What do you immediately think of when you think of each US president?

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George Washington - mt vernon and trees
John Adams - wanted president to be called "his majesty"
Thomas Jefferson - mish-mash of horticulture, virginia, the declaration, indian relations, barbary wars, sally hemings, going west, my 2nd favorite prez
James Madison - bill of rights
James Monroe - first prez w/o powdered wig
John Quincy Adams - live oaks
Andrew Jackson - indian removal
Martin Van Buren - hate to say it, but that ridiculous hair
William Henry Harrison - died asap
John Tyler - kinda hazy on this guy but a general feeling of no one really wanted him
James Knox Polk - california
Zachary Taylor - old rough and ready
Millard Fillmore - utah
Franklin Pierce - school friend of Hawthorne
James Buchanan - doughface
Abraham Lincoln - emancipation, then gettysburg adress, then the fact that he was my grandmother's favorite president
Andrew Johnson - crappy prez impeached
Ulysses Simpson Grant - vs. robert e lee
Rutherford Birchard Hayes - know essentially nothing about him but associate him with reconstruction for obvious reasons
James Abram Garfield - shot
Chester Alan Arthur - sick
Grover Cleveland - so nice they elected him thrice
Benjamin Harrison - forest reserves!!
Grover Cleveland - so nice they elected him thrice
William McKinley - spain/cuba
Theodore Roosevelt - a melange of pith helmets, pelts, hunting, guns, buffalo, grizzly bears
William Howard Taft - fat
Woodrow Wilson - baseball
Warren Gamaliel Harding - alaska
Calvin Coolidge - "you lose"
Herbert Clark Hoover - great depression/annie the musical
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - speech at GSMNP/CCC/reforestation and glazed in amber glow because he is my favorite prez
Harry S. Truman - surprise victory
Dwight David Eisenhower - interstate
John Fitzgerald Kennedy - color-saturated images of pink, baby blue and red
Lyndon Baines Johnson - black and white picture of swearing-in
Richard Milhous Nixon - resignation speech
Gerald Rudolph Ford - falling down
James Earl Carter, Jr. - peanuts and nobel
Ronald Wilson Reagan - trickle-down
George Herbert Walker Bush - editorial cartoons w/dukakis
William Jefferson Clinton - crying tears of joy in my mom's honda when he was elected
George Walker Bush - grimacing face superimposed on WTC
Barack Hussein Obama - we go play hoop

Barack Hussein Obama - we go play hoop

^^lol was gonna post exactly this

Rutherfraud

at least a third of mine wld just be simpsons references

haha mine too!

i've been studying the US presidents over the last year, but i'm still pretty hazy and basic on like the middle THIRTY-EIGHT

how I wish my middle name was Gamaliel

Nixon: I always think of the HST line from the obit: "a classic case of a bird shitting in its own nest"

Truman = West Wing

Nixon: "And then you destroy yourself."
Ford: Sports Illustrated's cover of him.
Carter: Lust. (His, I mean--from the Playboy interview.)
Reagan: Husker Du.
Bush I: Bush II.
Clinton: Carville/Begala/Stephanopoulos/McAuliffe/Grunwald/Davis.
Bush II: The "Our enemies are resourceful" speech.
Obama: Calm in the face of lunacy.

My eleventh grade history teacher made such a big deal of HOOVER BLANKETS that H. Hoover is just a picture of someone sleeping under a newspaper, in my mind.

yes, gamaliel is definitely the best presidential middle name.

yeah, i think of hoover blankets probably right after i think of annie the musical tbh!

I think of Carter every time I put on a sweater when I am cold.

All my thoughts of presidents are related to trapping heat I guess.

Roosevelt makes me think of the very famous field ecology experiment on the Kaibab Plateau which is totally fucking crazy.

then you must love taft!!!! xpost

xpost yes, we had to study that in my forests in american society class recently, v v interesting. i love both roosevelts for their contribs to naturalism

I think you would have to be an extreme presidential geek to have any other primary relation to WH Harrison other than "dead."

George Washington - white hair
John Adams - white
Thomas Jefferson - plantation
James Madison - rich
James Monroe - stately
John Quincy Adams - jam
Andrew Jackson - handsome
Martin Van Buren - good name
William Henry Harrison - this is where it starts getting harry
John Tyler - jock
James Knox Polk - wtfuck
Zachary Taylor - sounds like my friend
Millard Fillmore - this is embarrassing
Franklin Pierce - mildred pierce
James Buchanan - pat buchanan
Abraham Lincoln - love
Andrew Johnson - american
Ulysses Simpson Grant - regal
Rutherford Birchard Hayes - are you serious?
James Abram Garfield - lasagne
Chester Alan Arthur - no
Grover Cleveland - what is this the muppets
Benjamin Harrison - benjamin i have no hairison (except i just looked up a pic of him and he does)
Grover Cleveland - wow
William McKinley - waht
Theodore Roosevelt - sweet, eleanor
William Howard Taft - discovered polenta
Woodrow Wilson - went to war
Warren Gamaliel Harding - tonya harding
Calvin Coolidge - ugh i dunno
Herbert Clark Hoover - nobody does it like you
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - i always thought it was "Franklin D'Eleanor Roosevelt"
Harry S. Truman - some people didn't like him, or something
Dwight David Eisenhower - fat
John Fitzgerald Kennedy - hotttt
Lyndon Baines Johnson - pass
Richard Milhous Nixon - draaaaaama
Gerald Rudolph Ford - the fuck knows
James Earl Carter, Jr. - jimmy
Ronald Wilson Reagan - people had opinions about him
George Herbert Walker Bush - read my lips (BARBARA!!!!)
William Jefferson Clinton - good
George Walker Bush - bad
Barack Hussein Obama - black

