Memo to dumb-ass poli-sci majors and their stupid professors
If you think that standing outside the Arlington Stop & Shop with clipboards and video cameras and accosting shoppers by asking them which of the tubs of vanilla and chocolate pudding you're also holding would do better in foreign policy if elected president, you really need to switch majors. Gabrielle Gurley recounts the bizarre incident this past Saturday:
... Like our candidates, many Americans still speak in code. Yet for most of these encounters, no translation is necessary. Especially if you are a black woman being asked by a white man about the foreign policy qualifications possessed by a container of chocolate pudding.
Doesnt sound like a
Doesnt sound like a sanctioned Poli-Sci experiment/project to me. Sounds like some kids looking to put stuff up on youtube.
My question is does the container of Moose Tracks in my freezer know how to dealwith the German Chocolate cake in my fridge? Anyone else have a craving for Baked Alaska ?
Fry Baby Fry!
Fry Baby Fry!
Another question: can they see that bottle of Stoli from across the freezer?
That’s not a good question
I like her response:
Not everybody wants to be a prop in someone else's video project.
I'm in highschool
Dear adamg, sorry you're so heated about this, but just so you know, I'm not in college yet. I'm just down the street from Stop and Shop at AHS. Me and my friends did this as a joke. Sorry if it offended you, but maybe if people spent more time debating real political issues, and trying to find solutions for problems like the economy or the war, this country wouldn't be in such a mess. If your idea of being "political" is really shitting on high schoolers making a video as a joke, maybe you could spend your time more productively elsewhere. If you find it that offensive, you should watch more Bill O'Reilly. He hates freedom of speech too.
Just checking
You do know the difference between freedom of speech and bad humor, right? Just because you *can* say something doesn't mean it needs being said and you should better consider what you plan on saying.
I presume your pudding survey "joke" was a poor attempt at a metaphor for the two presidential candidates. Ultimately, though, the metaphor works more humorously as a statement than a phony survey, such as:
Instead, a survey would be funnier and better served by pudding cups as an alternative to the candidates rather than a metaphor for them, ala Ficus for Congress by Michael Moore:
Finally, be careful where you choose to play these sorts of "jokes" with a videocamera. Places like supermarkets have loitering laws and probably don't appreciate their customers being bothered (since it could easily influence them to shop somewhere equivalent elsewhere).
Come back in a few years
When you've actually had to work with people who are different than you and let us know how funny they find your humor.
Well I for one am willing to
Well I for one am willing to ask the obvious question to Puddingboy...
Were you asking shoppers about vanilla and chocolate because those are two common flavors or were you using them instead of race with chocolate=black and vanilla=white?
Im also curious as to what the joke is exactly. I was your age ten years ago and we did all sorts of things for fun, lucky for us that was right before everyone had internet access so our hijinks stayed in the community where we lived. Why is it funny, why would your friends laugh. This isnt rhetorical, its a real question, I was just curious as to what the punchline is, and I think that will help answer some unresolved issues hanging out there. If it was a race based joke, then just say it is, if it wasnt Id be interested to what the joke really was about then.