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Buster Keaton for President
Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 9:28 pm
by Joe Thompson
I hope I am not violating any rules about mentioning commerce or politics. I am not involved in the manufacturing or sale of the tee shirt. I might order one:
https://teechip.com/busterfor#id=0&c=13 ... -t&s=front
Re: Buster Keaton for President
Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 6:43 am
by westegg
I think an older image of Keaton would've been more amusing.
Alternatives for President- 3 From the Ziegfeld Follies
Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 4:56 pm
by JFK
Re: Buster Keaton for President
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 8:01 am
by Jim Roots
I remember the Pat Paulsen campaign, which was probably the most riotous of any of the samples posted by JFK.
Especially memorable was the Smothers Brothers show right after the election. A half-bombed, half-exhausted Paulsen stumbled his way through election detritus to deliver some kind of speech to the camera. It was the most authentic post-election image I've ever seen on TV or in the movies!
Jim
Re: Buster Keaton for President
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 12:04 pm
by Mitch Farish
Keaton's perfect, everything we could want in a President - unflappable under pressure, whose earnestness always prevails in the end. Anybody else like that out there? I thought not.
Re: Buster Keaton for President
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 5:58 am
by Jim Roots
Mitch Farish wrote:Keaton's perfect, everything we could want in a President - unflappable under pressure, whose earnestness always prevails in the end. Anybody else like that out there? I thought not.
Well, W.C. Fields is pretty unflappable, at least when he's got a snootful. Earnest? Maybe not, but always does the right thing in the end.
Unfortunately, Ulysses Grant has already proven drunks don't make the best presidents.
I like the t-shirt, though!
Keaton for prez, Fields for veep?
Jim
Re: Buster Keaton for President
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 6:28 am
by maliejandra
I love Pat Paulsen! His delivery was perfect and he was so clever.
Re: Buster Keaton for President
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 7:35 am
by Spiny Norman
Jim Roots wrote:Unfortunately, Ulysses Grant has already proven drunks don't make the best presidents.
Wasn't there a statesman a few decades ago who famously didn't smoke or drink, and who was a vegetarian? Now what was his name again...
Re: Buster Keaton for President
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 8:56 am
by wich2
All that is true -
- but The Paperhanger did do a LOT of "prescription" dope!
Re: Buster Keaton for President
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 10:58 am
by Rollo Treadway
Re: Buster Keaton for President
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 5:57 am
by Jim Roots
I think Veep is channelling that "Four Marx Brothers For Vice President" concept right now...
Jim
Split Jewish Vote With Goldwater-Result:LBJ Landslide
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 4:26 pm
by JFK
Re: Buster Keaton for President
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:24 pm
by Donald Binks
I should like to read Gracie Allen's "How to Be President". I am sure it would make more sense than anything else available of late?
Re: Buster Keaton for President
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:39 pm
by Tommie Hicks
I have an early 70's reprint of the Fields book in which he admits to "smoking a cannabis cigarette".
Re: Buster Keaton for President
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 8:55 am
by wich2
As long as being a wealthy entrepreneur is consider qualifying - let's go all-out!!!
