RIP Ross Perot

 
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 6:44 am    Post subject: RIP Ross Perot

https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-h-ross-perot-dies-20190709-story.html

didn't know he was still alive
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 6:58 am    Post subject:

“If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory south of the border, pay $1 an hour for your labor, have no health care, have no environmental controls, no pollution controls and no retirement, and you don't care for anything but making money, then there will be a giant sucking sound going south.”

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 7:47 am    Post subject:

Can't think of him without resorting immediately to Dana Carvey's impression of him on SNL.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 11:35 am    Post subject:

Can't think of him without resorting immediately to Bill Clinton being elected president.

Perot was one of a kind.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 1:44 pm    Post subject: Re: RIP Ross Perot

Huey Lewis & The News wrote:
didn't know he was still alive


Naow, ya see... THIS here's whut I'm talkin bout!

Yosemite Sam of Presidential contestants. They called similarly short Truman Give Em Hell Harry, but Ross was rootin n tootin.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 2:03 pm    Post subject:

He used graphs to illustrate his points. When he lost his bid for the Oval Office he kinda disappeared. RIP
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 3:26 pm    Post subject:

I too was surprised to find out he was still alive but I always liked that I shared a birthday with him.

Khloe Kardashian? Not so much.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 9:27 am    Post subject:

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I too was surprised to find out he was still alive but I always liked that I shared a birthday with him.

Khloe Kardashian? Not so much.


I share mine w/ Manu, try that indignity.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 11:01 am    Post subject:

I still think the greatest Perot story is when financed his own para military extraction team led by Bull Simons to rescue two of his imprisoned EDS employees in Iran during the Revolution.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 7:11 pm    Post subject:

vanexelent wrote:
Can't think of him without resorting immediately to Dana Carvey's impression of him on SNL.


“Can I finish?”
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 7:25 pm    Post subject:

Surfitall wrote:
vanexelent wrote:
Can't think of him without resorting immediately to Dana Carvey's impression of him on SNL.


“Can I finish?”


You have now finished Mr. Perot.

All joking aside, RIP Sir.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 7:56 pm    Post subject:

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I too was surprised to find out he was still alive but I always liked that I shared a birthday with him.

Khloe Kardashian? Not so much.


I share mine w/ Manu, try that indignity.


Well at least he can be of service during a bat related emergency
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 3:11 am    Post subject:

vanexelent wrote:
Can't think of him without resorting immediately to Dana Carvey's impression of him on SNL.


For me it's Kodos and Kang

Go ahead, THROW your vote away!
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