Healthcare Debate Rages Over Pubes

[furrbear]

So once upon a time the inventor of English decided it would be a very clever thing to spell certain dirty(ish) words very much like certain very chaste words. Now as a result, the Punic Wars are constantly and mistakenly referred to as the Pubic Wars, members of the GOP must stress that they are not “Repubicans,” and as to the so-called “public option” for health insurance — it takes a single omitted letter to turn this noble alternative into a snicker-worthy item on a menu of waxing services.

PUBLIC –> PUBIC, that is what we are talking about here.

Anyway, some jackass wrote “No Pubic Option” on a sign and proudly held it up at a healthcare reform protest, and the Raleigh News & Observer kindly cropped that mistake out of a protest photo it ran on its website. However, the image appears INTACT, so to speak, in their print edition. Thank goodness nobody reads the real newspaper anymore!

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Comments

[popebuck1.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's an anti-abortion thing, trying to eliminate women's pubic options.

[joebehrsandiego.livejournal.com]

Sadly, this is just an example of our side's version of the "echo chamber". It's funny/snarky (to us), but doesn't substantively change a damn thing.

I'm guilty of it too, of course.

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

I work with a woman who can't differentiate the two either -_-

[putzmeisterbear.livejournal.com]

I'm personally against a pubic option. Pubic areas should covered with thick untrimmed hair. Unless you haven't hit puberty a mans dick should be surrounded by lush musky man hair.

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

damn straight!

[jediknightcub.livejournal.com]

LULZ

I'm reminded of a certain Curb Your Enthusiasm episode: Beloved Aunt.