Talk Elections

I tried to tell you what was going on.  I really tried.  This looks like a landslide, folks.

Ummm, not quite over yet, mypaldouche.  If you were anywhere close to right, I'll give you some kudos, but it's a little early to be blowing your own horn.

When the actual results come in, he won't be around.

what was your prediction?

Clearly, the 70% turnout in central PA was for Kerry.

Exit polls mean something, but they don't mean the world.

So far as I know, we'll know the real answers tonight.

Don't get confident yet, but so far so good.

too funny.

i reckon we should just go ahead and concede the election on the basis a few internet rumors.

It's not really a landslide if Kerry wins Ohio and Florida by 3%.  But who cares...things are looking good, not just from the exit polls (which are conflicting and not trustworthy), but from the way people on the networks are talking, and the reactions of Republican blogs.

Well, I predicted a Kerry victory (and said Bush had to be in Ohio and Florida more), and I also said that the GOP GOTV 72 hour plan would be very ineffective.  And it looks like I was right.

Republicans are just letting Democrats pretend like they are winning so they can quote Lee Corso:

"It looked good early. But it got real bad late."

And you are claiming you were right based on results taken early this morning?  *laughs*  Why not revisit this thread tomorrow when we all have more information.

Mypaltroll,

Give it a rest already. Really.

let's all give fish his accolades!!

This thread looks a lot funnier than it did around 3 or 4 this afternoon

Who has egg on their face now?

Man, Kerry destroyed Bush in Florida, didnt he my pal fish.

Maybe mypalfish ran the exit polls?

Yeah, so where are Fish and Handler and all the rest of them? Not to be found.

Hey, that GOP GOTV was non-existant, huh? And how 'bout them exit polls?

Good grief. I'm absolutely positively certain there will be an excuse, so what's the point.

Wow...this is so funny...

I was really inconsolate around 4:30 in the afternoon--I had actually given up.  This just makes me so happy...

Anyone notice the only democrat posting is danxmen

you think mypalfish will come back and see he was wrong?

I think the bulk of the Lefty Trolls will crawl back under their respective bridges.  No toll to the trolls!

:)

Boy, famous last words, mypalfish.

The trolls don't return. But I don't think he needs to for us to be satisfied with what must be his dismay.

With the election over, I don't we'll have such problems.

Er, make me an exception.

I am mostly interested at this time in the state legislature results at this time.

This thread is truly a classic.  Talk about a Dewey/Truman backfire .  Looks like this troll got caught with his pants down.   Somebody ought to save this one!!  :)

LESSON OF THE DAY:   If you're gonna be a troll, wait until your claims have been proven before you start asking for accolades. 

I already posted in regards to mypals comment, but i just wanted to keep it up towards the top of the threads

HAHAHA

still no response........that is pretty bad.  its not like we will even know who it is - this is all online anyways

We ought to keep this thread going, just in case mypaldouche comes back.

Good idea. It's still hilarious.

Bumping this back to the top to keep it going.  :-)

His pal fish was a piranha and ate him, it would seem.

The oddest thing is that he wasn't all wrong. His point was that Bush was, relatively, *much* weaker in the Upper Midwest than most people thought, and that much was quite right. He also claimed that this meant Bush was doomed, and I'm still laughing.

Lewis brings up a good point.

I think both parties may have been guilty of this logical fallacy to a degree, but Democrats obviously more so:

They were very familiar with which districts traditionally go their way, and they know that the margin of victory in their own friendly regions have historically indicated how the remaining neutral and unfriendly regions play out.  Ordinarilly a (relatively) Excessive Crush in their friendly districts indicate an edge in swing districts and a significantly respectful fight in ordinarilly unfriendly districts.

In this election, the turnout was tremendously high, but was so for both Wings.  Both polar regions had Excessive Crushes that in the final analysis, cancelled each other out.  The Democrats were proceeding under the assumption a high turnout would favor them as it indicates popular disatisfaction--but that extra turnout was split down the middle from the polar opposite wings.  So of course, it came down to the mushy middle once again, that broke slightly but significantly for Bush.

Sounds about right, Niles. The ABB brigade were matched by the evangelicals.

Back on top! Where-O-where can mypalfish be? Where-O-where could he be. Too funny.

After reading through this thread, I guess maybe I gave Fishy and the other one too much credit. I at least thought they'd have come back by now with a consiracy theory or a garbage excuse. :)

I'm still waiting for CollectiveInterest. Remember his prediction?

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Wouldn't somebody who was supposedly volunterring for the Bush Campaign as he claimed he was (even though all of us know better), be happy that Bush has won.  You would think even a pessimistic campaign worker would be more than happy to admit he was wrong. 

I think we all concluded he was a Democrat troll a while ago.

Yeah.  I did too.  That's what's so funny about it.  Trying to pretend to be a Volunteer worker for the Bush campaign is a pretty bad disguise for a Democrat troll.

Yeah, there's no way. I've worked on campaigns before and even if one is that pessimistic, you'e not working for a campaign, I don't think. You're probably sitting at home not even paying attention to it if you're that pessimistic. He was a Dem troll for sure.

Um did Kerry win yet?

Maybe fish went to his victory party

I'm sure he's at the Kerry victory party on the planet Mongo.

Just wanted to bump it up a bit.

lol, I just read this. Funny Stuff!

oh yeah.  collectiveinterest said the polls werent including all of the cell phone users.

MyPalflounder should be caught with a net.

I love CI's map - lol :) That's hilarious. The entire southeast and southwest going Kerry - if that's not a joke, I don't know what it is. :)

You know, I hope Fishy didn't get hold of those exit polls and go bet everything he had that Kerry would win.

Oh well, you live and learn. Maybe he learned that you don't count your proverbial chickens before the eggs have hatched.

hahahah........he is probably still waiting outside at Copley Square in Boston

Where is the collectiveidiot anyway?  And I must say that this thread is quite amusing.

DefectiveInfest is probably in rehab at this point.

That map is a joke.  That guy even had Georgia,  Alabama and Missisipi going for Kerry for God Sakes.   Atleast be realistic.  I could make a map showing Bush carrying New York, Rhode Island, and Massachussettes.  But would I ever have any credibility again if I did such a thing?

NO WAY!!

All the red has bled out around here.

I got the impression that he really believed it; probably either a ten year who Mosley-Braun would be the nominee or a certifiable member of the very loony left who ran out of meds.

You must stay up really late at night thinking of those insults. :)

It's the bolding that makes it truly burn.

I hope J. J. doesn't think up of one for me; I'll cry myself to sleep every night if he does. :(

The is partizanship, which I don't object to, and deceptions so great as to be outright lies, which I do.  You guys are partizan, which is fine.  A few others are not.

If I posted the half-truths, like Kerry comes from a family of drug dealers and committed war "attrocities," I should deserve the flogging they get from me.  Being delusional at best, is not.

Nah, I'm actually not really that partisan. This is the site, in fact, where I get my rah-rah partisanship out. That says a lot. Everywhere else people think I am a Republican.

I'm not really partisan, or at least like to think I'm not.  I actually don't really care about those zingers that you make and am amused by them; I was just trying to make a stupid joke.

Please note that I have not made them about either of you.

I welcome reasonable political discussion, even with people that I disagree with, politically.  Emphasis on the word "reasonable (and logical, cogent, and truthful as well)."

