Barney: No Annoying Purple Dinosaur He

The New Yorker has a profile of Barney Frank up. I've just started reading it, and couldn't resist passing this along:

Not long ago, Paul Begala, the political strategist, was speaking at a fund-raiser for a gay-rights group and said, “When I told my father, back in Texas, that I was speaking to an L.G.B.T. group, he said that sounded like a sandwich.” From the audience, Frank called out, “Sometimes it is!”

Thanks to Instaputz, who grabbed the line right before.