Who coined the nickname Caribou Barbie?

[DiscussTed]

Hearing Governor Palin say it was priceless.

[Phred42]

1. I heard it first from Stephanie Miller

[AllieB]

2. me too.

[Nictuku]

5. That is where I first heard it too

I'm sure Mama and the Mooks will mention it tomorrow. She will take credit for it, but I think it was one of Jims.

[DiscussTed]

9. I love Stephanie's show!

I guess that is where I heard it first. Good for them.

[AzNick]

15. I concur! Do you concur?

I heard there too for the first time.

[wellstone dem]

3. Mattel?

[Cirque du So-What]

4. It was me, I humbly confess

I also put the ram in the rama lama ding dong and put the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder.

[progressivebydesign]

36. yeah.. but what EXACTLY is in Bush's Baked Beans?? That damn dog won't spill the beans! n/t

[book_worm]

6. Stephanie Miller.

[izzie]

7. First I have heard it.

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[Warren Stupidity]

8. Stephanie Miller as far as I know.

[EFerrari]

17. Stephanie Miller got it from DU

on a thread by seemslikeadream and the term was inspired by that horrible picture of her parents' livingroom. The walls are covered in dead animals.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=3883129

[Canuckistanian]

19. That was YOU!

Congratulations!

And on Aug. 30th too, well before it was popular. You MUST have been the originator.

[EFerrari]

21. I think so. But, it could be one of those things that more than one person

originates. I'd be curious to see if it was anywhere else earlier. Stephanie started using it the Monday after that thread. :shrug:

[TahitiNut]

28. Admit it. You did it. It was perfect ... and well-timed.

:applause:

[EFerrari]

30. I admit It was great to see Armageddon Spice call herself "Caribou Barbie"!

That was sweet! :P

[Sebastian Doyle]

42. I was calling her "Tundra Barbie" at the time

"Caribou Barbie" could have been a variation on that or it could have been of a completely separate simultaneous origin.

Thank God we aren't Repukes, or there would be "intellectual property" lawsuits all over this already. :rofl:

[EFerrari]

43. Is that term "simultaneous origin"? I can't think of the right one --

where, for example, sign language was invented in a bunch of different cultures and independently?

I think we have a fantastic marketing opportunity here. Tundra Barbie, Caribou Barbie, Midge to Nowhere.

:rofl:

[seemslikeadream]

39. Always a brides maid never a bride

:cry:

:hi:

[EFerrari]

40. No, the Muse! You were The Muse!

[silverojo]

67. I *thought* I saw it on DU first! - n/t

[Matariki]

68. That was a beautiful thread!

It's fun to see a clever nickname coined at DU crop up ALL over the place!

Congratulations sfexpat! The should use your whole phase "Caribou Barbie and Her Dream House Full of Dead Animals."!

:rofl:

Still cracks me up. That and Blood, Bath and Beyond. You're so funny!

[bookman]

10. Stephanie..

..uses it every day.


If she didn't coin it, she made it work.

[Ichingcarpenter]

Stephanie admitted she got it from DU

She does give us credit once in a while

[EFerrari]

38. She did make it work, the heavy lifting. Even KO has used it.

lol

[PeaceNikki]

11. I like "Bible Spice" just as much.

[lonestarnot]

12. and McMoose works better for me. I don't see the barbieish thing, more mooseish.

:D

[Phred42]

18. or Armageddon Spice

[EFerrari]

22. That's a good one!

LOL

[progressivebydesign]

33. OMG! That is the funniest.. and yet.. the scariest! N/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. The spelling has to be changed to CariBOO.

[MelanieArt]

14. I think it was someone here actually,

wasn't it? I forget what the thread was about where it was first posted, though.

[Sparkly]

20. I thought so, too. nt

[Myrina]

16. I was calling her Eskimo Barbie for a bit ... then was 'corrected' ...

... by someone on DU who said it's 'Caribou Barbie' :shrug:


I also like to call her "The Mayor of Mooseballs Alaska" :evilgrin:

[EFerrari]

41. We have a whole line of merchandise going here.

:rofl:

[Canuckistanian]

23. After an extensive search, I'd have to say it was our own sfexpat2000!

Stephanie Miller certainly made it famous,but all references seem to point back to DU and THIS post by sfexpat2000:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=3883129#3883398

It was even noted on Michelle Malkin's site. (no link)

[Generic Other]

24. This is when I first heard the term too

Yay...a beth meme!!

