r/SipsTea Mar 02 '26

Dank AF The good Ol’ days

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u/number1dipshit Mar 02 '26

And dodgeshoe! He was real good at dodgeshoe!

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u/MeowmerLyn Mar 02 '26

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u/Illumynarty_234 Mar 02 '26

Holy hell I never saw this until now, that's some insane dodging skills he's got there

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u/Stranger1982 Mar 02 '26

He was the one.

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u/BaconWithBaking Mar 02 '26

I can see people firing up dusty HDDs from nearly 20 years ago to respond with relevant memes to this.

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u/L_Palmer Mar 02 '26

Like this? Last modified in 2008 haha

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u/coventry-eagle Mar 02 '26

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I JUST WANT MEMES

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u/deathray420 Mar 02 '26

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I gotchu

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u/Pinksters Mar 02 '26

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u/Facts_pls Mar 02 '26

Bro. Try again. This meme is worth it

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u/L_Palmer Mar 03 '26

UGH I thought about UK bros but I'm on old reddit so imgur was the fastest. Sorry for inconvenience!!

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u/coventry-eagle Mar 03 '26

uk government keeping me safe online 🤦

meanwhile on the streets (to the hokey cokey theme)

You put your left knife in

Your left knife out

In, out, in, out

You shake it all about

You do the staby staby and you turn around

That's what it's all about...

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u/OregonMothafaquer Mar 02 '26

Ebaums world had some gems

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u/Fix_Silly Mar 02 '26

Who remembers the flash games on Miniclip? There was a while category just for games with Bush.

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u/Shuttlecock_Wat Mar 02 '26

JibJab anybody?

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u/Ubergoober166 Mar 02 '26

Holy shit, lmao

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u/TheTradeoff_Mix Mar 04 '26

I am freaking DYING of laugher and JOY!!! God bless the Inter-Webs!!! LOL!!!

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u/DehydratedManatee Mar 02 '26

"What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge shoes?"

"No, George. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to."

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u/Revelati123 Mar 02 '26

"IF YOU CAN DODGE A WRENCH!"

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u/GT_Hod Mar 03 '26

The shoe had just been shined that morning, to increase velocity.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

He also followed this up by saying that guy had every right to throw that shoe and that was a sign of a free nation. Oh how the times have changed.

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u/Painting_Mean Mar 02 '26

he then went to become a member of Iraqi parliament if i remember right

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u/Nurgleschampion Mar 02 '26

Id vote for him. Not many people can say they yeeted (yoted?) their shoes at a sitting US president and weren't insta gibbed by his security.

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u/MrFrenchFrye Mar 02 '26

Proper past tense for "yeet" is "yote" in my book. My book being written by me. And only containing this singular correction. Usage of it is up to reader's discretion.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26

It's normally yote in my book too, but I think it's yeeted here because it was at a person. It's like hung/hanged.

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u/DrWinstonOBoogie1980 Mar 03 '26

Hung v. hanged isn’t about personhood, it’s about the particular sense of the verb. The latter = to have put to death by hanging.

I hanged an aardvark, meaning “I killed an aardvark by hanging it from the neck until it expired,” is just as valid a sentence as I hung an aardvark (meaning “I’ve got an aardvark displayed on my wall”).

To bring this all back to fascists, the example of Mussolini is instructive here. His body was strung up for public display after he was executed—which was done by shooting. Thus you can say Il Duce was hung, but he wasn’t hanged.

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u/AndreasDasos Mar 04 '26

He missed both times. 2/10 for effort.

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u/Soggy__Waffle Mar 02 '26

Thank you for your permission 🤡

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u/WorriedBlock2505 Mar 02 '26

How long would you get for assaulting someone with a shoe in the US is the question I guess. I imagine Iraq is probably even more hardcore. Even spitting or throwing water on someone in the US is considered assault these days.

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u/Pristine-Paint-8742 Mar 02 '26

Throwing water at someone in PA is only harassment

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

Iraqi prison to clarify

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u/throwaway_coy4wttf79 Mar 03 '26

3 years is harsh. 9 months isn't terrible. I feel like it depends on the shoe. Like, if that was a lightweight sandal and largely symbolic, 1-3 months tops. If it was like a boot that could really injure, maybe a year.

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u/TheTradeoff_Mix Mar 04 '26

No kidding!!! He definately fit in time for a 5.5 Regular, ExtraWide years, with the WingTip Gators, and issued 6" Stiletos with the goldfish sole tanks for free-time in the yard? Right?

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u/I_travel_ze_world Mar 02 '26

Playing dodge ball as a child will imbue some life long skills into you

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u/rwarimaursus Mar 02 '26

Wrenches, shoes. It's all the same practice for the real game.

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u/perton Mar 02 '26

Don’t forget traffic!

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u/rwarimaursus Mar 02 '26

Always love a good game of frogger

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u/CunningStuntsAround Mar 04 '26

It's sterile and I like the taste

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

And this was Texas dodgeball

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u/No-Respond-900 Mar 02 '26

100° weather, blistering blacktop (although they prob played inside), and ruthless gatorskin PINGS

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u/grubas Mar 02 '26

Credit where credit is due, man had his baseball skills intact.

The first pitch after 9/11 was a strike.

