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abraham lincoln

There. You see? I am NOT as skinny as a tent pole.

(Abraham Lincoln)

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  1. Squiggly says:

    Lincoln’s hat is my new hero.

  2. Smurf says:

    Is he a cardboard cutout, or is that a real photo? Was the camera invented then? And that hat looks English style to me… hmmm. War of Independence?

    • moe says:

      Yes, the camera was invented then. The American Civil War is the first, or at least one of the earliest, wars of which we have photographs.

      • dissimilitude says:

        Information about the picture here. It’s from the Battle of Antietam, shows Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand, and was taken by Alexander Gardner in 1862. Information on the history of photography here.

        • Flahdagal says:

          Allan Pinkerton of the Pinkerton Agency? Huh, cool info, thanks for posting.

        • S.A.R. member says:

          pinkerton was also one the first “secret service” agents as well, technically. the “secret service” was comissioned shotly after Grover Clevland’s assasination.

          and apprapo of nothing but, how is it that the republicans were ANTI-SLAVERY and the demoncrats PRO-SLAVERY but the republicans are painted as racist??. and whay are so many black people DEMOCRATS?? do they long for the “good ole’ days” or are they just forgetful?? LEARN YOUR HISTORY AMERICA!!!

          ok I’m done, you can have the soap box back.

          • It’s been discussed here ad nauseum, but the thumbnail version is that there was a significant shift in the racial attitudes/makeup of the two major parties more or less incidental to the black Civil Rights movement of the mid-twentieth century.

            • VictoryNotVengeance says:

              To many, its as if the parties flipped ideologies all together. Political history in the US is a messy tangle of messy tangles.

              • Furthermore, party names are only that, names. Ideologies change constantly, like the shift in the Republican party from fiscal conservatism to social conservatism. 100 years from now, if these two parties still exist, we could be facing totally different issues with them.

            • the_original_shortright says:

              you said it smarter than i did… and earlier. that’s what i get for not refreshing.

            • S.A.R. member says:

              President Johnson was a HARDCORE racist, listen to the whitehouse tapes. Democrats are the most racist party in U.S. history. to be fair, the Republicans are now soo pro multi-national, pro ILLEGAL alien that both the parties need to be abolished, by armed force if neccesary. I took an oath the defend this nation from enemies FOREIGN and DOMESTIC. i suggest we do a sparticus in D.C., line the national mall with the crucified corpses for all the senators, representatives and the president and start from scratch.

          • DRH says:

            Short answer — Democrats label those who disagree with them as “racist”.

            • VictoryNotVengeance says:

              Short answer — Republicans label those who disagree with them as “communist”.

              See how easy it was to troll you right back? Geez man… get some style or get off meh PK.

              • DRH says:

                Dude, tell Obama to put a moratorium on appointing Communists and you’ll have a complaint.

                • VictoryNotVengeance says:

                  Dude, I wish he would get some communist in there. More than anything, I wish he was a communist. I really do. No. I -really- do. But… he is just a democrat…. so… we all have to live with what we got. Still better than the Republican options at this point.

                  • ElbieSee says:

                    VNV, you sound like my future-husband…

                  • Oh, true dat, true dat. *fist bumps VNV* Conservatrolls go on about how liberal or socialistic or communist Obama is, but to be honest, I don’t think he’s nearly liberal enough. He’s kinda liberal, but way too middle of the road on too much stuff. Kind of a letdown really.

                    • justacarolinian says:

                      Like Libtrolls went on for 8 years about Bush? Or how they whine that Palin is going to convert us to the God States of America?

                      • Okay, you’re totally taking this in a different direction than I was going with it. I wasn’t *complaining* about conservatives saying he’s too liberal or communist. I’m saying that IMNSHO that he’s not liberal enough. Clearly we liberals have complained for 8 years about Bush (well, I was a couple years late due to an unfortunate turn to the dark side at the beginning of the decade) and still do since we’re still cleaning up his mess. And yes, we complain about Palin a lot. And yes, we still feel justified doing so. And yes, we *are* just that arrogant. But so are the conservatives. This was not meant as a “righties are so much meaner than lefties” post. It was more along the lines of, if you think Obama is liberal, then you ain’t seen nothing. Obama is more like Mike Huckabee compared to some of us liberals.

            • Whatever. Fvcking racist.

        • It totally looks like claymation to me.

  3. Ceefax says:

    Ah, back when the Republican party was the party of liberal democracy and had true progressives like Abe. He must be spinning in his grave to see what it’s become.

  4. TheOne says:

    The trolls are out early today..

  5. meglet says:

    meh. who called him a tent pole? am i missing something here?

    • paws4thot says:

      I think the officer may be Ulysses S Grant?

      Or it may just be a joke about him being tall and thin.