I feel so left out. :(

Oh, be quiet about it Poopoo

I guess I am just not as good at it as JJ

HOORAY

MY LIFE HAS MEANING AGAIN! :D

Not showing up afterwards nails it.
Yes, he was.
Possibly a paid one, even.

That's harsh.  I was thinking more along the line of GUPPY!  :) 

I was thinking more along the lines of "Garbled," or "Gabudegook." :-)

I told you I wasn't as good at this as JJ.

I just looked over all of his posts since he joined.  He posted this right after the 1st debate.  He doesn't even do a good job of covering up the fact he was a troll.  Anybody with half a brain can see right through him.  Here's the first post he did after the 1st debate:


"Whatever the exact numbers are at the moment, the fact seems to be that Bush has clearly lost all momentum, and there will have to be some major "October Surprise" to change the dynamic.  I do a little volunteering for Bush/Cheney in Wisconsin and you can't overestimate just how much damage that first debate did to the President.  Most, if not all, of the enthusiasm is gone now.  We'll see what happens, but I'm not optimistic and if you're a Kerry supporter, it looks like a lot of good news is ahead for you."


LOL.  Nothing like claiming you work for one candidate and trying to pump up the other side.   If he was a true Bush campaign worker, even the most pesimistic one on the planet, you would think he would be more than happy to come out and admit that he was happy that he was wrong. 

I've been in campaigns where I was so disillusioned that I've felt that way.  The candidate is usually at the point of lying to his staff and/or state party officials.  One of these cases is where "J. J.'s Second Rule of Elections" was developed (though proved time after time, since).

That said, FriendFriedFlounder was inaccurate when he said that WI was in trouble for Bush, as the polls indicated.  Soooooo, you really had to ask how connected this bozo really was.

Best...thread...ever.

You should have heard me with my friend Viv.  You would swear that we are about to knife each other and any second.

Actually the Kerry campaign DID in fact have volunteers who "monitored" blogs, chat rooms and BBs. I saw a report about it on CNN. They had a whole room of  volunteers who were each on a different site and "monitoring".

Here you see the example the Demo Disinformationcampaign.  The problem is that they can't even lie well.  They get caught and get merciless ridiculed; friendfriedflounder deserves it.

Oh, come on, give it up...yeah, the guy was wrong. Is it necessary to keep bumping this thread up? How long is this going to go on for?

So he has egg on his face. Give the man some peace....

He's a Democrat troll who spent the entire time saying he was a Bush volunteer and that Bush was obviously going to lose. No reason we shouldn't make fun of him now.

Hey Phillip, how long do you have to keep your avatar Dem?  What were the terms of the bet?

For a month. So until December 3. :)

ill give it up after the 2006 midterms

Friendfriedflounder is the type troll that deserves to be drug out from under his Kerry Edwards collasped bridge,
skewered lengthwise, and roasted over an open fire.

LOL.  Amen to that

Mypalfish roasting on an open fiiiiire...

Or a troll and fish fry.

Trolls and chips?

Troll almondine with French cut green beans.

I didn't realize troll was such a gourmet dish. ;)

Me neither.  I would like to give it a try.  Know what restraunt I can find it at?

Probably somewhere on the Left Bank of the Seine, in Paris, France.  You'd have to fish friendfriedflounder out of the river, because he is definitely inSeine.  ;-)

Ok, but simply bumping up the thread without actually contributing to it, merely for the purpose of making someone look bad, seems to me to be in poor taste. I fail to see what is gained by beating the dead horse over and over again.

I'm not defending the guy, just saying, ok, we get the point, it's time to move on already....

As pointed out, this cyber fish fry is because of friendfriedflounder did, and because it's pretty clear that he was spreading disinformation. 

If I started posting stories about the 'poor' African American turnout in Phila, I would deserve this treatment.  Instead, I poste accurate information, as I observed it.

The problem is I think its hard to catch fish like that during off election years.  ;)

LMAO, and I don't do that easily. Bravo!

Hey, the guy wanted accolades.  And I'd say he's getting his accolades. 

I'm sure he still wonders in from time-to-time but doesn't post. I'm sure we will hear from him in a week or so and perhaps he will state that Hillary is leading in the exit polls in the 2008 election, so there is no need for voters to show up and vote for the republican candidate. After all he is a volunteer for the *insert name*/*insert nane* 2008 campaign and would have this inside poll information.

Hey come on guys. mypalfish was almost right. Let's say a few close states switched like PA, WI and MN. It would have been a landslide, folks. He tried to tell us...he really did...   :P

Foolish and silly to predict victory based on a slim lead in a very early exit poll of a few swing state(s). Anyone who would do that doesn't have any experience. And anyone who has ever worked the polls on an election day can reasonably observe that the later it gets the more GOP turns out.

And this guys was a Bush campaign volunteer. That makes me laugh.

BTW, I wonder where Nomo is/has been. Intensive care?

Nomo was banned and so was his IP.

Now might be a good time to bring him back though. Comedy and all.

I see. About time, I guess. He really became quite unnerving there before he all of a sudden stopped posting. Necessary, I think.

I can wait.  Donovan was also driven off.  He might have been another Nomo incarnation.

Nomo needs to be allowed back for some off year election humor.  When he is done with his segment on Bill O'Reilly, of course.

I'd rather have serious discussion over policy with serious Democrats whom, even if I disagree, I can respect.

And we tried to tell him he was a troll.  WE REALLY DID!! 

It's time again to point to friendfriedflounder laying on the beach, gasping for air.

Did he get washed a shore?   And if he did, can we cook him up now?  :)

We've been burning him since 11/3/04.

I think he's long dead by now.

But is still half baked.

Yeah.  This is one of those fish that take a long time to cook.  He should be done by innauguration day. 

Bump ......



Just one more time.  I can't help myself.   

Psst... I don't think he's coming back.

Forum says he was last active a couple of days ago...who knows, he could come back.  No doubt he'll bring astute analysis.

I know.  Part of me says just let it go.  But it's just too much fun though <evil laugh>

Well, it would be interesting if he did...

Friendfriedflounder was floating past, fins not moving, as late as November 6.  This fish obviously rotted from the head down.

Here fishy fishy fishy fishy

Maybe we need better bait.

I have a feeling he isnt coming back......though I am glad to see everyone trying to "bait" mypal back....i am going to keep trying

Got any suggestions?

Nope; I have no idea what guys like him eat. ;)

I seem to recall him saying on another thread a day or two before the election that he was so certain that Kerry was going to win that if he was wrong, we could all laugh at him and pick on him for the next 4 years.   LOL. 

LOL this entire thread is hilarious

Its sad this has gone on for 9 pages..but its still funny as sh**t. LOL

Want some grits with that fish?

I think it has a few more pages at a minimum to go yet.....kudos to whoever rescued this thread post-election by the way

I say keep it going to Inaguration Day, at least.  This is one fish that needs a slow roasting.

I don't even care if he comes back or not; this thread is fun.