Nixon – "respectable Republican cloth coat" from Checkers speech

haha yeah. i actually kinda like him and know a few things about his life, but to not think first of the fact that he died in 2 seconds you'd have to be kind of asshole

G. Washington – I heard that when he was young, a style of coat that flattered older men was in vogue, but as he aged, youth became more celebrated and fashion got slimmer & trimmer to look good on young men, so there was never a time in his life that outerwear suited his looks

Franklin Pierce reminds me of Berlioz

haw, surm, your answers to both harrisons made me actual lol. awesome job

i don't know, that was actually in real life embarrassing. i don't even know whose roosevelt eleanor was.

Mine!

Thomas Jefferson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esbzbUlf19Y

i was so excited when i found out that pierce was hawthorne's pal, which i learned about backwards via a hawthorne bibliography (he wrote a bio of pierce), but then it was depressing after looking further into it that he was kind of a crap prez

washington - farewell address
adams - sedition act
jefferson - louisiana purchase
madison - tiny
monroe - doctrine
adams 2 - 'stole' election, served in congress after presidency, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Quincy_Adams_1824.jpg
andrew jackson - crazy redneck, presided as such, downfall of republic
van buren - vidal's burr
william henry harrison - whigga, tippecanoe and
tyler - too, "president"
polk - empire
taylor - general, not arsenic poisoned
fillmore - mallard fillmore
pierce - proslavery
buchanan - queer
lincoln - henry fonda, won civil war
andrew johnson - revisionist crap from high school
grant - drunk, general, poor
hayes - tilden, lost civil war
garfield - shot by tea partier, long slow death, mondays, lasagne
arthur - chops, 'reform', customs
cleveland - baby ruth
harrison - ft. benjamin harrison, indianapolis
cleveland - panic
mckinley - cuba, czologosz
tr - 'tr', badass, imperialist, fit
taft - bathtub
wilson - eugene debs, d.w. griffith, stroke
harding - teapot
coolidge - 'how could they tell', reagan loved him
hoover - hoovervilles, lotta streets named after him in europe, balanced budget, made depression worse
fdr - warm springs, his voice
truman - containment, nato, kickstarted integration, stood up to macarthur
ike - interstate, iran, guatemala, vietnam, mccarthy
jfk - king, cuba, dallas
lbj - civil rights act, medicare, vietnam, toilet
nixon - kissinger, ellsburg, cambodia, 'ohio', those tapes those tapes those tapes
ford - squeaky fromme, sara jane moore, chevy chase
carter - campaign, cardigans, gaslines, helicopter
reagan - hinckley, 'morning in america', north, that glint in his eye when he was being 'inspiring', that glint in his eye when he was being mean
bush - nahgondoit, emergency broadcast network's 'we will rock you', quayle
clinton - lost congress, great economy, bent dick
bush - try not to think of him
obama - election night, obamacare, conspiracy theories

just cleaned this US Presidents placemat from a SLC diner that my ex-bf did not take with him

G Washington - had wooden dentures, wonder how functional they were - did he chew funny?
J Adams - did he have dreams about George Washington dying when he was vice president?
T Jefferson - "likes black chicks"
J Madison - his wife Dolly - she had a thing w/Alexander Hamilton, i think i remember that from a movie that was packaged like a smutty b-movie, same distro as a lot of others, but it was a historical drama about Dolly Madison
J Monroe - monroe doctrine
J Quincy Adams - nepotism
A Jackson - prefigured America's love affair with John Wayne
M Van Buren - my college bf liked to use this as his pseudonym, partly out of contrary annoyance at the trend of James K Polk appreciation by TMBG fans
WH Harrison - died really soon after his election
J Tyler - tippecanoe and tyler too
J Polk - most of the North/South streets in the Tenderloin are named after presidents, the Hemlock Tavern and Kimos are on Polk
Z Taylor - there is also a Taylor St. in the Tenderloin
M Fillmore - mallard fillmore was never funny
F Pierce - buddies with Nathaniel Hawthorne
J Buchanan - Buchanan is one of those names that if a street is named this, generally it is in a neighborhood where there are a bunch of streets named after presidents
A Lincoln - "So Mrs. Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?"
US Grant - as a kid i had a fondness for grant because he was named Ulysses, like the character in mythology who i thought was cool as a kid, then as an adult decided he was kinda a dick
R Hayes - I lived on Hayes St. when i first moved to San Francisco - that was when there still were the remnants of the central freeway a block from my building. I thought that it would make for an evocative public sculpture.
J Garfield - assassinated by an anarchist(?), also a cartoon cat that liked lasagna. Lasagna makes me sick.
C. Arthur - preppies that have a first name as a last name
G. Cleveland - corruption and fraud, also Ohio
B. Harrison - nepotism, also a large beard
W. McKinley - assassinated - cemented the 20 year rule
T. Roosevelt - yellow journalism and gay sex
W. Taft - corruption and fraud
W. Wilson - poor guy - did he die with the realization that "we cannot have nice things?"
W. Harding - died in office
C. Coolidge - a story in a kid's reader how he was doing some admirable normal midwestern guy thing like milking a cow or visiting a sick child when he found out he was president now cause Harding had died
H. Hoover - played bridge w/my Great-grandparents
FD Roosevelt - the musical Annie
H Truman - another one of those guys that i felt sorry for because he seemed to have really bad timing
D Eisenhower - military-industrial complex
JFK - the X-files episode where it is revealed that the smoking man actually was responsible for his assassination
LBJ - liked to have political pow-wows while taking a dump - he'd make his colleagues and subordinates follow him into the bathroom
R Nixon - from Downey, where the Carpenters were from
G Ford - golf, also Squeaky Fromme
J Carter - he sinned in his heart
R Reagan - 80s punk/hardcore might not have existed if it weren't for this man
G Bush - 1000 points of light, the Sisters of Mercy album Vision Thing
Bill Clinton - why conservatives are so fond - still - of conspiracy theories involving him, I really don't know
B Obama - the night he got elected, the people of Oakland were all really happy and nice to one another and no one really did anything fucked up - it was kinda like Christmas in the movies

