It struck me the other day that if someone had fallen into a coma in August and were not to wake up

[IntravenousDemilo]

until February, that person might stand an awfully good chance of never having heard of Sarah Palin.

She is an asterisk, a mere blip on the radar, soon to be gone and forgotten.

[terrya]

1. I hope she will be consigned to a political black hole.

From where she'll never return. Ever.

SHMILY

[cui bono]

2. Or a comma, like the Iraq war.

That's what Bush said anyway. :eyes:

[doublethink]

3. Unless they bring back that program The Surreal Life where ....

washed up former celebrities shack up together for a week or so. And maybe she'll be on Jerry Springer sometime next year with here family, or Judge Judy ..... when she takes her kids to court for some off the wall reason? :shrug:

[Berry Cool]

4. Wouldn't know Joe the Plumber either.

Would that he would go back to his plunger and wrenches.

[IntravenousDemilo]

5. Twenty-two years from now, on a humid August Saturday afternoon in a mid-sized midwestern suburb,...

... there will be a garage sale. One of the items available, for 50 cents or best offer, will be a seldom-used Genus Edition Trivial Pursuit game, manufactured in 2019 and received as a Christmas present three years later from a Secret Santa at the office where the seller worked until last year.

The game won't be complete, though. Due to machine malfunction, four cards will have been excluded by the manufacturer during packaging.

Another two will have been lost down behind the cushions of a green corduroy rec room couch that was eventually taken away and disposed of in 2023 after the basement flooded.

Three more will have disappeared to that place where missing pens and lighters, as well as that one sock you seem to lose every time you do laundry, eventually end up.

Two cards will have been chewed to bits by the seller's beagle Tippy when she was a puppy, while the family was playing the first of a total of six games they enjoyed before storing the game away for good to gather dust on the bottom shelf at the back of a closet next to some shoe trees that were also available at the garage sale.

And while they were playing the fourth of their six games, one hot, sunny July day out on the backyard deck, one card fell through a crack between the boards. You could see it down there all right, with one corner stuck in the cool, wet dirt, but there are spiders and things under the deck, so the card must stay there, unread, until it eventually decomposes.

On one of those twelve cards, two of the answers will be "Sarah Palin" and "Joe the Plumber". This fact will go by completely unnoticed and uncommented on.

Such will be their obscurity.

[NoSheep]

6. sweet