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September 01, 2006
Two choices
Either someone is totally stupid or desperately bored at work.
H/T and thanks to reader John.
Guess who?
Posted by Amy Welborn | Permalink
Comments
Totally ignorant at the very least. Reminds me of the amazement of my highschool students to learn that there really was a Martin Luther.
Posted by: Caroline at Sep 1, 2006 4:53:00 PM
Heehee!! Talk about an odd moment of surreal disconnect when I clicked on that link. I saw FDR's name and then glanced at the action figure, and all I could think was "why is he dressed that way and what's with the hair"?
The comments are hilarious.
Posted by: kath at Sep 1, 2006 5:15:01 PM
Caroline.
Puh-leeze... Everyone knows Luther from the "I have a dream" speech. (I just am not sure it he did it in German.) Personally, I think his life was amazing, given the influence of his brother Lex.
Posted by: kelly ford at Sep 1, 2006 5:16:27 PM
How come FDR doesn't come with his Rough Riders accessories?
Or his kite with the key?
Posted by: Didymus at Sep 1, 2006 5:33:19 PM
Where's Fala? My husband just came up with this gem: "Franklin wound up in a wheelchair after getting hit by a bolt of lightning. When the Revolution broke out, he uttered this memorable phrase: 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself.'"
Posted by: Patricia Gonzalez at Sep 1, 2006 5:47:12 PM
I loved this in the second comment (from the link)
Next we'll see Napolean Dynamite as Emperor of France.
LOL!
Posted by: Brian Day at Sep 1, 2006 5:56:11 PM
A friend of mine and I used to string names of famous people together - people who had both first and last names...for example:
Peter Gabriel Richard Benjamin Franklin Roosevelt
or Mark Anthony Burgess Meredith Baxter Birney
Posted by: Tim Ferguson at Sep 1, 2006 5:59:27 PM
I looked right over it when I first went to the site. It wasn't until I got to the comments that I thought, "Wait a minute!" Of course, when I looked at it again I realized the problem.
It reminds me of the old trick of asking someone "How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark?"
Posted by: Meggan at Sep 1, 2006 6:11:26 PM
My kids were turned on to classical composer action figures at a college music program...someone had Mozart nailed to his dorm door.
Posted by: MacBeth at Sep 1, 2006 7:20:55 PM
Caroline,
Of course there was a real Martin Luther. Don't they remember his famous speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial: "I have a dream! Here I stand. God Help me. Amen!"
Posted by: Dave Wells at Sep 1, 2006 8:52:26 PM
Ben Franklin Roosevelt. So what? We have nothing to fear but electricity itself. What's the fuss??
Posted by: Tom G. at Sep 1, 2006 10:29:04 PM
I sent an email to Target asking them to fix it so they stop looking like idiots.
Posted by: Chris from St. Mary's at Sep 2, 2006 12:02:07 AM
I'm bummed. I think this mean they're all out of Abraham Washington.
Posted by: Christopher Fotos at Sep 2, 2006 12:07:55 AM
"Next we'll see Napolean Dynamite as Emperor of France."
What do you get when a terrorist bombs the kitchen of a French restaurant?
Linoleum blown apart
Posted by: Jeff H. at Sep 2, 2006 8:57:07 AM
Chris from St. Mary's,
I wish you hadn't done that. When they fix it, it'll ruin the opportunity for a moment of gleeful humor all over the blogosphere.
Posted by: Little Gidding at Sep 2, 2006 9:37:18 AM
Reminds me of the time James Earl Jones was introduced to an audience as James Earl Ray.
Posted by: Dmitri at Sep 2, 2006 11:56:28 AM
I wish you hadn't done that. When they fix it, it'll ruin the opportunity for a moment of gleeful humor all over the blogosphere.
That's what prntscrn screen captures are for.
Posted by: Kevin Jones at Sep 2, 2006 1:24:37 PM
Regarding Luther - the comments above remind me of the time one of my college students, having read MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," and asked by me why MLK had been jailed, replied, "Was it for nailing the 95 Theses to the church door?"
Alas, he was serious.
Posted by: Kevin Miller at Sep 2, 2006 1:59:14 PM
This makes me want to paste "John Quincy" labels on the Samuel Adams beer in the garage refrigerator just to see if anyone notices.
Posted by: Roz at Sep 2, 2006 2:53:55 PM
This is one of those things that is both funny and scary at the same time; kind of like a (Stephen) King Henry VIII novel.
Posted by: Mark A Benz at Sep 2, 2006 3:49:59 PM
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, and so we observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom - symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
We all know who it is:
Abraham Kennedy Luther King Jr.
Posted by: Kendall Harmon at Sep 2, 2006 3:58:34 PM
Everyone knows that this Franklin Roosevelt. Duh.
Posted by: dorkafork at Sep 2, 2006 4:31:42 PM
I saw a neighbor kid with one of those. Though the box reads "Made in China", the name is correct. We can't blame the furriners for that.
But wait. I just saw on the Fox News bottom crawl a reference to defense "minister" Rumsfeld. Murdoch must have some British typists working for him. Maybe one of them did Target's copy?
Posted by: Lorenzo at Sep 2, 2006 4:44:10 PM
Let me guess--Franklin's wife is going to be Eleanore of Aquitaine.
Sigh--another public high school graduate.
Posted by: tonydoc at Sep 2, 2006 5:42:42 PM
And think, if it was a talking doll and you pulled the string it has two phrases:
1. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
2. Mr. Hitler, tear down this wall!
Posted by: Mark at Sep 2, 2006 7:01:22 PM
