]

5. Your post prompted me to finally do a lookup on something that's been...

... puzzling me.

http://www.wordorigins.org/wordork.htm#Kitty-corner

Kitty-corner
Catty-corner, or kitty-corner, is a classic example of the phenomenon known as folk-etymology. When a word or phrase makes little apparent sense, it will often mutate into a form that seems more familiar.

The term was originally catercorner. Cater is an old dialectical term for diagonal. It derives from the French quatre or four. Cater dates to the early 16th century. Since this origin is not self-evident and the term seems strange, over the years it became catty-corner or kitty-corner. Still confusing, but more familiar.

Heh.

[Kay Autic]

6. wow kauf....I needed that!

I was looking for something to read so I could go to sleep, that little gem should do the trick!

;)

Not a rip on you, to be sure, I'm forever boring the shit out of my family with tidbits such as this. If I do use it, I'll be sure to give credit though! I love the esoteric stuff, I really do.

Night
:boring:

[Spinzonner]

7. Winner of tonight's Cliff Claven award

by acclimation

[delete_bush]

8. if the guy weighed 350#'s he was probably

my ex-brother-in-law. Sounds like his MO.

[RummyTheDummy]

9. Nah

He was a guy in his early 50s probably about 150-160 pounds with a Hank Hill camo mesh camo hat on.

[delete_bush]

10. Well, the age is right but the girth is way off.

Are you talking about Edmond by any chance?

[RummyTheDummy]

11. Yep

Nice town but the belly of the oklahoma repug beast. Which reminds me, I need to get a Kerry yard sign.

[delete_bush]

13. Yep, that's where he lives.

If you ever see him give him the one-finger salute for me.

As for the Kerry yard sign, you first might want to check your local ordinances to make sure inflammatory signage is allowed.

[RummyTheDummy]

14. Tons of Bush signs in my neighborhood

And a smattering of Carson and Kerry signs. Seems like it's either legal or not being enforced. Actually, my wife and I have been doing a lot of house hunting in the last few weeks and we have seen a number of Kerry yard signs in Edmond. Very surprising.

[FightinNewDem]

12. We found him!

I think this guy fits the description...