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This just cries out for a Friday morning posting, doesn't it? We had a bit of fun with this photo buried deep in the comments yesterday, and I couldn't resist pulling it up for the morning crowd. This is just too amusing to get lost in the shuffle -- because, really, how often do you get to see someone out of knickers who dresses like this? When it isn't Easter? Or a Great Gatsby costume party? Or a Cole Porter revival at Dollywood?
And what is with that tie? Okay, sorry, I digress here, but really, who let him out of the house wearing that tie with that suit? Or out of his Senate office to go on the floor and make a speech...on C-Span?!? Hellooooo?!? Does his staff secretly want him to lose the election by a wide margin? Someone needs to look into that angle pronto.
My initial response on this was that it is seersucker season (Well, it's the early edge of it, anyway. Generally, men of the South don't start pulling out the suits until the dog days in late July and August, when the humidity and heat force the issue.). But then I remembered that Rick Santorum is a Senator from Pennsylvania...except that he now really lives in Virginia, so...oh, never mind.
Anyway, for some Friday morning cheer, I thought a caption festival might be fun. I'll get everyone started off with a few of my fave comments from yesterday. From Mary:
[W]as that outfit for real or photoshopped? Was there a giant bunny anywhere nearby?
Honey, that’s not gay, that’s. . .MAYDAY!
MAYDAY!
MAYDAY!
[D]ibs on little Ricky’s Senate outfit. SFPride’s in less than two weeks and I haven’t a thing to wear.Seriously, who gets up in the morning and sez, “Oh I’ll wear this to work!” and isn’t a practicing fellationist?
But my fave in all of this, thus far, has to be the graphic worked up by DarkBlack. It's a masterpiece:
Chiffon wrinkles too easily...
Oh, I am SO going to use this over and over again between now and November. So have at it, kids -- can't wait to read your thoughts on the lovely ensemble. Happy Friday!
(Photo from the Great Moments in Senate Fashion series. Hat tip to reader RCauthon for this Friday morning giggle.)
PS -- I was also talked into a recipe swap for Saturday morning. It began with a discussion of pie and just sort of snowballed from there. So if you have a fave family recipe, or something that you gets raves about at parties, feel free to drop in for the early thread and we'll talk food. We were initially thinking pies, but baking can be difficult for some, so it will just be a sort of open-ended food and politics and life gabfest and recipe swap. I'm not promising anything, but we'll see how this goes and maybe make it a semi-regular sort of thing if everyone likes it.
UPDATE: Okay, wtf. Apparently, it was "Seersucker Day" in the Senate yesterday. Because, you know, working is for little people. Next up, green shirt day. And then the ever popular silk chiffon scarf day. Hello...you are Senators!!! Do some work during office hours, and have your ice cream socials on your own damn time. This isn't junior high. (And that hot pink tie is still just wrong, wrong, wrong...)
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Love that outfit, Senator
Zero! That pic reminds me of Lou Reed’s “Sex with your Parents.”
ROOTZ…..DEMS TAKE BACK CONGRESS IN NOVEMBER!!!
fitzPINKtrick!
A little lavender for the pansie boy Santorum….
looks like he’s practicing for his next gig as a tv preacher.
Harry Hutton
…and the Senator won’t allow his dresser to get married?
He looks like he’s just broken into a verse of “Let the Eagle Soar” (or whatever that thing is called).
it looks more like “Let the Loafers Soar!”
This is very funny, Christy!
My caption is:
“When Rick looked in his lover’s eyes, he saw — Mom.”
The key lyrics from Lou Reed:
Now I know you’re shocked but hang and have a brew
If you think about it for a minute you know that it’s true
They’re ashamed and repelled and they don’t know what to do
They’ve had sex with their parents
When they looked into their lovers eyes they saw - mom
In the name of the family values we must ask whose family
In the name of the family values we must ask - Senator ….
Gore is going to be on Olbermann for an extended interview on Monday’s Countdown. Just FYI to everyone.
I am laughing so hard, my rice crispies are going all over the place….TOO MUCH.
ilson46201 @ 8
LMAO!
Santorum sent his wife to Cox’s to buy him a seersucker suit. She went to Sears.
“Ladies and Gentlemen,
I introduce to you the next President of the United States of America!”
Aw c’mon,, y’all, just because Sen. Little Rickie (R-Pepto) loves him some pastels, that don’t mean . . .
Oh.
Wait.