Agreed.  This thread is just hillarious.  I say keep it going.  I highly doubt the Fried Flounder is gonna come back now.  Especially that he knows all of us are sittin here ready to pounce on him.  But if the fish hasn't gone belly up and is still swimming near the shore, we don't want him to forget this wonderful thread in which he says

"I WILL NOW ACCEPT MY ACCOLADES!!"   Well we're giving him his accolades and he's not here to accept them.  LOL

This is definelty our way of gloating, without coming right out and doing it, so everyone wins

I'm normally not one who likes to rub it in either.  But if you go back and read the posts that this Fried Fillet has written during the past month, this is one who deserves to have it rubbed in.  Whether he is here to read them or not.  :)

Hey.   The election is over.  There are no more polls to look at, disect, and analyze.   Bush's innauguaration is still 2 months away.  So we got to have something to do now to keep us all coming back to this forum.  So let's all gather around for a good ol fashion fish fryin. 

BTW, anybody know how to make Sushi out of this Fish? 

I LIKE MYPALFISH! 

I LIKE MYPALFISH!

I LIKE MYPALFISH!

(Think that worked?)

Please come back MyPalfish and indulge us with all your stories about working for the Bush campaign and how depressed they were.  We know you tried to tell us.  But now we are really interested.  WE REALLY ARE!!  I promise I will read what you have to say and I will not take you any less seriously than I did before the election ended.  :)

well, in all honesty, khirk also had a lot of crazy things to say.  i remember him saying that kerry was winning on the swing states and had excellent shots in wv, va, az, co, and nv.

but at least khirk came back.

CAN, MYPALFISH COME OUT AND PLAY?

Here fishy, fishy, fishy!

im sorry....everytime i open up this thread I just start laughing.  is this wrong?

hah, i love it

Dumbass.

WHere you at, Fishy Fishy Fishy?

It's pronounced "Dumas".

Comeon Fish.  I know that everyone here is giving you a hard time for you kinda premature patting yourself on the back.  But I got some really great news.


I JUST SAVED A WHOLE BUNCH OF MONEY ON MY CAR INSURANCE BY SWITCHING TO GEICO

Actually, in this case, it would be Dumb Bass.

lol, this topic is still up here and going strong. :) Hey, I'll contribute a post every now and then. :)

I don't hardly ever rub something in, and in fact I didn't even discuss the election with my Democrat friends until they brought it up. But this one needs some rubbing in. I just can't believe anybody serious would make these kinds of predictions and guarantees based on early, slim leads in exit polls of swing states. A landlside? Oh, please. This is really funny. I just read it through from the beginning for the first time since election day. I'm smiling. Gosh, I hope Fishy didn't take the proverbial bridge. He seemed pretty convinced, even for a believer in a lost cause. :)

I took the same tack. I had many friends predicting a decisive Kerry victory. Hell, I even went along with them for the sake of not starting an argument. God knows there were enough of those during the campaign. When it was over, I could barely bring myself to rub it in. I mean, they were soooo dejected. You'd have thought someone just shot their puppy or something.

Yeah, I didn't even bring it up. A few I didn't even hear from until about Sunday, it was like they were in mourning. Then the other half just dismissed it with an I don't really care, I can't stand either one of them. Then on the other hand, the GOPers were calling me the next morning. Watching election returns is almost like watching the Super Bowl and the media frames it that way, so I guess they do a good job of grabbing everyone's attention. Almost everyone I know watched at least part of the returns, depending upon where they were. We even get a pre-game show of sorts.

Good stuff.  Then again so is this thread.

bump.   back to the top

Keep it going. You're right about many Democrats suddenly dismissing the results as if they didn't care. Many of these same people wouldn't shut up 24 hours before about this "being the most important election in our history." Funny that.

FriendFrenchfiedflounder hasn't returned since the 6th.  Maybe he swan upstream and an elephant ate him?

Just bumping to throw out some more bait.

FISHY FISHY COME OUT & PLAY!!  Please come out and tell us about how you "tried to tell us what was going on"   You really tried to tell us how Bush was going to get killed.  But we just wouldn't listen to you. 

Hey guys.  Do you think that when fish started this thread a week ago that he had any idea how popular it would be?

He might have expected it to be popular for anouther reason.  :-)

This thread should really be a sticky.  :)

I suspect he thought he would see a lot more red avatars than blue in it about now.

Be a sticky?  i don't get it. 

A sticky/featured/top/etc. thread stays at the top permanently.

Friendfriedflounder hasn't been back since the sixth.  Maybe the tide has gone out?

The Republican tide has flowed in.

Since the weekend is coming, I thought I'd do some fishing.

I think MyPalTrolFish has gone into hibernation.

He bobbed up to the surface as late as today at 1:15 PM ET.  I suspect the lampoon, or harpoon as the case may be, is still stuck in him.

So the fish hasn't been caught yet, huh?

Maybe he meant a landslide for Bush?

Here is what he actually said:


FriedFriedFlounder swam upstream, straight into a turbine.

Perhaps Friendfriedflounder will answer the question if exit polls should ever be trusted again. :-)

Here, fishy, fishy, fishy.

Wow, nearly 8 pages of fish jokes.

You folks are ruthless. ;)

Thankyou.  :-)

bump!

Ahhh, friendfriedflounder bobbed up again in the afternoon.  I guess when the guy set himself on fire in front of White House, it wasn't a fish fry.

ooh fish ooh come out and play, Mr. "Kerry Will Win in a Landslide" Bush Campaign Worker

 Thats my favorite one!

Hey Fish,

   Just make us all happy and drop by to say hi. It could be just a simple "hi" or "oops" or any other one word sentence to reward our efforts for keeping your name alive. Can you see...can you see? I'm on my knees. Please........

Yeah Fish.  I hate seeing a newbie begging.

Flounder sighting again today.

I agree. I hate seeing a newbie ...um..ah...oh, that was me. That being said...
I WANT FISH
I WANT FISH
I WANT FISH!!!!

Fish is yukky.

But is it Yucca?

bumpity..

I cannot help but think of the scene in The Shawshank Redemption when the new inmates arrive and all the prisoners start chanting "Fresh fish" at them.

hahaha . . . I had forgotten about that.  Good scene, especially when that guy cracks.

To paraphrase Michael Dukakis, this Fish rotted from the head down.

You can tell I'm running out of material when I start quoting Dukakis.

FriendFriedFlounder floated flaccidly past the waiting fishermen today.

I reread this thread again. Hahahahhaha

It truly is a gift that keeps on giving.

Someday Nemo will come back to accept his accolades.

Friedfriedflounder swan past again today.  The water must be getting cold, but we will be happy to heat it up.

Hey.  I've been away for a week.  I came back to check out this forum and see this thread is still alive and kickin it.  Woo Hoo!!!   COMEON FISHY!!  COME OUT AND PLAY WITH US!!!

Splash, splash.  Come out and play li'l fishy.

I think you guys are beating a dead horse, err, fish.

;)

But keep on beating it!

Actually, as late as Friday, friend fried flounder did visit the board.

As...and every post you make will halve the chances of him revisiting.

Right now it's at about 0.0001%. ;)

Ah, but he did view this as late as Friday.  He's just lurking under the surface.

Guess he'll have to come up for air, eventually.  :)

Has anyone seen Collective? I've been waiting for him to explain his prediction map...and the, er, details that he got wrong...

What are you talking about?  I think Kerry is going to win South Dakota once the provisionals are counted!

Ah, I hope, I hope... ;)

It's time for Make A Conspiracy Theory!