Obama - being the only white guy in a bar the night of the election
Bush II - MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Clinton - cigar, vagina
Bush I - pukie mcpukenstein on the Japanese PM
Reagan - Doonesbury caricatures
Carter - SNL caricature (talking the kid down from a bad trip)
Ford - coming out for affirmative action before he died
Nixon - Hunter S. Thompson's obituary
LBJ - driving reporters around his ranch with a beer can on the dash
Kennedy - back and to the left, back and to the left
Ike - Kruschev banging his shoe (which didn't really have anything to do with Ike and was less than a month before the 1960 election, IIRC)
Truman - nukes
FDR - Fear Itself
Hoover - that's a pretty nice dam
Coolidge - thought Hoover was going to be a shitty President, was right
Harding - Tea Pot Dome
Wilson - r-r-r-r-racist
Taft - fattie
Teddy R - genocide, bitchin' mustache
McKinley - "propaganda of the deed"
Cleveland - Grover Cleveland Alexander was a great right-handed pitcher
Harrison - I got nothin'
Arthur - surprisingly not-corrupt for a late-19th century politician
Garfield - wasn't President long enough for anyone to care
Hayes - deal to end Reconstruction
Grant - probably a more decent man as President than given credit for
Andrew Johnson - impeachment not involving a cigar or a vagina
Abe - "sic semper tyrannis"
Buchanan - don't ask, don't tell
Pierce - got nothin'
Millard Fillmore - thanks for the shitty duck cartoon
Zachary Taylor - being a 19th century American President was bad for your health
Polk - annexed Texas
Harrison/Tyler - Tippecanoe and Tyler too
Van Buren - name sounds sort of like Mamie Van Doren
Andrew Jackson - crazy motherfucker
John Quincy Adams - the original Dubya
Monroe - Ambassador to France during the Revolution
Madison - could probably settle that "right to bear arms" question we keep revisiting
Jefferson -slave-fucker
John Adams - appeared in Sideways
George Washington - grew hemp

George Washington - hey mary wanna make out with my rotten teeth
John Adams - died on 50th anniversary of July 4 1776
Thomas Jefferson - blurted out something about the blood of tyrants that creams tea party pants
James Madison - wrote that good ol' bill o' rights
James Monroe - monroe doctrine, "get off my property", respect
John Quincy Adams - the first prez to suck a little bit more than daddyo
Andrew Jackson - built a giant stonewall around iirc
Martin Van Buren - the wimpiest president name, got picked on a lot
William Henry Harrison - should have had a sweet beard
John Tyler - derr
James Knox Polk - secretly a vampire
Zachary Taylor - honestly, the first thing i think is "cool he has my name!", and predictably, died immediately
Millard Fillmore - if i don't do anything about the slavery issue it'll go away
Franklin Pierce - if i don't do anything about the slavery issue it'll go away
James Buchanan - if i don't do anything about the slavery issue it'll go away
Abraham Lincoln - was called "honest ol' ham sandwich" by the kids, very tall, actually an unambiguously totally awesome prez, wkiw
Andrew Johnson - served america by offering to be the first to test out impeachment procedures and make sure they worked
Ulysses Simpson Grant - $50
Rutherford Birchard Hayes - one of the great presidential beards
James Abram Garfield - i feel stupid saying this but i think about the popular cartoon "garfield"
Chester Alan Arthur - i feel stupid saying this but i think "chester...der...chester....his name is chester...neat"
Grover Cleveland - grover cleveland alexander, baseball legend
Benjamin Harrison - the beef in the grover cleveland beef sandwich
Grover Cleveland - secretly criticized white house redesign decisions of benjamin harrison, changed things back to how they used to be without pause
William McKinley - shot
Theodore Roosevelt - used his sweet roughrider nickname in bed
William Howard Taft - fat
Woodrow Wilson - 14 points, isolationist, glenn beck thinks he's the start of everything awful
Warren Gamaliel Harding - i know very little about this man's time in office, which is more embarrassing than my lack of knowledge about several 19th century presidents because I know people who were alive he was prez. also has a neat middle name.
Calvin Coolidge - last name occasionally used as the only word in an email between colleagues, happened earlier today
Herbert Clark Hoover - fucked up big time
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - new deal, great leader, great president, could have maybe have used his condition to push for more progressive rights for disabled people but whatever
Harry S. Truman - only missouri president, first atomic bomb decision is at least understandable given the circumstances, second totally indefensible, murderer
Dwight David Eisenhower - warned of military-industrial complex, otm, would have been nice if he would have mentioned it and done something about it before saying farewell
John Fitzgerald Kennedy - sex
Lyndon Baines Johnson - last president to refuse to run for second term (?)
Richard Milhous Nixon - orthogonian
Gerald Rudolph Ford - pardoned nixon
James Earl Carter, Jr. - urged americans to wear a cardigan and turn down the fucking heat, for that i will always respect him
Ronald Wilson Reagan - what a fucking asshole, thought he was cool when i was 4
George Herbert Walker Bush - soft, inviting lips saying something about money
William Jefferson Clinton - saxomophone! saxomophone!
George Walker Bush - nero
Barack Hussein Obama - a cynic's dreamdate president

