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  1. You really had me up till midway through the second-to-last paragraph. Which goes to show that it’s actually plausible from this guy.

  2. I realized the date almost immediately, but my stomach dropped when I initially read the headline. NOT NICE! Yes, goes to show that nothing is to be surprise with this one.

  3. Ouch! That’s why the joke works….there’s not much that Obama could do that would surprise us at this point.

    I kept looking for his favorite unity themes, either mentioning that we are “our brother’s keepers” or as he mentioned in last week’s Easter address, ” the belief that, as part of something bigger than ourselves, we have a shared responsibility to look out for our fellow citizens.”

  4. It took me too long to figure this out. Nearing the end of your post, I remembered what today is. Great! We must never take ourselves too seriously.

  5. I am appalled that I did not recognize the joke until I began reading the comments above, because I think of myself as having a reasonable sense of humor. Am I so blinded by prejudice against President Obama that I am willing to believe anything negative about him, no matter how unjustified? Or does his pattern of self-centered arrogance warrant an acceptance of your great spoof? In either case, not good.

  6. It is sad that a reasonably intelligent person can read most of that before the light comes on.

    In my case, probably due to racism, since: 1. I am white and have a southern heritage, and 2. I would never believe a word of it with regards to any previous President.

  7. I realized it was a joke right away.

    The problem is that it’s too believable to be funny.

  8. A subtle touch: The Latin is ungrammatical, which seems about right. In the original, “unum” is nominative and “pluribus” (object of the preposition is ablative. In the revised version, those cases would have to be switched.

  9. David Guaspari: you should see the amount of research I did to try to get the Latin right! Since I never learned Latin, it wasn’t easy.

    And apparently it wasn’t successful :-).

  10. By far the funniest April Fool’s joke I’ve heard this year was the one where Lady Gaga was asked to play at the Republican Convention.

    …Um, that was a joke, right?

  11. If I hadn’t come straight from Facebook where people were making April Fool jokes, I would probably not gotten this until the last paragraph.

  12. Had me ready for a good rant too – but I think Man Bear pig (Al Gore) beat you to the punch during his bid for President n when in a speech, he mis-tranlated the existing motto just as you have proposed it.

  13. …crap, neo: I fell for it too. Jeezus. Even on One April.

    …I just don’t expect you to be outright bold-faced funny.

    …even when I know you can be, with a tongue as firmly planted in cheek as the best of ’em, lol.

  14. davisbr: well, I’m hurt :-(.

    Although my humor is often rather dry.

    My finest April Fools hour was this. I don’t know whether you caught it, but it got linked by Breitbart at the time. So many people took it seriously it became somewhat of a cause celebre.

  15. Neo – since this is a day for laughs, has anyone ever mentioned that your picture resembles Dr. Cuddy on “House”? Granted it’s a tiny picture and there’s an apply in the way, but there’s a slight resemblence.

  16. And the new one has the same number of letters, so it can fit on the seal exactly where the old one went.

    Allahu Akhbar has only one fewer letters.

  17. Am I so blinded by prejudice against President Obama that I am willing to believe anything negative about him, no matter how unjustified?

    You’re willing to believe in the arrogance about the erstwhile occupant of the “Office of the President-Elect?”

  18. southpaw: well, since I don’t watch “House” much and don’t remember who Dr. Cuddy is, I was almost afraid to look it up.

    But I’m flattered.

    As for resemblance—well, someday perhaps I’ll remove the apple and the suspense. Of course, by that time, I’ll probably be too old for anyone to care :-).

  19. It is a pretty sad commentary on the state of affairs that you had me all the way up to “it refers to my nickname, The One.” To me, it was totally and 100% believable up to that point.

    HAFD, Neo.

  20. This April Fool’s joke is spoiled, and at the very same time made all the stronger, by the fact that the scenario is so absolutely possible. Any other day this were posted and it would pass for reality.

    Gotta hand it to you, Neo: It’s best-of-breed in the “Many a true word is said in jest” genre.

  21. neo-neocon, 3:40 pm:

    “My finest April Fools hour was this [embedded link]. I don’t know whether you caught it, but it got linked by Breitbart at the time. So many people took it seriously it became somewhat of a cause celebre.”

    You got me on that one (2010), you devil(lette?) you, but not today (2013)!

    Am I ^finally^ wising up, or – – – ??

  22. 1. Wow, Obama knows Romany! 😆

    2. David Guaspari and Alex are on the right track. The correct form is Ex uno plura.

  23. When Catholic theo Josef Pieper reflected on the abuse of language he posited that tyranny and propaganda disformed words. When sociologists reflected on the abuse of language they blamed parents for expressing “double binds,” for which, the palliative is not clear expression but drugs and the acceptance of nonsense as meaning.

  24. Well put by, Mead!

    I’m sure that ole Barry “Possum Truth” Obama would love to change our motto: please don’t give that goober any ideas!

  25. E Unem Pluribus

    E Unem Pluribus Divisa

    but the most fitting…
    De Uno Et Nihil Aliud

    🙂

  26. sharpie,

    Speaking of abuse of language, did you see Tingles’ latest stunt? It’s as brutal an exposition of the Marxist perversion of language (specifically, of the term “racism”) as you could get.

  27. GOT ME, Too!! Hey, in a month that The Boy King has declared to be,”Teach our young people how to BUDGET RESPONSIBLY Month”, I figured it was just another in the perpetual: CANNOT possibly make this s**t up novel from His Infantile Majesty.

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