Needs Ex-Lax

[Pell Mell]

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/07/23/world/23afghan-337.jpg

Why does he always look constipated?

[cj's dad]

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/07/23/world/23afghan-337.jpg

Why does he always look constipated?

Actually it's the Admiral Stockdale look;

"who am I, why am I here" ?

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Seeing that picture of Biden reminded me of Alice Roosevelt Longworth (Theodore Roosevelt's daughter) once saying that Calvin Coolidge looked as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

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Here's Silent Cal in one of his more jocular moods:

Calvin Coolidge (http://www.geh.org/ar/strip17/l197701890500.jpg)

[Greyfox]

The attitudes of the noses of the color guard that he is walking by are such that it looks like they've just "smelled something strange or rancid."

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The attitudes of the noses of the color guard that he is walking by are such that it looks like they've just "smelled something strange or rancid."

I don't know what country Biden was in, but I'd cut him some slack on that account. I think it's a relic of the Cold War. In every photo that I ever saw of Soviet or Eastern bloc soldiers in formation, they always had their noses cocked at that angle. (At least these soldiers appear to have tempered the accompanying facial expression, which was normally a disdainful sneer.)

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The other association I make with Biden's expression is from the beginning of Patton: the expression on George C. Scott's face when he uses his swagger stick to return the salute of the children who come running up to him upon his arrival at his headquarters in North Africa.

[Tom]

He just listened to BOs health care speech.

[wes]

He may have had a glass of milk that makes a man pull his pants down and a woman pull up her dress. MILK OF MAGNESIA!