Rumsfeld Gets Foot In Mouth Award

GreyPawsGreyPaws Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8659Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Wow can't belive he said that</div> <a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031201/pl_nm/odd_rumsfeld_dc_2' target='_blank'>Clicky</a>

here is what he got the award for, this is a quote BTW

"Reports that say 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."


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  • Hand_Me_The_Gun_And_Ask_Me_AgainHand_Me_The_Gun_And_Ask_Me_Again Join Date: 2002-02-07 Member: 178Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--GreyPaws+Dec 2 2003, 04:04 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (GreyPaws @ Dec 2 2003, 04:04 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> "Reports that say 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." <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    ... Sounds just like our own John Prescott!
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  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    Someone slap that idiot.
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  • RPG_JssmfulhudRPG_Jssmfulhud Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4006Members
    The Matrix has you!
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  • GwahirGwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation
    quite frankly, I see nothing wrong with that statement.
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  • BlackMageBlackMage [citation needed] Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17474Members, Constellation
    edited December 2003
    figter! i thought i told you not to use your intelligence draining technique...

    [/8bittheater]
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  • Amped1Amped1 Join Date: 2003-02-08 Member: 13287Members
    It gives people headaches, that's what's wrong (err any English rule against double apostrophes?).
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  • eedioteediot Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13903Members
    logically theres not much wrong with it, i dont think, but its just a very stupid thing to say haha
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  • GwahirGwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation
    He's talking to a lot of stupid people...
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  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    I lost all interest in this guy the second I ever heard about him <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • pardzhpardzh Join Date: 2002-10-25 Member: 1601Members
    Ahaha, go Rummy go!

    Man, our elected officials have to be the silliest-talking Government ever. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Devisifying a way of figurating these unknown unknowns out takes beaucoup strategery.

    ... DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS!

    Sorry, I'm just cracking up here.
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  • Marik_SteeleMarik_Steele To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
    Well, it could be worse. He could've tried to spell "unknown" with a q or three, or he could've make multiple unsuccessful attempts at making up a word. (Afghanistanania...afganinny, afguuuh...um...Iraq!)
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  • Cereal_KillRCereal_KillR Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
    god and I thought Jean Claude Van Damme was the king of the category (if you're not french you might not get it)
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  • AllUrHiveRblong2usAllUrHiveRblong2us By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
    Yes, that was quite baffling as a statement, but I think Arnolds should have won, but to illustrate the sheer stupidity of the people this country can elect.

    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->"I think that **** marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman,"<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    That is pure californian goodness right there.
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  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again+Dec 1 2003, 06:06 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again @ Dec 1 2003, 06:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> ... Sounds just like our own John Prescott! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Prescott is pretty much an "unknown unknown", though, even over here, where he's supposedly "deputy prime minister".
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  • TenSixTenSix Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7932Members
    edited December 2003
    If you think Rumsfeld is bad, one word:

    <b>POTATOE</b>
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  • SirusSirus Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8466Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    So...this is the the non-idealogue political discussion ?

    [sarcasm]Ahh.. so enlightening it is. So many calculated responses on relevant information, it's great we're not judging on superficial things[/sarcasm]
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  • AllUrHiveRblong2usAllUrHiveRblong2us By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
    Says the man useing sarcasm tags.
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  • zoobyzooby Join Date: 2003-08-26 Member: 20236Members
    That reminds me of this:

    He who knows what he know is wise, follow him.
    He who knows what he does not know is ignorant, teach him.
    He who does not know what he knows is stupid, shun him.
    He who does not know what he does not know is a fool, kill him.

    -conventional wisdom

    Taking a look at what Rumsfeld said...wow, time to take a remedial English course.
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  • TenSixTenSix Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7932Members
    Even one of my friends who is very conservative (Im fairly conservative, hes way out there even to me) said himself: "I think Rumsfeld is losing it. Somone asked him a question the other day and he stared at the camera for 30 seconds."

    All I know is, if I'm ever elected President I'm assigning a team of Victoria's Secret models to be my public relations team, then no one will notice/care when I screw up. Whos with me?
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  • DubbilexDubbilex Chump Join Date: 2002-11-24 Member: 9799Members
    I'm with ya, 10! Screw politics! Screw tradition! I want hawtness!
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  • kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
    I would be with ya, but then I wouldn't want the government run by E. Next thing ya know the gov will turn into, oks nebermind.
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  • CplDavisCplDavis I hunt the arctic Snonos Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12097Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->John Lister, spokesman for the campaign, which strives to have public information delivered in clear, straightforward English, said: "We think we know what he means. But we don't know if we really know."

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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    I hate when someone thinks they're cool, trying to make quotes seen in text books in the future. And I'm sure that's what this retard did. The greatest quote I've heard in a while...

    Sandizzle's sig...

    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->9 kills in a row: In Quake 3 its "Perfect", In Unreal its "Godlike", In Cs its "Kicked By Console",<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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  • JefeJefe Join Date: 2003-04-21 Member: 15734Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Gwahir+Dec 1 2003, 05:19 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Gwahir @ Dec 1 2003, 05:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> He's talking to a lot of stupid people... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Chalk it up to intellectual osmosis...
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  • Island_SavageIsland_Savage Join Date: 2003-09-30 Member: 21354Members
    I still feel nothing tops good ole G.W.'s education speech. *laughs reminiscing*
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  • Fat_Man_Little_CoatFat_Man_Little_Coat Join Date: 2003-12-02 Member: 23857Members
    edited December 2003
    In truth he is a poet!

    <a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743255976/ref=pd_sxp_f/104-6546269-6652722?v=glance&s=books' target='_blank'>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=glance&s=books</a>
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  • cshank4cshank4 Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13425Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--GreyPaws+Dec 1 2003, 06:04 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (GreyPaws @ Dec 1 2003, 06:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031201/pl_nm/odd_rumsfeld_dc_2' target='_blank'>Clicky</a>

    here is what he got the award for, this is a quote BTW

    "Reports that say 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."


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    oh come on school starts in 10 minutes cant I got o the forums without my brain hurting!?
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  • MajinMajin Join Date: 2003-05-29 Member: 16829Members, Constellation
    Thats the most retarded thing I have ever seen.

    Its like one of those I know, that he knows, that I know, things.

    "I am going to surprize him with 50 ships, but I know that he knows I would do that, so I'll send 100 ships, unless he knows that I know that he would know about the 50 ships, and would be expecting me to increase to 100. I know that he knows that I know that he knows, so I'll send 10 ships and catch him off guard, but if he knows that I would know that he would know about the 100 ships knowing about the 50 ships, chances are he knows about the 10 ships in which case I should send 50 again, because he would never know I would be knowing that he knew that I knew that he knew that I knew that he knew about my original plan!"
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  • DubersDubers Pet Shop Boy Edinburgh, UK Join Date: 2002-07-25 Member: 998Members
    Why didn't he just say he hadn't a clue what was going on?
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  • BlackMageBlackMage [citation needed] Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17474Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Liku+Dec 1 2003, 10:05 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Liku @ Dec 1 2003, 10:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I hate when someone thinks they're cool, trying to make quotes seen in text books in the future. And I'm sure that's what this retard did. The greatest quote I've heard in a while...

    Sandizzle's sig...

    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->9 kills in a row: In Quake 3 its "Perfect", In Unreal its "Godlike", In Cs its "Kicked By Console",<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    lol
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