Best word of the day

 

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Username: Jan_b_vigne

Dallas, TX

Post Number: 13555
Registered: May-04
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"Under-polluted"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/lawrence-summers-africa-i_b_141706. html

No political smears, please. This just drew my attention when I heard it. I don't know whether to laugh or bang my head against the wall.

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Username: My_rantz

Australia

Post Number: 2179
Registered: Nov-05
I don't know whether to laugh or bang my head against the wall.

Sadly, neither will prevent his continued existence.

Amazing!
 

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Username: Dmitchell

Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Post Number: 2509
Registered: Feb-07
That's just crazy. Goes to show that people often are promoted to their level of incompetence. I like this retort from the Brazilian Secretary of the Environment "Your reasoning is perfectly logical but totally insane". LOL.
 

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Username: Jan_b_vigne

Dallas, TX

Post Number: 13558
Registered: May-04
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I suggest everyone read the comments at the end of the page, you'll see this was very likely taken out of context. I am taking no position on Summers, just his choice of words irregardless of whether they are whimsical or serious. It would seem this should rank among the best of the many oxymorons that come from governmental writings.





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Gold Member
Username: My_rantz

Australia

Post Number: 2181
Registered: Nov-05
Granted, it may have been out of context. But there's an old saying:

"Where there's smoke . . ."
 

Platinum Member
Username: Jan_b_vigne

Dallas, TX

Post Number: 13559
Registered: May-04
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Big D has become a non-smoking city where public buildings are concerned. So, in Dallas the end to that sentence would be, "Where there's smoke ... there's a bunch of ninnies standing out in terrible weather getting their nicotine fix."

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Gold Member
Username: Dmitchell

Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Post Number: 2515
Registered: Feb-07
Ottawa is a non-smoking city too, only we have ninnies getting their nicotine fix in -30 degree weather, usually in gaggle huddling by the door, so you have to run a gauntlet of smoke to get in or out.
 

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Username: Stryvn

Wisconsin

Post Number: 1101
Registered: Dec-06
And that's in summer
 

Gold Member
Username: Dmitchell

Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Post Number: 2516
Registered: Feb-07
haha.
 

Silver Member
Username: Hawkbilly

Nova Scotia Canada

Post Number: 554
Registered: Jul-07
Perhaps the comment was somewhat tongue in cheek...context is everything. I never noticed before but I think South America is somewhat "over-forested".
 

Platinum Member
Username: Jan_b_vigne

Dallas, TX

Post Number: 13561
Registered: May-04
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Yes, particularly with "overly rare" species.
 

Silver Member
Username: Hawkbilly

Nova Scotia Canada

Post Number: 557
Registered: Jul-07
I like my species rare, but not overly rare. Never overcook a species. Tough as he!!.
 

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Username: Nuck

Post Number: 12244
Registered: Dec-04
Nobody laughs at people huddled together outside smoking a joint...

I think we can send the leftovers from nuking the whales away to South America.
 

Gold Member
Username: Dmitchell

Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Post Number: 2519
Registered: Feb-07
"Nobody laughs at people huddled together outside smoking a joint..."

They laugh with them.}
 

Platinum Member
Username: Jan_b_vigne

Dallas, TX

Post Number: 13562
Registered: May-04
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"Nobody laughs at people huddled together outside smoking a joint... "


Eh, sure we do. We do it when we're the ones inside where it's warm, cool, dry or well lighted. Besides, who would be afraid of somebody threatening you while they're coughing up a lung?

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