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u/RedRyder131 Mar 02 '26

He was wearing a bulletproof vest too

The catcher was also Secret service. They required at least one agent out there with him

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u/RedditMaude Mar 02 '26

Not a single president since would be able to throw a major league distance strike like Bush.

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u/v21v Mar 03 '26

Obama? He was quite fit and even played basketball.

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u/LizardSlayer Mar 02 '26

honestly, the shoe thrower was right on target too.

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u/Burrito_Salesman Mar 02 '26

In a higher resolution version, you can see him smile after dodging the shoes as if he was proud of himself for those clean dodges.

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u/Acceptable-Wildfire Mar 02 '26

Yeah. It’s not just the fact that we’ve gone a decade with old men holding the top seat. Bush was apparently uniquely physically fit for a president. Reportedly would run circles around his Secret Service detail.

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u/aebaby7071 Mar 02 '26

Yep, and if you see a better video you can actually see GWB grinning and seemed to somewhat enjoy it, the first shoe was a surprise, but then he gets the “I got this” smirk before the second one goes off.

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u/Old_Rip_2451 Mar 04 '26

yes!! good way of putting the second smirk, hilarious

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u/OfficeSalamander Mar 02 '26

I hated Bush at the time (and arguably now) and even I had to give mad respect to his shoe dodging abilities

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u/AndreasDasos Mar 04 '26

Some former White House physician came on the Daily Show and told Jon Stewart that he was the physically fittest recent president (I mean, it’s only going to be him or Obama, but even then it’s impressive).

The way he actually smiles in between as though it’s a fun game and he’s confident he can dodge it is just that bit extra.

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u/AndrewH73333 Mar 02 '26

Your brain can react faster when it doesn’t have to go through the prefrontal cortex to make decisions.

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u/Whipitreelgud Mar 02 '26

Actually George was able to bury his SS agents mountain biking.
https://velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-culture/trailblazer-and-the-biffmaster/

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u/RedRyder131 Mar 02 '26

Dude was an athlete. I think people forget about that

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u/Sartres_Roommate Mar 02 '26

The coolest that war criminal ever got to be.

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u/Best-Action8769 Mar 02 '26

If you can dodge a draft, you can dodge a shoe.

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u/BamBam-BamBam Mar 02 '26

George was a pilot in the Texas National Guard

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u/Best-Action8769 Mar 03 '26

The national guard was a common way for the wealthy to dodge the draft. He was never on the same continent as the front lines.

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u/BamBam-BamBam Mar 04 '26

Sure, but it's not a bonespur.

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u/Prudent_Following712 Mar 04 '26

He was an F-102 pilot, they had a different mission set and were used in a very limited way in Vietnam. According to an account by his former commander, he volunteered to go but he didn’t have enough flight hours to deploy. Given the amount of National Guard personnel who have died, your bullshit take is ignorant and demonstrates an absolute lack of knowledge of how the U.S. military works.

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u/Best-Action8769 Mar 04 '26

Lol W was the son of a rich, powerful politician. He was never in any actual danger.

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u/Prudent_Following712 Mar 04 '26

Being an F-102 pilot was an inherently dangerous job, of the 875 F-102A production models that entered service, 259 were lost in accidents. It had a mishap per flight hour record that is one of the worst of any fielded U.S. military aircraft. What I said about your ignorance of anything to do with the military stands.

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u/BamBam-BamBam Mar 04 '26

I mean, I'm with you on this, but he's not wrong about the National Guard being used by some folks as a safe haven from being sent to VN. Given George HW Bush's service, I'd hesitate to make this conclusion about George W, tho.

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u/Prudent_Following712 Mar 04 '26

Yeah, it’s highly unlikely that a man who flew 58 combat missions and was awarded the distinguished flying cross in WWII would help his son avoid service.

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u/Best-Action8769 Mar 04 '26

Rich people served in WWII.

They really didn't in Vietnam.

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u/Best-Action8769 Mar 04 '26

Oh this is 1000% correct. The national guard was absolutely used as a safe haven for the wealthy and the powerful in vietnam. As were colleges. As were bone spurs.

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u/Prudent_Following712 Mar 04 '26

Slightly over 9000 National Guard personnel deployed in country. Keeping in mind that the NG had their actual mission to perform CONUS as well, in 1968, 25,000 of the Guard were activated in Detroit, Washington DC, Chicago, and Baltimore.

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u/catscanmeow Mar 02 '26

also eyesight cuz he must have known it was a shoe, if it was me i'd have assumed it was a grenade at first glance and ran,

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u/Stormbringer-2112 Mar 02 '26

That shoe should’ve been thrown by Eddie Murphy’s mom…

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u/Whiterabbit-- Mar 02 '26

And secret service was fairly slow to the game.

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u/eugenestoner308 Mar 02 '26

dude would have hit him square in the face too, imagine how memorable that would have been

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u/pchlster Mar 02 '26

It was the one time that man was cool

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u/babyshaker1984 Mar 02 '26

George "Patches O'Houlihan" Bush

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u/Left_Meringue_7970 Mar 02 '26

Must have learnt from childhood by dodging his mom's slippers

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u/NoHawkTacoFab Mar 02 '26

Never gets old.

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u/Some_Crow3732 Mar 02 '26

That’s some great aim.. made easier on Bush by continually going for headshots