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- MARK SANFORD IS MOST FAMOUS PERSON IN SOUTH AMERICA: Here’s a fun story about how embarrassing South Carolina is, on a global scale: “He was in Peru, on a train from Cusco to Machu Picchu, when he and his wife began chatting with another couple. Where, Harpootlian asked, are you from? Rio, came the response, and you? South Carolina, Harpootlian replied. Mark Sanford! the couple exclaimed. Argentina!” [LA Times]
Harpootlian?
Um, I would have thought that the Sanfords would have avoided the ENTIRE continent of South America.
Now if only they can win the World Cup.
What ever that is.
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That story just gives me tears of pride!
I’ve been on that train. Living La’Vida Sanford!11!
Lee Bussell, who runs a public relations and ad agency in Columbia, was recently at a conference in Little Rock, Ark., where he endured a weekend of ribbing — “How’s Mark doing?” — over the state’s Lothario governor.
Ouch. Getting laughed at by someone from Arkansas. That’s gotta hurt.
Jeebus, now he is “walking the Inca Trail”?
If I was on a train and someone told me his name was dick Harpootlian, I would wear a wet suit before going into the bathroom or the dining car.
Sanford’s rationale for why he should not be impeached is that: “nobody works harder for redemption than someone who fails.”
Soooooo, let’s see, that means… oh hell, that remark is such a target-rich environment, just put your own names in there.
Keyboard Cat, please play the Governor off!
Good thing Sanford didn’t resign. Just like he asked, it’s obvious people around the world have put this behind them and he’s just gone from strength to strength as the country’s most effective governor.
I don’t want to say anything nice about Sanford but this is South America we’re talking about. What’s the whole continent got except refugee Nazis and big drawings in some desert? I mean, if Zappa hadn’t made “Inca Roads” there’d be nothing cool about that continent at all. Now at least they’ve got something to make the Wonkette talk about them. Damn continent.
Finally, some Sanford news. It’s been a long drought. You’d think he would have picked Balloon Boy Day to resign, since he likes to do things “under the radar,” heh heh.
Boning!
Bringing the wife to South America with him now?
Clandestine tryst FAIL, governor!
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“I hear that South America is coming into style.” - Elvis Costello
You guys miss the point.
Brother Mark is a Christian hero, thrusting boldly into the Argentine in an effort to undo all that Godless, leftist stuff Chavez is inflicting on the huddled masses of South America.This patriot is literally injecting that free market, can-do approach that made America so crowded into the huddled Hispanic masses, yearning to be exploited freely.
Is he famous? Of course, the entire free market revolution down there is basically powered by his hyper-active peen.
Is he feared? Wouldn’t you fear him if he was loose around your wimmin folk?
Is he respected? Having several friends from that part of the world, I can guarantee you there is a certain amount of respect is always given a Culture Warrior who is willing to go so far to claim a victory for Jesus.
He is a conservative who like girls…that in itself makes him almost unique. I, for one, hope the South Americans welcome their American Horndog Overlord.
How can Argentina support the supermassive egos of Sanford and Diego Maradona simultaneously? No wonder the whole continent is sinking into the sea.
It doesn’t help that the state treasurer was sentenced to prison last year for cocaine possession.
Or that the state agriculture commissioner went to jail for ties to a cockfighting ring.
Or that the head of the state board of education resigned amid allegations she used a pseudonym to post erotic fiction on the Internet.
Wow! South Carolina, we hardly knew ye.
Peru the day!
freakishlystrong: Didn’t know about the cock ring–those gamecocks! Ha ha, makes 11.7% unemployment seem unimportant.
The only South Carolinian was the one relating the story, y’all — Sanford wasn’t there, except in the sense that his reputation now follows all SCers abroad. In order to dislodge this odium from their reputation, I advise they remind foreigners that Lee Atwater was a much, much worse figure and will have a far more lasting legacy.
They aren’t embarrassed about the slavery, the lingering racism, the illiteracy rate or the general lack of education available in the state, but God forbid their governor was bumpin’ fuzz with someone other than his wife.
Suds McKenzie: “Hiking the Inca Trail(tm)” … pull it together Suds!
freakishlystrong: See the new South Carolina motto: “Not as bad as Louisiana!”