do you think roosevelt and john muir had a thing? its confirmed that they slept in a tent together

adams and jefferson both died on the 4th. jefferson's last words were supposedly "is it the 4th"

i don't think it's true that dolley madison had an affair with alexander hamilton, seems unlikely doesn't it? but it's tangy to think about for various reasons

Hamilton = the hottest of the Framers.

http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/2/22/Hamilton_small.jpg

ahem, WILLIAM BLOUNT - hottest of the framers

yes, hamilton is the cutest founder

Richard Nixon - "shut up, Checkers!"

what you think thirty three in the glock is for?! black fatigues, skullies and binoculars, c4, block your doors, niggas can't stop this war, i show you faggots what this swatz is for! hiding spots in the door for the glocks is for, read the papers, eighteen thirty four, i took the whig party to war, only reason you switchin up is cause you keep gettin robbed, i looked that nigga in the eyes before i send him to god. william henry harrison, the realest nigga alive.
shit man, i'm out.

wm shabazz.

― ethan, Thursday, May 2, 2002 7:00 PM (8 years ago)

This could be embarrassing, I'm not very up on all 50 prez. But it's a great thread, Roxy!

George Washington - 1776 & that book David McCullough, seems like a cool dude that would have rathered be hidden in the middle of the pack than first out of the gate.
John Adams - sat on his hat in the miniseries. Alien-Sediton Act was kinda bogus but had cool ideas about the country and was bros with TJ
Thomas Jefferson - when the first Library of Congress burned down he donated his personal library to help them restart. Bro for life.
James Madison - Bill of Rights, him and TJ were like batman & robin in the early days
James Monroe - hazy
John Quincy Adams - saw the spot where his desk was in the Capitol bldg, can hear ppl talk from the other side of the room. Sneaky sumbitch lol
Andrew Jackson - statue of him on the horse, also he looks kinda like John Kerry in that official painting. Old Hickory.
Martin Van Buren - (dialtone) I got nothing
William Henry Harrison - uhm
John Tyler - nope
James Knox Polk - huh?
Zachary Taylor - nope
Millard Fillmore - really nothing
Franklin Pierce - yipes
James Buchanan - maybe but no
Abraham Lincoln - cried in the postoffice. Photo of the Gettysburg address where you see just a blurry tophat in a sea of people, barely raised up on a dais or anything, just like a dude talking. Wonder if anyone actually heard what he said. Or if it was like Monty Python/Meek inherit the earth stuff.
Andrew Johnson - not really
Ulysses Simpson Grant - I saw his saddle in the Confederate Museum in Nawlins.
Rutherford Birchard Hayes - uhm
James Abram Garfield - lol Garfield, nope, got nothing
Chester Alan Arthur - ugh this sucks
Grover Cleveland - lol Grover
Benjamin Harrison - (whistles)
William McKinley - there's a lot of stuff named after him in Sacramento, was he from here?
Theodore Roosevelt - Bully! Fake Spanish war, National Parks, teddy bears...into everything.
William Howard Taft - I can't
Woodrow Wilson - Treaty of Versailles, Nobel Prize. Was kind of boss during the WWI, kept country from going broke, iirc
Warren Gamaliel Harding - gah
Calvin Coolidge - something but no
Herbert Clark Hoover - Hooverville, Daleks Take Manhattan, Hoover Dam
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - <3 this guy for real. Fireside chats, polio, sang Tomorrow with Annie.
Harry S. Truman - West Wing
Dwight David Eisenhower - we like Ike
John Fitzgerald Kennedy - President's bullet ridden body in the street, ride Johnny ride
Lyndon Baines Johnson - turned Harold Holt's head around with all that All The Way with LBJ junk, Australia goes to Vietnam, Holt drowns, awesome thanks
Richard Milhous Nixon - shady old crackpot. secret bombs, secret coups, secret tapes, secret deals. Sweaty.
Gerald Rudolph Ford - Chevy Chase. Oil.
James Earl Carter, Jr. - Hostages. Peanuts. Momma. Told everyone to wear a sweater, everyone said eff you
Ronald Wilson Reagan - Trickle down. Star Wars. Russians. Closed the nuthouses, yay crazy homeless ppl thanks so much. Rubber masks for burglars.
George Herbert Walker Bush - New World Order. Iraq Ep I: A New Hope. Saddam. Dana Carvey.
William Jefferson Clinton - The War Room. Saxophone. Cigars, spoodge on a dress. Kenneth Star.
George Walker Bush - Mission Accomplished. Dead eyes. Cheerleader.
Barack Hussein Obama - My first vote in my first American presidential election. Aretha Franklin's giant bow hat.

mckinley was from ohio fyi

Harrison I - Arthur seems like everyone's most hazy spot.

i'd like to collect all my favorite images of every president somewhere. that could be like a "tumblr miniseries"

<3 reblag

I keep wanting to rank them in terms of hotness, but that seems wrong.

i think i forgot Andrew Johnson - i think at one point i thought he was hot.

