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Warpy

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11. Yes, trying to eke out a living on only $400,000 worth of stock

Reply to Douglas Carpenter (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 03:32 AM

Sep 2012

is such terrible hardship.

By not knowing where his next meal was coming from, he and Queen Ann merely hadn't decided what restaurant they would visit that night.

The Onion missed that angle.

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Romney:�Ann and I, we know what it�s like to grow up with nothing, to wonder where your next meal is [View all] Douglas Carpenter Sep 2012 OP

and heartbreak when all his sons ran away to join the military nt msongs Sep 2012 #1

I know how she feels too! chknltl Sep 2012 #2

Oh, you don't know real deprivation. SheilaT Sep 2012 #3

Bah, that's not so bad. Rincewind Sep 2012 #6

Did you check the fridge out in the Rolls? chknltl Sep 2012 #8

Damn PD Turk Sep 2012 #4

The Onion had me Cha Sep 2012 #5

Same here! I did a double-take at "Rufus"! pacalo Sep 2012 #7

Lol..yeah, Cha Sep 2012 #9

Read the headline sounded plausible that Romney would say something like that... Kalidurga Sep 2012 #10

Yes, trying to eke out a living on only $400,000 worth of stock Warpy Sep 2012 #11

And the warm memory of that Christmas when Mitt cut off and baked one of his butt cheeks aint_no_life_nowhere Sep 2012 #12

I actually read the first paragraph with my mouth hanging open tavalon Sep 2012 #13

"Romney then produced a harmonica from his hip pocket and played a stirring, lonesome melody." Douglas Carpenter Sep 2012 #14

Yes, it must have been torture not knowing Shankapotomus Sep 2012 #15

Politifact has rated this Mostly True n/t Enrique Sep 2012 #16

one more Douglas Carpenter Sep 2012 #17