I know, i know . . . this is not really accordion to Hoyle . . .
What the fugue has gotten into me ? ! ? ! ?
There is a partitta of me that's really enjoying this, though . . .
I don't think i can Handel any more of this, i've got to get Bach to business . . .
Oh well, what the hell, Brahms away . . .
I wish you would stop harpsicording
I'm just mezzanine around, don't pay any attention to me . . .
Ahem....I take it we had a good weekend, Setanta?
I don't know about you, Babycakes, but i had a wunnerful time . . .
You got into mischief, then?
Many's the slip, twixt the cup and the lip . . . but i no longer take strong drink, so no juicy tidbits will be forthcoming . . . nor fifthgoing, for that matter . . .
Do you smoke mind-altering substances?
Quote:world news
Tuesday, Dec 02, 2003
Rumsfeld awarded most baffling statement of year prize
LONDON (AP) - He may not know it - or know that he knows it - but U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has won this year's "Foot in Mouth" award for the most baffling statement by a public figure.
Britain's Plain English Campaign, scourge of jargon, cliches and legalese, announced the dubious honours Tuesday, giving runner-up to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The top prize went to Rumsfeld for this logic- twister he gave at a news briefing on Iraq:
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns, there are things we know we know," Rumsfeld said.
"We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know."
Commented spokesman John Lister of the Plain English Campaign: "We think we know what he means. But we don't know if we really know."
Schwarzenegger's honoured entry, made to a radio interviewer, was more straightforward: "I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman."
British politician Chris Patten was singled out for his assessment of Britain's main opposition party: "Having committed political suicide, the Conservative party is now living to regret it."
The annual "Golden Bull" award was shared by several British companies: JMC Airlines, now part of the Thomas Cook travel group; Lloyds Pharmacy, clothing and household goods retailer Marks and Spencer, electrical appliance maker SMEG, the bank Standard Life and Warburtons Bakers.
Marks and Spencer was cited for the label "now with roast chicken" on a roast chicken salad. "So what was in it before?" asked the campaign.
SMEG was criticized for a dishwasher manual which contained the instruction: "By pressing the relative button of desired program (see table) it will lid up the relative pilot light to confirm that the operation did occurred on the DISPLAY (9) will appear a program duration forecasting ('h.mm')." (Sic)
SMEG spokeswoman Pauline Dewhurst apologized and said the company has since produced easier-to-read guides.
On the Net:
Plain English Campaign - plainenglish.co.uk
note...this is provided here not merely to point to the name of a certain appliance company
How smeggin' of you..................
Smegging what?
heehee - the Rumsfeld comment actually makes sense - reminds me of a little conceptual device called the Johari window - an aid in understanding a theory oc consciousness.
It had four "panes"
What we see about ourselves, and what others also see.
see about ourselves, and others do not see.
What others see about us that we do not see.
What nobody can see.
I know that one, deb. A certain pompous psychologist I knew once brought that up in a seminar, but didn't know where the name "Johari" came from. When I pointed out that according to his handouts, the two doctors who devised the test had the first names Joseph and Harold (perfectly true), he refused to believe they had combined their own nicknames. I laughed at him, and so did the rest of his audience. He was incensed. Served him right. Psychologists often have underdeveloped senses of humor, I've found.
Eva, a humorless psychologist would become overwhelmed trying to figure out Bushisms combined with Rummyisms. The rest of us can only laugh through our tears.
psychologists............gotta love em........gotta hate em
Hmmmmm - they ARE, indeed, often (but definitely not always), humourless.........some of my best and funniest friends are psychologists...
