Scour the internets for a YouTube montage of every time Sarah Palin said “nucular” tonight.
It will exist by tomorrow morning, if there’s any justice in this world.
Did anyone keep a tally? It’s gotta be in the double-digits.
Do you think she’s doing it on purpose? She must be doing it on purpose. Every inch of her appearance tonight was so choreographed; I just have this sickening feeling that Palin and her aides made an active decision to pronounce the world “nuclear” just like the average American does: incorrectly. You know, so as not to seem too edumucated. She doesn’t want to come off as one of those “media elite” types with their nose so far in a book they’ve lost all touch with Main Street. This country wasn’t built on pronouncing words the way they’re spelled, dammit! It was built on hunting deer and racing snowmobiles and enthusiasm about Israel, gosh dangity darn it!
Could it be? Could it possibly be that she’s mispronouncing words on purpose?
I don’t know Beet, I think that she’s just a redneck idiot.
We’ll get back to ya… (God she drives me nuts…her accent jumps in worse when she is addressing Main Street…kills me).
I think one with maverick will be out before new-kew-ler LOL.
I counted six times by the time they got to the nUcUler issue.
Beet, it’s like we have the same brain. My Facebook status was all about nu-cu-lure tonight. I know so many smart people. Palin is not one.
make that 11….
You guys, I watched the debate with several friends and we played “Palin Bingo”. It was hilarious. We had printed sheets with most of her favorite platitudes. Btw: I won, with 5 in a row, “drill baby drill” “heartland” “Wasilla” “Hockey Mom” and “Maverick” LOL
We also started chugging every time she said “nucular” It was damn hard to stay sober, believe me!
There are parts of the country where it is considered correct to pronounce nuclear in that way.
@ Jojo:
HAHA I think I love you and your friends.
umm, I think they’re called “snow machines” and once we run out of oil, they’ll be run on Nucular power.
She just wants to connect with Joe Six Pack!! Ugh!!!!!!!
What was up with the cute and innocent act? It was so fake and ridiculous and I never ONCE heard a complete answer to the questions being asked. It was always about someone else and never a word about herself, at least that’s how it sounded to me. I wasn’t very happy with Biden either, but at least he didn’t put on an act for the crowd.
Not too mention her saying eye-ran and eye-rack over and over!!!!!
As Christiane Amanpour put it so well, years ago, it’s- éh-ran and éh-rack!
(that one drives me crazy, she can’t even pronounce the countries correctly!)
I know. Just like everyone says “anyways” and “I have less handbags than I want” (unless he [or she?] doesn’t like handbags, but you get the gist).
Not only do we need better education, we need better grammar taught at least for every single goshdarn college degree – even Associate’s.
I’m starting to think “No Child Left Behind” is really for budgeting and its hidden meaning is: no child given special care, extra time, more manageable homework for less abled, or testing, etc. to see if he or she needs therapy or to go to a special/troubled school. Oh but that was going on in the 90s. Humph.
It’s so sad that “average intelligence” is 100 – people with that IQ – seem so less than averagely gifted. I’m sick of humanity.
Long dong, you’re not using those accents correctly. I love French, so I know that accent, and it’s pronounced “ay”.
In dictionary speak:
\i-ˈräk, -ˈrak\
To be fair, I wasn’t aware that the pronunciation of those countries was strictly defined/mandated. IMHO in dealing with foreign names, if anything but the country’s own language pronunciation is right, than almost anything else should be considered correct!
By the way, Thee United States … or Thuh United States … – we give allowance. LOL to Iran and Iraq being hoity-toity and picky, or is it some snooty British English professor? (This coming from a former English major.)
Granted, we borrow our language from Great Britain and morphed it, but perhaps the “American way” would be correct in our own country’s name? (eg: Thuh?) Of course different Americans have different accents.
Potato, Potahto. :-)
I got very confused at “Joe Sixpack”. Originally I thought she meant the average buff guy – which doesn’t exist – they’re not average. No, she means Joe Beer Belly, with the worst name for that ever!! LOL.
Odd, odd slang, too!
Yanne, I know you’re joking, but different cultues, yo.
To some, snow machines produce fake snow for ski mountains, because we/they at least don’t live in near-ever-Winter land.
I take it your ski resorts are fluffed up fully of powder all … however long that season is? Do you have those?
I need to brush up on some U.S. culture. :-)
I got so fed up one of the times she said the lie, no longer existing for McCain, word of “Maverick” that I decided I might need to play my own drinking game and take a shot every time I hear that from now on.
I don’t enjoy being drunk, but I don’t enjoy that rage – and I may need to at first mellow out and then blast myself out of my mind so I don’t go completely insane.
I lost it watching it and my mind wouldn’t stop my own crude impersonation of her, and I was livid yet couldn’t shut off the TV somehow. I’m still trying to calm myself down. I needed a serious mental cleanse.