Today's is as follows:

CollectiveInterest's map was completely right; the only issue is that [circle one: the CIA / the FBI / Diebold / Halliburton] and other [circle all that apply: government agencies / conservative hacks / previous Cheney employers / Bush supporters] [circle all that apply: rigged the election / suppressed minority voters].

You just reminded me of a prediciton map I saw.  The guy had every state except for Utah and Alaska going for Kerry.  He claimed that the CIA has rigged every election since 1960, and that the real vote has been overwhelmingly democratic since then.

I saw that one too.  It was partly the inspiration for the post you quoted.

He also said that every president with the exception of Bill Clinton has been a homosexual. Including Geo. W. Bush. lol

I wonder what made Bill Clinton so special.

Maybe he means the opposite.  After all, it was Clinton that allowed the (openly) gays into the military.  hahaha

200 + posts on this thread and counting.  This has to be some kind of record.  I bet Squishy Fishy never thought he'd be so popular here.

Not yet; that one post made by Liberty did achieve its goal of 1000 posts by election day and then went over that amount by quite a bit.

MYPALFISH IS ONLINE!!!!

Yes, friendfriedflounder does swim in and out of our little lagoon, as has been cited.  He hasn't, however, taken the bait on the hook for this line.

The other night , there was a Simpsons episode on.  For those of you who are familiar with every Simpsons episode like I am, it is the one where Bart joins the junior campers and Bart and Homer get trapped on a raft out at sea with Flanders and his son.  Well, Homer tried to catch a fish using a Cheese doodle on the end of his line to help keep them all from starving.   A fish did bite, but the  line completly came off the reel and the fish swam away:

HOMER:  Don't worry.  He'll be back

(hours later)

HOMER:  (exhausted)  Here fishy fishy fishy fishy.  We're waiting.


When I saw that, I immediately thought about Mypalfish and this thread.   :)

Hopefully we'll all find a Krusty Burger and be saved. :)

Don't forget the Duff!

Forget Duff.  Give me a Fudd.   

I'd prefer a a Flaming Homer Moe.

Another fish sighting today at 2:15 p.m.    Still not taking the bait.   Give me some Cheese Doddles, Krusty Burgers, and a six pack of Duff. 

Better than Skittlebrau...

This is the official three week mark of this post. 


IT HAS NOW BEEN EXACTLY 3 WEEKS SINCE THE FISHMEISTER CAME HERE TO GLOAT AND ACCEPT ACCOLADES ONLY TO LOOK LIKE A COMPLETE AND UTTER MOREON AND THEN DISSAPEAR INTO HIDING FOREVER!!!

Fish, it's what for dinner.

We've all been eating Fish for 3 weeks now.

Mnnnnnnn... Beer :)

Is anybody else getting rid of the traditional Turkey and Dressing for Thanksgiving and gonna go with Fish and Beer?

This thread proves at least one thing; fish is definitely not "brain food."

No.  But it sure is fun to roast

Eating fish can lower your bad cholesterol, correct? If that is the case pass me seconds. WE WANT FISH! WE WANT FISH! WE WANT FISH!

Hey MyPalfish, Happy Thanksgiving.



I thought I'd throw out some new bait.   I wonder what he's thankful for?   :)

 Has He not came back yet? lol.

Happy Thanksgiving bump

mypalfish

Last Active:     Today at 05:41:02 PM

Haha. C'mon, just post.

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How about a little fish humor to keep this thread going?



Which fish can perform operations?
A Sturgeon!


Where do little fishes go every morning?
To plaice school!


What fish goes up the river at 100mph?
A motor pike!


How could the dolphin afford to buy a house?
He prawned everything!


1st kipper: 'Smoking's bad for you'
2nd kipper: 'It's OK, I've been cured'


What kind of fish is useful in freezing weather?
Skate!


What do you call a fish with no eyes?
Fsh!


What lives in the ocean, is grouchy and hates neighbours?
A hermit crab!


What do you get from a bad-tempered shark?
As far away as possible!


Why did the whale cross the road?
To get to the other tide!

This thread has served a vital purpose for which we should genuinely thank the fishy one.  Republicans, having done very well this cycle, want to gloat.  We can do so in a completely acceptable way by coming into this thread.  Heck, some of our democratic colleagues have popped in to mock our friendly forum fish.

So come back to us, Nemo.  We need you to accept this, your genuine accolade.

He hasn't posted yet??

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How long will we be gloating on our victory? Inauguration Day...2008?

I say till innauguration day at the least.  It's gettin cold outside.  We'd better grab some polls and get ready to do some ice fishing to catch the flounder.   

LOL, I can't believe this thread is still up at the top. Since the board has decidedly slowed down since the election, I say we keep it going at least till Inauguration day.

Reading through the beginning of this again, I'm reminded of an old buddy who hasn't made a guarantee [about much of anything] since one of the Bills/Cowboys Super Bowls in the '90s, 1993 maybe. "I'm tryin' to tell you Cowboys it's gonna be ugly for you..." He guaranteed the Bills would run away with it. He was a big Buffalo fan. Well, to my knowledge, that's the last guarantee he made. Maybe... wait a minute. That might have been Fish!

Fishy floated back up to the surface today at 11:13.   I guess he has digested his Thanksgiving Dinner.

Name:  mypalfish
Posts:  68 (1.360 per day)
Position:  Jr. Member
Date Registered:  October 07, 2004, 09:03:21 pm
Last Active:  Today at 09:13:39 AM

You guys should stop abusing "fishy fishy fishy".... in fact, every time there is another post, this thread gets bumped up again, and the gloating thread gets extended and continued..

Oh, wait, I just posted... oh darn... ignore this post, ok...?
 
 
 
 
 

Vorlon, you just made a funny.  :)

lol @ Vorlon.

WHY THIS STRATEGY ISN'T WORKING:

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The problem is that he tied himself with his own rope on this thread.

This thread ain't gonna die any time soon.  :)

This thread has dropped down 4 spots.  We can't have that,  can we?  Back to the top she goes. 

No, sirree, we can't.   FISH will live forever.

Have you folks ever considering that mypalfish might have been a troll who has tricked you and managed to get an extreme amount of negative attention? Why else would he still visit?

Just an idea.

Perhaps, but we're having too much fun to care.  :-)

I really can't fathom kind of mental process would lead to someone liking this much negative attention.  This type would have to have psychological problems at the deepest depths.  It's one thing to swim ustream against the current of history, but quite another to find yourself beached by the tidal wave of comments.

Either you are all wet of friendfriedflounder is.

Obviously you have not had much experience with trolls in the past. ;)

From the Seattle Times, this article puts to rest the talk that the Florida vote count was flawed.  Conservative Democrats in north Florida voted for Bush overwhelmingly in spite of their party registration.

