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| FDR to Joe Kennedy: "Drop Trou!" | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 12 2016, 03:35 PM (123 Views) | |
| George K | Jan 12 2016, 03:35 PM Post #1 |
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Finally
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http://www.newsweek.com/when-franklin-roosevelt-asked-joe-kennedy-drop-his-pants-283146
"A humiliating ritual that showed who was boss." Reminds me of that wonderful scene in "Boss" (which, sadly, lasted only 2 seasons), in which an alderman comes to the Mayor's office to ask a favor. As they talk, the Mayor (brilliantly played by Kelsey Grammar) has to go to the bathroom in his office. "Keep on talking, I'll leave the door open." Alderman talks while the Mayor sits down and takes care of business. Mayor get up, wipes and pulls up his pants. He does not wash his hands. After the alderman is done, the mayor extends his hand, saying that he'll do everything in his power to help. The alderman, understanding, shakes the mayor's unwashed hand. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jan 12 2016, 03:54 PM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Like FDR had any room to talk about bandy legs. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Red Rice | Jan 12 2016, 05:14 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Regrettably, FDR resorted to childish taunts to humiliate Churchill in front of Stalin. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| JBryan | Jan 13 2016, 07:42 AM Post #4 |
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I am the grey one
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Lyndon Johnson was known for inviting people into where he was taking a crap. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| George K | Jan 13 2016, 07:49 AM Post #5 |
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And talking to reporters while taking a whiz off the balcony of his bedroom. Then there's that whole conversation with the tailor...
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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