George Washington - wooden teeth
John Adams - federalist
Thomas Jefferson - 'john adams still lives'
James Madison - tiny
James Monroe - era of good feelings
John Quincy Adams - died on the house floor
Andrew Jackson - would-be assassin firing two blanks/fuck you john c. calhoun
Martin Van Buren - red fox of kinderhook
William Henry Harrison - tippacanoe
John Tyler - died as a confederate congressman
James Knox Polk - mexican war
Zachary Taylor - mexican war general
Millard Fillmore - the last whig; manned a bucket brigade
Franklin Pierce - child was killed in a train accident when he moved to dc
James Buchanan - pennsylvania/bachelor/different-colored eyes/suck
Abraham Lincoln - the right man at the right time
Andrew Johnson - in over his head
Ulysses Simpson Grant - ditto
Rutherford Birchard Hayes - lemonade lucy
James Abram Garfield - could write latin with his right hand and greek with his left at the same time
Chester Alan Arthur - sweet moustache
Grover Cleveland - first white house wedding
Benjamin Harrison - felt bad for his dad
Grover Cleveland - kinda tubby
William McKinley - pan-american exhibition; shot by dude from near where i grew up
Theodore Roosevelt - san juan hill; mom & first wife died on same day
William Howard Taft - fat
Woodrow Wilson - paris 1919
Warren Gamaliel Harding - teapot dome
Calvin Coolidge - "you lose"
Herbert Clark Hoover - good engineer
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - the only thing we have to fear
Harry S. Truman - korea
Dwight David Eisenhower - military-industrial complex
John Fitzgerald Kennedy - knockin boots
Lyndon Baines Johnson - surgery scar
Richard Milhous Nixon - the most insecure man in history (understandably)
Gerald Rudolph Ford - "leslie"
James Earl Carter, Jr. - lust in his heart
Ronald Wilson Reagan - snl skit with phil hartman
George Herbert Walker Bush - snl skit with dana carvey
William Jefferson Clinton - is
George Walker Bush - mission accomplished/the worst president since (at least) buchanan
Barack Hussein Obama - would beat at hoop

George Washington - Father of the country, dollar bill
John Adams - One-termer, JQ's dad
Thomas Jefferson - Dec. of Independence, La. Purchase, swivel chair, Sally
James Madison - Constitution, shorty
James Monroe - Monroe Doctrine; Monroe, La.
John Quincy Adams - #2's son, mutton chops, anti-slavery, Congressman
Andrew Jackson - Indian killer, Battle of New Orleans, $20 bill, Ted Danson, dead wife, fruit punch on the carpet
Martin Van Buren - Jackson's 3rd term. More chops.
William Henry Harrison - One month. Cold weather.
John Tyler - HIS GRANDCHILDREN ARE STILL ALIVE. Also, always want to put Taylor here since he's first alphabetically.
James K. Polk - Tennessee. Starched collars. Al Bundy's high school
Zachary Taylor - "The Dead President Who Wasn't Elected In A Year Ending With Zero"
Millard Fillmore - No. 13, Reminds me of some character actor whose name I can't remember.
Franklin Pierce - Handsome and drunk. First emo president.
James Buchanan - Eyes were different color. Bachelor president. Did nothing to stop the Civil War. That John Updike book.
Abraham Lincoln - Beard, tall, stove-top hat, Civil War, Illinois, log cabins, syphilis, constipation
Andrew Johnson - Also born in '09, last name Johnson, from the South, left office in '69, etc.
U.S. Grant - Union general, drunk, burgundy curtains for some reason.
Rutherford B. Hayes - Samuel TIlden
James Garfield - shot at the train station. Fat cat.
Chester Arthur - Kinda looks like my mechanic.
Grover Cleveland - The Bill Clinton of 19th century, rubber jaw
Benjamin Harrison - Another beardo. Grandson of one-month guy.
Grover Cleveland - Really? the 22nd AND the 24th?
William McKinley - White gloves, shot, eyeliner.
Teddy Roosevelt. Teeth, monocle, moustache, safari hat, high voice, overachiever, wanted to take God off the currency, shot during a speech that he finished, Bull Moose
Woodrow Wilson - Glasses, stroke, racist, New Jersey
Warren G. Harding - REGULATE. Also died.
Calvin Coolidge - "You lose."
Herbert Hoover - Hooverville, Hoover flags, Hoover sucks, Iowa, didn't die until 1986 or something.
FDR - polio, cigarette holder, fireplace chats, Fala, capes, Living Colour songs.
Truman - Man from Missouri. Truman the Tiger. Lauren Bacall. Piano player. glasses. poker. whiskey. 33rd prez also 33-degree Mason.
Eisenhower - bald, golf, heart attack, oh he was a general in the war too?
JFK - blown away. what else do I have to say?
LBJ - peckers and rattlesnakes. beagles and scars. Vietnam.
Nixon - president when I was born. jowls.
Ford - fall down. Pardon me? football
Carter - teeth, peanuts, screaming at me to turn the thermostat down.
Reagan - well, there you go again. pompadour.
Bush Sr - my first image is him holding up that bag of crack to the cameras in the oval office and of him puking in Japan. God, I miss that guy.
Clinton - Dude, I like used to know this guy. Still can't get over it really. Cheeseburger.
Bush Jr. - clueless. furrowed brow. flared nostrils. Fucking served longer than Lincoln and JFK combined.
Obama - http://stylealchemy.com/ruminations/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/obama.gif

Now I'm gonna read everyone else's

that's a lot of immediate thoughts

Forgot Taft, but woulda been "fat".

