Straight Line of the Day: Your Analogy, Please: Obamacare as Promised vs. Obamacare as Delivered

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Your analogy, please: Obamacare as promised vs. Obamacare as delivered

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  1. Promised: Ronald Reagan
    Delivered: John Boehner

    Promised: A grand buffet
    Delivered: The same, but after Michael Moore is done with it

    Promised: Prime steak
    Delivered: Moldy tofu

    Promised: A more perfect Union
    Delivered: The Soviet Union

    Promised: Cookies
    Delivered: Crumbs

    Promised: Drinks on the house
    Delivered: You’re the house

    Promised: A mansion
    Delivered: A run-down tenement with a lien on it

    Promised: John Lennon
    Delivered: Yoko Ono

  2. Your analogy, please: Obamacare as promised vs. Obamacare as delivered

    Shangri-La vs. Mount St. Helens

    Titanic’s departure from Southampton vs. Titanic’s arrival at the bottom of the North Atlantic

    Trust me! vs. I said that?

    ObamaCare is coming on October 1st vs. Happy October Fools Day

    It’s a sure thing vs. Bernie Madoff with my money

  3. Your analogy, please: Obamacare as promised vs. Obamacare as delivered

    AED (Automated External Defibrillators) vs. DOA (Dead On Arrival)

    Michelle Pfeiffer vs. Michelle Obama

    Pie in the Sky vs. Cow pie

    Crispy bacon vs. Chernobyl

    Birthday balloon vs. the Hindenburg

  4. Dinner with Sarah Michelle Geller consisting of a well-marbled steak (grilled rare), baked potato with sour cream, a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon, and plate of Anonymiss’ world famous cookies for dessert vs. dinner with Michelle Obama consisting of tofu and beansprout surprise, water, and lime flavored diet Jell-O

  5. 80’s Madonna vs 2013 Madonna

    free large wooden horse vs waking up in the middle of the night to the sound of the entire town getting slaughtered

    that “affordable” lease on that luxury car you can’t afford vs. the balloon payment when you return it

  6. Windows 7 vs. Windows 8

    the picture on the box of a TV dinner vs an actual TV dinner

    the profile picture of anyone on an internet dating site vs the actual person (when I was dating I often referred to people that this applies to as “TV dinners”)

    “I have a Dream” vs. “Dreams of my Father”

    hot dog at the ballpark vs. hot dog at Obama’s house

  7. promised: stable, easily installable open source OS
    delivered: FreeBSD

    promised: something to help novices get comfortable with a complicated, full featured Office suite with an overwhelming list of features
    delivered: an animated paperclip

  8. the word “is” vs. Bill Clinton’s definition of the word “is”

    clarity vs. Obama saying “let me be clear”

    Cherokee Indian vs. Elisabeth Warren

    A better politician than Frank Lautenberg vs. Cory Booker

    What Michelle Obama serves at State Dinners vs. what Michelle Obama thinks YOU should be eating

    A Bird of Prey full of Klingons vs Air Force One making a separate trip for Michelle Obama

  9. …Episodes IV-VI vs. Episodes I-III.

    …dinosaur with a rocket launcher vs. gecko with a pea-shooter.

    …bacon vs. tofu.

    …”An important message from Little Orphan Annie” vs. “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine”

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  11. A Whopper Jr. vs Jr. Sisk

    Dinosaur with a rocket launcher vs Preparation H

    ’29 Yankees vs New York voters

    Couple of hundred one liners vs cookies and milk and an old Rockford Files rerun 🙂

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