FNGD Q3 - Friday May 9, 2008 - PRESIDENTIAL STUFF

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FNGD Q3 - Friday May 9, 2008 - PRESIDENTIAL STUFF

#1 Post by etaoin22 » Fri May 09, 2008 9:04 pm

B - This dapper bow-tie wearing gent was the first of three Illinois US Senators in recent decades to try -- at least a little bit -- for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination


G - Wrote the following:

"And if I was the President, the minute the Congress called to me;
I'd say, Who do, who do you think you're fooling?
I've got the Presidential seal, I'm up on the Presidential podium...."

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#2 Post by mellytu74 » Fri May 09, 2008 9:05 pm

Paul Simon

Paul Simon

I actually had the pleasure of meeting Senator Paul Simon in 1988.

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#3 Post by christie1111 » Fri May 09, 2008 9:07 pm

Neither of these ring a bell of any kind

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#4 Post by kayrharris » Fri May 09, 2008 9:07 pm

oooh, a trick question!

I know the the bow tie guy is Paul Simon

Songwriter is Paul Simon as well (not the same one, of course)
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#5 Post by T_Bone0806 » Fri May 09, 2008 9:07 pm

etaoin22 wrote:B - This dapper bow-tie wearing gent was the first of three Illinois US Senators in recent decades to try -- at least a little bit -- for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination


G - Wrote the following:

"And if I was the President, the minute the Congress called to me;
I'd say, Who do, who do you think you're fooling?
I've got the Presidential seal, I'm up on the Presidential podium...."
Paul Simon

also Paul Simon
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#6 Post by ontellen » Fri May 09, 2008 9:08 pm

Sheesh - no idea.

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#7 Post by SportsFan68 » Fri May 09, 2008 9:08 pm

etaoin22 wrote:B - This dapper bow-tie wearing gent was the first of three Illinois US Senators in recent decades to try -- at least a little bit -- for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination


G - Wrote the following:

"And if I was the President, the minute the Congress called to me;
I'd say, Who do, who do you think you're fooling?
I've got the Presidential seal, I'm up on the Presidential podium...."
Paul Simon

Paul Simon

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#8 Post by silvercamaro » Fri May 09, 2008 9:08 pm

Paul Simon

The other Paul Simon

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#9 Post by etaoin22 » Fri May 09, 2008 9:15 pm

LOOOVESSS MEE LIKKE AA ROOCKKK.

Of course, there was a bit of needling of dear old Richard Milhous, who was Pres at the time of that recording.

Paul Simon X2


I am not fooling anyone...

Am I?

24-22 for G

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#10 Post by kayrharris » Fri May 09, 2008 9:16 pm

Oh, I see. Was she mainstreamed in her education? I hope they didn't put her in an institution of some kind, which was not uncommon back then.

I think a lot of people say Barbara herself has a bit of a speech impediment.
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#11 Post by christie1111 » Fri May 09, 2008 9:17 pm

That was funny!

Thread hopping sort of.
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#12 Post by kayrharris » Fri May 09, 2008 9:18 pm

Oops, pardon me for answering in the wrong thread! :oops:
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#13 Post by kayrharris » Fri May 09, 2008 9:20 pm

I can barely keep up with the questions, much less non sequiturs!
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#14 Post by ulysses5019 » Fri May 09, 2008 10:51 pm

etaoin22 wrote:B - This dapper bow-tie wearing gent was the first of three Illinois US Senators in recent decades to try -- at least a little bit -- for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination


G - Wrote the following:

"And if I was the President, the minute the Congress called to me;
I'd say, Who do, who do you think you're fooling?
I've got the Presidential seal, I'm up on the Presidential podium...."

Paul Simon


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#15 Post by peacock2121 » Sat May 10, 2008 6:34 am

etaoin22 wrote:B - This dapper bow-tie wearing gent was the first of three Illinois US Senators in recent decades to try -- at least a little bit -- for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination


G - Wrote the following:

"And if I was the President, the minute the Congress called to me;
I'd say, Who do, who do you think you're fooling?
I've got the Presidential seal, I'm up on the Presidential podium...."
Paul Simon (not the singer) is the only bow-tie wearing guy I can think of.

Paul Simon (the singer)

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#16 Post by peacock2121 » Sat May 10, 2008 6:36 am

kayrharris wrote:I can barely keep up with the questions, much less non sequiturs!
made me giggle.

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