I think I forgot Taft too. Bathtub, fat.

Roxy, ur awesome for starting this thread btw.

no prob!

Warren G. Harding - REGULATE. Also died.

lol
whatup with you & clinton?

Smithers: "Mr. Burns has never forgiven his mother for that affair with President Taft"
Homer: "Heh heh, Taft, you old dog"

George Washington - first and on the $1
John Adams - second
Thomas Jefferson - declaration of independence, church =/= state
James Madison - avenue :/
James Monroe - doctrine, monrovia
John Quincy Adams - nephew
Andrew Jackson - how he looked, ie his portrait
Martin Van Buren - only Dutch one
William Henry Harrison - shortest presidency, realest n**** alive
John Tyler - (nothing)
James Knox Polk - (nothing)
Zachary Taylor - (nothing)
Millard Fillmore - (nothing)
Franklin Pierce - (nothing)
James Buchanan - bad bad reputation
Abraham Lincoln - emancipation, civil war
Andrew Johnson - a johnson who became president because of assassination
Ulysses Simpson Grant - who's buried in his tomb?
Rutherford Birchard Hayes - (nothing)
James Abram Garfield - killed
Chester Alan Arthur - (nothing)
Grover Cleveland - 24 & 26
Benjamin Harrison - son of the only man whose father and son were both presidents
Grover Cleveland - 22 & 24 (oops ok I counted after the last one)
William McKinley - killed
Theodore Roosevelt - glasses, mt rushmore
William Howard Taft - fattest
Woodrow Wilson - (nothing)
Warren Gamaliel Harding - um, something about teapot something?
Calvin Coolidge - (nothing)
Herbert Clark Hoover - (nothing)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - new deal, plus 4 terms
Harry S. Truman - hiroshima, nagasaki, reportedly beaten by dewey
Dwight David Eisenhower - general, interstate
John Fitzgerald Kennedy - assassination footage
Lyndon Baines Johnson - another johnson who became president because of assassination
Richard Milhous Nixon - "not a crook"
Gerald Rudolph Ford - only one never elected to prez nor veep
James Earl Carter, Jr. - us president when I became aware the office existed
Ronald Wilson Reagan - his voice
George Herbert Walker Bush - no new taxes, quayle vp
William Jefferson Clinton - lewinsky :/
George Walker Bush - dark years
Barack Hussein Obama - rock star of 2008

John Quincy Adams - nephew

Oops! Where did I get this wrong idea from?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt - yalta
Harry S. Truman - hiroshima
Dwight David Eisenhower - m-i complex
John Fitzgerald Kennedy - his widow and kids at funeral
Lyndon Baines Johnson - exposing himself to journos
Richard Milhous Nixon - deranged antisemitic screeds on tape
Gerald Rudolph Ford - being patronized
James Earl Carter, Jr. - deranged antisemitic screeds in print (joeks)
Ronald Wilson Reagan - jelly beans
George Herbert Walker Bush - new world order!
William Jefferson Clinton - khartoum pyrotechnics
George Walker Bush - strangely lucid texas gubernatorial debates
Barack Hussein Obama - watching 'black orpheus' with his mother

George Washington - not telling lies, kicking ass
John Adams - Ezra Pound & his Cantos
Thomas Jefferson - interracial action, hanging in Paris
James Madison - got nothing
James Monroe - dude had a doctrine
John Quincy Adams - Jack Klugman tbh
Andrew Jackson - Jacksonville?
Martin Van Buren - got nothing
William Henry Harrison - "I died in nineteen days!"
John Tyler - nope
James Knox Polk - nope
Zachary Taylor - nada
Millard Fillmore - Die Hard With a Vengeance?
Franklin Pierce - Hawkeye?
James Buchanan - nope
Abraham Lincoln - hat, emancipation, gay bar
Andrew Johnson - impeachment
Ulysses Simpson Grant - civil war stuff
Rutherford Birchard Hayes - nope
James Abram Garfield - the cat, getting shot
Chester Alan Arthur - nah
Grover Cleveland - 2 non consecutive occasions
Benjamin Harrison - nothing
Grover Cleveland - see above
William McKinley - mountain
Theodore Roosevelt - Ernest Hemingway of US pols
William Howard Taft - nah
Woodrow Wilson - not good film, bit up himself afaik
Warren Gamaliel Harding - toasters
Calvin Coolidge - one of these guys was Teapot Dome but don't ask me
Herbert Clark Hoover - apparently the concrete in that dam won't be fully set for another 2000 years
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - wheelchair gags, hated by wingnuts, Tennessee Valley sump'n sump'n
Harry S. Truman - atom-bomb dropping motherfucker
Dwight David Eisenhower - golf
John Fitzgerald Kennedy - shagging, touch football, "He Died in Dallas Town"
Lyndon Baines Johnson - that photo, all the way with LBJ
Richard Milhous Nixon - head in a jar mounted on a killbot
Gerald Rudolph Ford - domed forehead
James Earl Carter, Jr. - peanuts, billy, hated by wingnuts
Ronald Wilson Reagan - senile old cunt, felt terrifyingly likely to nuke russia
George Herbert Walker Bush - CIA man
William Jefferson Clinton - nobbing anything that moved
George Walker Bush - chimp, hungry caterpillars, shitty satirical humour
Barack Hussein Obama - what an awesome day that was