"Florida newspaper finds no evidence of election fraud
By Meg Laughlin and David Kidwell
Knight Ridder Newspapers
LAKE BUTLER, Fla. — Since President Bush captured Florida and the White House again, critics have fixed their sights on northern pockets of the Sunshine State and asked: How did the Republicans win so heavily in counties stocked with Democrats?
Some wondered whether Florida's tally was corrupt, with one Internet site writing: "George W. Bush's vote tallies, especially in the key state of Florida, are so statistically stunning that they border on the unbelievable."
The Miami Herald last week went to see for itself whether Bush's steamroll through north Florida was legitimate. Picking three counties that fit the conspiracy-theory profile — staunchly Democratic by registration, whoppingly GOP by voting — two reporters counted more than 17,000 ballots over three days.
The conclusion: no conspiracy.
The count of optical-scan ballots in Suwannee, Lafayette and Union counties showed Bush whipping John Kerry in a region where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 3-1.
The Herald found minor differences with official results, most involving ballots that had been discarded as unreadable by optical-scan machines but in which reporters thought the voter's intent was clear.
Under the optical-scan system, voters fill in an oval or darken an arrow by a candidate's name. A machine reads the card optically.
Kerry solidly won the battle in South Florida, but Bush won the war by dominating everywhere else in the state, particularly in the 52 counties that use optical-scan ballots, which can be checked for accuracy.
Republicans often had done fairly well in those counties, but this year more so.
Democrats outnumber Republicans by about 340,000 voters in the 52 counties, but Bush took them by about 340,000 votes — a 680,000-vote swing that assured him of victory.
 
The Herald focused on three counties that represented some of the more severe disparities between registrations and votes, beginning Monday in Union County, where more than 75 percent of registered voters are Democrats.
"People here traditionally register as Democrats to vote in local primaries, but they're very conservative," Union County Judge Dave Reimer said. "When I came here in 1983, there were only 54 registered Republicans in the whole county."
Election Supervisor Babs Montpetit was more direct. "People here are mostly fundamentalist Christians who work in the prisons," she said. "Do you think they're going to vote for the liberal senator from Massachusetts?"
The Herald total: 3,393 votes for Bush, 1,272 for Kerry. Fifteen votes couldn't be counted clearly.
The county's official total: 3,396 for Bush, 1,251 for Kerry and a few dozen that couldn't be counted.
The next stop was west a bit, in neighboring Suwannee County. Election Supervisor Glenda Williams greeted reporters at the election office in Live Oak: "Most people in this county are against abortion and gay marriage. So, they voted for Bush."
The Herald counted almost 60 percent of the votes in Suwannee, where nearly 64 percent of voters are registered Democrats.
The newspaper's total: 6,140 votes for Bush and 2,984 for Kerry, which nearly matched the county's official tally.
Next stop: Mayo in Lafayette County, where 83 percent of voters are registered Democrats. Along the way were neighborhoods called "The Christian Village" and a warehouse called "The Christian Outlet." One billboard said: "There is life before birth."
Four years ago, the Florida vote was so tight, and so flawed, that the Herald counted every questionable ballot. The results weren't as close this time, but questions remained. Reporters told Lafayette County Election Supervisor Lana Morgan the newspaper had come back to end the speculation.
"Good," she said. "You don't know how frustrating it is to convince people who are set on believing something — even if it's not true."
The reporters' total: 2,452 votes for Bush and 848 for Kerry, with 20 that couldn't be counted clearly. The official county total: 2,460 for Bush, 845 for Kerry and others that couldn't be counted.
Morgan invited the reporters for an early Thanksgiving dinner in her office, but they had to return home, driving to the Jacksonville airport past Snoball stands, chicken farms and anti-abortion billboards."

Fishy got a new owner:

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Friendfriedflounder swam past again today.

Swam by or floated by?

Bumperoo.

He has obvioulsy seen the thread....why wouldnt he say anything...you probably love this, mypalfish

Fishman is still poppin his little head up for air.  He was on at 12:12 today.   

What do you think Mypalfish is gonna ask Santa Clause for Christmas?  LOL

Perhaps a fish christmas ornament:

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Stiiiiill going!  Nothing lasts longer!

*boom boom boom boom boom boom*

MPF is off like a bucket of prawns in the sun.

This is your official One Month since this funny a$$ thread began bump. 

I can confirm that mypalfish was last seen on this forum at around 10:45 PM Friday December 3rd. And, yes, I can confirm that mypalfish was viewing the "I will now accept my accolades" thread. I am sure he appreciates all the praise you have offered to him over this past month.

How can you confirm that he saw this thread?

I shouldn't have said I can confirm it because I have no evidence. However, I did see that he was logged on to the forum so I figured I'd check what thread he was viewing. He was here. As I said before, I'm sure he apprecaited everything he received  :)

I don't think he's quite done recieving it yet.  :)

Bad, bad, BAD Republicans....

Every time somebody posts to this thread the beating and abuse for MyPalFish gets extended.. and extended...

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This thread just seems to keep on going, and going, and going....

We could, if you want, instead heap our mocking on a certain Libertarian pollster who predicted a Kerry victory right on through until late October, if you prefer.

Actually, from about early September onwards I consistently, time and time again posted that I though Bush was up "about a field goal" or so, which turned out to be pretty close..

"Play nice", and don't pick on The Vorlon... ok...?

Or I'll have to send a planet killer or something....

I'm not gonna pick on you, Vorlon.  I'm just gonna pick on people who have handles named after amphibians that claim they volunteered for the Bush campaign, but love to spread dishonest rumors about how his own campaign is in trouble and lost all confidence while at the same time promoting any good news for the campaign he is suppose to be working against.  Then these people keep on saying "I tried to tell you what is going on.  I really did."   and then asking for accolades the afternoon of the election based on some faulty exit polls.   Then going silent after the election over and they have been exposed for the fraud trolls they really are.

If the above paragraph doesn't describe you, then you have no need to worry.  Cause us Republicans won't pick on you. 

Funny you should say that, I just got the latest Babylon 5 ship combat game today.

I wonder if Fish can come over and play?

Reply number 270, ah 270...such a beautiful number, reminds me of a certain election...hmm

Which election? The one that mypalfish said Kerry had in the bag?  We better give him the accolades he is due for predicitng it so accurately. 

We're not even close to giving him his due. This is the guy that called Florida. And Ohio. Amazing.

This is what our fishy friend wrote on another thread.  So by his own words, we are now granted the right to call him names and make fun of him for the next four years.   Anybody else game for this?

I had a fish sandwich for lunch and it reminded me of this thread.

Sheesh guys, I think that 19 pages is just a tad too much. I think we  can all agree that Mypalfish has been punished sufficiently for his arrogance. Give it a rest, the election is over. Republicans have bigger things to worry about now (i. e. Clinton in '08).

Hillary Clinton getting the nomination = Four! More! Years!

NO CLINTON, PLEASE.

BACK. NO.

GONE. NO.

BAD CLINTON.

;)

But otherwise I agree. Lay off, guys. This is getting bully-ish now. He was arrogant, he was wrong. Let's move on.

No no no, that's not the problem. The problem was that he was a troll- someone claiming to work for the Bush campaign and then making false claims of inside info.

If he wasn't still visiting the site, I would agree. But so long as he's around, so should be this thread.

Nope, go ahead, I deserve the thrashing. 

The flounder has surfaced!  Thar he blows! :-)

Well I'll be.  Fishy's come out to play. 

This is the point at which I think it would be gentlemanly to stop.

I'm no gentleman, obviously.

Now that we caught Moby Dick, the fish tale lacks a plot. :p

Fishy should be encouraged to post on other topics.

REPLY 286, this number seems REALLY familar and would be a good number to end this thread on.

I think that he has admitted he is wrong, shown humility, and most of all displayed courage by posting here admitting he is wrong. This is now just bullying for the sake of bullying, and simply mean. It has lost its fun. I think it is time to move on.