    • Maxwell Silverhammer says:

      I did… over 100 years ago… at an ice cream social, I looked at Ole Abe, and said “Dude… you look like a f*cking tent pole..” Abe looked at me and promptly said “WHUT DAWG! IMMA F*CKING CUT YA! IT’S ON LIKE DONKEY F*CKING KONG NAOW BIATCH!”

      True story….

      • meglet says:

        man max you are totally badass… i knew those ice cream socials were hot-beds of gang violence
        excellent story, though i do wonder if abe was all talk …

  6. VictoryNotVengeance says:

    “And although I am not as thin as a tent pole, I am very much tall enough to act as one. Quickly, tell you men to gather round and drape a sheet over my hat and I will show you how to make a quick secret fort!”

  7. brak says:

    I’M A BIG PRESIDENT…AND I WANT A BIG CEREAL!

  8. maddok says:

    Gut spilling time!

    See, I don’t really understand why all the fanaticism about Lincoln is about.

    He revoked the first amendment rights, threatened to arrest Congress, and continued a war much of the North was opposed to.

    Heck, he was assassinated shortly after it all ended- maybe if he’d have survived he would be no where near as well liked.

    To be fair, he did reunite the Union, but I still have to wonder at what cost. I mean, the South was totally within its rights to secede from the Union and, as Apu tells us in the episode where he becomes a U.S. citizen, the civil war was started over other things besides slavery.

    The whole slavery issue is, in my opinion, a way of making the entire war seem more justified.

    • VictoryNotVengeance says:

      Dude. He’s tall. He’s got that hat -and- that beard. He is on the penny which is just a coin. He is on a five dollar bill. He has a monument and streets named after him all over the states. How can you not be fanatic about him? He’s an icon. I mean the hat, man!! Come on!!

    • justacarolinian says:

      You noticed that too?

    • Maxwell Silverhammer says:

      Well, we’re told in schools today that slavery was the main issue of the war. It wasn’t it was an afterthought mainly. But try getting a bunch of teens to wrap their head around the concept that the south did NOT want or need industrialization, when all those teens have cellphones that can do things that our computers couldn’t do ten years ago.

      • Yeah, well, for Columbus Day I got to explain to my kids that Columbus really wasn’t trying to prove the world was round. *sigh*

        • Maxwell Silverhammer says:

          Marco Polo just wanted the recipe for meat sauce… instead he got blinded and lost in a pool, and his jackass friends just TAUNTED him….

          • And the pilgrims & indians have always gotten along since the first Thanksgiving. There were never any wars over indian land. They gave it to us willingly and happily moved to reservations. (Bursting their bubble on Thanksgiving is gonna be kinda harsh too.)

        • viking gal says:

          Lief landed first! OK, after the Native Americans…. *kicks dirt*

      • paws4thot says:

        We’re taught that the ASW was about slavery in schools in Europe too, if it even rates a mention.

      • wallFly says:

        it kind of makes sense Maxwell, most countries make their enemies look worse and themselves more heroic following a war so they can maintain or encourage patriotism, convince the rest of the masses the fight and sacrifices were worth it. I mean (this might instigate a bit but it’s a valid point i think) take Jesus – during his time I doubt he was regarded with the same fervor as today, i mean hell, the cruficied the man but today, you know, to many he’s the son of god. In that sense, Abe’s still got a lot of work to do on his image to catch up. The hat does help though (never been a fan of the beard but he works it).

  9. maddok says:

    Gut spilling time!

    See, I don’t really understand why all the fanaticism about Lincoln is about.

    He revoked the first amendment rights, threatened to arrest Congress, and continued a war much of the North was opposed to.

    Heck, he was assassinated shortly after it all ended- maybe if he’d have survived he would be no where near as well liked.

    To be fair, he did reunite the Union, but I still have to wonder at what cost. I mean, the South was totally within its rights to secede from the Union and, as Apu tells us in the episode where he becomes a U.S. citizen, the civil war was started over other things besides slavery.

    The whole slavery issue is, in my opinion, a way of making the entire war seem more justified.

    Indeed, if Lincoln had survived, maybe he would have been reviled and hated and gone down in history as a horrid president.

    Sorry bout this pontificating, guys, I just wanted to get this thing off my chest.

  10. Smurf says:

    As I write this, I see there have been 157 comments so far on this Honest Abe pic. Of those, a high inordinate percentage have been by posters who are apparently still Pink Floyd fans. As Abe had nothing whatsoever to do with PinkFloyd, I can only surmise that here on this website there is a cabal, a secret society of Floyd fans. I protest. I am calling Homeland Security and Billary right now… Ahh, does anyone know if the Black Panthers are still active? The KKK? GWB?

