Ok, cure my ignrance, WTF is a PUMA?

[hootinholler]

Where did the term come from?

-Hoot

[rwenos]

1. I think it means "mountain lion"

Unless it's some weird Hollywood sex thing, like "cougar."

[yewberry]

2. Party unity my ass.

It came from a group of folks whose primary candidate wasn't successful, and who vowed that they wouldn't support Obama.

[rwenos]

4. I just KNEW it was a Hollywood sex thing! nt

[question everything]

6. Thank you. You must not have received the party line:

Millions of posts, no explanation what it is except, on the GDP forum, an opportunity to trash Hillary by the ones who claim that the primaries are over.

And when someone asks: to mock and to provide asinine replies and, of course, trash Hillary and her supporters.

I think that DUUMY is alive and well here.

[rwenos]

8. "by the ones who claim that the primaries are over."

Is this like in the third Harry Potter movie, where Hermione gets that clock gizmo to turn back time, so she and Harry can save Buckbeak's life?

[question everything]

18. Don't know. Perhaps you can find an adult movie

to which I can relate.

[newmajority]

9. Hillary and her (sane) supporters now support Obama.

Throughout the primaries, there was always a clear distinction between "Hillary Supporters" and "Hillbots".

It's the latter category who mutated into PUMA's. For them, it was never about electing a Democratic President in 2008.

[question everything]

19. True. However, when some of us are not aware of these new terms

and ask for an explanation, like the OP, and get a mocking reply, the conclusion is that there are many on DU who still hate the former Hillary supporters. Look at the other replies on this thread. As a matter of fact, I often wonder whether these are the ones who would rather lose, and continue to nurse this hatred, than grow up and start making compromises - the hallmark of any government.

[OmahaBlueDog]

10. Which is really funny, because for weeks all I heard righty talkers say was...

"I don't know if I can support McCain.. he's practically a Democrat, you know... it's a shame we didn't nominate a true conservative like ..I may not vote"

[hootinholler]

14. Aha! I couldn't nuke it out! n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. A sneaker?

http://www.puma.com/

[lonestarnot]

5. A gun.

http://gundirectory.gunsandammomag.com/guns/-/puma_182

[lonestarnot]

7. Why? Context?

[hootinholler]

13. I saw a post referencing PUMAs

In a similar context as one would use DINO. I couldn't nuke it out.

-Hoot

[underseasurveyor]

11. Peeuma's are indigenous to cravasses

Tommy Smothers said so:-)

[QC]

12. A new name that shit-stirrers like to call people

in order to start flamewars.

[lonestarnot]

15. deep fried shit then?

Or would that be boiled?

[QC]

21. Roasted over a very hot fire. n/t

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

16. The same 25 people...

Posting over and over again.

[lonestarnot]

17. Had to be there I guess.

:shrug:

[undergroundpanther]

20. It's an insult to catmount

proportions!!!

[kestrel91316]

22. Catamount, puma, mountain lion, cougar - one and the same.

[hlthe2b]

23. I'm afraid you confuse the intelligent, beautiful, discerning...

mammalian form of the term.... rather than the more recent use of the term with its perjorative roots, i.e., the latest jargon permeating GDP.

[krispos42]

24. "Party Unity My Ass"

The latest moderator headache that's resulting in a lot of deleted posts.