Why use *, or **, or ***, or ****, instead of the name?

[Angela Shelley]

I understand using a "funny name" or "initials" when referring to someone,

for example: GWB, DC, KO, HRC, BO, Billary, McCane, etc.

I don´t understand using "****" instead of a name.


Did I miss a thread about Homeland Security checking e-mails for ****´s name?

What makes someone so special that they get 4 stars instead of a name?

:-)

[CJCRANE]

1. Nice post, ******

[Angela Shelley]

2. Thank you so much, *******

:yourock:

[ClassWarrior]

3. Bush** and Cheney** each get two asterisks from me...

...because they're going down in the record books as having stolen two elections.

NGU.

[MuseRider]

22. I use two as well.

I never thought of using that for Cheney although it is probably because I get a really sick feeling even typing his name. Bush** just makes me angry.

Not elected once, not elected twice. It sucked a lot to go from one * to two.

[Terran]

4. I believe it comes from Doonesbury

The comic strip? Bush is never drawn, he's just an asterisk with a cowboy hat (or gladiator helemt as appropriate). It denotes a complete lack of substance.

[Angela Shelley]

5. Good explanation ... that´s interesting!

[Lars39]

14. The asterik...

also looks like an asshole. :D

[babylonsister]

12. And, for me, a complete lack of respect, which has been earned! nt

[bdamomma]

18. well we know he doesn't respect us, that is for damn sure.

he proves that everyday by spying on all of us.

[Hissyspit]

20. Also, like in baseball, questionable election results (record). n/t

[TheWraith]

23. It's not just Bush, a lot of major political figures get icons in Doonesbury.

Trudeau traditionally avoids trying to draw faces of political figures, instead showing them off-panel or providing "icons." The astrisk is Bush's, along with either a cowboy had or a Roman helmet. Gingrich was a bomb with a lit fuse, Ahhnold is a giant hand, etcetera.

[Occam Bandage]

29. Clinton was a waffle, Quayle a feather, Bush I a little speck of nothing...

[TheWraith]

33. David Duke was a flying swastika. nt

[niyad]

6. because we don't recognize them as real people?

[Greybnk48]

7. *=two stolen elections

an * forever next to the fraud's name, and the vice-fraud. For me, the * is a friendly reminder that the bastard's did not completely get away with it. It's on the books.

[Warpy]

8. Because the people who use them are too polite to

use Asshole. Personally, I'd prefer to call him what he is, Stupid.

He's spent 7 years in a job, fucked up everything he's touched, and remains blissfully unaware of the havoc and that is the definition of STUPID.

I just hope this country survives him and that we manage to keep his party away from hurtful things for the decades it will take to repair the damage.

[rox63]

9. Because he's so repugnant that he doesn't deserve a name

Well, that's my excuse, and I sticking with it. :P

[RamboLiberal]

10. I remember on DU it came in to use just after the SCOTUS

decision in 2000 that gave him the presidency. Like back when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record but did it in more games so he got an * besides the record.

It meant Bush didn't win the Presidency legitimately. He was selected not elected.

[samplegirl]

11. Because we don't have

Swastika's :evilgrin:

[VP505]

15. And

using his name triggers a gag reflex in some!B-)

[slackmaster]

13. Because I'm not a G*d D****d N***r L***r

;-)

(I don't want to create index fodder for a certain recent minor party entry into the Presidential race.)

[damntexdem]

16. There's a very good reason for that: ****************.

See?

[eppur_se_muova]

17. "There will always be an asterisk beside his name in the record books ..."

... because he STOLE the elections. Trudeau was the first to use * as a symbol for Bush. After he stole the 2004 election, he deserved a second *. I always write Bu**sh** in honor of a certain very well-done bumper sticker.

[momster]

19. Speak the Devil's Name

and his imps shall appear.

Name-magic is very, very old. By denying **'s name, we deny his power over us.

Or something like that....

[GoneOffShore]

21. Same reason people in the Harry Potter novels

don't say Voldemort's name very often. Too evil to actually be named.

[lonestarnot]

24. I prefer bushitler.

[backscatter712]

25. Terran got it.

The whole referring to Bush as * meme comes from Doonesbury.

[Winterblues]

26. Supreme Court Justice Breyer (I believe)said in his written rebuttal to

the decision of Bush* vs Gore that the decision was so flawed that Bush* would always have his name followed by an asterisk and ever since that time I have done that very thing when I write his name as a constant reminder that he is in office illegitimately.

[backscatter712]

27. Aha! That's where Trudeau got the asterisk from.

I knew that it came from Doonesbury, but this is why Trudeau draws Bush as an asterisk with a battered Roman helmet.

[Buns_of_Fire]

28. Because "Ignorant cowardly steaming bucket of rancid monkey pus" takes too long to type.

[panader0]

30. I always thought that * was a symbol of "asshole"!!!

[Subdivisions]

31. Because the so-called humans behind those asterisks deserve

not even enough respect to either verbalize or to type their actual names. I use an asterisk at times when I imagine those animals going to prison and being reduced to a footnote in history. The problem with that sentiment is that the damage they've done can NEVER be forgotten.

[Dukkha]

32. because if you type his name three time's he'll appear like Candyman

except he'll be drunk and coked out

[tekisui]

34. For me, purely disrespect. Fuck chimpy.

I will not honor him by uttering or typing his name. * is a War Criminal, and should rot in jail.

[bunkerbuster1]

37. I won't even call him "Worst"

I won't even bestow that "honor" upon His Chimpyness.

(Because, technically speaking, Nixon killed a lot more innocent people.)

[lpbk2713]

35. I have no problem with referring to him as Shit-for-Brains.

After all, it fits so well.

[spanone]

36. for me, bu$h* is all about money and the asterik is his appointment by the supreme court

anything i can do to show disrespect

p.s. i will never capitalize cheneys name out of the same disrespect

[windbreeze]

38. some people are only worth one * to me...

I won't even say their name or type it on my computer....so that's hows come I use a *....wb

[benld74]

39. I use * sometimes, but my alltime favorite is pResident Bush

[dommyluc]

40. No! No! No!

The asterix refers to the fact that GWB wasn't ELECTED to the presidency - he was foisted upon us by the Supreme Court. Like an athlete having an asterix in the record books. It should be a constant reminder thru history that he was NOT the people's choice and was never the truly elected leader of our country.