Innocent question here: what is that "Lemon. Wet. Good" sign

[coalition_unwilling]

that Romney is pictured holding? Where did it come from and WTF is its purpose and meaning?



I follow political news pretty closely but I must have missed something.

[yellowcanine]

1. I could be wrong but I think Mitt said something to that effect while visiting a lemonade stand.

It is his attempt to be "down" with the people, apparently.

[coalition_unwilling]

4. Of course, now I go looking, I cannot find any thread with the picture of

Willard holding this piece of white poster board that says "Lemon. Wet. Good" on it. But I saw it earlier this morning and was like, what in the world does this mean?

[maddezmom]

2. here ya go

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125152209

[coalition_unwilling]

5. Is the picture of him holding the sign that says "Lemon Wet Good" a photoshop? I

cannot find the pic now that I go looking for it, but I saw it on at least one thread this morning and at least a couple yesterday.

[maddezmom]

8. yes

[coalition_unwilling]

9. Once I saw the thread you posted, it started making sense. I missed

the original lemonade report (I think) or, if I saw it, failed to take in its significance at the time. Thank you for helping me clear my head this morning

[orpupilofnature57]

3. subliminally you will drink lemonade ,

and vote Mormon, or is that mammon ?

[coalition_unwilling]

6. I've now added a copy of the photo I saw to the OP (thanks SoCalDem :) and

am assuming, from upthread responses, that the image must be a PhotoShop.

Thanks to all who took the time to respond. (I missed the original Lemonade interaction, I think.)

[CTyankee]

7. I just looked it up on Google. Lots there for you but it's just one of his enigmatic, robotic

answers, when asked what he thought of the lemonade he was drinking at a campaign stop.

It's kinda like describing the tall guy as "in sport" which he said twice.

I will tell you, I teach English to non-English speakers and if I were pressed to explain this use of the English language to them, I could barely do it. English is pretty tough to explain to people whose languages have rules that people follow in their own language. They complain about how English doesn't have those rules. I just tell them that as someone who has studied two foreign languages, I sympathize with their complaints. But if I were asked, I would say I can't understand Romney either....

[pinboy3niner]

10. The only way to explain it is to refer them to Edgar Rice Burroughs

"Me Tarzan. You Jane."

[CTyankee]

11. If I had Mitt in my class I would flunk him...

[babylonsister]

12. It means he can't formulate a complete sentence? Here...

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/07/05/quote_of_the_day.html


Quote of the Day

"Lemon. Wet. Good."

-- Mitt Romney, quoted by ABC News, when asked how a glass of lemonade tasted.