Further proof Rick Scott is a demon robot from outer space: he has not yet not learned where one of the major urban areas in the state he governs is, because he arrived in Florida from his desolate home asteroid-space landfill too recently. When reporters from the St. Petersburg Times mentioned to him that the newspaper will soon change its name to the Tampa Bay Times to reflect the larger area that the paper now covers, Rick droned back in his hollow nasal way, “Does the region call itself the Tampa Bay region? Is that what it calls itself? The region does?” Uhhh.
Tampa Bay encompasses Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater and is the state’s second-largest metropolitan area. His insane comment delivered with questionable English has a few people wondering whether or not he could possibly be quite this stupid. The official verdict is that, yes, probably yes.
From WTSP.com:
Steve Bousquet, the Tallahassee Bureau Chief for the St. Petersburg Times, tells 10 News he and others were surprised by Scott’s answer.
“No he was not joking. He seemed to be a little bit unfamiliar with the term,” Bousquet said.
The Governor’s answer also surprised others after hearing about his response.
“It’s not something we can just laugh off,” Tampa council member Frank Reddick said. “I think the governor needs to go get a history lesson,” he added.
(A history lesson?) Anyway, maybe not laugh off, but certainly is the kind of thing we can, and must, laugh at. [WTSP.com]
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“I think the governor needs to go get a history lesson,”
Or maybe, you know, a geography lesson. Oh, Florida.
(note to self… *F5* to refresh…)
Well, you did use the word "taint" and that should count for something.
The only image I could manage to invoke was that of the entire state of Florida grasping desperately to under-perform Mississ-iss-issippi-ippistan in education.
Or maybe a brain implant.
Or a biology lesson.
Oh, Tampa Bay. America's Frenulum.
Fun! We can have a list!
Florida: America's gangrenous appendix!
As long as it's not anthropology.
Give him a break, the guy was probably high on meth, which from what I understand is what 95% of the non-geriatric population of Florida is high on at any given time.
Everyone except the welfare recipients. They're clean.
"is that near Tampa-tampa-tampa-tampastan?" responded Herman Cain when the matter was raised with him. "Some hot women down there, I hear."
And then, putting his hand under his chin, showed about how tall they were compared to his wife.
Actually, Frank, what the governor needs is a GEOGRAPHY lesson. And a good solid kick in the taint.
Ugly, evil and stupid is no way to go through life, Rick.
But he's rich as $#!^, and that makes up for a great multitude of sins.
Seems to be working well for him so far.
I think the governor needs to go get a history lesson
He can't get a history lesson because he fired all the historians along with the anthropologists and archaeologists, and apparently, geographers.
All branches of science have a well-known liberal bias, don't you know?
Even Creation Science?
That's science fiction.
Science fiction LIBEL!!
Especially cartography, these days.
Rick's cancelling South Park? The bastard!
That's why he fired all the scholars who know and teach about things.
This way soon nobody will realize that he always says dumb things.
"I think the governor needs to go get a history lesson…”
"… and a Geography lesson… and some lessons on manners… he could stand to learn some math (since you know… people on welfare can't afford their own urine tests), throw some science in there… and round it off with just a plain ol' "I'm gonna teach you a lesson ya maggot." lessons."
Ethics.
Given the current crop of Republicans / Tea Partiers / Right Wing Slobs, I am convinced that Ethics is an elective they would never take.
“I think the governor needs to go get a history lesson,” he added.
He needs a lesson, all right. I think the prison term he somehow avoided with his Medicare scam would be a great start.
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Someone needs a drug test.
He could get an employee discount!
You know how else can't answer basic geography questions?
Chimpy, certainly.
teabaggers and their pretzeldential candidates?
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Christopher Columbus?
Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan?
95% of US citizens?
(we are the 5%)
Caitlin Upton.
It's not her fault, though. Some US Americans can't afford maps.
And such…
Consider, though, her other virtues
Woah there! Don't confuse Kate Upton with Caitlin Upton! The comely lass you linked to is the former, and indeed quite "virtuous".
Google did it!
The residents of You-becky-becky-becky-stan-stan?
The country of Africa?
The Wasilla Rain Forest Products Association?
Lou Sara?
Hitler? Assuming he really IS dead, I mean, and not actually living in Florida, hidden among the elderly Jews.
But he sure knew his weather:
“Springtime for Hitler ünd Germany. Winter for Poland ünd Hungary.”
