Joe Biden Said That? : 12 hours of mining, 4 hours of football

Comment on 12 hours of mining, 4 hours of football by bgates

2009-07-30T22:38:42-04:00

That was a much earlier use of the term “Levenshtein distance” than I would have predicted for a blog about Joe Biden.

“I was out in Ohio,” [Biden] said, clutching a football. “I told the folks in Ohio that [the University of Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens football team]’d kick Ohio State’s ass!”

That’s from Jake Tapper’s “Oh, That Joe!” series, which is a terrific resource for your effort here.

Comment on 12 hours of mining, 4 hours of football by km

2009-07-30T22:40:58-04:00

Check last year’s debate transcript. He said something like “we spend six times more in Iraq in a month than we have in Afghanistan since 2001.” I’m sure there are other gems as well.

Comment on 12 hours of mining, 4 hours of football by Tom Copeland

2009-07-30T22:45:21-04:00

@bgates, thanks! I will research and use that as I get caught up. And yeah, next up, Joe Biden does Karp-Rabin string matching :-)

Comment on 12 hours of mining, 4 hours of football by Mike Lynn

2009-07-31T01:56:24-04:00

Thx. to a friend of mine who forwarded the link for this site. Slow Joe Biden is the gift that keeps on giving. Only one problem he’s the clown that is “a heartbeat away from the Presidency” Now that is no laughing matter - actually pretty scary to think that if he ever becomes the POTUS it will be …LIVE FROM WASHINGTON, IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT. All skits will be based on Bidenisms. We should get Dan Quayle to produce the program. Keep those one liners coming Joe! You are truly a boob of Homeric dimension and breadth.

Comment on 12 hours of mining, 4 hours of football by Jeff T

2009-08-01T09:31:56-04:00

The thing that always gets me about this one is the “football” line. Obviously Kinnock had been referring to English football: His predecessors would work all day then go play soccer, presumably for their pub teams and such. A very common scenario in working-class England.

Biden just straight-up lifts the line, which for an American audience, of course, translates into American gridiron football. Given that our gridiron football isn’t exactly a common adult recreational sport, it just makes the whole fib that much more… fibby.

Now, did his ancestors toss around a pigskin in the backyard once in a while? Maybe. (Though Biden’s age makes it more likely it would have been a baseball, if anything.) But the likeliest situation is that on top of being a clumsy plagiarist, Biden is just a clumsy liar too.

Comment on 12 hours of mining, 4 hours of football by lumpy

2009-08-01T11:46:48-04:00

A thousand generations didn’t go to university? Well, universities have only been around for 500 years or so, which might explain a few of those generations.

Mike, thinking of Dan Quayle to host it is a stroke of genius. I would love to see that happen.