How Louisiana repuke gov Piyush Jindal became "Bobby"

[KamaAina]

Perhaps the sweetest little factoid of the week emerged in the midst of a Newsweak puff piece on the 2012 non-candidate, who apparently was just in Iowa because he likes corn so much. :eyes:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/174518

Born Piyush Jindal on June 10, 1971, to one of the few Indian families in Baton Rouge, he suddenly announced at the age of 4 that he would answer only to "Bobby," in honor of his favorite "Brady Bunch" character.

Marcia! Marcia!! MARCIA!!! :rofl:

The little twerp has a bit of the snark about him, too:

Jindal is hardly ashamed of his heritage; at Brown he once answered a professor's hypothetical question — "If a high school only took the brightest students, would it be mostly white or mostly black?" — by slipping (his friend -Ed.) Ahsanuddin a note that read "all Asian."...

...his deeply Catholic views, including a "100 percent" opposition to abortion "with no exceptions" for rape, incest or health of the mother, undoubtedly anger more voters than they attract. "If I wanted the aesthetics without the inconvenient morality," he wrote in 1998, "I could become Episcopalian."

Gotta give Newsweak some props for going where the M$M had hitherto feared to tread:

...In the most controversial, he details an amateur exorcism he witnessed at Brown. One day, a friend — called Susan in his 1994 account — confessed that she'd started seeing "visions" and smelling sulfur when doctors discovered a cancerous lump on her scalp; soon after, she fell to the floor at a prayer meeting and started "thrashing about." As Susan screamed "Bobby," the group pinned her down and chanted, "Satan, I command you to leave this woman." But Jindal was too terrified to "confront the demon." Eventually, the struggle subsided; Susan claimed she felt "healed." A short time later, surgeons removed the bump — and, according to Jindal, "found no traces of cancerous cells." The account has already raised eyebrows among skeptics who find it difficult to reconcile the governor's Brown biology degree with a belief in demonic possession—liberal bloggers, for example, now call Jindal "the Exorcist" — but he seems unfazed....

Can't wait to see Piyush on the campaign trail in 2012 -- especially if he gets to debate Bible Spice!!! :popcorn:

edit: I vehemently dislike the way DU software handles dashes when faced with cut 'n' paste :argh:

[Synicus Maximus]

1. Would that be like Berry Obama?

[Bucky]

2. His name was Barry

And yes, he took that nickname to honor the actor who portrayed Greg Brady.

I'll bet you didn't realize how powerful that show was among the budding politicians of the 1970s

[KamaAina]

3. Barry (not "Berry") is short for "Barack"

I doubt that Barry Williams (who played Bobby Brady's older brother Greg) factored into that at all. :-)

Plus, unlike Piyush, "Barry" Obama reclaimed his true and actual name, Barack, while he was at Harvard.

Thanks for playing, though, and be sure to enjoy this copy of the home version of our game.

[charlie]

4. No, that's Ben and Jerry's next new flavor n/t