    • Maxwell Silverhammer says:

      Boy…. you’re slow aren’t you? The Floydists have been around for a good many lols….
      And just to let you know Billary is a Beatlist… and like a good Beatlist, she’ll fight to keep the FLoydists in power.

    • We Floydists subscribe to a higher power than Billary, homeland security, or any smurfs, even Papa Smurf: The 5 Floydist prophets, Gilmour, Mason, Wright, Waters, and Barrett. They shine on like crazy diamonds, and two of them are already in the great gig in the sky. And if you have a problem with liking Pink Floyd, I can give you rather precise directions to where you can fvck off.

  11. Smurf says:

    Are you saying the Floydists never got over it? I did. Are they dangerous?

    • Maxwell The Beatlist Pope Supreme says:

      I’m sorry, but got over it? Was there something to get over?

    • Smurf says:

      OK, so resistance is futile… You could be my useful spy into the machinations and intrigue of the Floydists, something that might interest at least one person beyond their little ah, groupy grouping. You infer they are in power. Is this a fairly loose sort of power, or are they just loose? I’m glad you got rid of the Maxwell Mouthful. But now it’s something worse… the pope. (Non capital letter off me…)

  12. Smurf says:

    Yeh, I got over Kiss and Metallica as well. And ACDC. Did you? Hush, I think I hear a Floydist approaching…

  13. Smurf says:

    Presto! One turned up… Hi mate. How ya doin? RYa just another brick in The Wall, or what?

    • Do you actually have a point to all this or do you just like making fun of us? I’ll see YOU on the dark side of the moon. If you’re lucky.

      • Smurf says:

        Yeah, I like poking sacred cows with a stick. This should be a chat so lots more idiots can communicate, all at once. You got something against fun?

      • Smurf says:

        Aha, so this stuff must have a point to satisfy some egos? What if the point is pointless? Does a new intruder bursting in on your cosy little pointed and pointy meaningless-nesses get burned at a lol stake or something? Well papist?

        • I dunno. You’re not really worth my time. You’re a lousy troll. Good night.

          • Smurf says:

            And good night to you Randy. I wonder just who IS worth your precious time… You probably have a list of favorites that you feel comfortable with. Good luck with them…

            • wallFly says:

              always get a kick out of it when people say stuff like that, “I wonder just who IS worth your precious time…” implying that because you ignore that person you must ignore everyone, when that person is completely ignorant of the fact that most people would ignore them because they’re moronic so it’s not elitism on the part of the ignorer but stupidity on the part of the person being ignored.

              what’s the work for that? denial or projection? i can’t remember. either way you’re an idiot smurt.

              • Smurf says:

                Oh hi Wallflower with the doghead. So you are the expert on idiots. Seems obvious you studied hard for a degree… in idiocy. Were you in the Bush administration?

                • justacarolinian says:

                  Smurf, your words have shown us all who is the idiot in here. And you are a well qualified one at that. We all think you doth protesteth too much…

  14. DRH says:

    “would align most closely with today’s democratic party ”

    Not really; read up on Lincoln’s (and other early Republican’s) opinions on, say, economic policy, the Constitution, etc.

    – modulus the fact that the question itself is silly and anachronistic; the majority of antislavery folks were still very much racist back then.

  15. S.A.R. member says:

    what did your parents do during the revolution??? my uncle, James Monroe, took a bullet for washington in princeton. don’t start , you will lose!!! S.A.R. stands for SONS of the AMERICAN REVOLUTION…are you qualified to be a mamber?? probabley not you socialist traitor!!

  16. VictoryNotVengeance says:

    Thats much less like trolling. Good job!

  17. DRH says:

    … she says as though her approval was valuable. Sheesh.

  18. VictoryNotVengeance says:

    Actually, its virtually the opposite on this site! But I do it… because I love you! lol!

  19. HelOnWheels says:

    I don’t think so. But I’m confident that DRH is a misogynist so maybe that’s why the contemptuous “she”.

  20. Misogynist, sure. But I think that’s just a symptom of a bigger problem: DRH is just a massive fvcking asshole.

  21. HelOnWheels says:

    “DRH is just a massive fvcking asshole.”
    How very true. +1 internet for you. And some cookies.

  22. nom nom nom
    Oops, I ate the +1 internet instead of the cookies. Crap.

  23. viking gal says:

    No calories in the +1 internets. Only lots of 1′s and 0′s! So you should still have room for those cookies.

