February 27, 2010

Pop Quiz

Posted in America, Politics at 8:00 am by Paul Sagar

Which American politician previously uttered these lines before being elected?

“I was always dreaming about very powerful people, dictators and things like that. I was just always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years, or even, like Jesus, be for thousands of years remembered.”

“If you want to be a champion you can’t have any kind of outside negative coming in to affect you. So I trained myself for that. To be totally cold and not have things going through my mind. And it was a sad story when my father died. Because my mother called me on the phone and she said, “You know, your dad died.” And this was exactly two months before a contest. “Are you coming home for the funeral?” She said. I said: “No. It’s too late. He’s dead and nothing can be done. I’m sorry I can’t come.” And I didn’t explain the reasons why, because how do you explain to a mother whose husband died, you just can’t be bothered now because of a contest?”

And of course:

“It’s as satisfying to me as, uh, cuming is, you know? As, ah, having sex with a woman and cuming. And so can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like, uh, getting the feeling of cuming in a gym, I’m getting the feeling of cuming at home, I’m getting the feeling of cuming backstage when I pump up, when I pose in front of 5,000 people, I get the same feeling, so I am cuming day and night. I mean, it’s terrific. Right? So you know, I am in heaven.”

There can, of course, be only one answer. Ladies and Gentlemen, the 6-times Mr Olympia champion, the present Governor of California, Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger!

As quoted in the 1977 film Pumping Iron.

Incidentally, anyone inclined to dismiss Schwarzenegger as a moron simply because he was a body builder and played a ruthless cybernetic killing machine in two of the greatest films ever made ought to watch Pumping Iron and think again. Unhinged Arnie may be, but stupid he ain’t.

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I promise to resume proper posting shortly, I’m just really busy at the moment.

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