Every single time I see the name Hastert, I think of this:

[arcane1]

I don't know why this photo cracks me up so much, but I've never forgotten it

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Baggypants and Pantload.

[Mira]

20. DUzy n/t

[Rex]

2. Dumb and Dumbass?

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumbass.

[cascadiance]

28. My photoshops of those bums from those days!

[hunter]

3. This is why alien intelligent life avoids our planet...

They fear whatever brain eating virus we suffer is contagious.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. LOL, one of the funniest photos ever!

When I hear his name I always think of Hastur the Unspeakable, spawn of Yog-Sothoth and the half-brother of Cthulhu.
Although the real Hastert is merely a typical GOP criminal, clearly lacking the awesome power of a Great Old One.

[CrawlingChaos]

14. Me too!

Which is probably not so surprising, if you look at my screen name.

Since Hastur is usually described as amorphous and vaguely octopoid, I mean, hell, it could be him.

[monmouth4]

5. OMG, that truly is pathetic...lol. n/t

[malaise]

6. ROFL

because I almost post that one on babylonsister's thread. It was either that one or the one with the two war criminals

[Tipperary]

7. That is funny.

what a couple of bozos.

[rurallib]

8. Science marches backwards

wonder if they got an ice cream cone after their big outing?

[sofa king]

9. You can dress 'em in labcoats...

... but you can never trust their data.

[myrna minx]

10. I think of polka music and Jim Ward's genius impersonation of the guy from Shaaahhmburg and his

Polish sausage.

[hifiguy]

19. Beefy McBratwurst!

[hifiguy]

11. Frankenstein's Monster and Igor.

Dumber versions, that is.

[Art_from_Ark]

18. That would be

Professor Weirdo and Count Kook

[malokvale77]

12. That is indeed funny (nt)

[NV Whino]

13. Yikes!

The hulk. And I'm with Stupid>>>>.

I might have erred in capitalizing stupid. My apologies.

[JPZenger]

15. Hastert looks like he just ate Ebert

I forget which comedian came up with that line about 10 years ago. It may have been John Stewart.

[LuvNewcastle]

16. Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll

There was another Mr. Hyde as well, and he was pretty awful, too.

[Gore1FL]

17. +1

[Chasstev365]

21. Underdog

Which one is Simon Bar Sinister and which one Kad Lacky?

[hatrack]

22. Are we not men?

?partner=allrovi.com

[Sancho]

23. Beavis and Butt-Head play doctor

[hatrack]

24. If only there were some way Bush could have worn this getup when neck-massaging Merkel . . . .

[Spirochete]

25. Me too!

I laughed so hard when I first saw that. I'm not sure why, either, but I did.

[Renew Deal]

26. That's funny

lol

[Scootaloo]

27. Funny, I think of the King in Yellow

[sofa king]

30. The Raymond Chandler story?

[Fozzledick]

29. I always think of THIS...

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Hastur (The Unspeakable One, Him Who Is Not to be Named, Assatur, Xastur, H'aaztre, or Kaiwan) is an entity of the Cthulhu Mythos. Hastur first appeared in Ambrose Bierce's short story "Haïta the Shepherd" (1893) as a benign god of shepherds. Hastur is briefly mentioned in H.P. Lovecraft's The Whisperer in Darkness; previously, Robert W. Chambers had used the name in his own stories to represent both a person and a place associated with the names of several stars, including Aldebaran.[1]

In Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's book Good Omens Hastur appears as a fallen angel and duke of hell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastur