Monday, February 20, 2006

I'm Just Talking 'Bout Taft

It's President's Day, ya'll. So get out there and buy a mattress or a waterbed. At least that's how it seems we should be celebrating today. Alternatively, you could try to do something suitably presidential today.

For example:


  • Don't go to college (9 didn't including Washington, Jackson, Van Buren, Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln, A. Johnson, Cleveland, and Truman)
  • If you have to go to school, pick Harvard (6 did) or Yale (5 including the Law School)
  • Be a British subject (8 presidents were)
  • Die in Office (the 8 are W. Harrison (after only a one month), Taylor, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Harding, F. Roosevelt, and Kennedy
  • Be Buried in Arlington Cemetary (Taft and Kennedy)
  • Get Impeached (Johnson and Clinton but you know Nixon would have got it too, but he resigned)
  • Get Blown (Clinton, Kennedy, Harding, Roosevelt, Wilson Eisenhower and Jefferson [and Johnson according to Kris] were all rumored to have mistresses or interns on the side)

Okay so that last one isn't exactly verifiable, but you know Jefferson was totally hitting all the staff.

1 comment:

kris said...

Johnson just HAS to show up under that last bullet. I mean, come on.