[EFerrari]

29. But, see below. progressively had the exact same association

that I did. One of us would have come up with it.

[progressivebydesign]

31. LOL - I swear it's that collective unconscious stuff! or great minds think alike.. n/t

[EFerrari]

35. We should have marketed it! It may not be too late!

Generic Other can help!

lol

[EFerrari]

26. There may be more than one point of origin, though.

There's a term for that in anthropology -- when an artefact is originated in several places but independently?

[progressivebydesign]

34. Collective Subconscious by Jung. That's the term.

collective subconscious is also known as "a reservoir of the experiences of our species." from WIkipedia.

I remember this from my screenwriting classes when he talked of people coming up with the same script ideas around the same time. Because we all have similar experiences, and are exposed to similar media (and toys), then our ideas may be triggered by the same things at the same times, and we're drawing on wells of similar experience.

[EFerrari]

37. That's a term from psych. The one I'm thinking of is "spontaneous something"

and it's from anthro. Not spontaneous combustion, though. :silly:

[Canuckistanian]

44. Yeah, you may be right

But the path that your post took probably had the most effect.

Talk radio people are vastly influential in popularizing these little buzzwords and catchphrases.

Look at Randi Rhode's "privatize the profits and socialize the losses". It's used widely now because she repeats it so often (and bitches that she never gets credit for it).

[EFerrari]

45. We know it was probably DU, anyway. And that's funny.

lol

We need about ten more of Randi and Stephanie. They're great.

[TahitiNut]

27. I agree. That's the first I saw ... BEFORE Stephanie Miller used it.

Yup.

[progressivebydesign]

25. I coined it here for the first time, a day or two after she was chosen, here on DU.

But I have no idea if anyone else came up with it before I did. People were calling her Moosebuger Barbie, and I had remembered my Malibu Barbie, so the Caribou thing just fit. I was calling her "Caribou Barbie! Comes complete with her OWN scandal!"

So... I'm not sure who predates whom on it, but I was probably the first here on DU. (I don't listen to Stephanie Miller because of her time slot.)

Actually I think sfexpat2000 and I seemed to have coined it simultaneously around the same day... I think they call that collective unconscious.

[kath]

46. Searching through sfexpat2000 posts and your posts, it looks like sfexpat2000 gets the honor - she

first used it at 2:05 a.m on Aug 30, and you first used it on Aug 31 - at 10:42 p.m. and again at 10:54 p.m.

{on edit , another early user, but not as early as sfexpat2000, was ncabot22, who used the name in two haikus in this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=6836644 on Aug 30 at 5:48 and 5:53 p.m.}

[EFerrari]

47. Wow, how did you do that? If I posted my house to DU, I'd be homeless

because I can't find anything here.

There's plenty of blame to go around, though. lol

:toast: to DU, a permissive environment. :evilgrin:

[progressivebydesign]

50. Lol - great minds think alike apparently. ncabot22, I salute you! n/t

[progressivebydesign]

32. Yeah.. but then there was "The Midge to Nowhere"... lol. n/t

[WA98296]

48. It was on DU.

[countryjake]

49. It was our own sfexpat2000 who first thought of it, within hours of Palin's selection...

Many of us were busy on Google all night that evening, searching for dead caribou shots and slaughtered wolves and other dead animal pics, with Palin alongside, the blood on her hands.

Seemslikeadream made a post showing one that she'd found, displaying the elder Palin's pelt-covered living room, and practically without hesitation, Beth replied with "Caribou Barbie and Her Dream House Full of Dead Animals".

Sfexpat2000 should get the credit for originating the term...I was here and watched it happen, live on DU, in the wee hours of the morning right after McCain named Palin as his choice!

