{"id":35455,"date":"2017-11-19T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=35455"},"modified":"2017-11-19T15:06:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T20:06:30","slug":"sex-with-senator-bob-taft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=35455","title":{"rendered":"Sex with Senator Bob Taft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, Bill O'Neill decided to \"speak up on the behalf of all heterosexual males\" by posting this on Facebook:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/ONeillFacebook.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since O'Neill is a justice of the Ohio State Supreme Court, and a declared candidate for governor of Ohio, this occasioned a certain amount of commentary.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since this is Language Log and not Patriarchy Discussion Log, I'll focus on the garden path created by the substring<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In the last fifty years I was sexually intimate with approximately 50 very attractive females. It ranged from a gorgeous personal secretary to Senator Bob Taft (Senior) who was my first true love<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is clearly the PP-attachment ambiguity of the year. A small sample of the commentary on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulmassonbrand\/status\/931576862471524352<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ohio governor candidate inadvertently announces he made love to Senator Bob Taft in a hayloft <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J143rHCwIN\">https:\/\/t.co\/J143rHCwIN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HMd6AMh1Ca\">pic.twitter.com\/HMd6AMh1Ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Slate (@Slate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Slate\/status\/932322951072043012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/NaggingYetti\/status\/931640184210419712<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ijspurcell\/status\/931578659474784257<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So, this happened. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Sjp0eeJRF\">https:\/\/t.co\/7Sjp0eeJRF<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvaCStone?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EvaCStone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elise Hu (@elisewho) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elisewho\/status\/931610308803747843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/GAcrimappeals\/status\/931575913208340480<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: Post has been edited. Senator Taft is no longer listed as his first true. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s6RJMC8XNQ\">pic.twitter.com\/s6RJMC8XNQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kerpen\/status\/931584047700152320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ben Mathis-Lilley (\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2017\/11\/17\/ohio_governor_candidate_made_love_to_senator_bob_taft_in_a_hayloft_he_says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ohio Gubernatorial Candidate Inadvertently Announces He Made Love to Senator Bob Taft in a Hayloft<\/a>\", <em>Slate<\/em> 11\/17\/2017) suggests that<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I think he means Bob Taft Jr., because Bob Taft Sr. died in 1953 and Bill O'Neill was born in 1947.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Even correcting the reference to Robert Taft Jr., the timeline is a bit odd, since he became senator in 1971, when O'Neill would have been 24 &#8212; the hidden revelation would then be that O'Neill managed to live through the 60s, from age 13 in 1960 to age 23 in 1970, without any sexual experience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, Bill O'Neill decided to \"speak up on the behalf of all heterosexual males\" by posting this on Facebook: Since O'Neill is a justice of the Ohio State Supreme Court, and a declared candidate for governor of Ohio, this occasioned a certain amount of commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-and-politics","category-syntax"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35455"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35466,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35455\/revisions\/35466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}