The Chocolate Chip Cookie is younger than John McCain.
OK, this is an odd one. Apparently, the chocolate chip cookie has not been around since the dawn of time. It did not evolve from anything, nor was it hanging down from the forbidden tree (or whatever it’s called) in the Garden of Eden. It was, in fact, invented in 1937 by Ruth Graves Wakefield of Whitman, Massachusetts, who ran the Toll House Restaurant.
So this classic staple and friend of milk lovers everywhere is actually younger than John McCain.
(Thanks to Sean J. for the tip!)
Is this site supposed to make me feel bad about McCain or good about Obama?
How about:
http://www.thingsthatsucklessthanobama.com
They ALL suck but Obama emulates pure vacuume about the best I’ve seen.
Comment by kf6hqc — May 12, 2008 @ 10:46 pm
Great idea for a website – but I think the wording is actually not as good as it could be.
Look up Lakoff (“Don’t think of an elephant”) and you’ll see what I mean.
It would be stronger to say:
“McCain is OLDER THAN …” (Alaska, chocolate chip cookies)
instead of (Alaska, chocolate chip cookies) “… are younger than McCain”
The word you need to keep repeating is OLDER OLDER OLDER.
I know this is equivalent to what you’re saying – but the way Lakoff showed the brain works, you need to be using the word OLDER in a sentence with McCain… not the word YOUNGER.
Comment by lakoff follower — May 12, 2008 @ 10:49 pm
So a different name for the blog could be:
mccainisolderthan.com
Comment by lakoff follower — May 12, 2008 @ 10:50 pm
Buddy Holly.
Batman & Superman.
The minimum wage.
Comment by thomasblair — May 12, 2008 @ 10:56 pm
Dear Sesame-Street-Educated Commentator:
Jim Henson, hilariously, is dead. He was born just less than one month after John McCain was born.
This does not prove that John McCain is too old to be President, but that JIM HENSON WAS TOO MUCH OF A HIPPY TO GROW OLD!
This proves that John McCain IS HEALTHIER THAN A FRUITS-NUTS-AND-SPROUTS HIPPY LIKE JIM HENSON!
Let’s list things and people which are OLDER than John McCain:
1. Carl Reiner
2. Dick Van Dyke
3. Rogers Peet
4. Heddy Lamar
5. Barbara Bush
6. Mel Blanc
7. Bennett Cerf
8. Senator John Warner
9. Wernher von Braun
10. Lewis and Clark
11. Adlai Stevenson
12. Valéry Marie René Giscard d’Estaing
13. Anatoly Dobrynin
14. Chuck Connors
15. Andy Samuel Griffith
16. Leverett, Mississippi
So there.
Have a Dovely.
Sincerely yours,
CALEB BOONE.
Comment by Caleb Boone — May 12, 2008 @ 11:15 pm
Great site. But it would be more impactful if you said, “John McCain is older than X,” rather than “X is younger than John McCain.”
Comment by Jacob — May 13, 2008 @ 12:10 am
Great site! As a citizen, I think this is hilarious but not entirely disrespectful to Mr. McCain, who, lest we forget, has admitted himself that he’s older than dirt.
And as a political operative who is no fan of McCain… I love it. THANK YOU!
Comment by D.K. — May 13, 2008 @ 12:53 am
The United Nations, younger than McCain.
Twinkies, with their healthier golden complexion and soft non profane cream center are younger than McCain.
Disneyland is younger than John McCain. Zipadeedoodah
McCain is older than South Vietnam, the internet, Sputnik, Stratego, the Milwaukee Braves, the Los Angeles Rams, The Hindenburg, The Golden Gate Bridge, Toyota, mass-produced penicillin, The Today Show, and Playboy Magazine.
Comment by lostnacfgop — May 13, 2008 @ 1:00 am
Great site! Here’s one for you: McCain is older than the current Pledge of Allegiance–the words “under God” were added in 1954, and the custom of putting one’s hand over one’s heart while reciting it only dates back to the 1942 (prior to our entrance into WWII, the custom was to raise one’s hand in solute to the flag–I can’t imagine why they changed that, can you?). McCain is older than both alterations to the Pledge…which didn’t even become officially sanctioned until 1945, also after McCain was born.
McCain is also older than Thin Mints–the most popular and enduring Girl Scout cookie ever made was first sold in 1951.
Comment by Elsinora — May 13, 2008 @ 1:17 am
Too bad that most of the voting public isn’t younger than McCain. I heard that the AARP folks may not see this as a compelling reason to vote against a candidate.
Comment by Barack Tiberius Obama — May 13, 2008 @ 1:43 am
Great site, but it would be better if you named it “Things, Either Living Or Inanimate, Whose Presence On This Planet Ante-Date That of John McCain, Making Them Less Temporally-Challenged Than the Presumptive Republican Presidential Candidate”. I’d have thought that were obvious.
PS. I took a dump this morning that smelled so foul that I’m fairly certain it originated with a really cheap lunch I ate in the spring of 1958 that had been caught up on a rib all those years. Which would make that lunch and the dump younger than John McCain.
Comment by Mister Horrible — May 13, 2008 @ 2:15 am
Singapore is younger than McCain!
