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BrianS · Still Number One

Quote of the day

Short Santa · **For entertainment purposes only!**

Politicians rarely use words without thought.

As such, did a Japanese politician deliberately say that China is scary? (yes) if so, what did he/she hope to gain? (apart from CNN coverage) Geopolitics my friends. Now the UK/US/any other gung ho nations out there have evidence, yes evidence! that China is a threat, because they're 'scary'. So continues the politics of economics, because the Chinese are not scary in a military sense (although they could probably effectively invade both northern America and Europe), but they are scary in an economic sense, and that demands action!

Those brokers' of free markets are at their most upset when someone is more competitive than them.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

I think Eric Idle said it best:

The world today seems absolutely crackers,
With nuclear bombs to blow us all sky high.
There's fools and idiots sitting on the trigger.
It's depressing and it's senseless, and that's why...
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They only come up to your knees,
Yet they're always friendly, and they're ready to please.

I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
There's nine hundred million of them in the world today.
You'd better learn to like them; that's what I say.

I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They come from a long way overseas,
But they're cute and they're cuddly, and they're ready to please

I like Chinese food.
The waiters never are rude.
Think of the many things they've done to impress.
There's Maoism, Taoism, I Ching, and Chess.

So I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
I like their tiny little trees,
Their Zen, their ping-pong, their yin, and yang-ese.

I like Chinese thought,
The wisdom that Confucious taught.
If Darwin is anything to shout about,
The Chinese will survive us all without any doubt.

So, I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They only come up to your knees,
Yet they're wise and they're witty, and they're ready to please.

All together.

[verse in Chinese]
Wo ai zhongguo ren. (I like Chinese.)
Wo ai zhongguo ren. (I like Chinese.)
Wo ai zhongguo ren. (I like Chinese.)
Ni hao ma; ni hao ma; ni hao ma; zaijien! (How are you; how are you; how are you; goodbye!)

I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
Their food is guaranteed to please,
A fourteen, a seven, a nine, and lychees.

I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
I like their tiny little trees,
Their Zen, their ping-pong, their yin, and yang-ese.

I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They only come up to your knees...

sam_carter · Really Bored Member

quote:
Originally posted by: BrianS
"Japan: "China is scary"

politicians are usually more verbose than that aren't they? i suppose it's funnier than the "axis of evil".

eric idle was definitely right.

HaloBurn · **Dad** Yarrr...

You can't beat old Dubya for gibberish

"You've heard Al Gore say he invented the internet.
Well, if he was so smart, why do all the addresses begin with "W"?"
--10-28-00 Headline News - Mimi

Nov. 2, 2000, SEATTLE --
"If you don't stand for anything, you don't standfor anything!"
Gov. George W. Bush said to a packed rally at Bellevue Community College on Tuesday night.
--Thanks, Michael.

"They said this issue wouldn't resignate with the People. They've been proved wrong, it does resignate." ("resonate"?!)

"I believe a military of high morale is conducive to keeping the peace..."
not the worst but...
"...when we find a senior who has to choose between food and medicine-that's not our vision of America." Am I missing something? Aren't the two parts of this statement disconnected?

"A surplus means there'll be money left over. Otherwise, it wouldn't be called a surplus."
-- Kalamazoo, MI 10/27/2000 - Jack

If we are going to save a generation of young people, our children must know they will face bad consequences for criminal behavior. Sadly, too many youths are not getting that message. Our juvenile justice system must say to our children: We love you, but we are going to hold you accountable for your actions. --Bush campaign literature.
(Mr. Dubya: should you be held accountable for your youthful indiscretions when you were a 30 year old "child"?!)

"I'm not going to talk about what I did as a child. What I am going to talk about -- and I am going to say this consistently -- [is that] it is irrelevant what I did 20 to 30 years ago. What's relevant is that I have learned from any mistakes I made. I do not want to send signals to anybody that what Gov. Bush did 30 years ago is cool to try."
--Gov. Bush in an interview with WMUR-TV in New Hampshire, when asked if he had used "drugs, marijuana, cocaine"

"I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully
ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense
system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at
the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to
the level commiserate with keeping the peace."
—Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 23, 2000

"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take
dream."
—LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

"If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care,
we're going to have gag orders."

"Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to
know it."

"It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term."

"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a
gun."

"Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is—I'm not sure 80
percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent
will get it if I'm the president."

"Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all
about."

"If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for,
then I'm for it."
—St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000

"Our priorities is our faith."
—Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000

"I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial
profiling, which is illiterate children."
—Second presidential debate, Oct. 11, 2000 (Thanks to Leonard Williams.)

"It's going to require numerous IRA agents."
—On Gore's tax plan, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000

"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to
answer questions. I can't answer your question."
—In response to a question about whether he wished he could take back any of his answers in the
first debate. Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000 (Thanks to Peter Feld.)

"I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with the
financial centers, not only here but at home."
—Boston, Oct. 3, 2000 (Thanks to M. Bateman.)

While speaking about KIPP Academy in Houston, Texas during the debate
last night, would-be president Bush said:
"It's a school full of so-called at-risk children. It's how we,
unfortunately, label certain children. It means basically they
can't learn. ... It's one of the best schools in Houston."
So he thinks that "at-risk" means "can't learn?" And that one of the
best schools in Houston is filled with students that can't learn? What an idiot. (Thanks Derek Brandon)

... I've been talking to Vicente Fox, the new president of Mexico... I know him... to have gas and oil sent to U.S.... so we'll not depend on foreign oil...
-- on the first Presidential debate, 10/03/2000

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
—Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000

"I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy."
—Redwood, Calif., Sept. 27, 2000

"One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations
rise above that which is expected." --Los Angeles, Sept. 27, 2000

"...more and more of our imports are coming from overseas."
-- On NPR's Morning Edition (9/26) - (Thanks Paul ...)

Larry King: "What do people misunderstand about you most"
George Walker Bush: "That I'm running on my dad's name... (!?!)
I'm proud of my dad... I reconciled my love for my dad a long time ago"
-- What the heck is he talking about? (Thanks Dave...)

"Well, that's going to be up to the pundits and the people to make
up their mind. I'll tell you what is a president for him, for example,
talking about my record in the state of Texas. I mean, he's willing
to say anything in order to convince people that I haven't had a
good record in Texas."
--MSNBC, Sept. 20, 2000 (Thanks to Gregory H. Monberg.)

"I am aperson who recognizes the fallacy of humans...,"
apparently meaning fallibility."
--from "Bush courts women in cozy 'Oprah' visit" by William Goldshclag
printed in the New York City edition of the Daily News, September 20, 2000, page 5 (Thanks Michael...)

"A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an
economic illness."-- The Edge With Paula Zahn, Sept. 18, 2000

"The woman who knew that I had dyslexia--I never interviewed her."
--Orange, Calif., Sept. 15, 2000

"The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some
of their own money." —Westminster, Calif., Sept.13, 2000

"They have miscalculated me as a leader." —Ibid.

"...I don't need to be subliminabable.." Orlando, FL, Sept. 12 -- when caught using subliminal technique in his dirty ads against Gore... (read more)

"This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them."—Outside Pittsburgh, Sept. 8, 2000

"That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired."
—Westland, Mich., Sept. 8, 2000

"Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from."
—Detroit, Sept. 7, 2000 (Thanks to Michael Butler, Houston, Texas.)

"We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers."—Houston,Texas, Sept. 6, 2000

"We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans."—Scranton, Pa., Sept. 6, 2000

"I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways." —Allentown, Pa., Sept. 5, 2000.
Is he regreting what he said? Oh, no... he's regreting that we heard...
who is an **CUCUMBER**? (Bush's list of **CUCUMBER**s must be very loooong...)

"The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming."
--on his anti-Gore ad, in an interview with the New York Times, Sept. 2, 2000

"As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public
schools, and I have met those standards."
--CNN online chat, Aug.30, 2000 (what are ya' laughin at?)

"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do
it, that's trustworthiness."--Ibid.

