Comments on: Fla. governor gives out sex hotline

By: professor

professor — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:04:00 +0000

”If you’re getting screwed by meningitis, go screw someone!”

By: Doug Black

Doug Black — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:17:00 +0000

... with a soupçon of Weekly World News' "Bat Boy" thrown in.

By: Mona Tara Morgan

Mona Tara Morgan — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:01:00 +0000

Last number dialed on his phone?

By: siloxane

siloxane — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:15:00 +0000

There was a BoingBoing post last year reporting on how one company has bought up 1.7 million 1-800 numbers in the US and Canada and uses them for phone sex lines.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:13:00 +0000

…and that’s BEFORE you look at his policies.

By: Judas Peckerwood

Judas Peckerwood — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:41:00 +0000

“When we stop electing politicians based on looks the idiots will go away.”

You’ve obviously never seen the Florida governor in question — an unholy cross between Lex Luthor and Voldemort.

By: MythicalMe

MythicalMe — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:57:00 +0000

When we stop electing politicians based on looks the idiots will go away. Abraham Lincoln could never get elected in today’s election races.

At one time people cared less about what a politician did privately and more about their public policies. Would FDR get elected 4 times today? Americans cared less about FDR’s polio than the promise to deliver victory over Japan and Germany. Sure, it took Truman to deliver the promise, but Franklin recognized Truman’s greatness and the possibility that he might not fulfill his promise.

We need to recognize that the best leaders are not the puritanical, but the ones who are able to demonstrate that policy is more important than libido. Clinton may not have worked that right, but he might also be the last President able to lie about his relations with an intern and get away with it.

I’m still waiting for any information that Coolidge was a sexual deviant, but so far nothing.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:15:00 +0000

Was this news story broke by Dave Barry?

By: SoItBegins

SoItBegins — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 04:26:00 +0000

Yes. A variety of automated systems exist that are designed to reregister toll free numbers within minutes of their expiration.

By: lafave

lafave — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:51:00 +0000

but those are our only choices

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:44:00 +0000

I guess it’s never a good idea to elect an idiot.

By: Vaughn Marlowe

Vaughn Marlowe — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:41:00 +0000

Years ago in the 415 area code GOD DAMN would get the Dial-A-Prayer recording.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:36:00 +0000

And sometimes it’s the alphanumeric keypad that screws you over. Don’t know if they still use it, but once upon a time there was a customer service number for GMC trucks that caused a spot of bother if you left off the C. Because as it turns out, on a phone dial, GM TRUCK also spells HOT SUCK.

By: Jesseham

Jesseham — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:05:00 +0000

Call 5 at random. Then call 5 more. Call 5 more after that if you need more data.

I read somewhere, some time ago, that it’s squatters who bought up all of the available numbers and that you can’t get one for yourself unless you buy one from them. I guess parking them with a phone sex recording is the easiest way to make something off them in the meanwhile…

By: ahecht

ahecht — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:19:00 +0000

I wonder why, whenever an official gives out a wrong number, it never goes to anything boring like retail store or tech support. Does the phone sex industry really own that large a majority of toll free numbers?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:08:00 +0000

Is that cryptococcus in your meninges or are you just glad to see me?