Since when are we gentlemanly.  If you listen to Michael Moore, 75 percent of Hollywood actors, the Main Stream media, Western Eurpoe, and most of the Democratic leaders, we are evil Republicans who like to take health care away, pollute the planet, attack innoncent countries, and try to rule the world.   This is what tv tells us.  And if it's on television, lord knows it must be true. 

Now that he came back and said he was wrong, I think maybe we can end it, although this thread is one of the most popular.........so maybe not.  But at least mypal did post here. 

I'll let you go, fish, for good, if you'll answer two more questions for me.

Why did you go around this forum pretending to be a Bush volunteer and crying out about how bad the Bush campaign was being run?

No one believed you and no one was going to believe you because (frankly) it was ludicrous on the face of it.

I am also wondering what you hoped to gain out of it.  Panic out of the Bush people or something?  Really, what was the point?

And finally, do you look like this in real life?

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Actually, I really was a volunteer for the Bush campaign in Wisconsin, and even got to shake the President's hand after the rally at the Arena.

BTW, I'm quite a bit younger than that Abe Vigoda pic...

See guys, it was worth it... he returned.

Personally, I'm surprised. I'll give him props-- prior to the election I predicted he would not post again after election day (because I knew he was full of it). I still don't believe a word he says.

Well, he's finally returned.  Seems this thread was worth something, after all.

I think we can finally give fish his accolades...for actually returning.

 Im glad he is back, He is one of the most Famous people in the forum.

I do really want to encourage my pal fish to post on other topics as well.

He is definetly the most sought after poster now, even ahead of Vorlon

Well now that polls are in that 1 year state of worthlessness until 2006. Vorlon isn't as popular as he used to be...

He's the most sought after poster now that we are not in election mood and we have nothing to do.   With no real polls to disect and analyze for the next year or so,  Vorlon has earned a well deserved vacation.   But as soon as truth and clarification is needed, we'll all be asking for Vorlon again.  If mypalfish is still around and posting when the next round of national elections heat up, we'll all be telling him to go away as he has lost all credibility here on this board.  

we can always use another expert opinion.  I think mypal called the election just about closer than anyone

Let's all welcome MyPalFish back...

he is being a really good sport about it all, and took a good deal of abuse...

This is a nice forum, so let's all be nice and give him his dues...

Welcome back MyPal...

:)

Okay.  Fair enough.  I'll stop giving mypalfish a hard time now.  This thread has been more fun than a poster should be alowed to have, atleast it's been if you're a Republican.   But I guess even the funnest parties have to come to an end sooner or later.  The election is over and it's time to move on.  With next year being an off election year, I probably won't be visiting this forum quite as much, atleast until the 2006 mid-term elections start to heat up. 

The only issue I really have with mypalfish is the thing with him working for the Bush campaign.  I still don't believe he was, but only he knows the real story and it's not that important to keep harping on.  All I have to say is that if he really was working for the Bush campaign, then he is beyond a shadow of a doubt the worst campaign worker in the history of national elections.  Not even the Kerry supporters on this board were as eager to spread as much doom & gloom propaganda about the Bush campaign being in trouble as him.   This thread is evidence of that as the afternoon of the election, he was so anxious to gloat over what he had been saying that he started way too prematurely based on exit polls and rumors.   He was ready to party even before the vocal Kerry supporters on this board were.    He can talk about working on the campaign, going to rallys, and shaking hands with the president all he wants.  He can say he did the macarena with Bush, Cheney, the Twins, and Karl Rove, but nothing will ever convince me that he was anything more than a Democrat Troll.  Not that I really care, even if it is true.  And like I said, only he will ever know the real story. 

But oh well, it's been discussed more than enough and he has definenlty recieved his just punishiment with these 21 pages.   And as a previous poster has pointed out, it's given republicans on this board an excuse to gloat and extend their celebration after a hard fought win. 

Yes, this thread certainly was more fun then a bucket of chum. lol

Although I would also like to see CollectiveInterest come back and give his reasoning on this one, too.  :)

I love that prediction because of South Dakota.

nobody cares about the bloody Canadian anymopre :D

I suppose MPF WAS right about the Bush campaign in Wisconsin, clearly it didn't match up to Kerry's...

The Kerry campaign was clearly able to bring so many people out that it had 115% turnout in a number of Madison districts.

Bringing out more voters than people who live in a precinct, county, etc. is a certain way to ensure that you'll win whatever race you're in.

who is mypal's stone-cold lock to win in 2008?  he must know already who will win

Three words: Loving County, Texas.

I don't think voter turnout exceeded population. Even if it did, it may have been a technical glitch like those 3,800 extra votes in Columbus for Bush, when only 600 people lived there. Were those fraudulent votes? I say no, but if you assume there was fraud in Madison with no evidence whatsoever, it's intellectually dishonest if you didn't also believe that the 3,800 votes in Ohio weren't also produced by fraud.

If population increases over time, then voter turnout could exceed the official population total, since that's based on the 2000 census.

The things you miss when you have to go away for awhile.

I'm just glad Chumly posted and had a good sense of humor about it.

But, since we now know Wisoncisn is where he was, I know what happened to the 30 Bush GOTV cars that had their tires slashed.  Mypalfish did it in a fit of despondency!  Fess up!

Hee Hee.  That's good.  I never thought of that.  Maybe I've been wrong about him all along.  Maybe he really did work for the Bush campaign as a Kerry mole.  It all makes perfect sense now.   Excellent work.  We now must conduct a thorough investigation.  LOL.  :)

Bump, only because MFP hasn't posted in a while.

That hasn't stopped him from visiting this board.  Perhaps he's hoping that we'll all forget about this thread so the next time he talks about some inside track he has, people will take him seriously.  If that's the case, DON'T COUNT ON IT!!

I know he visits.  I have, seriously, ask him to join in.  I re-extend the invitation.

LOL

Okay, mypalfish screwed up royally and royally paid the price.  Let's encourage him to post serious things.

Serious things?  Like what?

Like serious commentary.

Serious comentary can mean different things to different people.   

He wont be able to comment tomorrow....he will be at the Kerry inaug., accepting his accolades

LOL

Now that he's apologized, admitted his wrongness, and been humble about it, why don't we not beat a dead fish, guys?

I beat up on mypalfish more than anybody else, but Alcon's right.  He does read and I hope he starts posting.

Okay, the action on this thread has died down significantly, but not entirely since mypalfish came out of hiding.  Now, I'm all for moving on and not beating a dead fish.   But to say that he's apologized is just not an accurate statement.   He has only posted twice since the election ended and he stuck his foot in his mouth by starting this thread.   You got this one:


and this one:



No where in either one of these two posts does he appologize for anything.  He just says go ahead and thrash me and then still insists that he really was a Bush volunteer who actually got to meet the president and shake his hand.  Of which I still don't believe a word of.   I truly find it insulting to my intelligence that somebody would try to pass themselves off as a Bush volunteer to make their claims of the Bush campaign being in peril and in a state of dissaray have some kind of validity and expect me to buy that pure and utter crap.   You see, I really did volunteer for the Bush campaign and I gave up an awful lot of my free time to help the President get re-elected.   And everyone I worked with, even when poll numbers looked bleak for Bush, would never even dream of saying the things that this guy was saying right up to the election.  For fish to try to pass himself off as a Bush volunteer and then never miss a change to try to spread doom and gloom throughout the election is a disservice to all of us who worked our tails off to get him re-elected.

