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You are here: Home / Politics / Jumping Jehosephat

Jumping Jehosephat

by Tim F|  May 5, 20083:11 pm| 35 Comments

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In the last thirty minutes our ActBlue thermometer went up more than $2500. That means that less than an hour after John predicted that we would never make it by Tuesday, we made our goal. We honestly have no idea what just happened but if I had to guess, I’d say that someone out there really likes proving John wrong.

Good work all around, and many, many thanks to all of you who contributed.

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  1. 1.

    Skalite

    May 5, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    Hey John,I bet that shoe leather tastes great!

    On a lighter note, great work everyone.

  2. 2.

    Tax Analyst

    May 5, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    We have no idea what just happened, but the best guess is that someone out there really like proving John wrong.

    Well, that’s worthy goal, but aren’t there a lot cheaper ways to accomplish that?

    …But whatever the rationale, I salute them.

  3. 3.

    Punchy

    May 5, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    Do we have that cool graphic of the “mercury” spouting thru the top of the thermometer, contaminating everything around it with toxic mercury vapor and the insideous irreversible poisoning and neurological damage that follows? Does anyone ever think of that before they go and shoot their money wad on these damn fundraisers?

  4. 4.

    4tehlulz

    May 5, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    It was myiq, just to yank John’s chain.

  5. 5.

    Face

    May 5, 2008 at 3:20 pm

    Jumping Jehosephat

    Tim, my great-great-great grandmother called. She wants her ridiculous nonsensical phrase back. She also asked how the Pony Express is working out.

  6. 6.

    Keith

    May 5, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    Punchy, you forget where you are…that’s an alcohol thermometer. It still may be toxic, though; you can never know for sure where they’ve been.

  7. 7.

    Zuzu

    May 5, 2008 at 3:35 pm

    Fantastic!

    And if we counted all the money contributed before the fundraiser, but because of this website, we’d be way, way, over the top.

  8. 8.

    Mary

    May 5, 2008 at 3:35 pm

    So that was a visual of John +15,000? Awesome!

  9. 9.

    TheFountainHead

    May 5, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    As we kids like to say, W00t!1!1!!

  10. 10.

    JGabriel

    May 5, 2008 at 4:13 pm

    Wow, that’s like 6 $2300 (14,800) donations from corporate execs or hollywood stars.

    Which means, the next time Ben Affleck is on air talking politics, John can sit back smugly in his chair and say to himself, “Booyah! I’m worth six of him!”

    .

  11. 11.

    jake

    May 5, 2008 at 4:57 pm

    Probably doesn’t mean anything, but I just saw George Soros riding away on a MUP.

  12. 12.

    Cain

    May 5, 2008 at 5:04 pm

    woot! Awesome! Take the money and ride, MUP! hehe

    BTW, if people are looking for stats, this site is fucking awesome. h/t: dailykos. All the info about the horse race that you can shake a stick at. They predict a double digit win in NC for Obama.. Most polls predict single digit wins, so I’m not sure what’s different there.

    I’m really really really hoping my former state of residence, Indiana makes the race close for Obama. Probably hoping for a win might be a tad too much. I hope he visits Delphi, home of the KKK world headquarters at one point if I recall. That should be historic ;)

    cain

  13. 13.

    SpotWeld

    May 5, 2008 at 5:10 pm

    A bunch of folks just saw thier refund check get direct-depositied perhaps?

  14. 14.

    myiq2xu

    May 5, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    Tsk tsk. Wasting all that money on the wrong candidate.

    I’m bitter.

  15. 15.

    rawshark

    May 5, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    I’m not a big fan of embezzlement but if JC was to siphon some of the Obama campaign donations to help stop the needless suffering of BJ’ers who keep seeing WordPress errors all day instead of reading their favorite blog I don’t think a jury would indict. Do you?

  16. 16.

    scrutinizer

    May 5, 2008 at 5:39 pm

    I’m bitter.

    Get used to it. It will only get worse for die-hard Clintonistas.

  17. 17.

    Pelikan

    May 5, 2008 at 5:39 pm

    Good god, I’d better go check my donation and make sure I put the decimal point in the right place….

  18. 18.

    Josh E.

    May 5, 2008 at 5:39 pm

    Tsk tsk. Wasting all that money on the uppity candidate.

    Fixt.

  19. 19.

    scrutinizer

    May 5, 2008 at 5:43 pm

    BTW, myiqis0, have you noticed that Obama only trails in superdelegates by fewer than 18, according to the AP? Looks like Clinton managed to blow a margin of over 100 superdelegates.

  20. 20.

    Adam

    May 5, 2008 at 5:45 pm

    We have no idea what just happened, but the best guess is that someone out there really like proving John wrong.

    W.?

  21. 21.

    demimondian

    May 5, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    Hey, rawshark, if you want to make the blog run better, there’s a Convenient Amazon Honor System button right there on the right border to [gasp] donate to the BLOG! And you can join a bunch of us who have mercilessly harassed him over the years in making this a better place by contributing to Tunch’s cat food budget.

