"igor eduardo küpfer" <edkupfer.DeleteThis@example.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:25:51 GMT, "Jeremey Wilson"
> <noaddressgiven.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote
> I was in NYC for a week. Met some girls who said they were from Virginia.
> When they heard I was Canadian, they asked me what I thought about the US
> election. I expressed extreme puzzlement that so many otherwise intelligent
> people
I think I've spotted your error.
could be so easily manipulated into voting against their own best
> interests. I said that it seemed to me extremely unlikely that so many
> people could be so willfully ignorant
Ooch. Number 2.
-- I was led to the conclusion that
> many US voters have miscalibrated irony detectors, and perceive President
> Bush's pledges and promises as sarcasm when in fact he is being totally
> serious. "I'm going to burn all the witches!" the President proclaimed, and
> the voters said, "Oh, that guy is *such* a joker!"
My favorite was when Rumsfeld was on "Meet the Press" and he asked Tim Russert
"Are we committed to winning in Iraq? Yes. Are we going to be forced to do
some difficult things? Probably. Who remembers the Armenians? Nobody!" and
then I thought for a moment they were going to kiss.
> Further evidence for the miscalibrated irony detector theory comes from the
> responses to your post. People: those detectors need to be serviced every
> 6-8 months!
Ixnay on the rioneeay. I'm ooingday an experimentay.
--
Jeremey
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