Fox News?
Glenn Beck who thinks the state of New York is Egypt, cf, Wonkette 2/7/11: http://wonkette.com/437268/fox-news-geography-egy…
That depends on whether Tampa Bay is a country or a continent.
You can see Cuba from there, I heard
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some . . . people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over HERE in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children
Herman Cain?
Carmen San Diego?
Where the fuck IS she???!
Rosie Ruiz?
Jessica Simpson?
I was okay with everything he's done up until now, but not knowing the designation for the second largest SMA in Florida is obviously an impeachable offense.
“Does the region call itself the Tampa Bay region? Is that what it calls itself? The region does?”
A self-aware "region" (whatever that means on his home galaxy) is something not seen before on the planet earth.
“Does the region call itself the Tampa Bay region? Is that what it calls itself? The region does? The region? The."
. . .and then he sputtered out on that train of thought.
Regions on his planet have mouths and speak.
Further proof Rick Scott is a demon robot from outer space
I believe he is a Reptiloid, Kirsten.
"Reptiloids are people, my friend. LIZARD PEOPLE!"
- Mittens
Hmmmm. He's not in the Wikipedia list of reptilian humanoids:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reptilian_hu…
Oversight?
Oversight?
Cover-up.
Wiki can be whacky.
Dalton McGuinty an "evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet".
Said the blind man, don't you see?
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In other news: Governor McDonnell registers surprise regarding a region in VA he's barely acquainted with: "what, they don't grow apples exclusively in Apple-achia?"
I thought it was the continent of Apple Asia.
For most people, this would be embarrassing. For Rick Scott, it might be the least stupid thing he's done all year.
If I lived in the Tampa Bay region, I'd be perfectlly happy if Rick Scott remained ignorant of the location (and perhaps the very existence) of the place.
Because I hate those "uh-oh … that's not a moon" moments.
I bet he doesn't even know Jacksonville is in FL.
Nobody does, not even Floridians. I tell you, that has to be one of the most forgotten, most faceless metropolitan areas in the country.
Translation: Panhandle or GTFO.
Christopher Columbus?
Why is this here as well as under "You know how else can't answer basic geography questions? " where it really belongs?!
It's sponsored by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand?
Premature commentation. You just got too excited is all.
Scott doesn't need a history or geography class. He needs a Fuck You, Governor Please Get Cancer of the Asshole class
Rainman without the math skills.
"I'm an excellent governor."
And so say all his letters to the editor, also too.
Oh, I don't know about that. He seems to have calculated how to get a shitload of money into his pockets at his previous jobs.
"arrived in Florida from his desolate home asteroid-space landfill too recently"
Lordy lordy poor old beat up on Texas… (you know, where he made his billions off of Medicare fraud before moving to Florida to be closer to his, um, customer base. fuckerfuckerfuckerfucker)
You're so cute when you are all angry and frustrated at the injustice and misery in the world.
Oh man I missed you today. I got my ass kicked by GUYS for making light of fucking for money, cause I'm a sexist. It was like 1990 all over again when this GUY (who was trying to get in my pants for christs sake) was all offended AT ME when I thought the RHCP song "party on your pussy" was a hilarious compliment and he thought I was insensitive to ? I dunno? Women with over partied upon vaginal regions? Anyway. I'm gonna start telling black people all about how bad racism is.
I'd hit that. No. Really. I'd hit that fucker.
Looks like someone already did. With a shovel.
That, or a baseball bat.
…or a water balloon full of Nair.
I'd hit it, too. With an East Bay-registered Mercedes Benz, I would.
Well, to be fair, the Koch brothers don't pay Scott to think.
So, they're getting their monies worth.
Well, they sure as hell don't pay him to look pretty, so what is he good for?
We laugh. But isn't it Florida's voters that need to take a fucking test?
Well given their voting skills… they gotta be high.
If no one refers to the Tampa Bay region, then how do you explain the existence of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and
DevilRays?"Devil Rays" was a great name, they should have kept it. Dumb-ass fundies.
Fundies can ruin everything, even baseball. Of course this is a team that wasn't able to sell out during the fucking World Series.
They should rename themselves the Jesus Rays. Voila!
The Sun-Beams, as in "Jesus Wants Me For A…"
Wasn't the stadium Hoverround-accesible? The "Tampa Bay Area" is one of the universe's foulest assholes. This is a place where there truly is no "there." It is a desolate wasteland of the decrepit and tawdry and tacky and chintzy, mixed with shitty and stupid.