  22. 22.

    Mary

    May 5, 2008 at 5:55 pm

    DONE!!

    (That wasn’t illegal, was it?)

    Hey, if you follow the link after you donate, you get to see John’s very first blog. Adorable!

  23. 23.

    Mary

    May 5, 2008 at 5:56 pm

    And what does the “G” in John G. Cole stand for? Will you tell us or can it be a contest?

  24. 24.

    rawshark

    May 5, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    Mary Says:

    And what does the “G” in John G. Cole stand for? Will you tell us or can it be a contest?

    I’m pretty sure it’s Griffin. I think I remember seeing that in the old days.

  25. 25.

    John Cole

    May 5, 2008 at 6:33 pm

    Yep. My middle name is Griffin.

  26. 26.

    Krista

    May 5, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    Yep. My middle name is Griffin.

    That would have made for a good, multi-syllabic full-name holler when Mama Cole was pissed off at you.

  27. 27.

    John Cole

    May 5, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    Nah, because my dad’s name was John, so I went as J.G. until I was 18.

    Which is also why I thought it was so funny that people on the right were making fun of Barack changing his name from the childood Barry to Barack. I also remember a good friend who was Benji until age 18, then he mysteriously became Ben after his first year at the naval academy.

  28. 28.

    Mary

    May 5, 2008 at 6:51 pm

    Terrific. I’m totally getting 80s flashbacks now.

    Really, that is such a cool name. Why were my parents so relentlessly, remorselessly traditional as to inflict me with the canonical Catholic girl middle name?

  29. 29.

    Krista

    May 5, 2008 at 6:53 pm

    DONE!!

    (That wasn’t illegal, was it?)

    Hey, if you follow the link after you donate, you get to see John’s very first blog. Adorable!

    “The Grumpy Report”. I love it.

    Nah, because my dad’s name was John, so I went as J.G. until I was 18.

    So when we feel like razzing you, can we call you “Junior”?

    I know what you mean about the nickname thing, though. Sometimes people nickname you and it’s not a name you would have selected. I recall one high-school classmate who perpetually insisted on calling me “Krissy”. It almost drove me to violence.

  30. 30.

    Genine

    May 5, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    I know what you mean about the nickname thing, though. Sometimes people nickname you and it’s not a name you would have selected. I recall one high-school classmate who perpetually insisted on calling me “Krissy”. It almost drove me to violence.

    I never had a middle name. My family is from the South (thought I was born and raised in Philly). All my relatives have truly hick names- Dotty Mae, Fannie Mae, Viola Sue, etc. So when my mom moved to Philly she wanted to give me a more “sophisticated” name and one that couldn’t be hickified. Though my relatives call me Nini, it’s not as bad as it could have been though.

    My best friend calls me Aggie, though. Once she was telling me about her co-worker Jeanine and I was surprised when she said that name. I told her I think it was the first time I ever heard my name come out of her mouth. She said she was talking about her co-worker. I said I know, it was still jolting to hear it. She said “Yeah, I know your name is Genine, but I don’t like it. I like Aggie better.”

    lol

  31. 31.

    Krista

    May 5, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    How in the heck did she get “Aggie” from “Genine”? Or did she just randomly decide to re-name you? LOL.

  32. 32.

    Genine

    May 5, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    Krista Says:

    How in the heck did she get “Aggie” from “Genine”? Or did she just randomly decide to re-name you? LOL.

    I met her online first. My handle was Agsrue at that time, a combination of Agnes Rue, a story character I created.

    So, she’s not totally nuts. Well, she’s not non-functional nuts, some detachment from reality is required to be friends with me.

  33. 33.

    Cain

    May 5, 2008 at 11:16 pm

    How in the heck did she get “Aggie” from “Genine”? Or did she just randomly decide to re-name you? LOL

    Someone called me ‘Bill’ when I was in high school. Bill somehow out of my name “Sriram”. My parents were puzzled over that one for a while. :-)

    cain

  34. 34.

    Krista

    May 6, 2008 at 6:36 am

    Cain, it must be some sort of trend. A friend of mine in high school, Satyendra, used to more-than-occasionally get called “Bill” as well.

    Strange.

  35. 35.

    Tax Analyst

    May 6, 2008 at 11:11 am

    My English Lit teacher in High School called me “Next-to-Genius”, but it was only because I sat next to the smartest guy in class.

    But it could have been worse, his nickname for the smartest guy was “Rancid”, because the guy’s last name was “Rancer”…Mr. Freesius didn’t call anybody by their real name.

    I loved the guy…best teacher I ever had in High School. In the corner of the classroom right behind the American Flag he had one of those huge, fake gin bottles…and behind that he had a large, blown-up photo of Hedy Lamarr – complete with fake autograph, “To John, with love, Hedy”.

    Sort of amazing the Powers That Be didn’t throw his ass out, though…this was 1967, you know.

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