[Chefelf]

Rum remark wins Rumsfeld an award

Rumsfeld tries to make a point...
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has won a "Foot in Mouth" award for one of his now legendary bizarre remarks.
Mr Rumsfeld won the prize for comments made at a news conference in February last year which left observers baffled.

"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns," he said.

The British Plain English Campaign annually hands out the prize for the most nonsensical remark made by a public figure.

Rumsfeld's Quote:
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know"

http://news.bbc.co.u...cas/3254852.stm

An oldy but a goody.

[K1NGWARREN]

I think ol' Rummy has a lot of unknown unknowns!

[looktothesky]

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me..."

This guy is the most boring guy in the world. I bet he talks to his pet wood at night.

[Reader]

If the Secretary of OUR defence talks to a piece of wood at night, i'd say he's a pretty interesting character.

[Bananer]

I think Rummy had a little too much Rum.

[Despondent]

It's all pretty simple, really. (or is it really simple?)

known known- things that we know. (sw prequels suck)

known unknown- we know there are things we do not know. (why is GL doing this to us and himself?)

unknown unknowns- the things we know we don't know. (the prequels can't possibly get worse, or can they? meesum t'ink dey can't)

followed, I suppose (an unknown known) by

unknown knowns- the things we don't know we know. (GL's efforts are wasting "my" time, anyway)

ya' know?

[Chefelf]

Ronald Dumbsfeld.

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Sorry.

[sinister grinner]

known unknowns. that makes no sense. well kinda. but unknown unknowns, thats just...............never mind i wont touch that. i'll just say, THIS IS NEWS.

[WalrusOfPlastic]

Okay, this has only very slim connections to the topic at hand, but a while back someone was covering for Rush Limbaugh while he was in rehab. In response to a callers remark un-known Limbaugh replacement said and I quote, "There are at least just as many trees in America right now as there was when Columbus found it."

I am currently located in the very center of Detroit and the only thing I could do was stare out my 9th story window and wonder where they put them all.

*Yes I listen to Rush Limbaugh. Okay, my room mate does, but I can't say it doesn't at least interest me.

[civilian_number_two]

Okay, this has only very slim connections to the topic at hand, but a while back someone was covering for Rush Limbaugh while he was in rehab. In response to a callers remark un-known Limbaugh replacement said and I quote, "There are at least just as many trees in America right now as there was when Columbus found it."

Yeah.

Unknown Limbaugh Replacement (hereafter ULR) knows fuck-all about environmentalism or about the history of the United States (commonly called "America"), becasue if he knew either, he'd know

a ) his basic claim is ridiculous and pretty much ignores the system of intestate highways and the farming industry; and

b ) Christopher Columbus never laid eyes on North America, much less the area that is now the United States. His only mainland landing was at Panama, in Central America, on his fourth voyage. The previous three voyages he saw San Salvador, Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), Dominica, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada, and Margarita.

What radio pundits like ULR don't know about the nonsense they blather never surprises me.

Mike.

PS coincidentally, ULR's comment is not too far wrong, since most of the places Columbus discovered have not been developed as much as has North America, nor deforested as much as say Peru, Costa Rica and Brazil.

[Despondent]

I'm going to give the guy a break and presume what he said could be translated as "I have intelligence that I'm not going to share with you." if it was known, could it be considered intel? stumbling for the point of is a smokescreen.

[Jordan]

I like guys like this, that way you know they can never be clever enough to cheat you or stab your back. He is a simple man. He is Rumsfeld.

We have this teacher with a thick chinese accent at our school. Dr Cheung. He is always saying stupid shit, but I love every minute of it.


" thats wrong, rlight?"

"thwa fomuwa is prenpendicurar rlight?, wrong?"