Argggh! It's NUKE-LEE-ER. NUKE-LEE-ER!
 

Do you think that he knows he pronounces it wrong, but he can't change it now? AHHH!! :mad: :mad: :mad:

EHEHEHEEEEEHEE !!!! I thought the same....it`s just the way his brain is wired.

Aurel

You might have a point. If he changed, it would be an admission of error, something he seems to be incapable of.

And that's different from Clinton saying "Y'all" because..........?

Because nucular is a lot more annoying.

Granted, my stomach turns at the thought of Clinton saying anything, though. I'm glad that guy is keeping busy working out with the German dude. Or something.

I always wince when I hear people (including the "Leader of the Free World") say "Nukilar", but I want to scream at them when they say "reconize" or "orientated". :rolleyes:

Well I suppose that depends on what your definiteion of "is" is... :D:D :D :D :D

Randy

That's how DDE said it, and he gave us the Interstate Highway system.
Like so many others, you focus on the wrong (though ego-boosting, in an "I'm soooo much more intelligent...") thing.

JP

LOL - oops, gotta run. Nancy Pelosi's on. :rolleyes:

Edit, because I've been thinking about this a bit:
Slacker - I support Bush. But his diction leaves something to be desired. Even the blindest of followers should see that, without having to call someone who points it out an egoist. Are you one of those "any criticism is unpatriotic" zombies?

Anyway, never mind. I was hoping the thread could be taken in at least a bit of a jovial, lighthearted way. Guess not.

Some people say "Nukular," other people say, "I did not inhale." and "I never met that woman."

Don't ax me to esplain.
-Z-man.

Cowtown -

Hopefully not a zombie. I don't like eating brains so much. It's not a question of patriotism, but as a W guy, there are plenty of reasons to be critical of Bush. Getting on him for how he speaks is ... I don't know ... too easy? The guy has eloquence issues, I stipulate. I misunderstood you evidently.

Nothing to do with patriotism. Seriously.

JP

Ahhh how do U spell Potatoe? or is it Po tot o...Oh I am so confused, which button did you say was the big one...was it the black one or the red one???? Oh Dick can you help me out over here?

"When Clinton lied, nobody died".

Bush is an idiot, what's new? :)

Wow, that's an interesting comment.

Clinton lied about an affair he had going on, yet the liberals hailed him a hero!

Bush mis-pronounces a word, and they're all over him.

Yeah, that's fair.... :rolleyes:
-Z-man.

I'm still trying to figure out how to say "California."

"Kalifornia?"

"Nucular?"

I didn't catch it. I'm used to the accents, I guess.

Tell that to the families and friends of these people.

edit: Clearly this is all speculation, nothing has been proven, but....it really makes you wonder.

Randy

All I can say is I'd be flubbing up constanly with that amount of public speaking.

I also didn't catch the mispronunciation.

Jimmy Carter, himself a physicist, pronounced it Nuke-yu-ler. Made me nuts at the time. I'm older now.

I would LOVE to see any of these knit-pickers speak for 90 seconds on a world stage and then see how its torn to shreds by their "peers".:rolleyes:

I grew up in the south and have extensive "naw-ledge" and "s'pozure" to the Derelictionary from which many of these words are derived.

Believe me, passing judgment on a person based on the mispronounciation of words is shallow. I'm sure someone here can gleefully point out my gramatical errors.


BTW, we have a new manager at my work and a couple of months ago he had a meeting with the MRI team. He referred to 'Nuculer Medicine" while speaking. He's new to the diagnostic imaging arena and a good guy. We gave him a heads-up on the text pronunciation. That is about the only time I would correct someone on that word. Heck, I hear Nuc Med Techs say "Nuculer" quite often.

Geezus...

I'm sorry, it's wrong, and it's such an easy thing to get right, he should get it right. You can say it's shallow, but I say he should get it right.

As I said, I support Bush, and I did not intend my original comment to mean anything other than exactly what I said. His pronunciation of this one word annoys me, and it's wrong.

It is NOT a commentary on his policies, his wife, or his dog, or Clinton. It is NOT an indication that I'm anti-Bush. It is NOT passing judgement on the man. If it were, would I have voted for him?

Geez...I oughtta stay out of this forum. Maybe I'm being overly sensitive, but it seems like every message with even oblique references to politics turns into WWIII. It was not meant as a political diatribe.

:(

Well said, Colin.

It makes me wonder about the sanity of the kook-ass, paranoid, right wing wack-jobs who put together those web sites. :rolleyes:

You'd think that by now they could come up w/ some credible evidence of these crimes; do they need more time? Think another decade would do it? :rolleyes:

I'm sorry, but the families of the casualties from the ongoing "Haliburton war" don't need a kook-ass web site to know how their loved ones died.

The reason people have a problem with mispronounciation is that, rather like poor spelling and grammar in a forum post, it implies something about the speaker/writer (true or not).

This is made worse when listening to politicians as, IMO, they speak a lot without saying anything.

Quick tangent: "See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." —George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003

If he really said this, I hope it has been taken way out of context...

..checking...checking... here it is (from CNN website):

Sorry, but Bush (or his speech writing team) is treading the fine line of "idiot" there - I could drive a truck through the hole in his logic.

