Presidential candidate, mindless mannequin, average voter: Rick Perry mixed these up neatly yesterday. In a brief joke the Texan offered to call on a questioner who was actually a dressed-up doll.
The doll was wearing a t-shirt for a restaurant called Squat-'N-Gobble. I've never been to the place, nor heard of it, but the name is both funny and disturbing. I sleepily imagine some awful transformation taking place, whereby customers mutate into new shapes.
Actually, the phrase dates back quite a ways, at least to 1940.
Campfire scene, "Blazing Saddles."
Posted by: saramin | January 17, 2012 at 18:55