What's the funniest thing you've heard that wasn't meant to be funny?

Old time movie executive Jack Warner, according to legend, on hearing in 1965 that Ronald Reagan was planning to run for governor of California said this: “No, no, Jimmy Stewart for governor; Ronald Reagan for best friend.”

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ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

"Trickle Down Economics" works for the middle class.

rinkydinkydoink · M

@ChipmunkErnie

Speaking of The Gipper...

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

@rinkydinkydoink "Trickle Down" was already a joke in Will Rogers' comedy routine back in the 1930s, LONG before Bonzo's Best Buddy got into office.

calicuz · 56-60, M

@ChipmunkErnie

Yes, it seems many of us Americans didn't learn from the first time we put an, "actor," into the Oval Office. As I recall, that actor too, spoke of making America great again.

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

@calicuz These days the GOP would treat Reagan as a left-wing pinko commie socialist.

calicuz · 56-60, M

@ChipmunkErnie

Absolutely, he was far from an extremist.

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

@calicuz Definitions change over time. The beliefs I grew up with as simple American ideals are now attacked as extreme and Leftist. Reagan is a bit hard to figure out in some ways because his dementia was so evident. Remember his famous speech in which he basically admits he broke Federal laws but he couldn't remember doing it?

calicuz · 56-60, M

@ChipmunkErnie

I vaguely remember that, and yes, the things we still believe in that make us patriots, are now deemed left wing extremism.