Great...now I have to have read LOTR to understand WTF they're saying on GDP

[OmahaBlueDog]

Everyone is making "Hillary is ________" "Obama is ______" and "Bill is __________" comparisons.

[LeftyMom]

1. Just watch the movie.

You'll be okay unless they're complete dorks and decide that somebody is Tom Bombadil, who is the LOTR equivalent of Holy Grail's Sir Not Appearing in this Film.

[OmahaBlueDog]

5. I posted this as a response

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5833606


Sorry -- I'm just not a fantasy / sci fi guy -- but I do have a bizarre sense of humor.

[petronius]

6. Kucinich is Tom Bombadil, obviously

Think about it - weird looking dude with a gorgeous wife, who knows way more than anyone gives him credit for, and is (so to speak) not appearing in the movie? It's indisputable...

[crimsonblue]

2. GDP is Sauron...

and McCain is Gollum.



which is which?

[Drum]

9. !!!

:rofl: I had that Gollum pic taped on my license for awhile, when those movies came out. :D

[DarkTirade]

23. GDP is the land of Mordor

One does not simply log into Mordor. :P

[Breeze54]

3. You can dechipher GD-P?

YOU get THE GOLD!!! :woohoo:

[Dr. Strange]

4. Hillary is Bill Belichick and Obama is BJ McKay.

Good luck figuring that one out.

[Chan790]

7. makes sense to me

Hillary is smart, impersonal, and a cheater who has four Super Bowl rings.

Obama is young, drives a big rig, and travels around America with a monkey.

What's not to get?

[ghostsofgiants]

8. Another thing GDP and LOTR have in common: I have no idea why anyone reads them.

GDP is just insane, and LOTR bored me to tears.

[OmahaBlueDog]

10. I read "The Hobbit"

"Not bad" thinks I, so I start in on the 3 book set.....and it goes on, and on, and on, and...you get the picture.

I got about 1/3 into "Two Towers" and said "I'm gonna have to give this up." I went back to Kurt Vonnegut.


Hillary is like Mrs. Rosewater, Obama is like Kilgore Trout ..... nope -- it doesn't work.

[Pierre.Suave]

11. Just link them to this

it ought to confuse them for a bit...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04

[pokerfan]

14. The abridged version of the Council of Elrond

http://www.youtube.com/v/A64zdAZ3CCA&hl

[Pierre.Suave]

18. Interesting...

I do not need to see that again.

[Dr. Strange]

16. Whoa.

:crazy:

Maybe this should be posted elsewhere also...

[Pierre.Suave]

19. Do with it what you wish...

but remember, with great power, comes great responsibility.

[Skittles]

12. it's just more juvenile bullshit n/t

[Fox Mulder]

13. LOTR is too pop culture for me.

I remember when real nerds used to love LOTR and it was exclusively for nerds.

Now, everyone knows and loves LOTR. Damn Hollywood.

[pokerfan]

15. They only think they know it

Ask them who is Tom Bombadil. Or Glorfindel or Golberry or Radagast. Ask them who the Istari are. And the Valar and the Numernorians. Or whose images did the Argonath represent? Or how many seeing stones their were? The Old Forest, Old Man Willow. Ask them if they know what a fucking Barrow Right is.

[Withywindle]

21. I'm afraid my username betrays me.

Don't you mean Barrow Wight?


(Barrow Wright - like Jeremiah!)

[pokerfan]

22. Freudian slip

Dick Cheney is a Barrow "Right."

Ah yes, the http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/w/withywindle.html">River Withywindle.

[DS1]

17. No. GDP is Mordor

Get it right, people!

[pokerfan]

20. Mordor is Freeperville, GDP is more like Mirkwood

GD is the Shire
The Lounge is Rivendell and/or Lothlórien
Washington is Isengard
The white House is the Orthanc