though I don't remember your mentioning Thompson. <g>
All I can find is this back in mid-March:
Wonder if ex-senator Fred Thompson (now an actor on Law and Order) is going to jump in here. There's a good precedent for an actor...
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If I continue my prognostication attempt, I'd call it currently too close to call between Clinton and Obama on the Democratic side - a lot is going to depend on whether the Dem primaries draw many Independents, which I believe would help Obama.
On the Republican side, I think it will come down to a Thompson/Guiliani head-to-head, with Romney ending up as the VP candidate.
If it is Thompson, I will be forever wanting to trot out a great pair of lines from the English translation of one of the Tintin series. By way of introduction, two of the characters in the series are called Thompson and Thomson - incompetent, identical twin detectives who also dress identically. Thompson said when introducing himself to someone in one of the books:
"I'm Thompson, with a 'p', as in 'psychology.' "
whereas the other (Thomson) said:
"I'm Thomson, without a 'p', as in 'Venezuela.' "
Peter
P.S. If anyone knows what the original French version of this was, I'd love to find out. |