In the United States, cockfighting is illegal in all 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C.. The last state to implement a state law banning cockfighting was Louisiana; the Louisiana State Legislature voted to approve a Louisiana ban in June 2007.[24] The ban took effect in August 2008 …Cockfighting remains legal in the United States territories of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam, although in 2006, the Virgin Islands adopted a law banning the use of artificial spurs.
Have to go to Guam to see a legal cockfight now.
freakishlystrong: Yeah, but, on the positive side, we have…um…ah…oh, nevermind.
V572625694: When poor Jenny reads this thread she’ll get to your post and mutter to herself, “Cockfighting. That’s a cool word. Cockfighting. Cockfighting. Why do I like saying that? Cockfighting. Cock, cock, cock. Cock. Oh!” Then she’ll blush even though she’s by herself and she’ll quckly click over to some website like CNN or something.
Never mind that Lee Atwater begged forgiveness while he was effectively a corpse. He said sorry, so all the hate & divisiveness he sowed is totally OK!
It still beats being known for sweet tea.
“too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum,”
A line to remember.
As South Carolina’s default rep. I’d like to note that diapers appear nowhere in this story. We’re very proud of the fact that our top politicians get in trouble for having real affairs WITH WOMEN.
Also: pick on Mississippi for once please. They’re just as bad and they have even more type 2 diabetes.
Then the Argentinians laughed and said, “We are not Jews, so do not try to borrow all of the money we saved by watching our pennies!”
Suds McKenzie: me too but in those days no one knew Mark Sanford
gjdodger: The odd thing about the original remark was that these guys thought it was a compliment. “you Jews got rich by being cheap”. This is one of the many reasons why I never want(ed) to move to the South- and I rarely visit.
From wiki:
South Carolina: First State to have a Nuclear Bomb dropped By the US Air Force.
oooh yeah I bet Dick H. (former State Dem. chair) was loving that to. I’m sure he was happy to fill that couple in on all the details.
memzilla: “nobody works harder for redemption than someone who fails.”
Wow, that’s insightful, since by definition redemption is something you do to make up for failing.
freakishlystrong: Cut Kristin Maguire a little slack, at least she was smart enough to use a fake name
dijetlo: makes me wish there was a mark sanford video tape shades of pam and tommy lee to come out called. Applichilan trail of course…by the way has any porn been made about this…if not GET TO WORK YOU PORN PRODUCERS!!! WE EXPECT PERVISION!!!
This has nothing to do with South Caroline and there is nothing surprising about Sanford leaping to mind, as Harpootlian was fucking his mistress at the time.
rmontcal: I’m pretty sure that Harpootlian was a character in a anime I once saw.
THINK OF South Carolina as a restless schoolboy. He doesn’t test well, but he’s got loads of potential; everybody says so. He’s a well-meaning kid, but has an attention-deficit problem. There he sits, as far to the back of the class as he can get away with. As the teacher drones on about science and stuff, he wonders whether he can get away with spending his lunch money on candy again. Then, just as he’s turned to calculating the number of days left until school is out and he can go to the beach (he’s very good at this sort of math), his reverie is rudely interrupted.
http://blogs.thestate.com/bradwarthensblog/2008/04/why-cant-we-be.html
He’s embarrassed that Mark’s from his state, but he has a name like “Dick Harpootlian”? Really, guys? Really?! I mean, you’d have done better with a name like “Amgonna Fister”.
For the last time, Mark Sanford is from Florida and the wife is from Chicago (the rest of the losers are from SC)
Real Lane not “: That’s like begging some do to convince us that Bush being born in Connecticut actually matters much. Fact is, Sanford spent many of his formative years in South Carolina and chose to stay. This guy is a South Carolinian no matter how much you protest it.
Back on subject, while he may now be “the most famous person in South America”, I have but one more question: Is he famous to children? In the end, that is all that matters.
Lowerd,
Sanford moved to SC during his senior year in High School, then went on to college and Wall street. He moved to Charleston to rake in the devolpment/real estate $$$$.
Don’t be fooled by that Deputy Dawg fake accent, He’s all South Florida, not South Carolina….