How to keep a republican occupied for HOURS...

Simply go over to his double-wide, stride across the burnt orange shag carpet to the battery-operated "fireplace" and put THIS on the mantel.



Big Mouth Billy Bass's antics will keep him in stitches for hours.

In fact, it may be long enough to make them forget to go to the polls Nov. 2.

TRY IT!

*CAUTION: Some republicans may miss the "humor" value of Billy Bass, and instead revere it as a precious heirloom. In these cases, it's best to simply humor the subject, and compliment them on their t-shirt with the puff-paint Jesus praying hands...

"put them in a round room, and tell them to pee in the corner."

But I'm really bored with these kind of stereotypes being thrown about as thought it's okay to pick on people if they're not wealthy, like to fish, actually have a religious faith, etc.

The "double-wide" meme is particularly irritating. A lot of our fellow DU-ers live in mobile homes, and at least some of them do so because that's all they can afford.

Sorry for the mini-rant, but I simply don't find this funny.

And without stereotypes, about 70% of humor would cease to exist. If that's utopia, I don't need it.

I could have just as easily done a riff on the "Thurston Howell III" type of republican - something with petit fours and gripes about "the help". I wonder if that would have also irked your delicate sensibilities.

Besides, I was making fun of stupidity expressed as bottom-of-the-barrel taste in consumer products and humor, not people's poverty. And wearing a t-shirt with praying hands is a pretty tacky display of a lack of reverence for one's faith, if you ask me. If you believe in God so much, you shouldn't cheapen that belief by slapping tacky representations of it on T-shirts or other cheesy knicknacks .

I have relatives who live in mobile homes, hell, I live in a small apartment. I wish I could afford a decent home. But filling my apartment with hideous junk from a swap meet won't bring me any closer to that dream. Sorry, but I just don't get the appeal.

Every group deserves a little ribbing now and then, just as those stereotypes need to be disproven now and then.

I saw a poll a while back on DUers' housing, btw, and a very small percentage said they lived in mobile homes.

That being said, there are some very nice ones where they put on a facade so it looks like a regular house. I could go for that here in California. But living in a mobile home in tonado alley or in hurricane country is just insanity. Better to take a small apartment in a block-construction building.


Next time I will make fun of white suburbanites who customize their living/work spaces with cheezy faux fung shui elements.

I'll bet there are also a few DUers who also do that.

And I'll bet most of them are capable of laughing at themselves.

BTW - Billy Bass, The singing James Brown figure, the swaking singing, dancing Santa Clauses, ALL of those noisy things you see being hawked in the drugstore are the MOST annoying product trend I've ever seen. Why anyone would shell out 20 or 30 bucks for a noisy piece of junk that will go directly in the closet (hopefully) is way beyond me.

I'm not too much into the whole ultra-PC thing myself, but I do think the "double-wide" and "mobile home" brand of humor is something we can do with less of.

I made a crack once about the "double-wide" culture at work and had no idea a woman I worked with lived in a double wide. When I found out later on, I felt absolutely horrible and later apologized privately. She was good natured about it and invited me to her "double wide" for drinks and munchies after work one Friday. It was actually pretty nice, truth be told.

For many, it is the only affordable housing available. I don't think those of us who banter around the mobile-home and double-wide humor really think less of those that live in them, but it really must be humiliating to hear someone basically make cruel fun of the place you call home.

And, yeah, I didn't like it.

But jokes about apartment dwellers in GENERAL don't bug me. No more than cracks about all liberals being maggot-inffested hippies bother me. I know for a fact that the vast majority of us are not. (Not that there's anything wrong with being a dirty hippie)


For whatever reason, many choose this flimsy type of home in storm-prone areas. There are usually other housing options - condos, apartments, townhouses, etc. The fees at most mobile home parks are getting pretty high - I don't see how they are such a great deal.

Is there a group in this country that DOESN'T get made fun of now and then?

Rich, poor, Jewish, Catholic, black, white, gay, fundie - there are jokes that apply to almost every one of the 300 million people in this country, and many of us are covered by more than one of the categories.

It all depends on who's telling the joke and whether it's mean-spirited or not.

I don't see many people getting irate about Jeff Foxworthy's jokes of this sort, or Dave Chapelle's broad humor lampooning both blacks and whites.

The stereotypes are here. Most of them are based on at least a grain of truth. No matter how you try to supress them, they will still surface, as evidenced by increasingly non-PC humor on South Park, Chapelle, etc.

As far as I'm concerned, my little lampoon was in good fun. It was aimed at a certain type of REPUBLICAN, and I won't hesitate to unfairly make fun of them again.

I'm a gay Jewish liberal Democrat.

There is a lot of fun, tongue-in-cheek stereotype humor out there about every facet of who I am, and if its not mean-spirited I have no problem with it.

As I said, I've even told a few tailer-park jokes myself. But after my experience with my co-worker, it really made me think about why I needed to risk offending someone to make someone else laugh and think I'm witty?

I'm not trying to play the PC card...I'm just saying we should be aware of what it might feel like to be made of fun in as the punch line in a joke, that's all.

we would not be laughing if 'black people' or 'gay people' were substituted for 'neocon' or 'republican'...there is a lot of that around here, though. this kind of leads to non-productive flame wars.

i DO support your right to post what you want, though Udokier. i should not have wandered into this thread....
so please don't flame me...i know you mean it as a *joke*

And I seriously meant no offense. I'm also not one of these people that critiques every little tidbit of humor just looking for a way it could offend people so I can complain about it.

I do, however, think that "double-wide" humor is one of the last stereotypes left that few people consider who might be offended or even that anyone worth considering could be. That's the part that really bothers me. And it's not a personal thing directed at you, just that brand of humor in general. I think it comes up a lot because it's suppose to be "okay," while other kinds of stereotypes are not "okay." Just what is it about this particular stereotype that is okay to exploit while not others?

Anyway, sorry I ruined the jovial intent. Sincerely. It's no excuse, but I was having a bad night, and it just hit me wrong. I came close to homelessness a few months ago and am now dealing with trying to extricate my mother from a bad situation, and the "double-wide" sort of humor hovers around a lot of elements involved in all that.

As for the kind of products that were actually the focus of your joke, yeah, those things are one of the most obnoxious things I've ever seen. And I know someone who owns one of the "Bass" things and is really proud of it. He is, in fact, a Republican.

My hillbilly cousin has one...right next to the Velvet Elvis. :crazy:

i have one. but only to revel in the bad taste; kind of like something you buy at a flea market simply because it is so hideous for your friends to believe it exists

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

I have a weakness for that kind of thing...especially kitsch from other cultures. I got these cheesy little figurines from a flea market for a dollar..they're bears dressed in lederhosen, I think it's an oom paa band. :silly:

I could dedicate one small room as a mini-museum of gewgaw horrors, but since I only have a small 2 bedroom apt. in San Francisco, I can't in good consciense dedicate space to such things.

I love my Big Mouth Billy Bass singing "Take Me To The River." And I love my fake electric fireplace logs. And I never voted Republican in my life. I even voted for George McGovern! Thar's still aplenty of us Democrats out here in redneckland. :)

Believe me, I KNOW a redneck freeper here in Louisiana that has one and thinks it's funny/cute and so do his inbred friends. I hope this post offends any lurking freepers. Ain't the Lounge fun?

I live in a mobile home and I am not a Repub. What makes people think that just because someone lives in a mobile home that they are an ignorant, foul-mouthed, beer-swilling redneck Republican?