An Open Letter to Mark Strama
Dear State Rep. Strama,
Loved you in 2004, when I was a volunteer for the Lake Travis Democrats.
Loved you Election Night 2006, when you stopped to take a picture with us.
Still love you in 2008, when I can't turn around in this town without seeing you at an event. You're giving Wynnie the Mayor a run for his money in attendance at local events.
But -- just a suggestion: Can we please retire the "Obama-Strama/Obama-Will Wynn" bumper sticker joke? I've heard it four times since January from you. First time, I knocked over my Hefeweizen. Second time I snickered. Third time, I yawned. Forth time, after listening to Evan Smith's recent podcast, I wanted to tear my computer's speakers out.
You're like my dad, always saying "Hey! Hey! HAY!" when we would drive by a hay truck on the highway when I was a kid. Funny once? Yes. Increasingly irritating by the thirtieth time? Absolutely.
Democratically yours,
MR
Against name-rhyming jokes since 1984
Loved you in 2004, when I was a volunteer for the Lake Travis Democrats.
Loved you Election Night 2006, when you stopped to take a picture with us.
Still love you in 2008, when I can't turn around in this town without seeing you at an event. You're giving Wynnie the Mayor a run for his money in attendance at local events.
But -- just a suggestion: Can we please retire the "Obama-Strama/Obama-Will Wynn" bumper sticker joke? I've heard it four times since January from you. First time, I knocked over my Hefeweizen. Second time I snickered. Third time, I yawned. Forth time, after listening to Evan Smith's recent podcast, I wanted to tear my computer's speakers out.
You're like my dad, always saying "Hey! Hey! HAY!" when we would drive by a hay truck on the highway when I was a kid. Funny once? Yes. Increasingly irritating by the thirtieth time? Absolutely.
Democratically yours,
MR
Against name-rhyming jokes since 1984
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Darnit, I'd love to mock you, but I can't think of anything that rhymes with Rachel.
Does Strama really frost your cookies?
lee: scientific fact that "Facial" is the only word that even somewhat reminds with "Rachel."
$2: I was really hoping that'd be a Troop Beverly Hills clip.
"That campsite you sent us to wasn't very nice. It was dirty and hot and...it rains there! So we found a place that was much more us...the Beverly Wilshire Hotel."
Point taken - I admit it's hard for me to resist telling some of my most tired jokes as long as there's SOMEONE in the room that still hasn't heard it. And anyway, that's the joke of mine that you're most sick of? Really? What about the Ann Richards story I must have told a thousand times since I got elected? Some crowds - like University Democrats - yell the punch line before I can get to it, at this point. But you win, I'll retire the Obama/Strama joke... at least until I'm pretty sure I'm somewhere no one has heard it before.
-- Mark
This is where you say you're sorry Facial Rachel.
Vice President Strama: I bet the citizens of Guam would love it!
After the Travis Co. convention, my mom said to me "You know whose speech was really wonderful? That Mark Strama." She went on and on and then said "And his joke about Obama-Strama--" That's when I interrupted her and said "I know, Mom. Heard it. Many times." I think in a setting like that, where you have a broader, less-tightly connected audience, the joke works. But for smaller events, chances are its the same eighteen democrats showing up. Even Evan Smith seemed a bit over it when it came up in the podcast.
As for the other joke, I wholeheartedly endorse anything and everything having to do with Ann Richards, no matter how many times I've heard it. I'm guilty of the same -- I mention to anyone within earshot whenever I pass by the Amy's Ice Cream on 6th and Lamar that I met Ann Richards there when I was 10 years old.
Gotta keep the memory of people like her alive.
$2: damn google alerts!
when is will wynn going to decide to comment!!
mean, indeed.