His Homophonic Agenda Cost Him

[Spiky Bugger]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/01/1318397/-Homophobic-Paranoia-In-Utah?detail=email

 

[brooklyngirl]

I cannot.

 

[Terri]

Seriously!?

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Seriously!?

Not sure...is this a legit media outlet?

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/58236366-90/says-english-homophones-language.html.csp

 

[Spiky Bugger]

I guess it's legit...
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salt_Lake_Tribune

 

[Terri]

Not sure...is this a legit media outlet?

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/58236366-90/says-english-homophones-language.html.csp

It was more of can his boss, Clarke Woodger, seriously be that stupid!

 

[Spiky Bugger]

It was more of can his boss, Clarke Woodger, seriously be that stupid!

And, yes...but...since you busted me on a satire story a few days ago...and I didn't check this one...I wanted to make sure I wasn't dumb again.

And yes...the boss is an idiot.

I guess those students won't be allowed to learn the word "homicide" either...just too close.


It's like another of my pet peeves..."oral" is not a dirty word...and "verbal" does not mean the same thing.

You can make a written statement or an oral statement. Both of them will be verbal, unless you speak/write in numerical digits and random symbols.

So OF COURSE the crime witness made a verbal statement...but was is written or oral...or, I guess, done in interpretive dance?...I suppose that might be another possibility! LOL

 

[jillc]

Sad, but not unbelievable.

This reminds me of an occurrence of vandalism in the UK while I was living there. It shows that ignorance is dangerous:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/30/childprotection.society

 

[Spiky Bugger]

From a story about the book Dumbth, written by Steve Allen. Allen is relating the story to the writer.




"I'm in a hotel, several years ago, in some large southern city, a lovely hotel, where most of the room service menu is in French.

"When I call to place my order, I ask, 'And what is your soup du jour?'

"The woman says, 'My what?'

" 'Your soup du jour.' "

"She says, 'I don't rightly know.'

"So I say, 'Well, I'm in no particular hurry. I'm sure there must be somebody there who can tell you what the soup du jour is. I'll wait.'

"The women excuses herself, and a minute later, very cheerfully, she comes back on the line and says, 'That, sir, is the soup of the day.' "

He laughs a familiar Steve Allen laugh.

Reminds him of the time in The Times he read about a woman whose dinner date told her, "Don't order the soup du jour. I tried it in Chicago and it was just awful."


Allen collects these kind of stories. At times, he can't believe his ears.

To test his own theory of dumbth, he once took a TV camera crew into a New York garment district and stopped people on the street to ask:

"If a person running for president was an acknowledged heterosexual, would that matter to you?"

"I wouldn't vote for him," one man said.

"Just because he's a heterosexual?"

"Yes."

One by one, virtually every person Steve stopped said that if an admitted heterosexual ran for president, it was something "you'd have to think about," or "no, I could never vote for that."

One said he might vote for a female heterosexual, but never for a male heterosexual.

Oh, the dumbth out there.

 

[Sheanie]

My father was the King of mis-quotes like this. Prostrate Cancer, Rowing in a Fish, he had lots. Also his funny sayings. Some were serious, like "If I could buy him for what he's worth, then sell him for what he THINKS he's worth, I'd be rich". "It doesn't pay to be ****** to people" was hilarious coming from him, because he was the King of being ******. He once told my (heavy set) cousin to jump from the swing set, that he'd catch her. So she did, and he stepped cleanly to the side, letting her hit the dirt. And he laughed his ass off.

 

[Elizabeth N.]

I checked to verify this one, too, when I saw it on FB the other day. It appears to be true, and that is a scary thing.

 

[Terri]

These remind me when one of the late night talk shows had someone stopping people and asking them if they preferred Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act and why. I am by no means the brightest firework in the sky but I don't understand how some people survive.

 

[k9ophile]

These remind me when one of the late night talk shows had someone stopping people and asking them if they preferred Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act and why. I am by no means the brightest firework in the sky but I don't understand how some people survive.

I saw that, too. And these people vote!

 

[Spiky Bugger]

I guess we have to remind ourselves that, by definition, half the population of the planet has an IQ at or below average.

 

[DianaCox]

Sometimes the stupid is just too painful to read.

I amused myself last night by getting into an argument with someone from the shallow end of the gene pool 0n FB - in fact, on a Science and Technology FB group - who tried to argue with ME - AFTER I clearly explained I am a biotech patent attorney - that GMO labeling should be required because patented products are required to be labeled, and he simply could not understand that GMO patents are for the SEEDS, not the product GROWN FROM the seeds. The bags of seeds are of course labeled, but the products themselves are not patented. Sheeple who can't think and understand for themselves that what they are spouting is Luddite propaganda.