{"id":13155,"date":"2012-06-18T16:58:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T00:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=13155"},"modified":"2012-10-15T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T19:00:00","slug":"even-more-on-the-amazing-sandwich-computer-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=13155","title":{"rendered":"Even More on The Amazing Sandwich Computer Machine."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IoSCb78oUL4<\/p>\n<p>Fascinated by Mitt Romney&#8217;s chimerical trip to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/07\/30\/magazine\/30wwln_consumed.html\">Wawa?<\/a><\/strong> My pal\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dooid.me\/rpetzar\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ryan Petzar<\/span><\/a> breaks it down, for no apparent reason, and with timecode.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">0:15:<\/span><\/strong> Mitt, with one hand on his hip and sleeves rolled up in a way specifically designed to appeal to people who&#8217;ve graduated college but haven&#8217;t been able to actually earn enough money in their lives to make that degree really worthwhile, asks &#8220;Where do you get your hoagies here? Do you get them at Wawas? Is that where you get &#8217;em?&#8221; This is\u00a0<em>hilarious <\/em>not only\u00a0because he knows that&#8217;s the answer, because it was fucking publicized he&#8217;d be going to a Wawa, but because he says it with the same exact cadence that Jay Leno does while setting up an awful monologue joke: &#8220;So have you heard that, uh, have you heard that\u00a0<em>OCTO-<\/em>mom is, uh&#8230; she&#8217;s filming an adult movie?&#8221; Basically, Mitt Romney is the Jay Leno of politics: he&#8217;s awful, but some old white people decided they didn&#8217;t hate him as much as their other options.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">0:23:<\/span><\/strong> Having clearly established that everybody knows he&#8217;s talking about Wawa, the fucking place where one-in-three people in the audience bought their coffee or gas that morning, he proceeds to ask if anybody has ever been &#8220;a place called Wawas.&#8221; I mean, that&#8217;s how you qualify things when I talk about Philly to my friends back home: &#8220;They&#8217;ve got this place called Condom Kingdom, right? Yeah! In big letters! That&#8217;s what it&#8217;s actually called!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">0:25:<\/span><\/strong> Some people in the crowd cheer because they&#8217;re at a political rally for Not-The-Black-Guy and that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re supposed to do. Some people groan because, holy fuck, Mitt is going off notes.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">0:28:<\/span><\/strong> Mitt, confused by the audience reaction that is not the usual &#8216;wild applause&#8217; he gets at his carefully scripted events, tries to backtrack and forgets how to use his mouth to make words: \u00a0&#8220;Some people don&#8217;t la&#8230; I&#8217;m sorry&#8230; I know it&#8217;s a\u00a0<em>vig<\/em> state divided.&#8221;\u00a0While being a factually correct statement, yes, the state is\u00a0<em>big<\/em> (I&#8217;m giving him the benefit of the doubt here.) and it\u00a0<em>is <\/em>divided both geographically by mountains and a river, he&#8217;s in an area that&#8217;s pretty much not at all divided. When you&#8217;re in NE PA if you say anything bad about Wawa, you get stabbed. I know this because they didn&#8217;t have Wawas where I grew up so I preferred Central PA&#8217;s Rutter&#8217;s Farm Stores.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">0:30:<\/span><\/strong> Mitt realizes he&#8217;s already fucked. He&#8217;s passing the mic from hand to hand and gesticulating with his free hand. If you imagine him being in water up to his chest, it looks exactly like he&#8217;s treading water.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">0:32:<\/span><\/strong> &#8220;I was in Wawas. I went in to order a sandwich.&#8221; This is funny on it&#8217;s own, not so much because he either makes the name \u00a0possessive\u00a0or plural, but because as an android, everybody knows he has no need to eat.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">0:35:<\/span><\/strong> &#8220;You press the little (pantomimes pressing a button) touch-tone keypad&#8230;&#8221; Okay, the obvious joke here is that he&#8217;s severely out of touch by using the largely-antiquated term &#8216;touch-tone&#8217; and Wawa&#8217;s screens don&#8217;t even have keys. But the\u00a0<strong>best<\/strong> part of this is how\u00a0<em>fucking novel<\/em> the idea seems to him. He&#8217;s completely unable to mask the absolute childlike wonder in his voice. &#8220;So these people go in, and they have a screen? There&#8217;s no menu? How do I know what the specials are? Where does it tell you the market price for the lobster? Shouldn&#8217;t the waiter handle all this for them?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">0:38<\/span><\/strong>: Here&#8217;s a really underrated part of this video. For a split second, Sir Mittington turns into\u00a0<em>Fatherhood<\/em>-era Bill Cosby with his rapid-fire explanation of how you order a hoagie at Wawa. &#8220;You just touch this, and you know (waving hand), the sandwich comes (???) and you\u00a0<em>putch <\/em>this, touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier&#8230; there&#8217;s your sandwich!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">0:42:<\/span><\/strong> Mitt inhales DEEPLY into the mic.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">0:43:<\/span><\/strong> &#8220;It,&#8221; he exclaims, \u00a0referring to the act of ordering a sandwich at Wawa, &#8220;is amazing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Look, I&#8217;ll give Mitt one thing: that is\u00a0<em>exactly<\/em> how I acted when I ordered a sandwich at Wawa (technically it was a Sheetz, the Central\/Western PA version of Wawa, but it&#8217;s the same principle). But the thing is, I was five-motherfucking-years old. And even at five I was able to verbalized the experience better than he did.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/petzrawr\">follow ryan on the twitter<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13174 alignleft\" title=\"FIRST WAWA STORE\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/wawa2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy of Wawa Inc. \/ AP<\/em><br \/>\nPhoto of the first Wawa store, April 16, 1964 in Folsom, Pa., a Delaware County dairy store chain named for the Lenape Indian word for Canada goose.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IoSCb78oUL4 Fascinated by Mitt Romney&#8217;s chimerical trip to Wawa? 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