She replied that I have never seen Williamsburg’s Bedford Avenue L stop at rush hour.
Boy, does she speak the truth!
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Absolutely, the best person should get the nod. In that event, actuarial tables being what they are, the Veep should be more than a place-holder.
EDIT: Damnit, @centralasiaexpat ninja’d me while I was typing.
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To be honest I haven’t been in Brooklyn myself in ages. But I hear things! Here’s an amusing little parody video about artisanal water makers the Timmy brothers. Favorite quote: “Creating bespoke water is [precious little pause] storytelling.” 
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Oh, I want Bernie in the conversation. Just not in the Oval Office.
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I want to find the ad exec who came up with the "twin bearded hipster’ campaign, and roast them slowly over Cocobolo coals.
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Most of us said that last time, though. 
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There is that
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Lugosi hadn’t worked in years, he needed the money. Shortly after this, he started the Ed Wood projects. From various sources, it seems they did have a real friendship and Wood helped him through the worst of his morphine addiction and illnesses towards the end.
What’s actually shameful about that movie are the headliners – Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo – a carbon copy ripoff of the Martin & Lewis act. Petrillo had an uncanny resemblance to Jerry Lewis and did all the mannerisms. I was just reading about this movie in Bill Warren’s “Watch the Skies!” book about American sci-fi movies of the 50’s. Definitely one of the low points of the era, maybe even worse than Plan 9.
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In fairness, whatever you’re planning to do to that exec should probably be done to all of them.
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All of this causes me to wonder – We used to decide on what we wanted, and then looked around for a candidate to match our ideas. Of late (the last 40 years, at least) we look at beauty-contest candidates, and go with whatever ideas they have.
What could happen if we reversed that? “Here’s what we want. Candidate, do you agree or not?”
The phrase, “Throw a schump on the barbie” comes to mind.
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One of my favorite SNL skits about Brooklyn -
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so tactfully said. Thanks for saving my tired fingers from that list that was growing.
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Going back as far as 1992, which running-mates would you say were “place-holders”?
My tally:
Bush-Quayle
Dole-Kemp
McCain-Palin
Romney-Ryan
All choices made by Republicans, one notes.
As for running-mates who were not “place-holders”:
Clinton-Gore
Kerry-Edwards
Obama-Biden
Trump-Pence
Not that I like Pence but in a technical sense he’s more qualified to be president than Trump.
Similarly, Bush-Cheney was a special case, and so for a different reason was Perot, so I decided to leave them out of the above “analysis.”
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The music in that is perfect. 
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“Where’s the beef?” That was funny for about four seconds. One time I was on a trout stream and what pops into my head? “I love what you do for me, Toyota!” Sheer mental pollution. And this is just my point. THEY MUST BE ELIMINATED.
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The wood flute starts up and you’re just nodding your head and rolling your eyes.
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Good analysis, even though I would have a few minor quibbles.
The trouble with being a nostalgia buff is I look farther back than 1992.
For “place-holder”, I was thinking of someone like John Nance Garner, actually 
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WOW! I am so excited I can barely contain my yawns!
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Have it your way.
(ducks)
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