It's an asshole in the middle of a wang? I didn't know that was biologically possible.
As the home of Scientology, though, Clearwater's got to have loads of gullible moronic douchebags.
They ruined this perfectly good U.S. Highway, too.
But the power of college football/basketball must trump even the power of Jesus (even in Arizona!), because Arizona State University still has the Sun Devils.
Hockey too (New Jersey).
Could somebody please take him back to his mother ship or at least shove him back into his pod?
Where is Harry Potter when we need him?
Doesn't he watch football either? There is a team called the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, for heaven's sake.
Probably thinks the team was named for $1.00 corn, because its a buck an ear.
I see what you did there.
Most people keep their buckin' ears under their buckin' hat.
Well, kind of…
Well it's a bit confusing. It was St. Petersburg…then Petrograd and then Leningrad and then back to St. Petersburg and then they opened a new St. Petersburg in Florida which is now Tampa.
Like Scott would know all that. Unless he had a Medicaid scam center there, that is.
St Petersburg, FL – The City of the Living Dead.
And I hear that Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople.
& India is going nuts with the new names: Kolkata, Mumbai…
& that NVA named a city after a prostitute!
People just liked it better that way.
That's nobody's business but the Turks'.
“Does the region call itself the Tampa Bay region? Is that what it calls itself? The region does?”
Um… also… too… regions do not talk, moron.
My Republican brother lived in Cali for over 15 years and didn't know where "Silicon Valley" was….
I'd venture he thought it was between the stripper's tits.
It's where Rick Perry canceled his fundraiser this week because nobody wanted to attend.
I heard Rick Scott communicates with his region and he shaves his area. Too. Also. Vomit.
Savor Rick Scott, Florida. Enjoy your human cobblestone governor.
"Cobblestone, Cobblestone, Cobblestone Gov'n'r:
Don't trouble w/ facts, but these facts are troubl'n.
Ask him a riddle and he's bound to flub'ner;
Cobblestone, Cobblestone, Cobblestone Gov'n'r."
Clearly his hair didn't fall out because of the heat emanating from his brain.
Ok, Rick is either trying to piss off Buccaneers fans or running for Miss Florida, cause really, nobody is this stupid.
"Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan"
His mother must be so proud.
She should be tested…
And he thinks all those brown people in Miami are Messicans.
Christ. And I am moving to Florida next week with a ring for a girl who says she doesn't want me any more.
Ah, fuckit, one more sane voter, right? Or at least one more dem voter?
You should consider yourself lucky that you have to go to Florida to find a chick who doesn't want you — I can find plenty of 'em right here. Shit, sell the ring and stay where you are or move someplace you'll like — it'll be better for both of you.
moving to Florida next week with a ring for a girl who says she doesn't want me any more.
Want to rethink that claim to sanity?
At least you know the score before going there. I had a friend who quit his job to follow his gf to middle Alaska, and then she promptly broke up with him.
Yeah I had a buddy who was working for the UN in Africa, and his wife wanted to go back to the states, understandably, and she got him to quit his job, go back to Chicago, where her family was from, not his, and then said she wanted a divorce. WTF.I know I got a long road ahead of me but if it don't work then I will know I tried.
Good luck.
Yep – if you don't try, you'll go nuts wondering "what if?"
Good luck!
If they didn't have a pussy, there'd be a bounty on them.
Oh, I'm sure they say of us, "if they didn't control the power structure, their severed cocks would all be in a ditch a half-mile away from home."
That's exactly how I ended up in the Eastern High Sierra, and too broke to move again for about 24 years.
That is either super romantic or completely insane.
Either way, call me if it doesn't work out!
You say that like they're mutually exclusive.
Well I know it is a pretty dumb idea, so super romantic? My problem is I am about 4 months too late…Sent from my iPhone
well, she told me she loves someone else now, so you can email your number to my name @gmail LOL.
There's a thin line between "deluded sadsack" and "stalker," but both are across the state line in Florida. Think on it before you make that move!
The funny thing is that there are more dems than wingnuts down here. What fucks it up for us is the democrat's machine. If it weren't for them this dick head (literally) would've never been elected.
Welcome to Florida, by the way. I hope you don't land in one of our numerous shit holes. And if it doesn't work out with your girl, at least you have the active Florida lifestyle to lok forward to.
oh crank i hope this works out for you.
if not, you always have us.