[SoCalDem]

52. I concur.. DUers are the sharpest knives in the drawer

My entry in that "contest" was on Malkin's site too...
Fertilla the Huntress...
but I don't think puns are "in" these days :rofl:

[EFerrari]

53. Beware, Republicans! You have roused the Beast!

AND IT IS EVERYWHERE!

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

54. We didn't even know how right we were at the time. She's fake and deadly

and hateful.

TG for DU!

:loveya:

[countryjake]

56. A few of us were actually already familiar with her policies against Wildlife Protection...

and knew that she was a fraud...I have friends who are real hunters and fishermen who already long despised her and her ilk for the advocacy of mechanized hunting techniques...her touting of "snow machine" hunting trips; her fight to legalize helicopter shooting of wolves, under the guise of "protecting herds" for better hunting; also, her attempts (some successful and some failed) to destroy the salmon spawning grounds and further reduce populations which effectively, ends salmon fishing for all who subsist on them; her dastardly campaign to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to both drilling and mining; and her frantic legal fight to block the protection of polar bears, combined with her denials that climate-change is a threat to them, which, in the long run, will eventually permanently end a way of life for some First Alaskans.

I don't know any hunter or fisherman (among folks I know who actually live up in Alaska and also those who love and respect and enjoy its wilderness for just that...the wildness of it), that have ever supported or agreed with Palin's warped policy of backing the oil and mining industries and "sport" hunting and she has never been "popular" with any of them. Even some tribal people who at first believed her to be on their side have since learned that she only represents the decimation of their very culture.

Hunting and fishing is the way of life for much of the Pacific Northwest and the Far North. And that is where she has been, by far, the most deadly.

[EFerrari]

57. Well, kudos to you for monitoring this threat.

I knew nothing about her.

She's dangerous. I hope so much that this outing will end her as a politician.

She's as toxic and destructive as they come.

[countryjake]

58. I doubt that once she's sent home, we'll have heard the last of her...

she will still have big-bucks corporate-industry backing her, hell, even Obama thinks offshore drilling might be cool, so protecting what little pristine environment we have left is something that should and must be pounded home as a priority.

I have a feeling that she's to become the poster girl for using (up) our natural resources and this new push to break free from foreign energy, if it doesn't focus specifically on alternative sources, rather than natural gas and American oil and shale reserves and "clean" coal and the like, could become disastrous.

After much gabbing with those who are familiar with her Alaskan tactics, I'm beginning to believe that she's more of a threat to the Environment than she is even to Women's Rights. She's power-crazed, with money on her side. Those types don't go away quietly.

[EFerrari]

59. We'll talk about her again, countryjake, because I studied

people with her pathology for nearly a decade.

It would be a mistake to discount her, I agree.

[countryjake]

61. Hey, what's with that Ohio state flag?

Being an old Buckeye, I realize that it is the most attractive and original of all the states' banners, but why are you flying it now?

[EFerrari]

63. Some nutcase rw radio guy claimed it was Obama's flag

being flown at an event, without knowing it was Ohio's.

:crazy:

[countryjake]

65. "O"! I just googled & I'm still ROTF!

What ever will they come up with next?

Sorry that I missed hearing about that one...the foreign secret socialist O flag of terrorists everywhere! This will strike some hard-ass funnybones back home, for sure, but how damn ignorant can someone get (or vicious, for that matter)? Guess schools don't drill state facts like they used to.

I sure hope the idiocy of it helps a bit to sway Ohio away from the fanatical hysteria and put them back over to the good side.

Thanks for letting me know!

[WeDidIt]

51. Stephanie Miller coined the phrase. n/t

[EFerrari]

55. No, she didn't. DU did. And that's why DU is so great.

Things happen here that Stephanie enjoys.

Enjoy.

[bulloney]

60. Caribou Barbie. Mooselini. Spiro Igloo. I love them all.

[EFerrari]

64. We have a new one in this thread: Armageddon Spice.

:toast:

[Ikonoklast]

62. It's what her husband Treasonous Tawd calls her.

When discussing firing on Elmendorff AFB and seceding from the Union.

[Evoman]

66. sfexpat. I remember that thread.

From a DUer poster, to the mouth of a possible (urk) Vice President of the United States.

You gotta love the internets.