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lapfog_1

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Fri Jan 10, 2014, 10:06 AM

Jan 2014

I was either juror #1,#3, or #4.

I read the "joke" completely differently than you did. Fat jokes never entered my mind (i'm overweight).

I read it as "The Hindenburg was a gas bag (I know, Dirigible, not blimp, but that's nit picky) that crashed and burned in New Jersey in 34 seconds. Chris Christie is a New Jersey gas bag that took a little longer to crash and burn".

Now it's been 86 years since the Hindenburg crashed... had it only been a few years (how many? I don't know) I would have objected to the "joke" based on sensitivity to the victims of the Hindenburg disaster. Just as I would object to someone making a joke about Sandy Hook.

OTOH, the funniest thing I've even seen on TV was a Hindenburg "joke", the WKRP in Cincinnati Turkey Drop episode.

In the end, I made the call that this wasn't a reference to his being fat, but a reference to his personality (his is a republican gasbag bully).

Sorry you read it a different way.

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