Did you hear about the pickle?

[FatSlob]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/15/wclint15.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/06/15/ixworld.html

What the hell was that? Did President Clinton really say that? Maybe this references something that I am unfamiliar with? I am mystified.

"a pickle stepping into history"? :WTF:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

1. I heard it. I'm hoping it was a dig at Laura but I bet its just

some Arkansas colloquialism

[goclark]

2. Yea, I'm sure he meant he was getting older

I think he is as fine as wine in the summer time!

[cheezus]

5. in a pickle between Bush I and Bush II?

between 41 and 43? That's the best I could figure.

[FatSlob]

3. I asked an Arkansan family

in my neighborhood (they moved up here to represent the family's chicken farm to buyers) and they were clueless. "Not in any Arkansas I'm from" was the reply to the question asking if it were an Arkansas thing.

[Cannikin]

6. I've lived in the HELL that is Arkansas my entire life..

I've never heard any pickle colloquialism.

[merh]

7. ?????????

pickle -
informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
fix, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, jam, hole
difficulty - a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties"

he felt like a "pickle stepping into history"

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pickle

[SharonAnn]

4. Last night Jon Stewart said

"Your pickle has already stepped into history".

[LWolf]

8. Maybe it was just so he could

sit back and enjoy the entertainment while everyone tries to figure out the significance of the pickle. ;-)

[Cheswick2.0]

9. Wow, two threads with this question today....he meant

He was preserved in time...pickled.