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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

Can someone tell me what "Dubya" means? I keep seeing this name pop up, and it appears that it is the people who don't like him who are actively using this name.

Sorry to fan flames, but I'm itching to know, and how it came about.

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Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :

They took it from the "W" in George W. Bush. "Dubya" refers to how a Texan would pronounce the letter.

I'm rather partial to "Mini-Me" myself.
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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

This being what Al Gore, Sr. called his son.

I personally prefer the pronunciation used by the majority of the media. "Dub-ba-you."

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

I understand it was given to him as nickname by the Republican Party in Texas, mostly to differentiate him from his father.

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Well? It threw me. I kept thinking this "George Dubya" was some kind of George Soros character, some adviser or whatever.

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Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on :

"Dubya" is now the most common nickname used by the media when they want to satirize him (namely Comedy Central).

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Well, it's not our fault that you have bastardised "double-you" to the point of incomprehensibility.

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Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :

Hey, now, Texas isn't really part of the USA. It is its own country.

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Which just goes to show democracy doesn't work. They want to be separate from the rest of the US. The rest of the US wants them to be separate too. Yet are they separate? Noo. . .

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Heh, the same goes for our southern province, Sk�ne. They talk all farmer-like too. In fact, whenever there's a swedish-dubbed cartoon with a redneck he's dubbed with a sk�nish accent. They have their own flag, also, and would like to be a separate country, as do we.

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Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

I just came across this at the onion, and rather than start another dubya thread, how 'bout I toss it in here?
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Posted by Quatre Winner (Member # 464) on :

*reads*

Why, I suddenly feel like supporting "Trickle-Down Economics".

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

Off-topic:
Quatre, is that sig from Crying Freeman or something?

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Heh, two manga-sigs at the same time...

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Posted by Quatre Winner (Member # 464) on :

The sig is from a Gundam Wing episode.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Great, more manga!

Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

YES! MANGA! I GOT THE MANGA POWERUP AND WON THE MANGA GAME! DRAGONBALL!

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Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :

exuse me, could you write bigger, my eyesight is going quickly.

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Posted by Quatre Winner (Member # 464) on :

*RaE @ UM*

Somebody's off his meds today...

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Look! More manga!

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

UM: Don't you mean "Dragonballz"? :-)

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Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on :

Dragonball is the manga. It encompasses what happens in Dragonball and Dragonball Z (on TV)

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Benjita: I think you need to draw yourself out of your Anime-induced haze and realize that I was mocking it. :-)

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Posted by Quatre Winner (Member # 464) on :

*Smites Tim with his Sandrock Gundam!*

*L*

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

YES! GUNDAM! I GOT THE GUNDAM POWERUP AND WON THE GUNDAM GAME! AKIRA!

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

WILL YOU STOP THAT!!!

Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :

Nimrod, you gundam font isn't big enough....

UM, taking lessons from DARKSTAR????

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Great idea!!

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Posted by Boult (Member # 1269) on :

testing.. ingore me...

Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

There's a Vancouver in Washington?

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

Welcome, BTW.

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Posted by Boult (Member # 1269) on :

Yes there is Vancouver in Washington State.. the city is across the Columbian River from Portland, Oregon.

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

While I am sure that the Columbians have many rivers, and fine and mighty rivers at that, here in the state of Washington we are stuck with the relatively fine and partially mighty Columbia.

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