Franco at 13 — happy to be of service. *g*
Speaking of Gore, just saw the movie, the audience was soooooooo into it, there was applause, laughing, crying, I thought I was at an off-broadway show…..BUT it was only here in Ft Lauderdale.
Think his doggie has a matching, um, leash?
But doesn’t the black microphone just ruin the ensemble?
Franco — that is your appropriate punishment for the “Birds” comment below.
sorry immanentize!….I owe you some handy wipes my friend…….
Redd,
last night I saw the comments about this and had no idea what youall where talking about.
This photo is priceless. It does look like an Easter outfit, or what you wear to a polo match in Boca. With a white fedora
Shevel’s had a sale on Seersucker last month; looks like he hit the clearance rack hard.
You know I expect seersucker from old line preppies and from guys from southern states. There is some tradition.
But Santorum is from the freakin rust belt. A coal mining state no less.
How pretentious
Yeah I never understood the seersucker thing except that it is 105 with the heat index in New Orleans today. New Oreleans has legions of them. I knew a guy who wore them with bowties and a straw hat to boot. White linen is also popular here.
FYI: Latest GQ with Christina Aguilera on the cover has an article on the seersucker suit with none other than Tommy Lee. They were trying to make it a little edgy by putting it on Tommy Lee. It is the sort of thing that only works in a magazine or on a guy who is totally over the top to begin with like Tommy Lee. With all those tats anything comes off edgy.
In any case maybe he read it and thought maybe I’ll try that! If I recall correctly the GQ article suggested a contrasting patterend tie! So on second thought maybe his reading comprehension is not so good. I think the tie is what ruins it. It is like the color of Pepto Bismol. Yikes! That color is not good on anyone but a 12 year old girl or a prom queen.
oh, that’s too funny. you go grrl!
very very clever Sunyasi at #15…I had to read that a coupla times to catch it … clever!
Cooking! Oh lord, don’t get me started. . .
Chicago dyke — just wanted to say how great it was to meet you in Vegas. Wish we’d had more time to talk, but the breakfast conversation was fascinating. :)
that is just SEAU FAVuLOUS!
and dark black, OMG! you’ve really outdone yourself with that one! who knew that rick santorum — not to be confused with santorum, the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex — was really the love child of paul lynde and truman capote??
if i get the courage, i’ll try to post my recipe for Szechuan bitter-gourd champur for the foodie swap-fest….
I have to say, I love seersucker. Always looked for a seersucker skirt-suit when I was in court everyday, but never found one. Now sleeveless seersucker is my fave top for Florida summer golf — but they’re rare too. Can’t understand why the catalog cos. don’t offer a bunch of them . . .
Anyone else wondering if Santorum was heading to his local theater company’s performance of Guys & Dolls after that Senate session, and just wore his costume to save time?
DarkBlack,
That Graphic. Without Doubt..Best Ever..
Thanks
“Laura told me to wear it!” Seriously, what can possibly be whirling around inside the “brain”, and I use the term loosely, of that main?
beemer: which was Santorum playing? the Guys or the … ?
“Oh Mommy please! Do I have to wear this suit today ?”
Maybe he lost a bet.
Hill - arious !
Little Ricky “Luuuuuucy! I’mmmm hoooooome!” Arnez.
I think he is thinking of how cute he will look next to George Allen, (another pretend good ole boy southerner) in 2008.
Huckermill — you’re back! Where ya been?
lest anybody worry too much about political correctness: there are a couple of self-avowed homosexual militants with erasure powers prowling the FDL infrastructure…
My guess is that Ms. Santorum is just dying to be a guest on TLC’s “What Not to Wear” with Stacy and Clinton…Oh GURL! He is SO screaming “Make-over”!
Not to defend Santorum, but it does bother me that so many people care what someone wears. I understand wearing appropriate attire for an occasion, but the fact that a man will get laughed at because he wears pink and/or purple and a woman wouldn’t isn’t right to me.
I think if the wearer likes it, then who cares? I don’t think we should be so judgemental in the clothing department. It isn’t an important matter.
Polly ans ester were oh so happy to see him wearing it. They had finally made the big time!
May I say something Senator? That ensemble does absolutely nothing for you. Good bye!
Ahh food,count me in.
I make a mean lasagna,if anyone’s interested.
There’s also a recipe lurking in my head for my great grandma’s sour cream sugar cookie recipe someplace…
And,yummy,Caramel Apple Crumb Pie….
I love to cook,when the people I’m feeding appreciate the effort.