at least a third of mine wld just be simpsons references

― there must be 51 ways to sb ilxor (Lamp), Thursday, 21 October 2010 01:40 (10 hours ago)

seeing the title the first thing that came to mind was GWHB's feud w/ Homer, with that as a starting point it'd just go crazy to where like my first thought re JFK is Mayor Quimby.

(although actually my first thought re Lincoln was Ape-raham Lincoln in the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes.)

I wrote this not too long ago, when I was stoned:

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PRESIDENTS OF OUR TIME

1789-1793
George Hubert Washington
Killed a migrant worker once.

1793-1801
John Adams
Could bounce a quarter off that bald pate.

1801-1809
Thomas "Ho Snap!" Jefferson
Learned Braille to impress women.

1809-1817
James Madison
Shorty in the Lincoln Bedroom, baby!

1817-1825
James Monroe
Lots of good feelings and butt bumps around these parts.

1825-1829
John Quincy Adams
Braintree, Massachusetts, born and raised,
in the schoolhouse is where I spent most of my days.
Half-naked, with a bourbon barrel round my head.

1829-1837
Andrew Jackson
Shock of green hair and populist frou-frou.

1837-1841
Martin Van Buren
Picture this dude puttering around Kinderhook muttering Dutch.

1841-1841
William Henry Harrison
Hug me in lions' fur, pull on your robe.

1841-1845
John Tyler
Like an attorney with a Hollywood smile.

1845-1849
James K. Polk
Had Frito Bandito by the tails 'fore the old surrender.

1849-49
Zachary Taylor
Death is like a bowl of cherries.

1849-1853
Franklin Pierce
Killer wink from a looker like this.

1853-57
Millard Fillmore
Scotch in a tumbler, no ice.

1857-1861
James Buchanan
Some kind of Cincinnati bachelor.

1861-65
Abraham "Man of Steele" Lincoln
Hoist this merrymaker up, you all.

1865-69
Andrew Johnson
Some chickenshit E.A. Poe fan,
kicking up dirt in D.C. with assistant D.A.s.

1869-77
Ulysses S. Champ
Dove into old Muddy with a Cadillac on his back
And three million Girl Scouts cheering him on.

1877-81
Rutherford B. Hayes
Trim beard, you and A.G. Bell. Good sirs.

1881-81
James Garfield
Endowed schools in the Klondike.

1881-85
Chester A. Arthur
Bet on the World Series like the otiose n'er-do-well he was.

1885-1889
Grover Cleveland
Drove a steam locomotive down a movie screen.

1889-1893
Benjamin Harrison
Grandpa Moneybags, we called him,
when he deigned to lower his monocle
on the children gathered around.

1893-97
Grover Cleveland
Homeskillet back again,
Subaru in South Dakota
with a Big Bird backseat.

1897-1901
William McKinley
Peak, more like a widow's peak, amirite.

1901-1909
Ted "Theodore" Roosevelt, Esq.
Took on fat cats with thick specs.
Not cats with thick specs but took on with thick specs.
Like took on fat cats but while wearing thick specs
at the same time. Speaking of which.

1909-1913
William Howard Taft
Ever wonder whether this dude soaked in the tub
while wearing his judge's robe?

1913-21
Woodrow Wilson
Marsh weeds, marshmallow foam,
Dunderfluff from fronds of clouds.

1921-23
Warren Harding
Cabinet members included
Donnie Chilcox, Charles Moustache Shepherd,
Colfax Baron McGuinty, Hiram T. Sherman,
JoBeth Martinez.

1923-29
Calvin Coolidge
Dime-store gent with peppermint stripes on his slacks.

1929-33
Henry F. Hoover
Official portrait: Skunk wrapped around his gray neck.

1933-45
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Got a new line of frozen mostacholi.

1945-53
Harry Bruce Truman
Baby what a bad boy, bombin' abroad.

1953-61
Ike Eisenhower
Shiiiiiit, you can turn this mother around on
some sort of sliding scale.

1961-63
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Bubbles on the boobs of bombshells.

1963-69
Lyndon B. Johnson
Puttin' his paws everywhere.

1969-74
Richard Nixon
Puttin' his blood-red Mao logo
all over the W.H. Mazda Miata.

1974-77
Gerry Ford
One of those Washington wigs
without a winglike bone in his body.

1977-81
Jimmy Carter
Colonel peanut with a coconut sauce.

1981-89
Ronnie "Whiz-Kid" Reagan
Black pompadour ink-jetting all over
black-and-white faxes from
perestroika motherfuckers.

1989-93
George H. W. Bush
Beanpole twitter claims this
fellow had some news for Beirut.

1993-2001
William Jefferson Blythe-Clinton
Aw gee ma, you shouldn't have.

2001-2009
George W. Bush
Monkey-faced bastard left oil
slicks wherever he scraped his shoes.

