It’s simple improvement: every vice president should have an octopus on their head. And I don’t just mean in the paintings, I mean at every public appearance.
We should also judge their fitness for office by how healthy they keep their head octopus.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
I’m pretty sure all the others were just vehicles for Cheney’s portrait. Definitely made me laugh.
Good plan. Let’s vote for candidates that support this plan.
Well, the octopus is smarter than the entire chamber of politicians, and has plenty of arms with which to keep its bearer gagged and under-control (with a sharp beak if it gets a bit feisty), so where’s the downside?
The arrangement certainly doesn’t enhance the dignity of the octopus!
I’d like the arrangement better if I could choose the what veep got what octopus. Let’s give Cheney a cute little blue ring octopus and retroactivate it to 1984.
I work as a director, so I’m not an executive. I only rate a sea cucumber.
Oh PZ, not toilet duck again!
Why not? Most of our Vice Presidents already look like Wolf Eels
Made me think of a bonnet phrygien!! ;)
You know what that stuff does to you.
I thought Aaron Burr was the best, but then I saw Cheney.
I have to say, Quayle’s octopus looks disgruntled. Like it was hoping to get Jefferson or Adams or at least Stevenson and got stuck with Quayle instead. Biden looks totally in to having an octopus on his head.
I don’t know. I’d worry about the health of the octopus if it has to sit out of the water all the time. We need to move Washington, DC underwater for this to work. Hmm . . . of course, that might have a negative effect on the health of the humans. But I have a solution for that, too: Do away with the human element altogether and just appoint an octopus as the vice president! It’ll be an all-around improvement.
Surely the octopus would fall, or crawl, off? Need to secure it to the head – with a vice!
Isaac @12
The solution is that anyone visiting the Veep gets to give them a swirlie in the executive bathroom. It’s the humane thing to do!
@13, Nick Gotts: Sorry, have nit, must pick. Vise. Damned homophones.
Trebuchet
It’s entirely possible that Nick Gotts really meant ‘vice’.
#12 – maybe with climate change and rising sea levels, DC will just end up underwater. No need to move it.
Trebuchet, vice is an acceptable spelling in most civilised countries ;-)
Vises (veese?) don’t work out too well with mollusks. I know from experience.
Lack of water isn’t really a problem. Politicians are slimy.
It makes perfect sense. If you can’t keep a head octopus healthy (when you can control just about all the variables) then how are you going to manage a messy thing such as a country where variable are always changing value.
@18, Lofty: Damned English Language!
Nice kitty, by the way.
I think all the congressional leaders should wear one as well. They way they’ve been behaving, anything would raise the dignity of their office too.
Hey, I thought we weren’t commenting on people’s appearance around… Oh, hey, nice octopus. :D
Raise? Once you are inside the Stoooooopidity Radius, it doesn’t matter whether you stop digging or wear an entire fleet of octopodes, you can’t escape the Blockhead Hole.