“and”… ok it’s to early for correct spelling
Cathy at 46 — for me, it was more of a men in PA don’t wear seersucker, but men of a certain social strata in Virginia certainly do. Where does Ricky live again?
dear Cathy: we aren’t laughing at the man but at his hypocrisy. He projects such an air of rectitude and “normalcy” but then goes off the deep end with this bizarre outfit. It doesn’t match the persona he has so tried to create…
Hey Rick–if we don’t see you by Easter, don’t forget to hide the eggs!
cathy#46…as a self avowed homosexual militant (without erasure powers on FDL)….after Sanotrum compared me and my partner of 24 years to people who enjoy beastiality etc. etc…That bum deserves everything and anything he gets….
As for Ricky’s ensemble…it kinda looks like the Easter Bunny threw up.
I’m surprised the whole Sentate didn’t burst into giggles when he entered the room.
To whoever sold him that ensemble:
We know you’re an FDLer, so you might as well de-lurk and claim some credit.
Now let’s see you do Hastert.
Is it possible that his suit is actually blue?
Photography often distorts the color blue, making it purple.
This suit would have been perfect for Roberts confirmation to the Supreme Court…him and his kids would have looked priceless!
Oh Ricky you’re so fine
You’re so fine you blow my mind
Hey Ricky! Hey Ricky!
How-do, lotus.
Whilst you were all yearlykosin’, I were onna canoe float trip down the Manistee River w/a coupla buddies and several dogs, two of which (mine, naturally) insist it’s very nearly always better to steer from the stern where I’m sitting, that is, when they ain’t standing two abreast atop the gunwales.
btw — did Brahma check w/Vishnu ‘n say it were all right to lop off “lander”?
Cathy — I’m fairly certain it’s blue seersucker. Purple seersucker would have to be a specialty order for most places, I would think. (At least, I’ve never seen it except perhaps in women’s dresses…) But the tie — oh so pink.
I wonder how many pollies died so Rick could wear that suit?
Every once in a while, a wee bit of pressure from that pent-up latent homosexuality must escape, be it by dressing up like an Easter egg or beating up a gay man.
Then they can go right back to thinking they are straight.
Cuts a fine figure of a man, doesn’t he? Christy, just a thought…on the residency issue. What if, oh, I don’t know, several hundred letters were sent to Ricky’s Pennsylvania address a la Repug “caging” style with all of them returned to sender. Then they are are all aggregated and presented to the press in a high impact way? Would need to be coordinated, but it seems to me it would clearly demonstrate his fraud.
He’s dressed as Pee Wee Herman, isn’t he?
Rickie heard that the twins on Antiques Roadshow were looking to make it a threesome. He was headed over to PBS for the audition right after he gave his speech.
Danbury……There you go, you nailed it!
I understand wearing appropriate attire for an occasion, but the fact that a man will get laughed at because he wears pink and/or purple and a woman wouldn’t isn’t right to me.
well, it should be! boys must never wear pink or purple. or daisy dukes. or tube tops. or black velvet cocktail dresses with multiple strands of freshwater pearls. or hand-crochet’d lace crotchless panties. well, at least in public, right?
*g*
“In America today, the greatest threat to marriage is…”
I wuz skeered to bother Brahma and Vishnu, Huck, but punaise sed it wuz okay . . .
Ahh, canoe trips with buddies and dawgs. How refreshing.
Oh, and while we’re on our favorite people and flavors, guess who delivered the following savories:
After harmlessly dismissing former Ambassador Joseph Wilson as the “World’s most intensely private exhibitionist,” she said of Rep. John Murtha, the hawkish ex-Marine and now antiwar congressman: “The reason soldiers invented ‘fragging.’”
Thank god that dogs see in black and white, or he’d never get laid.
ilson46201 (#44)- Erasure powers? Like in Santorum getting ready to break out into a verse of “Oh L’amour” from the well of the Senate? “Who Needs Love Like That?” or “Victim of Love,” “Chains of Love,” “Love to Hate You.” Although if he wants a song for his next TV ad campaign, he could re-do the Andy Bell version of Abba’s timeless “Take A Chance On Me.”
This is how Dame Edna started.
Rick Santorum, guest starring on “Queer Eye for the Senate Guy.”
crackpot at 71 — mwahahaha….good one.
My sexuality isn’t intrinsically disordered, but my suit is….
I’m notsaying that Santorum doesn’t deserve to be beheaded. I just think that the clothes issue isn’t fair.
