John Edwards has apparently been going around saying he’s “not comfortable” around the gays, which is kind of funny coming from a guy who hangs out in $400 hair salons. But his wife Elizabeth wants everybody to know John only gets weirded out when the gays are really coming on strong to him, or threatening to sodomize him with reptiles or something.

Elizabeth explains how she saw a gay buddy dude one night on the town and pointed out her then-fiance. Handsome John Edwards. “And he said, oh, he’s awfully cute. I might snake him if he wasn’t with you. And I told John that.”

"And this is where he used the word 'uncomfortable.' He said, that made me feel uncomfortable. So Bob correctly remembers the word 'uncomfortable' but incorrectly remembers the circumstances in which he said it. All of us feel uncomfortable at someone snaking us -- I guess in the presence -- trying to snake us in the presence of our fiancee, and that made him feel uncomfortable, and John talked about that."

UPDATE: A reader adds, "'To snake' is an old southern slang term for 'to steal' or 'to sneak.'"