It's a phrase to highlight someone missing the point, purposefully or otherwise. It doesn't matter how good the play was, Mary Todd Lincoln watching her husband and then President of the United States Abraham Lincoln get shot in the head right beside her overshadows everything. It could have been the best acting ever but that's not what she was focusing on or what she'll remember.
In reference to the Aurora shootings
Person 1: "Oh my God, that's awful! Was the movie any good, at least?"
Person 2: "Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
In reference to a controversial person
Person 1: "Yeah, Mike's an alcoholic, a tax cheat, beats his kids, and is a pathological liar – but other than that, he's pretty cool."
Person 2: "Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
Person 1: "Oh my God, that's awful! Was the movie any good, at least?"
Person 2: "Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
In reference to a controversial person
Person 1: "Yeah, Mike's an alcoholic, a tax cheat, beats his kids, and is a pathological liar – but other than that, he's pretty cool."
Person 2: "Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
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Get the Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? mug.1. The term for any high school that is in Lincoln Way Community High School District 210.
2. Four years of hell.
3. A combination of Lincoln-Way and Alcatraz.
4. A dreadful place where Knights, Griffins, Phoenices (Phoenix?), and Warriors live.
2. Four years of hell.
3. A combination of Lincoln-Way and Alcatraz.
4. A dreadful place where Knights, Griffins, Phoenices (Phoenix?), and Warriors live.
Tony, an incoming freshman, was frightened by the videos his 8th grade teacher made him watch about Lincolntraz.
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A typical malaise affecting those who live in secluded rural areas such as Lincolnshire, England. Symptoms include lack of urban awareness; an aversity to progress; general social/racial ignorance and crucially the inability to accept that such areas are generally shit. Sufferers may find difficulty in rehabilitation; some have been known to live in said areas for life due to their irrefutable lack of ambition. Surprisingly some are content to be entertained lifelong by Young Farmers' parties and "Skeg-Vegas", an association of which the true Vegas, thankfully, is unlikely to know of. To this date there is no apparent cure.
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A word commonly used by neocon faux journalist Stephen Colbert to describe himself.
A word commonly used by neocon faux journalist Stephen Colbert to describe himself.
Stephen Colbert is Lincolnish.
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Get the Lincolnish mug.A phrase uttered by Neo-Confederates or Lost Causers after DESTROYING the pernicious lies of Yankees, Scalawags, and Carpetbaggers using FACTS and LOGIC.
Johnny Reb: "Why did the North invade the South in 1861? Was it because they hated slavery?"
Billy Yank: "No, it was to save the Union, but sl-"
Johnny Reb: "CHECKMATE, LINCOLNITES!1!!!1!"
Billy Yank: "No, it was to save the Union, but sl-"
Johnny Reb: "CHECKMATE, LINCOLNITES!1!!!1!"
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