Men have so many social restrictions placed on them to keep them from appearing feminine. (Like that would be the worst thing that could ever happen). Too many people put too many demands on males to not appear feminine, like don’t cry, don’t talk about how you feel, you throw like a girl, as if they were all too horrible to to do.
His rhetoric is really bad, that’s what we need to be discussing, not his pink tie. I say, wear that pink tie proudly!
Caption:
It takes a family, and today it is Ricki’s day to be the Mom.
LMAO…at the new Ricky Picture
OT
but worth reading
Media matters on how tv journalists are reporting Luskin’s spin instead of the known facts.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200606150001
Pach, that’s it! He’s dressing like Pee Wee Herman.
Article tilt…Party is over for the ReTHUGS….some funny lines.
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0608-23.htm
cathy: it’s the slippery slope! first it’s the pink tie, then the cruising the Senate gym and it all ends up on the tail end of Fido !
I’m surprised at you.
Are you seriously telling me Little Ricky would think twice about wearing that ensemble to a Steelers tailgate party?
(As Whitman once observed, Little Ricky contains multitudes — he just don’t know it yet.)
Personally, I think this is a desperate cry for help.
Someone get Dr. Phil on the blower right quick. We is gotta do an out-of-closet closet-case intervention.
Little Ricky’s suppressed latent homosexuality is screaming for recognition here, guys ‘n gals.
Talk about a closet-case making his closet-case.
The idea is that the state doesn’t have rights to limit individuals’ wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire. –Rick Santorum
Isn’t that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage? –Rick Santorum
We passed the last exit to Oz long ago.
I wonder if we shouldn’t just tighten our seatbelts and man the phones and keyboards.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Oh, and if we’re voting, I’m for crackpot’s submission at 71.
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Had Enough?
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“The guys from “Queer Eye” swore to me this is THE power suit for summer in D.C.; Bill Frist got his is lavender, John Cornyn’s is in peach and Jon Kyl’s still deciding between mint green and lemon yellow.”
On a more serious note, let’s hope he has a bodyguard if the Fred Phelps congregation is anywhere in the DC area today! If the Phelps people were to mistakenly do away with him, the Republicans could nominate a more viable candidate against Casey– like Curt Weldon or Phil English or that GOP congressman from northern PA who got into trouble for beating up his young mistress.
apple custard pecan pie…….I am so looking forward to reading that one!!
A silk Burberry tie - One hundred eighteen dollars.
A Giorgio Armani suit - One thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
A Rolex Oyster Perpetual Dateadjust - Four thousand three hundred and seventy dollars.
A Ricky Santorum original Senatorial springtime ensemble - priceless.
cathy 77, the instance of that that pisses me off most happens on the golf course, when some guy fluffs a drive and either he himself or another guy snarks, “Great shot, Emily!”
I thought Chief Justice John Robert’s tyke Jack showed more gravitas in that outfit than Li’l Ricky does.
Another vote for crackpot 71!
I once painted a bedroom the color of that suit. I had to repaint the room before I could sleep in it. The color makes my head ache.
lotus 92-
That’s exactly what I’m saying. To put a male down, just call him a female. That will really put him in his place.
He was supposed to go the Cox’s to get a seersucker suit. Not Sear’s
Sharon W at 91
Priceless!
Still laughing as I type
Oh please.
Sorry not to join in the fun but who really gives a goddamn if he’s found his inner Nancy, Colonel Parker, Great Gatsby or even Caligula? If you are down on this on truth in advertising grounds maybe you would have a point. In that case a mastedon-fur tunic and wood club would suit more. If it is on what we would prefer to see him wear, I can think of several better outfits, prison stripes or a straight jacket (or both) come immediately to mind.
Which gets me around to my point: maybe he should be wearing a flak jacket, body armor and kevlar helmet. Maybe he should wear this new outfit (or even the one he has on), go to Irag and ride around in an unarmored humvee outside of the Green Zone. Maybe that would focus his attention on ENDING THE GODDAMN WAR.
Other than that this just reminds me of all the crap “tie” stories from 2004. The GWB “Blue Tie Mafia” or John Kerry’s preppy ties. Just what the media loves to divert our attention with on an otherwise supposedly slow news day to avoid talking about 2500 dead.
Anyway, I like seersucker, it’s comfortable and I don’t want this Santorum-ass’s wearing it ruining it for the rest of us.
hey,lighten up.
Sometimes a guy just wants to wear a tie that matches his bikini briefs.
