Joe Biden is officially America's creepy uncle

There’s plenty of reasons to love Vice President Joe Biden: the State of the Union reactions, the way he looks through windows, his bottomless hunger for ice cream. But even Bidenphiles admit that his easy charm often crosses a line into … weirdness.

Joe’s “creepy uncle” problem was evident at the swearing-in ceremony for Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter: Biden all but demanded that Carter’s wife Stephanie stand near him so he could squeeze her shoulders, sniff her hair, and whisper in her ear.

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It’s hardly the first time that Biden has breached a woman’s personal space. There was that time he got handsy with a White House correspondent. There was the pit stop where he put the moves on a leather-clad lady biker. He’s macked on Irish presidents, Olympic athletes, Hillary Clinton, and Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. He got close with the daughter of Sen. Chris Coons, much to her annoyance. He’s not afraid to get up in the First Lady’s face, either.

Precedents aside, this latest awkwardness—which conservatives will probably be calling “Sniffgate” before the day is out—has piqued our curiosity: Just what did Biden say to Stephanie Carter? We hate to force a meme, but the possibilities are endless.