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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Hail to the Chiefs, part 2

It's President's Week here at the Daily Marmoset, and we bring you two important pieces of presidential news:

  • Three new images of Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration have been discovered in the Library of Congress. They were lost for most of the last 143 years because someone mislabeled them. (Insert long, librarian-ish lecture on the importance of metadata here) Before this, there were only two known photos of that most important day. Now all we need is a photo of Andrew Johnson's pre-party to complete the set.
  • Fidel Castro is stepping down, and I never thought I'd live to see this day. Seriously, he may be 52 years older than me, but ten different presidents have prayed for this. Castro outlasted nine of them, and he's outlived six (so far). I really thought he might be immortal.
Anyway, we continue our groundbreaking matchups of real vs. fictional presidents with...

BEST HAIR:

Real - James Knox Polk. Our 11th President was a pioneer in many ways. He greatly increased the size of the U.S. by forcibly taking the northern half of Mexico in one war, and he nearly started a second war at the same time by grabbing a large chunk of British territory. That's great and all, but Polk's real contribution to this great land of ours? He was our first and (by the grace of God) only mulleted president.

Fictional - Hell, I don't know. Michael Douglas, maybe? Or Chris Rock's dad in Idiocracy? (I really should watch that movie one of these days.) Does it even matter?

Winner - Polk, by a landslide, again. Not even Henry Clay could withstand the fearsome power of that mullet. (Poor Clay, he tried so damn hard...)

ABOVE: He was from Tennessee, you know.


Stay tuned for more Presidential trivia, and to see who wins the title for "Best Dancer".

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