Oh, and Papaya means “vagina” or something.
I’m up for genuine gaffes and silly moments but this one is pretty weaksauce on either front -however it contains a presidential candidate and vagina, so I probably have to post about it even if its really silly. I mean – the word swapping is what is supposed to be silly – but I find it being a story that anyone thought to bring up is whats silly.
Seems like a pretty transparent attempt to make Romney sound more stiff and weird and awkward than he actually is. Like he’s supposed to be embarrassed at saying a word that in another language is taken to mean vagina. Oh, the scandal! You can tell thats the case cuz swap Romney out for Obama and this story has a one-second “ya. so do I. in either meaning” type of “heh” to it and thats it.
While campaigning in Florida on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney accidentally told the host of a Cuban-American radio show that he’s a “big fan of…” vagina. That’s the Cuban slang translation of papaya, among a list of fruits that Romney professed admiration for. Maybe his campaign should start selling those big foam fingers.
So it’d be like a UK Prime Minister candidate doing New England radio and saying for dessert, he’s a big fan of dick – referring to the english Spotted Dick dessert but all we Yanks can hear is “penis”. I guess? okay. except not really since Romney didnt say “pap” or “yaya” or “sweet southern orange fruity flesh” – he said the name of the fruit. seems poor form to go gradeschool-giggles over a dictionary word commonly known as being a fruit also being Cuban for “baby hole”.
In general I’m so much not a fan of this kind of “oh snap – you said a thing that makes sense but also to some people in a different context means something else and thats funny to me lololol!!” thing. i also like papayas and do not like the conflation of the two with this imagery so i’m vetoing the Cuban connection. Heres the clip of him saying it.
The part I don’t get is that the radio crew started laughing when Romney said he liked mango, yet no one is saying there is any verbal connection to mango meaning anything. so. eh. whats that about?
Over on Michelle Malkins “look what people are saying about stuff on Twitter” site, she has some more reaction, including that of Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher, the author of the Mediaite piece that brought this into our lives and appears to be pretty clueless.
The story got #ReplaceMovieNamesWithPapaya, zero examples of which I found to be amusing, but #PapayaFacts has a few lulz by way of saying “oh ya?” to the people calling this a gaffe.
#PapayaFacts: Obama ate a dog.— stephenkruiser (@stephenkruiser) August 15, 2012
— stephenkruiser (@stephenkruiser) August 15, 2012
#PapayaFacts: A papaya once beat Joe Biden on Celebrity Jeopardy!
