OK, DU - let's play "fill in the slogan!"

[DancingBear]

"We've turned the corner and..."

'walked into a wall."

"found a 24 hour liquor store."

"Karl, what comes next?"

OK, your turn.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. stepped into a cow paddy n/t

[Fenris]

2. "...are now traveling down a one way street in the wrong direction."

[Birthmark]

3. "...and found another dead end."

[jeff30997]

4. "We've turned the corner and..."

Slipped on a banana peel.LOL. OK, your turn.

[AwakeAtLast]

5. Now we should be heading the direction

we were supposed to be heading 4 years ago.

[jeff30997]

6. You mean...in jail?

[Sporadicus]

7. Headed Down a Dark Alley

[NMDemDist2]

8. and prosperity is on the way" ala H Hoover as he presided over

the Great Depression

I can't believe they are using a variation of the slogan used by the only other US prez who lost millions of jobs :smoke:

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/wall_street_crash.htm

Hoover did not believe that the depression would last - "Prosperity is just around the corner" is what he said to businessmen in 1932 when things were just about at their worst. Squalid cardboard campsites were created in cities to live in...called "Hoovervilles". The nick-name of the soup given out by charities for the unemployed was "Hoover stew".

However, Hoover did do some good. Money was used to create jobs to build things such as the Hoover Dam. In 1932 he gave $300 million to the states to help the unemployed (Emergency Relief and Reconstruction Act) but it had little impact as states run by the Republicans believed in "rugged individualism" more than Hoover did and they used only $30 million of the money offered to them.

Many saw Hoover’s attempts as being "too little too late".

In the November 1932 election, Hoover was heavily defeated by the Democrat candidate. This man had promised the American public a "New Deal". His name was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Thirteen years of Republican rule had come to an end.

sound familar anyone?

[DancingBear]

9. Sorry to bump myself, but

"We've turned the corner, and are going, um, around the corner that we have just, um, turned around today. Terra! terra! terra!"

[SammyBlue]

10. And still can't fold a map?

'now I'm lost!"

'all I see is the dust Kerry's kicking up!"

'all I can say is: No trite cliche left behind!"

'turned around when I realized the country club's the other way."

'I found out there are black people in DC."

'fell off my Segway when I turned the corner too sharply."

'knocked myself out with another preztel."

'line!"

'I let Ed Gillsepie toss my salad for one chance to be President."

'Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!"

'I need another month long vacation. I haven't had one since last Tuesday."

[jimshoes]

11. We've turned the corner and...

we're still friggin lost.

[rfkrocks]

12. and the corner is now straight-thanks to my anti-gay amendment(n/t)

[RetroLounge]

13. and bumped into Hoover

ironic, hey?

RL

[LatteLib]

14. "We've turned the corner and..."

wound up into the Twilight Zone.

[charlyvi]

15. now we're tripping over the curb

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. got flattened by a Mack truck.