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kpete

(71,961 posts)
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 09:20 PM Jan 2015

Joni Ernst Says She Used To Wear Bucket on Head for No Apparent Reason

Borowitz Report
BOROWITZ REPORT

JANUARY 21, 2015
Joni Ernst Says She Used To Wear Bucket on Head for No Apparent Reason
BY ANDY BOROWITZ

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“I’d be walking outside our house and see a bucket lying there, and I’d say to myself, ‘That’s a perfectly good bucket, I think I’ll put it on my head,’ ” she said. “It wasn’t because I needed a hat or anything. I must have had, oh gosh, a half-dozen hats or so. I just wanted to wear a bucket.”


Ernst said that during her youth, she was known for poking a hole in a large piece of corrugated cardboard and wearing it as a poncho.

“I can’t for the life of me tell you why I did that,” she said. “I just liked the look of it, I guess. Nobody paid much attention to it. People sure don’t notice your cardboard poncho when you’re wearing a bucket on your head.”

When asked why she was sharing these stories, Sen. Ernst considered her answer carefully. “I think people like to get to know their representatives in Washington as people,” she said. “And it helps to know that one of them used to wear buckets on her head, corrugated cardboard ponchos, and scuba flippers instead of gloves. Did I tell you I used to wear scuba flippers instead of gloves? To this day I’ll be darned if I know why I did that.”


http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/joni-ernst-says-used-wear-bucket-head-apparent-reason

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Joni Ernst Says She Used To Wear Bucket on Head for No Apparent Reason (Original Post) kpete Jan 2015 OP
LOL, love it!! nt Logical Jan 2015 #1
Her husband has tried to get her to wear a bag over her head, or at least a wig NightWatcher Jan 2015 #2
i think those days wearing a tinfoil hat is probably what she favors. nt. drray23 Jan 2015 #3
What a quick way to diminish our credibility joeglow3 Jan 2015 #4
! beam me up scottie Jan 2015 #5
She also LOVES BEIN' COVERED IN MUD NuclearDem Jan 2015 #6
She's right at home now. Her entitre caucus wears buckets on their heads. rug Jan 2015 #7
Sad part is, the bucket was usually filled with hog testicles. n/t. Ken Burch Jan 2015 #8
so her parents had enough money to buy her Island Blue Jan 2015 #9
I bet she grew up in the 80's wearing a flower pot! icymist Jan 2015 #10
Or she was a 90s shredder. Iggo Jan 2015 #11
Well, I must admit that that's closer to the bucket she claims to have worn. icymist Jan 2015 #12
Was it color-coordinated Spirochete Jan 2015 #13
Oooo! Cute! icymist Jan 2015 #14

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
2. Her husband has tried to get her to wear a bag over her head, or at least a wig
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 09:24 PM
Jan 2015

or at least turn out the lights and stop laughing like that

 

joeglow3

(6,228 posts)
4. What a quick way to diminish our credibility
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 09:27 PM
Jan 2015

I better not run for office because I wore my moms high heels when I was five. I also had an invisible friend I called "ladder."

Sorry, but this reeks of desperation.

icymist

(15,888 posts)
12. Well, I must admit that that's closer to the bucket she claims to have worn.
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 10:09 PM
Jan 2015

Let's start a bucket list!

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