# YOU are Time Magazine's person of the year. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 17, 2006, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-time-magazines-person-of-the-year/384471 "2006-12-17T03:47:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-time-magazines-person-of-the-year/384471/61 "2006-12-18T05:25:07Z")
While I don’t exactly see where I said “bad old you” and also not quite sure you’ve actually mended the fences you say, I’ll drop out of this thread saying your defensive emotions were ,on reflection, justifiable and understandable. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-time-magazines-person-of-the-year/384471/62 "2006-12-18T08:12:22Z")
I never noticed Walter before, but my experience in this thread inclines me to believe it would have been a waste of time. From now on, I’ll just assume he’s an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-time-magazines-person-of-the-year/384471/63 "2006-12-18T10:36:35Z")
It looks to me like the three whistleblowers on Time’s [2002 POtY cover](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_the_Year) are now five-time winners, having won in 1966, 1969, 1975, 2002, and 2006: they were all alive and under 25 in 1966, from Middle America (1969) ([Cynthia Cooper](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Cooper_%28whistleblower%29) is from Clinton, MS, [Sherron Watkins](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherron_Watkins) is from Tomball, TX, , and [Colleen Rowley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleen_Rowley) was an Army brat who grew up a bit of everywhere and went to college at Wartburg College in Iowa), they’re American women (1975), and they’re winners, along with the rest of us, this year. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-time-magazines-person-of-the-year/384471/64 "2006-12-18T14:54:54Z")
You think this one’s controversial… wait until it’s “You People.” ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-time-magazines-person-of-the-year/384471/65 "2006-12-18T16:39:26Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] I never noticed Walter before, but my experience in this thread inclines me to believe it would have been a waste of time. From now on, I’ll just assume he’s an idiot. [/QUOTE] Never heard of Time Magazine’s Person of the Year??? Tsk tsk. Who’s the idiot? ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-time-magazines-person-of-the-year/384471/66 "2006-12-18T22:46:01Z")
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip] You think this one’s controversial… wait until it’s “You People.” [/QUOTE] good one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-time-magazines-person-of-the-year/384471.md?page=3)