# 99? Rookies! I say 100%!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 8, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035 "2011-10-08T22:24:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/241 "2011-10-16T02:41:59Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > You have an astonishing gift for broad-spectrum telepathy. Upside is, since you already know what I’m going to say, I don’t have to. In the early days of the occupation I saw both signs and youtube testimony from young ows protestors talking about college degrees and no jobs. Presumably if they had those jobs they wouldn’t be angry. I don’t know if that takes telepathy. I will go out on a limb and say that people wouldn’t be protesting the war if we weren’t at war. Generally when somebody says “I’m here because \_\_\_\_\_,” if you subtract \_\_\_\_, it’s a safe assumption they wouldn’t be there. I think since then, the movement has become bigger than them. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/242 "2011-10-16T13:03:18Z")
Just a quick run down of some of the numbers I saw in the news this morning, 951 cities and 82 countries Brussels- 7,000 Denmark- 3,000 Amsterdam- 2,000 Madrid- 10,000 New York- 5,000 Times Square- 20,000 Toronto- 2,000 Tijuana- 100 Pittsburg- 2,000 Jackson, Miss- 50 Miami- 500 Orlando- 1,500 Denver- 2,000 Chicago- 2,000 Los Angeles- 5,000 Frankfurt- 5,000 Athens- 2,000 Thessaloniki- 3,000 Helsinki- 300 Johannesburg- 50 Agreat video: [- YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUJ7s59aLSo&feature=player_embedded) ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/243 "2011-10-16T13:13:56Z")
When will the one percent be making a rebuttal? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/244 "2011-10-16T14:36:51Z")
They have people for that. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/245 "2011-10-16T16:57:16Z")
> [@tnetennba](#): > > When will the one percent be making a rebuttal? > [@elucidator](#): > > They have people for that. [http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/10/16/345064/occupy-wall-street-humor-great-cartoon-plus-the-onion/](http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/10/16/345064/occupy-wall-street-humor-great-cartoon-plus-the-onion/) [Mr. Burns holding a sign that says] “I am the 1%. Smithers, release the hounds.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/246 "2011-10-16T17:25:41Z")
Saw one on reddit, picture of a scorchingly hot babe, caption something like “This is as close as I’ll ever get to a woman this hot. I’m the 99%.” ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/247 "2011-10-16T17:45:05Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > Agreat video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUJ7s59aLSo&feature=player\_embedded](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUJ7s59aLSo&feature=player_embedded) I’m sorry, but unless they’ve got teabags dangling from their tri-corner hats, I just don’t know how you expect us to take them seriously. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/248 "2011-10-16T20:13:05Z")
Best sign so far: A woman and her dog in Alaska, nobody else around, with their sign “Occupy the Tundra”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035.md?page=12)