Friday, June 28, 2013

Fun Fact Friday - Presidential Pokers

Unsurprisingly, this interblahg post will contain content pertaining to Bill Clinton. I mean, Monica Lewinsky's been in the news! Someone is selling her old clothes. Because who doesn't want clothes someone else may or may not have worn while she may or may not have been blowing the president. I just don't know!

That mustachioed man in the background feels left out. In so many ways.
But Monica aside, I found a fact about presidents. And penises. So here we are.

Fun fact: Of the presidents who were ever, or very nearly, impeached (Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and William Jefferson Clinton) have parts or versions of their names that can be used to mean penis: Johnson, Dick, and Willie.

It is perhaps not the most elegant fun fact. I mean, Richard Nixon famously hated being called Dick. (I know because in high school I used to sign people's yearbooks with inspirational presidential quotes including, "Don't you dare call me Dick.") And as far as I know "Slick Willie" was not Clinton's preferred nickname. But as imperfect as this fun fact may be, I can smell the potential for conspiracy.

After all, so much has been made of the links between the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations... why not the penises of impeachable presidents?

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