Uh-huh :dubious:
You don’t have to accuse him. You can just say, “Ok, thank you” and cut him off - which Jennings did not do. The whole thing didn’t make any sense - they got a call from a guy in New York who claimed to be a neighbor of OJ’s and watching everything from across the street. Jennings introduced him as such. Then he said he was in the back of a news van - the producers must have been saying “WTF?” at that one.
And nobody, outside of an Amos & Andy routine, says “Oh my Lordy” or “Now lookie here.”
I’m sure. This particular news crew would review The Apprentice in depth every Friday morning for the viewers. Definitely not an April Fool’s joke. Although I suppose it could have been a sarcastic commentary on the management’s insistence that they cover The Apprentice as a real news story.
Have you ever lived in the rural south or even places like Southern Illinois or Ohio? I lived in Atlanta, a really big, sophisticated city, during the latter half of the 80s. In one of the commuter counties surrounding it (Gwinnet), there was a county-wide proposition to try to get auto-hypnosis tecnique to help students relax and de-stress banned, because it was witchcraft. The local furniture store commericials were starting to pronounce “suite” like the thing you wear with a tie and dress shirt. In southern Illinois, I have been addressed as you-uns, whereas here in Trenton it’s youse. The area north of Schenectady, NY has such a distinctive native accent, I’d recognize it if I encountered it in Nepal.
In parts of rural England, there are plenty of people still saying “summat” for “something”, and similar local rural idioms - often quite archaic. Nothing surprises me in local dialects/accents, and if you want a wide selection of local dialects, southern California is a darned good place to find them.
I don’t know if this guy was for real or not. I couldn’t understand what he was saying his last few lines, and I haven’t lived in LA for 25 years, so I wouldn’t have gotten the reference anyway. I’m just saying that I think Jennings handled it in a perfectly adequately intelligent and courteous manner, your contempt notwithstanding.
Last night on 4NewYork local news they were discussing the recent events between Russia and Georgia. After going into some detail about the conflict, they added a bit that still makes me scratch my head.
‘‘So why should we care?’’ [map of Georgia is displayed. They talk a little bit about the relationship between Russia and Georgia.] ‘‘Also, don’t forget, they have oil. Lots of oil.’’
Why does that make you scratch your head?
It’s only slightly inaccurate; they have the oil pipeline to the Black Sea ports, not the oil itself.
I bet not one of them flinches when they say the vulgar non-word ‘television’, either, the barbarians.
A newscaster last week on a local college station I listen to going to work was talking about the Russian invasion of Georgia and added (at least not sounding facetiously) “We are of course talking about the Republic of Georgia that was formerly part of the USSR, not the American state…”.
Thanks for that clarification. I thought it was kind of weird that the Russkies were nipping at the heels of UGA and yet the president felt alright about going to the Olympics. Still, a pity, for if it was “our” Georgia we might get a great GONE WITH THE WIND meets DR. ZHIVAGO book and movie out of it.
Actually, I’ve been by someone from that neck of the woods that Georgia has quite a bit of oil itself, but it’s in the mountains toward Azerbaijan and rather inaccessible. So for the time being, it’s the pipeline that’s important.
Just heard a radio idiot talking about a “proposed aquatic waterpark”.
There are non-aquatic waterparks?
Last Sunday, ABC’s Cokie Roberts criticised Barack Obama for going to Hawaii on vacation because it was a “foreign, exotic place”. She went on to say that “He should be in Myrtle Beach if he’s going to take a vacation at this time”.
Nevermind that Obama was born in Hawaii and his sister and grandmother who raised him live there. Oh, and the fact that Hawaii is a U.S. state.
I may be inclined to give Cokie a pass on this one, if she was referring to perception rather than reality. I bet a lot of Americans think of Hawaii as an exotic foreign locale, and are surprised that you don’t need a passport to go there, and that the natives speak English.
Why should the stupidity of a lot of Americans give her a pass?
She ought to be fighting ignorance, like this board. If fact, unlike us, her network has a legal obligation to do so – they are given a license to use the publicly-owned airwaves on the condition that they “inform, educate, and entertain” the public.
Because politics is all about pandering to the stupidity of Americans. So since Cokie is reporting on the political impact of taking a Hawaiian vacation, that stupidity is extremely relevant. If she happens to work in a correction to any misconception, that’s certainly a plus.
Cokie Roberts is quite bright and has been around the block a few times, so if she said that, she must have been commenting on the perception, not reality, jsc1953 said.
Yeah, but they require A LOT of lubrication. “Astroglideworld” just doesn’t have the same ring, you know?
There are a lot more Americans who know that Hawaii is a state and is not “foreign” than there are who even know where Myrtle Beach is. She tries to make a point about Obama looking elitist and in doing so references a place where wealthy Washingtonians go on vacation.
Well, it was kind of strange being told that we should care about what happens in Georgia – as if we should only care if it impacts our well-being in some way. Personally I care what happens to other people and countries just because I have empathy and want to know what’s going on in the world. It’s like they were trying to justify reporting world news. Why did they need to justify bringing attention to this? Why the need to tell us why we should care? And why the implication that the only thing that makes it worth knowing about is oil? It seemed vaguely insulting to the viewer.
Agreed. I’d file this under the thread “the most cynical thing you’ve heard a newscaster say”. Their perception of the viewer (perhaps warranted…) is that we’re saying: “Lower Slobbovia invaded Whocaresistan…yawn. OIL??? Why didn’t you say so!!”
Cynical maybe, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t realistic. To an outside observer (heck, even to many of us Americans) there seems to be a lot of truth to that observation.
Where have we fought wars recently?[ul]
[li]Vietnam[/li][li]Kuwait[/li][li]Iraq[/li][li]Afghanistan[/li][/ul]
Where do we have large numbers of US troops?[ul]
[li]Persian Gulf (near Mideast oilfields)[/li][li]Central Europe (near Rumanian oilfields)[/li][li]Southeast Asia (near offshore Asia oil islands)[/li][/ul]
What governments are we trying hard to overthrow covertly?[ul]
[li]Iran[/li][li]Venezuela[/li][/ul]
We sure seem to give the appearance of paying attention when there is oil involved! Perhaps the tragedy of sub-Saharan Africa is that they have no oil there. If there was suddenly a big oil strike in Darfur, it would be a great benefit to the starving people there.