The “My goodness!” in the spokesman’s comment makes this about twenty times funnier.
Of course it was intentional. Anyone who thinks it isn’t probably thinks OJ got a raw deal in Vegas. You’d have to be a complete Canadian to miss this message’s intentional nature. The interesting question is whether Schwarzenegger did it himself of a staffer slipped it past him. I personally think it is funny. Yeah, it’s an old high school trick, but it’s the best thing to come out of Sacramento since Herb Caen.
Racist.
Quebecois
The gravestone I cited in post #2 is actually in Montreal, though I’ve yet to invest the hour or so in going to look for it.
That is brilliant. I never thought an Austrian would have such a sense of humour. Maybe they’re all misunderstood.
That’s a black hole I am not going to peer into.
Thank you, J.W. Price.
Don’t get it.
Hitler and Kissinger.
But who is J.W. Price? The only thing I could find was some old photographer who died before either was born.
How the hell should I know? You’ve got as much access to Google as I do.
Ok well that’s the part I didn’t get.
With the “black hole” comment I thought you were making a joke about Dallas politics. John Wiley Price is an African American local politician from Dallas, who, depending on how you lean, is either a hero to his district or a race baiting opportunist.
Last year, or earlier this year, at a Dallas Commissioners meeting a white commissioner referred to Price’s office as a “black hole” where papers were sent and were never heard from again. Price took offense to this and demanded that the other commissioner apologize for using a “negative” term given that the board is made up of a diversity of people.
Type in “John Wiley Price” in youtube and you can see a clip of the incident.
Odesio
Whether it is intentional or not, it will be one of the most remembered veto letters in history, if not the most.
Arnie was going through his Terminator’s-eye menu of possible responses:
POSSIBLE RESPONSE: YES/NO; OR WHAT?;
GO AWAY;
PLEASE COME BACK LATER;
FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE;
FUCK YOU
Either that, or someone with Al Jaffee’s talent with the MAD Magazine fold ins came up with that one for him.
Obviously intentional, can’t believe anyone here seriously considers otherwise. As to who composed the message (Arnie or a staffer) and how much Arnie knew etc. well, we just don’t know.
That particular 7-letter sequence has a (1/26)[sup]7[/sup] chance of occuring randomly - roughly 1 in 8 billion. Counting a ‘space’ as an extra letter and requiring it to appear at the 5th position decreases the chance to 1 in 282 billion.
No matter how many letters he writes in his lifetime, the chance is still not ‘very good’.
It’s even a bit lower than that – the letters aren’t going to be randomly distributed in a sample of natural text, so you’d have to account for that; the figure given by the cryptologist somewhere upthreat, ‘5.5 in 1 trillion’ (or about 1 in 180 billion), does that, but he merely took the relative frequency of letters appearing in a text and mashed them together – he should have taken the relative frequency of first letters (how much do I love wikipedia? All that much!), which makes the figure come out to roughly 1 in 487 billion.
However, that still leaves the space unaccounted for, which probably isn’t that well modelled being treated as just another letter – what we’re really looking for is the likelihood of a paragraph break occurring at that point, which will probably be significantly higher than 1 in 26, seeing as paragraphs are generally shorter than 26 lines. In fact, after the fourth line there is perhaps the most likely place for a paragraph break to occur in a short note like this – this site mentions about 45-50 words as an average ‘medium’ paragraph length, which would be around 4 lines of 15 words, or 3-4 sentences, if you’re not as long-winded as I am; so that’s maybe low single-digit odds of finding the break exactly there.
But still, that easily means we’re in the low trillions for the odds of this happening by chance – in other words, no way in hell was that a coincidence.
Man, I’ll really do any old crap for a few minutes of procrastination… :rolleyes:
That’s the one that got me as well. That phrase is so clunky that it had to be deliberately used.