I'm all for moving on and letting this issue die.   And I'm not trying to get him to appologize cause I could care less if he ever does or not.   But to say he's come clean and appologized is just not accurate and needs to be pointed out.  The fact is that he has NOT APPOLOGIZED for anything, nor has he admitted that he did anything wrong.  And I hardly call saying "I deserve the thrashing" as being humble about it. 

Took about an hour of my life to read this thread and it was well worth it. hilarious!

Welcome back MyPalFish...

If kerry had won, somebody else would have taken a similar beating.. :)

I'll say it again...I did volunteer for the Bush campaign in southeast Wisconsin.  And, yes, I did get to briefly meet the President and shake his hand before the rally at the old Milwaukee Arena (in fact, there was a post where I said Bush would be coming to town BEFORE anything was made public...hmmm, wonder how I knew that?).  Whether you like it or not, there was considerable pessimism among the "helpers," which began in earnest after the first debate, when Bush's 2 point lead in the state dissapeared.  The momentum was never regained, and I correctly stated that Bush could not win here, but had a great shot at Iowa where he was maintaining solid traction.   IIRC, I also said Bush had a real chance in New Mexico and that Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and Pennsylvania were all out of play and campaign stops there were a waste of time.  I certainly deserve the criticism for predicting a Kerry victory, but I did make quite a few correct calls, too.

So keep firing away at me, and you can even say I was a terrible volunteer, which may be true.  But I am not a "troll."

Well, you deserve accolades for inspiring one of the funniest threads on this forum. Nice work;)

Whatever, Fish.   Like I said, I really was a volunteer for the Bush campaign.  And I met a lot of great people this past election while volunteering.  Some were in their 70s and 80s and knew that this might be the last election they'd ever see.   And  We weren't always joyfully optomistic about Bush's chances to win.   But not one of us would have ever gone out and proudly spread the kind of doom and gloom you did in the weeks leading up to the election. 

 You took every opportunity thrown at you to say that Bush was toast and was going to lose.  And on election day, the first chance you had you came here to gloat and tell everyone you were right.   And for what?   So you could come to a message board and gloat to a bunch of strangers, who wouldn't know you if they passed you on the street, and say how right you were in predicting your own candidate's downfall?  The way I see it, this either makes you a troll or somebody who's truly got his priorities out of whack.  Even if there was any truthfullness in what you had to say, what purpose did it serve to come to a political message board that is used by Republicans, Democrats, and Indepenents and continue to say all that crap.  Seems like the only purpose it would serve would be to depress the Bush voters, the very same ones that you as a campaign worker (or so you say) are suppose to be trying to get to go to the polls and vote.   There's a fine line between being pesimistic about your campaign's chances and gleefully and joyfully anticipating every bit of bad news and spreading it around with the utmost pride.  Not once did you ever acknowledge or say anything good about Bush of his campaign.  But you took every tabolid story that portrayed the Bush camp as being in peril and every poll that showed Kerry leading and you posted it here like it was your own personal golden trophy. 
 
Why don't you do us all a favor.  When the next campaign rolls around, please go work for the Democrats.   Because we don't need your kind on our side. 

Just read it through again.

This thread is still funny.

One of the most viewd pages on the whole damn site now

I love this thread. I remember logging on at 2-3 o'clock November 3rd and reading this guy's comments and laughing my ass of at them.

Besides Bush winning and Daschle losing, this was the 3rd best thing of the whole election

LOL.   Good ol My Pet Troll.

In the days and weeks after the election, this one thread is what kept me coming back here every day.   

This thread may have saved dozens of people from leaving following the election.

Someday....

This thread will end...

Just not today :)

~~The Vorlon~~

The memories

Read this thread through from begining to end, it'll take about 45 minutes of your time, but it's well worth it for some good laughs. 

Holy crap, this thread is still here? :P

Yup.  If only people would quit posting replies and bumping it back to the top.    Oops.

Is there some place we send this thread, that it will be published.  It's hilarious!   :-)

This thread is too good to vanish from the face of the earth forever. It must be sustained for posterity.

Sticky this thread.

Whew! I just read the entire thread. I'm dizzy now. :P

C'mon folks.....he wasn't that far off:



On the other hand:


We got 3 1/2 years to go guys!!!!

It would be interesting to know how many current posters are still here because of this one thread.   I joined this board in late summer/early fall of last year mainly for the soul purpose of getting election news and the inside details on all the polls.   When the election ended, I didn't have any plans to stick around here.   But this one funny ass thread is what kept me coming back here for the next two months after the election.   Had it not been for this, I can almost guarantee you that I probably would have never visited this site again after the election was over.   

I wonder how many other people this thread kept from leaving this board.   

Looks like this thread has become a sticky!!!  :)

Yeah, but only on account of the Iowans...they'll burn in hell for what they've done to my pal, the fish... :D

hehehe . . . and I find it odd that I have yet to point my finger and laugh.  How long should I hold out?  Until the Fish returns?  :)

Mypalfish has posted on this thread.

Just your humble moderator answering to the wishes of those he serves...

~~the Vorlon~~

Hey Vorlon.  I got just one thing to say.


YOU DA MAN!!!   :)

well I was happy until I saw this thread and read through it...

This thread points out why you so urgently need a good sense of humour and a great deal of humility in politics.

Polls are great, and the usually work....

But sometimes they just utterly blow up.

Just about all of us got little bits of Election 2004 wrong.

Sure I'll take a bow for having Bush up 4-6% in Florida pretty much the entire year.... I am also the guy who was pretty sure Minnesota was a dead heat... so we all screw up.... :)

If Kerry had won, somebody else would have taken this beating...

"So it goes".... :)

Oh how true.   Allow me to illustrate what Vorlon is trying to say:



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I don't understand what all the concern on polls were with this race.

The polls of the last week of the campaign (esp. state polls) were for the most part dead-on, when you averaged them together.  As I continually thought long throughout the campaign, what few undecideds there were broke evenly.  That breakdown was what got Gallup in trouble and made Pew look so good.

Only those who trusted the exit polls got shelled (witness this thread).

Of the state polls in the battleground states, the average nailed Ohio, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, etc.

The only major screw-ups were Florida (towards Kerry), which is a state where you don't trust any polls anyway and 99 times out of 100 they oversample the Democrat; Wisconsin (towards Bush), where some interesting hijinks were going on anyway; and Hawaii, which just was because of lack of polling.

http://realclearpolitics.com/bush_vs_kerry_sbys.html#oh

You are correct....  You notice my "signature" picks on EXIT polling... :)

Other than Florida, which the polling consensus said was a dead heat, the Pollsters had a good year.  Even in Florida, Mason Dixon (the only poll you should ever trust coming out of Florida anyway) basically nailed it having Bush up 4% at the end.

Just about everything else the average of the polls was within a % or two of the final result...

Hey Vorlon. You might want to check that text by your avatar in that profile of yours.

Huh?

"I will live my life for no other"

A quote somewhat in vogue among libertarians.  Some author who wrote a book about railroads if I recall.

:)

That's not what the text says:

"It will live my life for no other. "

What a ringing endorsement of big government! :)

damn typos!

Thanks for noticing... !

Famous last words of a fool.

