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Eighty-SEVEN Long Years?!?!?

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Did Mitt Romney just say that the Sox waited eighty-seven long years to win a Series?

Man, Mitt just lost the Massachusetts GOP primary AND dropped a few points in New Hampshire, to boot!

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  1. I’ve seen him at Fenway for many games.  He seems to watch and enjoy them.  Maybe Mitty is tired.  I’ll start listening to him to see if he says he likes Manny Ortess.

  2. …how long it was between world series wins for the Red Sox.  But perhaps Romney was channelling Abe Lincoln.  87 is, of course, “four score and 7.”

  3. As an idiom, “eighty-six” originated in restaurant lingo, and it means “take it off the menu”.  

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    p>As Romney’s prospects in the primary grow increasingly more desperate, he is perhaps trying to avoid planting any notion in the voters’ minds that he should be “taken off the menu.”  Thus the erroneous reference to eighty-seven instead of the correct number eighty-six.

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    p>(I’m not really a doctor, I just play one in this post.)

  4. We waited 87 long years. And true suffering Red Sox fans that my family and I are, we could not have been more happy than to see the Red Sox win the World Series…

    I’m just guessing here, but Mitt was probably a Tigers fan, like every kid I knew growing up in the Detroit area, long before he was a “true suffering” Red Sox fan.  He may even have celebrated in 1968.

    • …the Lone Arranger*

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      p>What do you mean by “we” Kemo Sabe? when they were surrounded by Indians.

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      p>*Pun based on a bank advertisement in Columbus OH in the late 1960s.

      • That was my original idea for the headline, but I didn’t know if people would get the reference or not.

        • …some of these political blogs is that they are quite humorless.  Fun to tilt in, but in the absence of some humor, it quickly gets boring.

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          p>I understood your reference immediately.

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