2009-
Barack Obama
Pineapple request line lightin' up.

Martin van Buren has a rad name and was the only prez not to be a native English speaker. That is all I know about him and I do not want to know any more so that any terrible things he did will not tarnish these two facts.

Got nothing for 20 or so of these guys, lol British.

Calvin Coolidge - "you lose"

Lol

lol
whatup with you & clinton?

didn't know him personally, but I used to see him at parades, Boys' State, jogging around town in his tighties, at the Arts Center, hanging out at the mall, in my classroom. Roger even dated my dad's secretary for a spell.

And then one day... Phil Hartman's imitating him on SNL. Seriously, it was like watching our local weather guy become emperor.

I've mentioned it before, but I'm somewhere in the vicinity of where and when this photograph was taken. The electronics store is where my step-dad and I got our first Bally Astrocade.

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/media/gallery/photo/ClintonWagon_f.jpg

You people know a lot of history! My list wd be basically the same as surmounter's.

At "what is this the muppets" I was seriously trying not to snort-laugh audibly at work.

Although for Ford, I would have to say: Grand Rapids, and Quilts. Because a friend of my grandmother's
named Betty Boyink apparently quilted a bi-centennial quilt that now hangs in the Gerald R Ford museum in GR, MI.

sweet dick willy i immediately think of cumstains.

I've sometimes wondered if Ford could've gotten elected with his original name: Leslie Lynch King, Jr.

Not that he was ever elected to the presidency anyway.

Martin van Buren has a rad name and was the only prez not to be a native English speaker. That is all I know about him and I do not want to know any more so that any terrible things he did will not tarnish these two facts.

Fun fact: Ezra Pound's favorite prez.

Did not know that! Doesn't really deal with him much in the Cantos compared to Adams and Jefferson iirc. Gonna investigate further.

Also: last sitting VP to become prez until Poppy Bush.

Ford was VP before he became president.

last sitting VP to be elected president.

disclaimer: i am foreign and have only heard of some of these people

George Washington - traitor
John Adams - traitor
Thomas Jefferson - slaves
James Madison - bridges
James Monroe - doctrine
John Quincy Adams - pathologist, solved crimes
Andrew Jackson - genocide, new orleans, one of history's greatest monsters
Martin Van Buren - dutch
William Henry Harrison - 9th
John Tyler - unknown, possibly fictional
James Knox Polk - mexicans
Zachary Taylor - no
Millard Fillmore - stomach ache
Franklin Pierce - heroin? guessing
James Buchanan - possibly gay
Abraham Lincoln - the fried chicken guy?
Andrew Johnson - asshole
Ulysses Simpson Grant - tomb
Rutherford Birchard Hayes - all surname
James Abram Garfield - assassernated
Chester Alan Arthur - my private life is my own damn business
Grover Cleveland - browns
Benjamin Harrison - us president
Grover Cleveland - 2 terms
William McKinley - mountain
Theodore Roosevelt - stuffed toy
William Howard Taft - fat
Woodrow Wilson - ww1
Warren Gamaliel Harding - booze
Calvin Coolidge - my mom thinks i'm coolidge
Herbert Clark Hoover - not the FBI guy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - new deal
Harry S. Truman - fake middle initial
Dwight David Eisenhower - dynamic data exchange
John Fitzgerald Kennedy - had sex got shot
Lyndon Baines Johnson - 'nam
Richard Milhous Nixon - bowling, surveillance
Gerald Rudolph Ford - helsinki
James Earl Carter, Jr. - seems like a decent dude, how the fuck did he ever get to be president
Ronald Wilson Reagan - cowboy, supply-side, alzheimers(sp?)
George Herbert Walker Bush - cia, voodoo, read my lips: not all bad
William Jefferson Clinton - pot, bj
George Walker Bush - simpering retard
Barack Hussein Obama - jury's out, might be an asshole

wonder what (if anything) americans' immediate thoughts on brit pms would contain

you don't really get to shine when you're not head of state.

wonder what (if anything) americans' immediate thoughts on brit pms would contain

― mookieproof, Thursday, October 21, 2010 1:32 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Churchill is a god here.

wonder what (if anything) americans' immediate thoughts on brit pms would contain

I only know a few

Disraeli = Jewish!
Chamberlain = Nazi appeaser
Churchill = Drunk!
Thatcher = Reagan in a dress

oh and also

Blair = lapdog

better yet, canadian pms

Who was Disreali's nemesis, Gladstone? only other ones i can name are Wilson and heath because of the Beatles song. Also Blair and Major.

better yet, canadian pms

― mookieproof, Thursday, October 21, 2010 1:37 PM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Trudeau=Cuckold

Current guy - isn't really PM?
Last guy - wasn't Tony Blair
Tony Blair - was he really once a member of Pilot?
John Major - looked like he had a moustache, but didn't.
Margaret Thatcher - Faulklands, Gerald Scarfe cartoon
Aha Mr. Wilson, aha Mr. Heath
Winston Churchill - loved blondes and identity issues in his films.

Thatcher makes me think of ice cream

Disraeli= family guy joke

might start a separate thread to keep our feudal patronage system out of yr bright shiny democracy

it's a republic, son

do monarchs - i have a lot to say about that asshole stephen

monarchs would work

Yes! Monarchs would be fun.

What do you immediately think of when you think of each English/British/UK monarch (post Norman Conquest edition)?

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