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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 12:31 PM Original message |
Bad Language: "Ordinary Americans" |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
1. It's funny that a Senator calls the rest of us "ordinary" |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 12:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Yeah. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 12:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Coming to terms with the fact that we ARE ordinary |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 12:48 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. If we're all "ordinary", then why use the word at all. |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 01:04 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Sounds like a personal problem to me. |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 12:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. Remember Delay's words last year |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 12:50 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Do you mean to tell me that you don't make $150,000 a year? |
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TayTay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
2. It doesn't bother me. |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 12:35 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I'm With You |
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Maraya1969 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
3. You are right. Check out the definition. |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 12:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. That makes it sound even worse than what I was thinking. |
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BillZBubb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
7. I agree, bad word choice. |
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flordehinojos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
12. would ,"every day Americans", do? i am an every day American. |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 01:01 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. That one is better. |
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dusmcj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
15. important to proudly assert: "WE are normal. WE are ordinary" |
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Orangepeel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
16. it was probably tested |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 01:47 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Most Americans described themselves as "average" |
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Orangepeel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 02:00 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. the particular survey wasn't taken in Lake Wobegon |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 02:05 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Funny question. |
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Loonman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
20. Well, 17 million people share your birthday |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 03:38 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. This kinda misses the point. n/t |
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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
22. What about "normal Americans" |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
23. stronger to say "Bush out of touch with most Americans." n/t |
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