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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Hey... This is Moe Szyslak's enemies list! They just deleted his name and put Nixon's!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And they took Barney's name off!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That's it, Nixon's going on the list!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Possibly the origin of that joke.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Eartha Kitt was on his list?! WTF did she do? I skimmed through her Wikipedia page, and the only thing I could see was that she was an activist in helping underprivileged inner city kids, and she called out politicians for not doing more to help them as part of that work.

Was Fred Rogers also on Nixon's list?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fantastic share and a very interesting read. Lady Bird feels like the 60s version of Nancy Reagan. I need to read more about it. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I don't know the specifics of why Nixon thought Eartha Kitt was an 'enemy.

Nixon got his start as a Congressman on the House Un-American Activities Committee. He was doing the same thing as McCarthy was doing in the Senate, and as a California boy he was tuned into Hollywood.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nixon was a paranoid weirdo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Definitely.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bill Cosby should be on everyone's enemy list

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not back then when he was raping people but it was a secret?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Well yeah, kinda. Unless you think Nixon knew about that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yes, it was a secret. He was considered America's Dad back then. Everyone thought he was wholesome, and funny, and the best kind of dude. That's why the revelation was so shocking.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes back then everyone SHOULD have had Bill Cosby on their enemy list! Yes his reputation was better but he still was a rapists back then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Nobody knew that though. He was considered America's Dad, and the revelation of his raping was very shocking.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Barbra Streisand is on my enemy list too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Both Bill and Bing, actually.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes, Bing Cosby. The search engine that rapes you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now that is one hell of a product tagline

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

My favorite is

Eat Wendys and poop like a regular man.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

As a person with very niche interests I have to say that I'd be okay with that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I once had sex with Eartha Kitt in an airplane bathroom. What? It came up organically.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

It's probably because of that one time Nixon had Cosby over for a sleepover.

We'll... it wasn't planned as a sleepover....

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Tony Randall, who played the prissy Felix Ungar on TV's 'The Odd Couple' also made the list,

He said it was his proudest achievement

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, he wasn’t all wrong.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but even a blind squirrel finds a nut

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