He probably just flubbed his lines, must frustrate the **** out of his handlers. Cheney, or whoever was in charge of the puppet strings that day. :rolleyes:

Yeah..I had a friend of mine who referred to a specific type of stone as "sedentary". I figured it was OK...most rocks are........

Interesting that "dumb" Bush has a thousand times more integrity and vision than his his lying, groping Rhodes-Scholar predecessor Clinton, who had to take an opinion pole before he could decide what to do.

See, this can go on forever both ways.

You're darn right! Us maroons need to stick together! (Or at least vote together). SmileWavy

Integrity??? Just compare last year's State of the Union to this years. Last year Bush had all kinds of evidence of WMD, even listing how many pounds and gallons they had discovered, this year he mentions "weapons related activities."

I disliked Clinton, but I don't think he ever created such a lie as to send 500 US soldiers to their death nor create terrible ill will around the world.

Furthermore, you have to pity Bush. Regardless of whatever cr*p came out of Clinton's mouth, it's impossible for Bush to match Clinton' oratory skills.

I love reading this stuff...makes the work day go by...By the way Dennis...are you calling us 'colors' (i.e. maroons) or MORONS :)!
Just kidding...and I loved the Hitler analogy btw!

"Maroons" is kind of an inside joke around the Pelican world, right up there with, "My tow truck driver has 2 free Porsches for me", and "All your morons/maroons belong to us", etc.... :D ;)

Doh! So I probably have been called a "maroon" before, and I didn't even realize it :)!

Left Wing Weenies keep talking about WMD. The facts are: We know Iraq had WMD because they gassed many thousands of Kurds. Iraq was commanded by the UN to produce evidence that they had destroyed their WMD's. They did not after many chances were given, so we attacked. Left wing weenies aren't used to leaders who actually hold tyrants accountable. They would prefer to blow up milk factories in the Sudan as a "show of strength" instead of outright kicking their butts. Next, you end up with a 9/11 incident. I feel better with Bush in the White House. That's why he'll win in November.

Left Wing Weenie here.

Iraq was commanded by the UN to produce evidence that they had destroyed their WMD's. They did not after many chances were given, so we attacked.

UN doesn't equal your "we".

Next, you end up with a 9/11 incident.

Uh huh. This is EXACTLY the dodgy, but emotive, logic exploited by Bush et al in whipping up the US public's fervour to support the invasion of Iraq.

Left wing weenies aren't used to leaders who actually hold tyrants accountable.

Basically, if invading another country on a potentially half-assed basis is "holding tyrants accountable" then I can assure you that left wing weenies dont want a leader who holds tyrants accountable.

If he does get re-elected, (and I hope to God that you are wrong for the sake of the world), it will be due to a lot of voters' feelings, as opposed to a more rational apraisal of his policies and decisions.

If after 3 years of this maroon, and the best you can do is call his critics "weenies"? :rolleyes:

Great.

I prefer to be called a "Niggling nabob of negativism" ;)

Ed

Edit: Nattering, as seen below. Didn't want to appear finicky. That's Nattering, not Niggling. Thanx speeder

Actually, it was "nattering nabob of negativism". :D

I miss that guy. Those were the good old days when right-wingers didn't try to polish themselves up as "compassionate". :rolleyes:

IMHO, college students that take courses on Marxism and socialism ought to be banned from voting: sure, it works in theory, but in reality, well, that's a different story!

Bleeding heart liberal left-wing democrats love to point out how cruel Bush's administration was in 'starting' the war in Afganistan and Iraq. (Is that better than calling 'em "left wing weenies?!?!")

Funny, I don't recall Mr. Bush authorizing the use of two civilian aircraft to target a public building in Afganistan. Also, it wasn't Bush who attacked Kuwait a few years back, and deliberately attempted genocide on their very own citizens, and had WMD operations going on when told by the world not to do so!

In theory, socialism works. In theory, war can be avoided. Unfortunately, too often, theory and reality do not mix.

-Z-man.

Z-man

What other educational backgrounds would you like to see as disqualification for voting rights? An interesting premise, but there's got to be more societal groups, in your humble opinion, that should be denied the right to vote. Com'on, tell us...

Ed

The reason I call left-wingers "weenies" is because I sincerely believe them to be cowards. They think that appeasement will solve conflicts with tyrants. (Look up "Neville Chamberlain".)
To be "polite", I will just say "left-wingers" in the future. Left-wingers can't debate with logic but rather with emotion only or with hollywood-style conspiracy theories.
For example: Calling the war in Iraq "The Haliburton War" -
Supposed conversation:
Cheney: George - Let's go to war in Iraq. Let's tear the place up so we can pay my former company to rebuild it.
Bush: Sure, Whatever you say. We can make up a bunch of lies why we're really attacking.

That kind of idiotic crap.
Would be great for a Hollywood movie. If you have direct evidence, then post it. That's why you get really frustrated in a debate and start throwing out words like "Nazi". When you lose a debate on sheer logic, it makes you mad, so you start screaming "nazi". That's when people blow you off and why democrats will lose the November election.

My god, man, are you really associating anyone here with Lindbergh's political beliefs???!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lindbergh/sfeature/fallen.html