Tuesday, December 20, 2011

The Screaming Memes

An actual conversation overheard in a Lake County bar:
Joe Walsh: THIS IS WAR, PEOPLE, THIS IS A REVOLUTION FOR THE VERY SOUL OF AMERICA. THE MEDIA DOESN'T GET IT. THE PARTIES DON'T GET IT. IT'S HIGH TIME WE PULLED OUR HEADS OUT OF THE SAND. SO, YOU SIR, I HAVE TO ASK YOU ONCE AGAIN ... RESPECTFULLY ... WHY DO YOU HAVE A BANANA IN YOUR EAR?!
Barfly: Could you speak louder, please? I have a banana in my ear.
Ha ha, it's not for nothing that one Illinois Congressman totally owns his awesome nickname, Screamin' Joe Walsh.

Of course, it was not always thus. It was well into this summer when when Screamin' Joe was still just Plain Ol' Joe -- Walsh. And then back in July your LakeCountyEye dropped the S-Bomb ...
Touch Wood
Truth be told, despite high hopes Screamin' Joe did not become an instant Internet meme. And as readers of this blog are mimetically aware, there were a couple of subsequent half-hearted attempts to give the Congressman from the Eighth District the Internet recognition he deserves:
Daddy-Owe

Got Any Gum?
But politics is like show-biz, there is a lot of sitting around and waiting involved. Well, your LakeCountyEye had to sit around and wait until the 2012 Primary started to heat up before Screamin' Joe Walsh became a household word in cyber-households (whatever those are):

Joe Walsh - Running & Screaming in IL 8
Ha ha, Tammy Duckworth, please send that royalty payment to:
lakecountyeye@gmail.com
By the way, your LakeCountyEye also does message development. Cheap. Just Google
Screamin' Joe Walsh
for a referral.

5 comments:

LCTruth said...

Eye...it is not Lake County relevant. The 8th District is not in Lake County any more. Do like the rest of us and say buh bye to Walsh.

Lake County has enough to keep this blog the respectable source for interesting tidbits.
No more Walsh please.

Barney Baxter said...

hi LCTruth,

My calendar says the 8th is in Lake County through Jan 2013. And after Walsh wins in 2012 he will need to use the Rte 53 extension in Lake County to get to his district office in Schaumburg.

-BB-

Anonymous said...

The GOP is so afraid of Walsh's craziness that the gave his former primary opponent a plum just to drop out of the race, even after she accumulated 4000 signatures. Love that depth of commitment!

Team America said...

BB-- are you going on record to be the second person (after Joe himself) predicting a Walsh win? Just checking.

Barney Baxter said...

hi TA,

Absolutely.

But then again I seldom believe anything I read on a blog.

-BB-