I got a long row to hoe, but I think eventually I will get her back. thanks for your support, everybody!Sent from my iPhone
Tampa Bay is right next to St. Jetersburg.
Jeter's House.
I would hate to do the housework there… I'd have to buy a riding vacuum cleaner.
It's great for keeping in shape … Jeter can jog 1/4 mile without leaving the house.
I thought they changed the name of that area to "Travoltia."
Classic misdirection– now no one will search for the fifth horcrux hidden somewhere in Tampa Bay.
Tampa Bay…hmmm…looking at the map…isn't that up around the prostate?
Tallahassee has to bend over and cough.
To be fair the name "Tampa Bay Region" does sound a lot better than "Tract Housing Hell Full of Racist Assholes" which was what they were going to call it, obvsly.
I'm sure they taught geography at Hogwart's.
But Lex Luthor knew it well! I saw the Superman movie!
As long as he's doing his part to keep China from getting nukes, I'm willing to give him a pass on this.
Tampax bay? Yeech.
Since he has no idea where he is, let's slip a sack over his head in the middle of the night, ship him off to Gitmo, and tell him he's the emperor who must crush the rogue regime claiming to be in charge.
"Tampa Bay encompasses Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater and is the state’s second-largest metropolitan area."
What?
Every Teabagger on Hillbilly Heroin knows that Tampa bay area is the "go to" place for Dr. Feelgood pill mills…
Oh come on, Rick. I live in California, and I can see Tampa Bay from my house.
Why did Constantinople get the works?
Not really my business. You'll have to ask the Turks.
It's nobody's bidness but the Turks!
I hear its very sunny there. The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is turned into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees, you know.
I heard a live version of this — also performed by They Might Be Giants — that sounded like really kooky OI! punk.
Greatness, naturally.
The whole universe was in a hot, dense state.
Them dirty Florida hippies living in their "regions"…
The St. Pete Times kicked the Gubernator Voldemort's ass around the block several times during his campaign. The right wingers, not caring about the crimes and history of their candidate, still elected him.
In Florida, political candidates with criminal backgrounds have "job experience."
Great Scott!! He did the impossible. He made Jeb Bush look smart.
Isn't there some kinda gathering of lunatics somewhere around there?
Oh yeah.
Join us August 2012 in Tampa Bay! http://gopconvention2012.com/
And from the other end of Interstate 4…
http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/tea-party-…
Yikes! Comments are …….Yikes!
That's an event to keep an eye on.
Wait, isn't Dayton in Ohio?
Thankfully, I have better things to blow $150 on this weekend.
Maybe there will be video.
Just wandered over there. New commenter "Suq Madiq" made a terse rebuttal.
Heh.
Boo! From the headline, I expected actual, physical violence.
It's only about three miles from here to here, so it might still be possible, depending on the battery life on those mobility scooters.
Huh. Somewhat less mosque-y than their old logo was, I perceive…
Fergot about that mosque-y issue. The new one hates the States apparently.
"….features a three-starred red, white and blue flag – symbolizing equality, justice and opportunity – and the party’s traditional mascot, the elephant."
http://www2.tbo.com/news/2011/oct/18/13/rnc-unvei…
Actually, the three stars are Florida, Texas, and Arizona. You know — the real states, where real 'merkins live.
As an Arizonan (weeps softly) I'd have to say that we're falling behind in the batshit crazy competition in favor of just pure assholinity.
It's so amusing when those who are intellectualy challenged AND evil FAIL in their condescension. If only there were consequences for these poeple. But if a $600 million fine can't even stop this turd, probably nothing ever will.
You'll have to forgive Rick Scott. He thinks 'the bay' is something people bet on in that funny song the negroes sing.
"I get no kick from champagne…"
And he thinks the mayor of "the Bay" is Bob Tailnag.
Who are these "Camptown Ladies" of which you speak?
Whatever happened to Mare Winningham? I bet she's old and gray now, not what she used to be.
What does a governor need to know about foreign lands, anyway?
He's gotta be ready for those Iranians, who are about to mount an invasion across the border.
St. Petersburg is in Russia! You ASSHOLE!
Even Putin knows the difference.
Rick Scott doesn't need to know about Geography. Did Genghis Khan stop to ask what town he was in every time he stopped somewhere to rape and pillage and scrape the gold leaf off the domes? No — leave that shit for the scribes and historians, he's got more important things to do.
