Funny quotes/exchanges of 2005...

[danzig]

Yes its obviously slanted to a particular idealogy of quotes/headlines but your feel free to add your own/dumb stupid quotes of 2005
http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/...5/best9-12.asp

Couple of funny ones

Mat Lauer's attempt to depress a soldier morale it seems:
"Matt Lauer in Baghdad: "Talk to me...about morale here. We’ve heard so much about the insurgent attacks, so much about the uncertainty as to when you folks are going to get to go home. How would you describe morale?"
Chief Warrant Officer Randy Kirgiss: "In my unit morale is pretty good. Every day we go out and do our missions and people are ready to execute their missions. They’re excited to be here."
Lauer: "How much does that uncertainty of [not] knowing how long you’re going to be here impact morale?"|
Specialist Steven Chitterer: "Morale is always high. Soldiers know they have a mission. They like taking on new objectives and taking on the new challenges...."
Lauer: "Don’t get me wrong here, I think you are probably telling me the truth, but a lot of people at home are wondering how that could be possible with the conditions you’re facing and with the attacks you’re facing. What would you say to those people who are doubtful that morale can be that high?"
Captain Sherman Powell: "Sir, if I got my news from the newspapers also, I’d be pretty depressed as well."

Katie Couric on Gas Prices:
"Co-host Matt Lauer: "Pain at the pump. Gas prices are going sky high. I paid $2.94 a gallon over the weekend to fill up the car."
Co-host Katie Couric: "It’s ridiculous. I had to take out a loan to fill up my minivan. It’s crazy."
— Exchange at the top of NBC’s Today, August 15. Couric makes about $15,000,000 a year."

Ted Turner on North Korea:
Ted Turner: "I am absolutely convinced that the North Koreans are absolutely sincere. There’s really no reason for them to cheat [on nukes]....I looked them right in the eyes. And they looked like they meant the truth. You know, just because somebody’s done something wrong in the past doesn’t mean they can’t do right in the future or the present. That happens all the, all the time."
Wolf Blitzer: "But this is one of the most despotic regimes and Kim Jong-Il is one of the worst men on Earth. Isn’t that a fair assessment?"
Turner: "Well, I didn’t get to meet him, but he didn’t look — in the pictures that I’ve seen of him on CNN, he didn’t look too much different than most other people."
Blitzer: "But, look at the way, look at the way he’s, look at the way he’s treating his own people."
Turner: "Well, hey, listen. I saw a lot of people over there. They were thin and they were riding bicycles instead of driving in cars, but–"
Blitzer: "A lot of those people are starving."
Turner: "I didn’t see any, I didn’t see any brutality...."

Amusing NY Times POV:
"An Advocate for the Right."
— Headline over a New York Times "news analysis" of Judge John Roberts’ judicial philosophy, July 28.

vs.

"Balanced Jurist at Home in the Middle."
— Headline over a June 27, 1993 New York Times story on Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

[Crazed Rabbit]

This is good too:
"It’s been 11 days since two African-American teenagers were killed, electrocuted during a police chase, which prompted all of this."
— Anchor Carol Lin after a Nov. 6 CNN Sunday Night story about riots in France. The two teenagers were not Americans, but French citizens of Tunisian heritage.

Crazed Rabbit

[imb39]

Crazed Rabbit - African-Americans does not refer to the country in which some one was born but is a 'racial' term. I, for example, was born in Britain but can also be described as Caucasian.

[Atheist Peace]

Crazed Rabbit - African-Americans does not refer to the country in which some one was born but is a 'racial' term. I, for example, was born in Britain but can also be described as Caucasian.

Right, but the term "african-american" is always misused. How do you know that those people definitely have african ancestry or they themselves are from Africa? You can't, so you should call them BLACK, not "african-american".

An African-American:

African-American

A BLACK person: (may be african-american, but how would I know?)

[Erik]

Crazed Rabbit - African-Americans does not refer to the country in which some one was born but is a 'racial' term. I, for example, was born in Britain but can also be described as Caucasian.

But they are from Tunesia so they were probably not that dark skinned (more like Middle-Eastern/Maroccan etc.).


Tunesian singer, would you say she was of the same race as a typical "Afro-American"?


Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, president of Tunesia and his wife?

[imb39]

It is a 'hot potato' and it refers to where the person's heritage originally came from. The PC use of the word 'American' in conjunction with African just emphasises that the vast majority of people who are black come from either the Americas (due, primarily, to slavery) or Africa. It is a label, no more.

Just like a significant number of people in America is Caucasian. Same thing applies to your argument).

[Ahiga]

Not at all. Nor would I consider a large amount of native egyptians, Moroccans, and presumably Libyans and other North Africans, to be the traditional image.

Same with Asian. The term has become a synonym for people of features found within China to Japan to Indonesia. It fails to note those of India, and other regions. technically, you could count iranians and afganis and pakistani's as 'asian' as well. The entire middle east and those of Turkey too [Granted, Middle Eastern has simply become the term for them, that still leaves those of pakistan and Iran and Afganistan]

As well, Arab has been misused as a term almost equal to muslim, in that they regard anyone of the region as Arab.

But the topic should sway back. I can't think of any quote though.

[Marshal Qin]

OT, just noticed your sig Erik

Merry Mithras day and a happy Yule everybody!

Damn pagans!

ok, back on topic now... uh... I'll leave you to it. carry on forumites.