This thread really depressed me on Nov. 2...

I had just heard about the exit polls, I come on here, I see this...I think I had to go take a nap just so I wouldn't have to think about it for the three hours until the results started coming in.

But the sheer enjoyment of seeing this thread of Nov 3 made it all worth it.

The gift that just keeps on giving.

Bump, to spread the mirth!  :-)

never gets old

Hey Roc! Glad to see you're still around. :)

Why was this unstickied?  I pop in once a month for a good chuckle.

Yes, this needs to be a sticky.  Mypalfish swan past in August, proving the old adage, "Don't count you fish before they are fried."  ;-)

sticky again.. :)

Good man.

This isn't funny anymore. The guy made a prediction, admitted he was wrong, and has been mocked for almost 30 pages.

Some may not find it funny, but I think many will. The Chicago Tribune is still mocked for a similar gaffe when they published their famous "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline in 1948.

The guy called the election, he did not merely predict an outcome. He stated that it was over on the basis of some midday exit polls. It is still incredibly funny.

That was a part of the media, which makes it funny. An obscure poster on an internet board is not funny.

One-year anniversary bump

Thanks for the memories, mypalfish.  :)

Damn it you beat me to it!

It's been a glorious year. 

I think Chum is here under another name.

Oh, and Sam, no need to bump a stickied topic.

This has become possibly the most iconic thread ever created on uselectionatlas. I can just imagine Mypalfish typing "I will now accept my accolades" into the subject bar with absolutely no idea how legendary that thread would become. Hard to believe that it's been a year already!

GOODTIMES
HAHAHA

Not really douchebag

I love this thread.  I truly do.  This is a great pick me up after a rough day.

Wow, get over it.

Ahhh, still a classic. :)

And this is the first time I've read this...highly amusing. ^_^

Sad to see some of the good posters on here who left, though... :(

Oh come now.  If the shoe happened to be on the other foot, you'd be bumping this thread every week.

Definitely not 14 months later.

The funny part isn't the result of the election; it's that the poster so surely proclaimed he was right right before the facts punctured his theory.

If this had been a poster telling us how he was an "insider" with the Obama campaign and how Keys was going to win, it would be just as funny.

No, actually, that would be MUCH funnier.

Not really though, because it would have been so obviously fake, while here it was a close race, so we can assume that mypalfish actually believed  what he was typing. If someone insisted Keyes would win, we'd all think he'd have been joking.

I don't disagree with making light to some degree with someone's inaccurate prediction, but does this thread really merit being stickied?

This just seems ridiculous to sticky this, unless we are going to start stickying stuff like when AuH20 predicted Harris would win in Florida.

True, but there really is a difference of degree here.  All of us have sort of occasionally wacky and dead-wrong predictions 12 to 18 months out from that we may post in a thread here and there.

It's a totally different thing to be saying "day of election" when only exit polls and rumors of exit polls are out that the election is most certainly over already and then make a thread detailing this fact.

That is an error of the greatest magnitude for those of us talk and predict elections.  It's like pitching and throwing a game-winning grand slam to lose the World Series. 

Timeless.

there's no reason at all to sticky this...Republicans bump it enough

Yeah. I agee it's the stupidest prediction anyone has ever made by far, but still, why sticky it? Is it sort of like putting skulls on the town walls in medieveal times, a warning to other posters that they better not make any ridiculous predictions or else they will suffer the same fate?

If the guy had come out and just said he thought Kerry was going to win, nobody would have thought twice of it.  But this dumb a$$ tried to make half the people on the board look stupid by saying he tried to tell everyone that Kerry would win and nobody would listen.  Well guess what, the joke was on him.  And it was him who wound up looking stupid.   So let this serve as a lesson to  everyone else not to taunt people before the final chicken has hatched.   

This thread was of vital importance in November of 2004.  It kept the winning side from taunting the losign side.  Instead we all came in here and taunted mypalfish.  Its stickying also serves as a reminder to, as said by the angry one, not count your chickens before they hatch.

And there are some damn funny posts in here.

That's true, you bring up some good points. I'm still not sure it merits stickying but the guy did say it was ok to ridicule him for the next four years if he was wrong.

I miss Fish.

If the Democrats win in November, he should come back and just claim he was 2 years early.  Good times.

As of tomorrow, FriedFlounder will have been gone for a year.

He's still alive on the Internet as of two months ago:

http://www.gsn.com/buzz/showthread.php?t=83329&page=2

Fun thread.

This was MissCatholic right?

I don't think so.  If I recall correctly, mypalfish claimed to be a Bush supporter (and didn't he even claim to be a Bush insider or something?) who always went around telling people how badly Bush was going to lose in 2004.  Then as early exit polls were coming in, he/she made this post to gloat before like any states' results had come in at all.

I wonder what his predictions are for this year. :)

We need someone to create a screenname and post another thread like this this year. (from whichever side you desire)

No, it will be never be as great as this one.....

How about this prediction for the Senate?
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https://uselectionatlas.org/PRED/SENATE/2006/pred.php?action=indpred&id=1489

Oh, it even comes with a comment:



tancredo08 is truly a master predictor.

Well, it's similar to what MissCatholic was doing (claiming to be a Catholic, War Veteran, Firefighter, etc). And they both kept blabbering about campaigning in Wisconsin. I sense a pattern... :D

I think tancredo08 is downwithdaleft.

It's like a drug everytime. :D

Ah, the gift that keeps on giving.

why do people still care about this?

there's no need to bump a sticked thread.  Though you probably meant by your actions that there's no need for this thread to be sticked, eh?

Acctually, I did it as kinda an absurd joke... just to show that this thread won't be forgotten for the rest of eternity... also, read my last comments on the 2008 thread

Then there is always this classic... I think this single sentence is Mitty's greatest contribution to this forum... and that is not to disparage Walter... its a compliment to greatness.

i was reading this thread the other day.


i can see it now -- the amount of "i tried to tell you folks..." posts for 2008's election day.

Wow, this is common knowledge

I think bossweed is miamiu1027.

Not really, since what I was referencing was a joke prediction you submitted under the name 'Tancredo08', rather than your current username on the forum.

I think Lewis is Lewis Trondheim. Might be mistaken though.

Thats a common misconception.

Ah... never gets old.

Boy did I have fun making that prediction!

You say that now. :P

*here you go*

Good you heeled.

Wow. Hackery at its finest.

Obviously you missed the part where I said this was a joke

I was just playing.

But either way, it's hilarious. Even better is your 2008 prediction. Seriously, ROFL at DC going 80% Republican

That's cause I never switched the percentages, even my alter ego does not believe that :P

That prediction actually made me laugh.

Why?

Bump. this thread is hilarious. Plus, fishy's back!

Since when has this thread been unlocked?

One of my favourite threads of all time.

This means that Straha's username no longer appears on the main page of the forum. :(

Presumably since Fish's return.

The whole board used to be locked, though.

Quite possibly the best thread of 2004, even with the horrible result of that night. Still makes me laugh.

This is NOTHING compared to the Update (even if that is an attention whoring abomination.)

Oh my.

Hmmm…

I'm just going to bump this so that gross troll doesn't have the most recent post on this subforum.

Well, at least he didn't start raving about Communism...

Christie will win with a 4.5% margin.

Frink everything.

best thread

So this is where the phrase comes from.