On Rule 5, inappropriately used slang, and unintentional hilariousness

Remember the PUMAs?

No, not the shoes. Not the cats. And not the nearly-middle-aged women looking to bag a younger guy (we’ll come back to them).

I mean P.U.M.A. – “Party Unity My Ass.” That group of Hillary supporters who felt so cheated by the Democratic Party’s embrace of Barack Obama that they started their own breakaway group.

Well they’re still around, or so I gather. They’ve got a PAC, with a website, and…

Whatever else you do today…besides reading the rest of this post, and then linking to it, that is…watch that video. Comedy gold. I am not kidding. Some quotes:

• “Manufacturing a label is what we do socially and politically and it’s no secret that we flaunt our perceptions on others with a veracity that is unequalled.”

• “Why we live in a society that thrives on name-calling is a Freudian study.”

• “The PUMA movement was thought of as a bunch of disgruntled voters when in reality it was the Taj Mahal of consciousness reforming political mathematics.”

• “When one person rises above the crowd they are transformed by the truth. The crowd sees this as an intrusion and human instinct reacts with a form of suppression.”

And that’s just from the first minute!

Here’s the thing – and yeah, I know this might fly in the face of your more militant forms of feminism – the PUMA chicks people have an awesome opening to do some really effective marketing, because of their acronym’s alternate meaning.

Let’s say, just for example, they recruit this 40-year-old Arizona divorcee to be their spokeswoman:

That’s Stacey Anderson, star of TV Land’s reality show “The Cougar.” Sort of a “Bachelorette” kind of thing, but with an older woman and a bunch of younger guys.

Or maybe Vivica Fox, the show’s host:

You may remember her from the Will Smith movie “Independence Day.” She played Smith’s sweetie. The stripper.

Anyway, PUMA should give that some thought. They did, after all, choose their name with full knowledge of the double entendre.

I am available for consulting work.

One more thing: I notice from her imdb.com page that Vivica was born in 1964. That makes her five years older than me, and, I thought, probably quite a bit older than Smith.

Just thought that was funny, from the “puma” angle.

But then I checked Smith’s imdb page – he was born in 1968. He’s older than me, too!

I never figured that. For crying out loud, he was almost thirty by the time “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” finished up!