I also vowed to not watch these people speak ever again and get my political news from Comedy Central. The truth in political media, and I’m serious. (Well, Colbert is irony.)
Last comment, sorry – is this “Main Street” thing the new term for middle class? Damn, even politicians have dumb trends.
Also, I think many main streets are in kind of nice parts of town … so depending on the town that’s UPPER middle class. (However likely still within Barack’s overly fair tax safety zone.)
It is huntin’ and racin’, if you want to get your “hillbilly” vocabulary correct, y’all! What was with the winkin’ too? Obviously she plays to the cameras like a news anchor, but shucks, I say no thanks to her maverick finger on any button!!
HOLY CHRIST are you giving this woman way more credit than she deserves!
I cannot wrap my brain around the fact that she was saying it that way on purpose. I picture her in debate camp practicing “NUKE LE UR….aw heck, I just can’t do it goshdarnit!”(wink) and then her coaches just give up b/c they needed to cram an entire year of American Govt, Constitutional Law, Civics and Debate 101 into three days, and their heads were spinning.
Hold onto your bingo cards people…if McCain wins I’m going to need to play every night in order to keep myself from jumping into the ocean with a cement block chained around my ankle.
What about all the times she said “soccer mom” or “Hockey mom”. You could see the men’s approval go down, while the women’s went up. How do they measure those approval things on CNN anyway? Is it sort of like being hooked up to a lie detector?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ-Km6jbY_A
happy birthday, beet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ-Km6jbY_A
haha, jojo, omg. you are completely my hero for both of those games.
i think i have seen the light of a whole new beautiful world where silly friends and politics combine…
lol. beautiful. just beautiful :]
I’m officially in love with DesignerElla. Nothing is sexier than proper command of language and rhetoric (that includes you too, Beet). Well, there are properly a ton of things that are sexier, but you know what I mean.
she was pouring on the hick way too much, and that stupid call out, argh, you’re at a debate, not an awards show.
this woman deserves wayy more credit than what you guys are giving her.
this is obviously a board full of liberal obama supporters, its disgusting.
no, she’s not mispronouncing words. she’s just…literally….not smart. plus her accent is thick and ANNOYING.
HAhahahahah! you guys make me laugh so hard.
I work at a call center, and deal with mostly Americans, because they are our biggest consumer base, anyway, they pick up on that I’m Canadian as soon as I say anything like about, two, three, house, or eh?
” oh you must be Canadian I can hear your accent” ….yes I am, and we all speak like the moose from Brother Bear. Man I love those moose!
And I love you guys cuz you all crack me up!
She IS mispronouncing it on purpose because she said it correctly at the RNC. She has to mispronounce it on purpose so as to be on the side of Bush and not make him look like an even bigger idiot than he actually is.
I disagree. Her head has been so crammed full of superficial crap, the part that reminds her to pronounce the word correctly has fallen out of her ear.
This morning, all the superficial crap fell out too, leaving an empty head.
i wish i could say that she was doing it on purpose, but she’s just a moron
Too bad that IM not aware of these parts of the country.
This is from Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition:
Though disapproved of by many, pronunciations ending in [kyu-ler] have been found in widespread use among educated speakers including scientists, lawyers, professors, congressmen, U.S. cabinet members and at least two U.S. presidents and one vice president. While most common in the U.S., these pronunciations have also been heard from British and Canadian speakers.
Sigh.
Soon, adding an apostrophe s will be an acceptable way to form a plural, too.
The English language keeps a changin. Hopefully this won’t impact me and my fellow wordsmiths too negatorily.
the best part of the whole debate was when Biden finally got fed up with Palin calling herself and McCain “mavericks” (“I’m on a team of mavericks”) and was like “McCAIN WAS NOT A MAVERICK ON THIS POLICY, NOT A MAVERICK ON THIS POLICY, NOR THIS POLICY” haha. classic.
Geez louise!-the country’s in REAL trouble…nothing worse than half-educated morons who get their ‘political’ talking points from MTV,the View,or worse,Bill Maher-because that just about sums up the preceeding drivel-AND they have the VOTE…why is it you fashionista libs-and thats what you all are,trend-followers-can’t merely disagree with someone,you have to HATE them and everything they stand for? love your column,it’s hugely entertaining,so why not leave out the hackneyed pseudo-political garbage and stick to entertainment?
@wpolochick and @torie
:-) much obliged! And, right back at ya!
In reality there is nothing funny about Palin – she’s scary and very dangerous – but playing that game was the only way I could keep from either exploding in a rage that that woman is even on a national stage or breaking into inconsolable sobbing at the thought she might actually have some kind of power over my life! OMG! The thought! So, yeah, I highly recommend getting together with like-minded friends to sit through these things.
At the end of the debate all I wanted to do was hug Joe Biden!
I don’t get it. I thought James Garner was the maverick.