JP:
http://www.firedoglake.com/200.....ent-145041
:0)
OK, I feel outside the loop. Waht is Cox”s. Is tht a store in DC?
We don’t have Cox in NY ((No puns please–I know I left a big target here)
Paging Dr. Kressley!
Paging Dr. Kressley!
http://cache.eonline.com/Featu.....essley.jpg
Oh, thank God you’re here . . .
I’m notsaying that Santorum doesn’t deserve to be beheaded. I just think that the clothes issue isn’t fair.
yes it is. he gets absolutely NO fucking LEEWAY for anything, what-so-fucking EVER.
EVER.
oh my god, crackpot, that is hilarious!
Hey, here’s today’s WaPoO chats, in case y’all want to submit questions early or tune in:
Milbank’s on at 11 eastern:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...../06/09/DI2 006060900754.html
Miss Dean Broder’s on at noon eastern:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...../06/12/DI2 006061200899.html
Yet another reason for Bravo to produce a spin-off called Queer Eye for the Queer Guy!
Even gay men need help sometimes.
The man is obviously pimping for his next job as a televangeist.
What can I say! As a Japanese citizen the person in the photograph looks like they just robbed someone who has no style what so ever.
*in my best Billy Crystal imitating Fernando Llamas*
Ricky - You rook Mahhhhvelous!
OT - someone here yesterday was wondering about the flag burning amendment. Here it is:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITI.....index.html
Pee Wee wore a grey plaid suit and a red bow tie; he was hip, not hoppity.
Looks like it was “Seersucker Thursday” in the Senate.
http://blog.thehill.com/
2006/06/15/when-senators-wear-seersucker-suits/
Santorum got smacked down in the Senate this week on an anti-Iranian saber-rattling bill he was trying to get passed http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/6/16/12446/0134
how do you say “stupid dog-fucker” in Farsi?
“You can tell me the truth: does this outfit make me look fat?”
Little Ricky shares his latent Santorum with the rest of the Senate.
For what it’s worth, it was seersucker day at the Senate. About 20 other Senators wore seersucker (Huffington Post has an article about it), but no one else wore a fuschia tie.
“SOMEWhere…over the RAINBOW…bluebirds fly!”
Washington’s intrepid lightweight reporter solves your fashion mystery:
“But it was difficult to take the senators seriously: A third of them wore blue-and-white striped suits in honor of “Seersucker Thursday,” making the floor of the Senate resemble a Good Humor convention.”
The article is open to the public here.
NEW THREAD
Yesterday was apparently “Seersucker Day” in the Senate, according to WaPo:
Second page of Dana Milbank story
But it was difficult to take the senators seriously: A third of them wore blue-and-white striped suits in honor of “Seersucker Thursday,” making the floor of the Senate resemble a Good Humor convention.
“If we were to cut and run,” said Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), wearing a seersucker suit and white shoes, “bloody civil war would result.” Frist returned to his office, where free ice cream was being served to all.
That’s certainly one way.
Along w/that other time-tested insecurity-approved method of impugning brittle masculinity — call a guy a “fag” or one of its variants.
Insecurity w/sexuality melds the two impulses (mild misogyny and homophobia) in the practice of calling homosexual men “nancy boys” or “marjories”.
Teddy at 87
”Not that there’s anything wrong with thatTM”
Christ. I’m colourblind and even I can see that doesn’t work!
That’s Hot.
Today I have introduced legislation which will make September 30th a national holiday. For too long Americans have ignored and even shunned a very important segment of our society. A wellspring of much of American arts and literature. I say no more! This is why I believe it is time to make Truman Capote’s birthday a national holiday.
Yesterday was “Seersucker Day”?
Dana Milbank wrote a story about it?
Gee, I rest my case.
I like the new thread better.
Kick their ass, Murtha!
Speaking of Santorum, I learned last night that top people at the AKC have given him $29,000 for his campaign.
Grrrr . . . .
Someone needs to photoshop Ricky onto Liberace.
he was trying out the outfit he plans to wear to the philly anti Gay Pride Day parade.
hey little ricky, get another outfit…this one makes you look to ummm errrr gay.
seersucker day at the Senate
it was seersucker day at the Senate????
WTF? that’s a joke, right? don’t those fucks have more important things to do than have fashion shows at tax-fucking-payer expense??
instead, please figure out how to pay for my mother’s meds, you fucking asswipes!
gotta google that to see who was struttin’ they-finery that day….fucking pampered colostomy bags….
(sorry firedogs, /rant …)