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[-] roux@hexbear.net 42 points 5 months ago

A) this is hilarious and 2) I just realized I never asked why he is called big wet boy, so why y'all call him that? lol

I'm not positive but I think it's because he's big, wet, and a boy

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 44 points 5 months ago

I mean seriously look at him.

There's a 10 ft damp radius around him.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago

the boy is the biggest and wettest you've ever seen, folks

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[-] roux@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

Ok the first and last def make it make sense more. I think I get it. I always considered it like "greasy" tho.

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

The explanation I recall seeing is he almost always looks like he has just finished (or is in the middle) of sweating

[-] roux@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

And I was figuring it might have been something like that but was wondering if there was any deeper Hexbearian lore to it or something. Ty!

[-] ThisMachinePostsHog@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

I think it originated with Matt Christman calling him that a few years ago.

[-] mushroom@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago
[-] roux@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

lol this makes me even more confused. Why is Reagan BONE DRY? And why did I read that in John Mulaney's voice?

This president is BONE DRY.

[-] mushroom@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

it's partly literal, about their sweat levels - notice that the presidents from southern states (lbj, carter, clinton) are all various stages of wet, nixon and trump are famously very sweaty, whereas you will have a harder time finding photos of biden or reagan for example dripping sweat. but it's also vibes-based, dryer presidents are mostly more boring, lack a sort of bon vivant quality compared to the wet presidents, are a bit more put together in their public appearances. at least that's how i would try to explain it. i also disagree with some of his assessments, mostly truman and bush ii (both slightly on the wet side of the spectrum)

reagan was considered kind of a nowhere man, to such an extent that a biographer, rather than writing a biography about him, wrote a novel about a guy who just kind of ran into reagan on occasion. he was hollow, lacked a personality, a soulless quality to him. i think that plays a part in him being the dryest president

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

JFK was famously so dry that the CIA had to unalive him at Dow Chemical's request so that they could research his body to invent those little silica gel packs.

[-] roux@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

Ah, gotcha. That actually kind of makes sense. I think I really am having a tism day lol.

[-] mushroom@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

i appreciate you asking because it was fun trying to articulate what makes the tweet work both as a joke and as a (mostly jocular) analysis lol. i'm sure someone else would have an equally valid explanation, maybe christman himself has addressed it in one of the cushvlogs

[-] roux@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

You did a bang up job with the analysis lol.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

Oh god you're right, I heard it that way too

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