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First Person Shoe-ter Games Featuring George Bush
Topics: Politics | 10 CommentsBy admin | December 17, 2008
Flashe Shoe Throwing Games With Bush
Someday, the guy that threw the shoes at Bush will be an iconic figure, like the man facing the tank in Tiannemen Square . For now though, while he’s in an undisclosed location for Bush administration-style interviews, he’ll have to settle for being immortalized in Flash games. Getting the most attention (probably because of the clean graphic style) in spite of sucking as a game is Bush Boot Camp, proving that banjo soundtracks don’t always make a game funny. The eponymously-named (I love saying that; bring it on grammar nazis!) That Guy Totally Threw A Shoe At President Bush: The Game at least uses shoes instead of rifle cross-hairs to aim. Use the spacebar as needed to duck and reload. My Norwegian is a little rusty, or I’d explain in detail what the finer points of this game are. I think you’ll figure it out though. And in Flying babush, you get to be Bush and try to duck. Probably more amusing than all these games (after all, there are only so many ways you can throw two shoes) is this collection of animated graphics. On with shoe! Yes. I said that.
Posted by Dojo Nick on 12.17.08 12:14 am
Grammar Nazi Dojo Nick reporting: standard usage would dictate that your sentence read, “The eponymous (I love saying that; bring it on grammar nazis!) That Guy Totally Threw A Shoe At President Bush: The Game at least…” To further complicate things, “eponymous” means named after a person, group of people, or named group (such as a band), and technically doesn’t refer to a title that evokes the thing named. You’re spot on about the game “Bush Boot Camp.” There’s nothing funny about a game that has users aim and fire at a real public figure. One would think the Secret Service would pay a visit to the creator of that one.
Posted by admin on 12.17.08 1:04 am
Crap. I hate being wrong, but must politely concede.
From Dictionary.com:
1840–50; < Gk epnymos giving name. See ep-, -onym, -ous
I’m going to scrawl this on men’s room walls everywhere:
“Dojo Nick Gives Good Name”
Neener-Neener.
But now I’m confused. How does this all affect the meaning of that song “The Girl From Eponymous”?
Posted by Beatrix on 12.17.08 5:02 pm
My friends call me “The Girl With Emphysema” because I smoke Luckies sometimes. But you’re gonna love this- Egyptian offers daughter to Iraqi shoe-thrower – http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-37081920081217 and heres another Bush game – http://www.mind360.com/braingames/teasers/bushshoeincident.html
Posted by Dojo Nick on 12.18.08 8:38 pm
Apparently, the bar for heroism has been substantially lowered: “The daughter, Amal Saad Gumaa, said she agreed with the idea [of marrying the shoe-tosser]. ‘This is something that would honour me. I would like to live in Iraq, especially if I were attached to this hero,’ she told Reuters by telephone.”
Meanwhile, Beatrix, whoever she is, turns out to have a great sense of humor. Where are you hiding her, Ian?
Posted by admin on 12.18.08 9:00 pm
Okay, I confess. B’s a paid troll. At least she looks like a troll sometimes. Was that a troll just now?
But seriously Dojo Nick – it sounds like you don’t have much respect for the tosser. What did you think about the killing of Saddam Hussein’s sons and his later execution? For the record I thought THAT was a despicable breach of SOME kind of decorum regarding heads of state, and lining up half of the Bush administration’s key people and throwing shoes at them for a while would hardly begin to put things back in balance in relation to the U.S. invasion, government “decapitation”, and occupation of a nation state.
Posted by Dojo Nick on 12.18.08 11:58 pm
Nuance, nuance, nuance! Actually, I respect shoe tossers of various ilks (can “ilk” be used in the plural?), but few rise to the level of “hero.” If they rose easily, you’d be on the list, too, with those clever anti-Bush cartoons you edit (figurative Bush-directed shoe tosses). You’re on my “favorites” list for other reasons, arising circa 1982. Anyhoo, two or more wrongs don’t make a right; even if one does accept the notion that it was wrong for the Bush administration to invade and occupy Iraq, one is not compelled to lionize their detractors.
Posted by admin on 12.19.08 10:54 am
As always, well put Dojo Nick. I should know better than to tangle with someone as articulate as the author of Budo Mind and Body
, which I’m about to re-read by the way. And I’d like to add that while I’m quite flattered to be on your “favorites” list (we should form a mutual admiration society), I’m curious as to how I could achieve “hero” status. Would it involve a sword? An epic act of bravery? I personally find it hard to identify a hero for myself, at least amongst the living. Maybe Bob Ross ?
Posted by admin on 12.21.08 6:10 pm
You missed a couple…
Ninja Bush – http://www.tabloidgames.com/game.php?id=9 –
careful, he throws baseball back
http://www.readyaimvote.com/byebyebush lets you cast your vote
can you throw a shoe at bush
http://www.kroma.no/2008/bushgame/
pretty dumb
and shoebushworldwide
you get to pick the shoe and what you yell when throwing.
http://www.shoebushworldwide.com
and then there’s thankyouforthrowingyourshoe.com –
http://www.thankyouforthrowingyourshoe.com
Posted by Dojo Nick on 12.30.08 1:58 am
Bob Ross WAS kinda groovy, in an anti-cool, artsy, Afro-wearing sorta way. But after putting the ol’ thinking cap on, I, too, found it difficult to identify a bona fide hero. Too many human foibles among the candidates. Acts of heroism, on the other hand, are chock-a-plenty. The rescues by the 911 firefighters, for example, Bill Gates’ setting up the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, or Mikhail Gorbachev ending Communism.
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