Comment by AlanRaj — May 13, 2008 @ 8:57 am
chocolate chip cookies were invented in 1930.
http://www.verybestbaking.com/products/tollhouse/history.aspx
Comment by factchecker — May 13, 2008 @ 10:41 am
the hindenburg: Maiden flight 4 March 1936
john mccain: Born 29 August 1936
Comment by factchecker — May 13, 2008 @ 10:46 am
Actually, they bought the house in 1930, the link you provided does not have an actual date for the cookies.
Comment by BetterFactChecker — May 13, 2008 @ 11:20 am
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Older than cookies
That’s good enough for me.
Comment by Dr. Squid — May 13, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
John McCain is older than Richard Strauss’ last 3 operas: “Daphne” (1937), “Die Liebe der Danae” (1940), and “Capriccio” (1941);
Shostakovich’s 5th-15th symphonies;
Stravinsky’s Opera “The Rake’s Progress” (1951), and
Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Symphony (November 1936)
Comment by T — May 13, 2008 @ 3:50 pm
Two things:
1) I believe it was the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, aka Tree of Conscience.
2) I have actually heard that older voters are less likely to vote for an older candidate, ’cause they know how age has changed their minds and perceptions and energy. TV said that. TV SAID THAT?!? Yes, TV said that.
Comment by Megan — May 13, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
much the internet, if you heard it on tv, it’s got to be true. thanks for writing, megan.
Comment by admin — May 13, 2008 @ 4:08 pm
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The Chocolate Chip Cookie was invented in 1933 by Ruth Wakefield. At least, that’s what Wikipedia and Nestle Toll House wrappers say.
Comment by Kathryn — May 14, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
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http://whatscookingamerica.net/Cookie/ChocChipCookies.htm
There’s where I got it. That links says ’37.
Comment by Sean j — May 16, 2008 @ 4:17 pm
SHOW SOME RESPECT SHORT ROUND! John McCain has more time in the chow line than you have on the planet!
Where is your name on any ballot?
Tom Ford
Comment by Tom Ford — May 16, 2008 @ 8:36 pm
What a total jerk-off site. You need to quit playing on your mommie’s computer.
Keep this up and she will send you to bed without your supper.
Comment by Laary-Marine — May 16, 2008 @ 10:37 pm
“Am I being “age-ist”? Maybe. But maybe not. The world is a pretty complicated place right now and I’m thinking that it’s not such a great time to elect our oldest President ever. So sue me.”
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The world is way too complicated a place to elect Obama as the most unseasoned and least experienced President ever. I want a mature, been-there-and-done-that ADULT as President, not some green kid!
Comment by Greg H. in Virginia — May 16, 2008 @ 11:04 pm
The most unseasoned and least experienced President ever ? No more unseasoned than when BUSH took his office.And Obama is alot more intelligent……then again so is a rock!
Comment by TONY3OR8 — May 17, 2008 @ 7:57 am
#26,
I’m 40. This is my computer. Thanks.
Comment by admin — May 17, 2008 @ 11:21 am
John McCain is older then me, and when I was growing up we always called chocolate chip cookies Toll House cookies. Now I know why.
Comment by charlie — May 17, 2008 @ 12:44 pm
see that? it’s fun AND educational… take THAT, #27!
Comment by admin — May 17, 2008 @ 12:47 pm
I know it’s useless to try and say “respect your elders” so I won’t say it.
Bush made better grades than Al Bore and Jean Kerry combined. The only dumb rocks are the ones who are posting on this site AND trying to chew gum at the same time. So spit yours out and try to make a sensible statement.
Obamma needs guys like you to vote for him. He won’t get us college graduates and gun owners.
Comment by Laary-Marine — May 17, 2008 @ 8:45 pm
It was called the tree of knowledge.
Comment by Phillip McGregor — May 17, 2008 @ 8:52 pm
#34,
thanks!
Comment by admin — May 17, 2008 @ 8:53 pm
I’m not so sure about chocolate chip cookies being younger than Mr. McCain. According to the Fannie Farmer Cookbook, they were invented by “a Massachusetts housewife in 1929.” Perhaps more research is needed on this one.
Comment by Dan Gleich — May 23, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
This is a hotly contested point – but here’s where I got my info from: http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/CookieHistory.htm
1937 – The first chocolate chip cookies was invented in 1937 by Ruth Graves Wakefield (1905-1977), of Whitman, Massachusetts, who ran the Toll House Restaurant. The Toll House Restaurant site was once a real toll house built in 1709, where stage coach passengers ate a meal while horses were changed and a toll was taken for use of the highway between Boston and New Bedford, a prosperous whaling town. The Wakefields sold the restaurant in 1966. It burned down on New Year’s Eve in 1984.
Comment by admin — May 23, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
NOT TRUE
Ruth Wakefield owner of the Toll House Inn invented the chocolate chip cookie in 1933.
Making chocolate chip cookies about 3 years older than McCain.
Comment by Rob — July 14, 2008 @ 1:16 pm
This site cracks me up! By the way, John McCain is older than M & M’s!
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Playing this trivia game at work…older or younger than John McLame.
Proven to be an easy game.
Nothing is older than John McCain!
Comment by Melanie — October 13, 2008 @ 12:29 pm