  24. No calories, eh? I’m gonna a diet of lots and lots of internet!

  25. bitter troll says:

    least we know he was not from japan then-nods-

  26. Also, if you grind it up and snort it.

  27. Yeah, her other druggie coworker thought that was pretty funny. Aderall, pfft. Amateur stuff. The girl in question tended to get an attitude with me about stuff like that because I wouldn’t let her smoke pot at work (I was the overnight shift leader, so *I* was the boss dammit). Oh no! What an evil mean boss! :roll:

  28. How DARE you!!! It’s their GOD GIVEN RIGHT to smoke pot at work!!!

  29. Maxwell Silverhammer says:

    Seriously… back when I delivered pizzas, my boss wouldn’t let me work UNTIL I smoked pot. Something about my road rage.

  30. Yeah my pizza shop was infested with pot heads. I had to stop them from smoking, in the store, during normal work hours though.

    After the door was locked though it was on like Donkey Kong. They smoked, I drank. Ah, liquor.

  31. Maxwell The Beatlist Pope Supreme says:

    I have… many many stories of pizza places, mainly cause I delivered or managed in multiple stores for over a decade… Ah high school and college, you always had the best jobs..

  32. I had my own store. Good times.

  33. Maxwell The Beatlist Pope Supreme says:

    I’m so glad I was just a shift leader, doing the commissary order, inventory, and the schedule is too much paperwork for me. I was fine with just doing the deposits at night.

  34. They did it anyway, apparently in very small hits during slow times. I didn’t find out until after I was demot…uh, no longer a shift leader. OTOH, they actually seemed to work better when they did it. *shrug* One of them used to be a hardcore alcoholic, so apparently just being a bit of a pothead kept him from going in the bottle. I don’t know if that’s how it works, but that’s what he said.

  35. bad fairie says:

    i’ll match your sar with a dar, raise you with a second dar line, and toss in a daughter of the confederacy for good measure – can you match that you troglodyte ignoranus?

  36. my uncle, James Monroe, took a bullet for washington

    Dude….how fvcking old are you? The James Monroe who died in 1831 was your uncle? I call shenanigans. Also, it was the Battle of Trenton. Dumbass.

  37. bad fairie says:

    only the right wing mambers are all frothy, but it’s not caused by the dar, it’s the right-wingedness that causes the frothing

  38. Zack says:

    You are really scary. Do you belong to the KKK?!?!

  39. Well, maybe he meant his great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great uncle. Is that enough greats?

  40. Hey, he said “uncle”…maybe he’s a time-traveler from the past who’s figured out how to use a computer.

  41. I qualify for DAR on my mom’s side, but it’s never been anything I’ve found terribly interesting. Of course, my main exposure to the DAR was on Gilmore Girls. Perhaps it’s more fun in real life.

  42. S.A.R. member says:

    that comment was directed at that socialist kool-aid drinker in front, not you maam. you are one of the true patriots and if i offended you i apolgize. if i offended him, well, good tell him to call his sponsor or go to another meeting.

  43. bad fairie says:

    i went to a couple meetings — dar on the gilmore girls was way better.
    and luckily way up here in the pac nw, there isn’t a real strong interest in the dau of the confederacy in spite of all the skinheads and neo-nazis in the woodwork (or maybe that’s why there isn’t much interest??)

  44. viking gal says:

    I sooo don’t qualify! 1/2 of one side came over before WWI, the other 1/2 after WWI, and the other side came over after WWII. What did my parents do during the revolution? There weren’t any of those in Scandinavia!

  45. bad fairie says:

    but you still get to be a viking! i missed out on that by miles and miles: the ancestors from scotland were from the wrong side of edinburg and were too late to get in on the pillaging – other than the recessive red hair, we take after the the short, stumpy, darker haired scots. i’m tired of being stumpy!

  46. viking gal says:

    I do believe that red hair came from my relatives… And the Scots were no wimps when it came to raiding and pillaging–or at least fighting in skirts!

  47. bad fairie says:

    yup, few wimps in kilts with their bits exposed and all, but we’re still on the stumpy side. now my father’s family lines are english and german, and not a stump among them, but that passed me by completely, yet i got his lack of junk and the trunk to put it in. in other words no booty to shake (did that just date me?)

  48. viking gal says:

    If it dated you, it dated me as well. Shake shake shake!!!

  49. bad fairie says:

    see that’s the problem with this format — unless you specify which one of us kool-aid drinking socialist democrats you are replying to, it looks like you’re painting us all with the same wide brush of intolerance and bigotry.
    furthermore, we are all true patriots here (even those who aren’t american, they are just as patriotic for their own nations as we are), the difference is the left sees different solutions to what we believe are the problems. spewing trigger words such as “true patriot,” “socialist,” and “kool-aid drinker” will garner you no respect or even influence. those aren’t the words of debate and dialog, those are fighting words meant to get everyone riled up and ready to respond without thought. using them speaks more of your lack of understanding and gullible-ness than it does anything derogatory about the left.
    & btw, ma’am has an apostrophe!


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