- "exemplarary"...
-- On 60 Minutes, 09/10/2000, after a rather interesting "expose" of the Texas schools and
the terrified kids waiting to take the TAAS (?) test... I wonder what his SAT's were? The debates will most certainly win an Emmy for best comedy series.- Frank
(Thanks Frank)

       The Texas governor, who spoke passionately of the need for
"plain-spoken Americans in the White House," tried to appear more
Southern gentleman than good-ol' boy as he and running mate Dick
Cheney shook hands with supporters at Naperville North High School
before cantering among the crowd at the city's Last Fling 2000
parade.
     But "plain-spoken" took on quite an ironic meaning just before
Bush addressed the estimated 7,500 people who gathered in and
about the makeshift outdoor arena south of the high school.
      A live microphone picked up an aside in which Bush described a
New York Times reporter who had written critically of his campaign as
"a major-league ass hole." The microphone also recorded Cheney's
rejoinder of "Oh yeah, he is, big time."
     The disparaging words could not be heard by most observers over
the spirited playing of a marching band and the earsplitting roar of
the crowd. Cheney later refused to discuss the incident, saying
only that Bush "made a private comment to me."
...sounds very "presidential"..    ---Naperville Sun - 09/06/00 - Thanks Chris

"I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes."

Aodan · Teiam Member

Sigh...

Andromeda · ***Proud House-Owner***

Gay marriage on the ballot bringing out the religious zelots or not, I still don't know how we were dumb enough to fall for a second term of this man.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Well... you are Americans!

Andromeda · ***Proud House-Owner***

Don't look at me.... I didn't vote for that idiot.

-- Edited by Andromeda at 19:03, 2005-04-13

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Please tell me that was a mis-type!

Andromeda · ***Proud House-Owner***

What mis-type?

BrianS · Still Number One

The problem is there are too many bible thumpers and they tend to have a higher turnout that the appathetic, minorities, and college students that lean democratic

Aodan · Teiam Member

Makes me want to go on a world tour wearing a t-shirt that says "We're not all bad!" or something to that effect.

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

quote:
Originally posted by: Aodan
"Makes me want to go on a world tour wearing a t-shirt that says "We're not all bad!" or something to that effect. "

Who?

Aodan · Teiam Member

Sorry.. should have quoted BrianS.

Makes me want to go on a world tour to let people know that not all Amuricans are as bad as the idiot some of us elected.

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

When? Ronald Reagan? Bill Clinton?

-- Edited by NateO at 23:53, 2005-04-13

Aodan · Teiam Member

You're just going to make this difficult for me aren't you

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

Me?

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

quote:
Originally posted by: Aodan
"Sorry.. should have quoted BrianS. Makes me want to go on a world tour to let people know that not all Amuricans are as bad as the idiot some of us elected."

Whats an Amurican?

Aodan · Teiam Member

quote:
Originally posted by: JonnyStead
"Whats an Amurican? "

I'll have to get back to you on that. It's one of those things that you just know - but can't necessarily explain - the difference between them and us.. what makes them "Amuhrican" and us "American"

Hmm my friend dave put it this way " Someone with a distorted sense of patriotism, a blatant disregard for the rest of the world, and a shortsighted view of their own self-interest."

Probably could expand on that, refine it a bit.. but that'll do for now.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Amuhricans are basically Tossers, then?

Aodan · Teiam Member

I'd say that's a fairly accurate description.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

But can they look up? Only Big Al says...

Aodan · Teiam Member

LOL

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

quote:
Originally posted by: ddvmor
"Amuhricans are basically Tossers, then?"

What does looking up have to do with being a Tosser?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tosser

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Not much, dude. It's a Shaun of the Dead joke.

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

Ah, I'll have to check it out then!

Aodan · Teiam Member

quote:
Originally posted by: NateO
"Ah, I'll have to check it out then! "

You must you must you must.

Excellent film.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

In fact it is THE excellent film. the only one that counts.

Hey, Aodan - have you seen Spaced? Same crew made a TV series a couple of years before - it's actually better than Shaun, if that's possible!

Aodan · Teiam Member

Not yet :( :( I read all about it when I was reading movie trivia for SOTD. Either its not available here yet, or I have yet to find it...

But I'm going to hold off on trying to track down a converted copy. Last time I did that I spent a pretty penny on getting a video tape copy of a DVD that hadn't been released here yet, and I was sure never would. Went through a lot of hassle only to have it released in the US on DVD in perfect condition (the tape I had was a bit blurry) about 2 months later.

Perhaps it will be here soon.