It's Tampa Bay, people. Who cares what they call themselves?
Tampa Bayesians. Probably.
Well good luck then — I know how you feel, wanting to make sure, so I hope it works out.
What's a Tampa Bay? Is that like a ladies personal business sort of thing or something?
"I see your not-knowing-what-Tampa-Bay is and raise you a take-a-history-lesson."
Never, EVER, underestimate the stupidity of Floridians.
All this time, I never thought he was stupid, just evil. Evil usually goes with smart, you know what I mean?
Scott/Palin(first 1/2)/Perry(second 1/2, after the rehab stint) 2012!!!!
I'm proud to be yor Governor……..of the great state of…..uh…..uh……someone help me out here……
Harumph.
There has been some misunderstanding here. Actually, he was just interjecting a little lighthearted satire into the interview.
Satire??? That is not permitted, here. Und that vich ist not permitted, ist verboten!
Tampa Bay, Shampa Bay. Just be grateful he knows he's in Florida. Oh, wait. He doesn't???
So, seriously. How bad is Tampa Bay? Sounds like it's a horrible place to live, and an even worse place to visit. Does it have any redeeming qualities? At all? Is this a place where Jimmy Buffett would go???
Inquiring minds want to know.
Jimmy Buffet prefers Cedar Key, somewhat to the north.
Where the cheese comes from?
I went there oncet and actually it's nice.
Seems to me that the funny thing about Jimmy Buffet is the gigantic chasm on the coolness spectrum between BEING Jimmy Buffet, which come on, admit it, is ultra-cool, and being a Jimmy Buffet FAN, which is so uncool, its almost the ultimate in dork-dom. Jimmy is the 70s version of Dave Mathews, but without the depth. But what he has done with it, and the life he has crafted for himself from the proceeds of his modest talent and simple likeability, thats is so cool.
I would give my left arm to be Jimmy Buffet. How uncool is THAT?
I'd be happy to be his seaplane. Go to cool places and shit.
Exactly. BEING Jimmy Buffet is cool.
But… you would probably suck at guitar… without your left arm.
I SAID it would be uncool.
You can probably find some Wall Street banker to put together such an arrangement for the right price.
Plus, they call themselves "Parrotheads" :::shiver:::
He should team up with Warren Buffet, and compose a catchy PSA jingle for the 1% about not Bogart-ing the GDP.
I could have sworn he got booed throwing out the first pitch at a St. Pete Rays game.
I was about to say this sounds exactly like the kind of thing that would be helped by drinking.
Good luck, Crank! If she don't say yes, then find you a high class Miami mamacita and a round of tequila slammers. Lord knows you deserve it.
Rick probably thought Tampa was where all the girls went to get their Taqmpastamps.
Carpetbagging, much?
I don't know where Tampa Bay is, but I count myself lucky in that regard.
He was just fucking with them. He threw away the long awaited train link that was to be built there just about first thing as Governor. Everyone left and right set up a tremendous howl about it to no avail. Huge loss to the area and a great many jerbs down the toilet of Republcan't.
If I was Tampa Bay, I would secede from Florida, I would.
Clearly, Rick never committed medicare fraud in Tampa Bay.
now, the Hogsmeade metro area, he's familiar with THAT.
Just how many times does an asshole in Florida have to tip his hand before the voters realize he' only holding three Jokers and a fucking Wild Card?
Silly me. Here I was thinking they called themselves "Tacky downtown office park surrounded by tacky foreclosures" region.
He shouldn't feel bad. I forget Tampa on a regular basis. Flordia really does have some pretty shitty cities to be as wealthy a state as it is.
That said, for your state's governor to not know what a major metropolitan area within that state calls itself is pretty scary.
You guys are all wrong. He was asking a rhetorical and existential question. Because, you see, what region really is able to call itself anything?
Dude, I'm blowing my own mind, here…like, I'm all out there in the ether and such.
Its an oozing pustule on the back of a wang that is suffering some kind of chronic fungal infection.
Ewww. You made me throw up in my mouth a little!
Well, professional hockey has Satan Himself in their employ.
And the congressman who thought that the heavy physical weight of our armed forces on a S. Pacific Island was literally going to 'tip' it over.
Just trying to stay in shape.
The whole universe was in Florida?
And you look great!
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