Althouse: Making fun of Bush for saying "the Google"...

October 30, 2006

Making fun of Bush for saying "the Google"...

... while using the term "internet blogs." Time for NPR to catch some mockery from this weblogger on the internet web.

23 comments:

Jake said...: And to think that the government takes money away from us to put those idiots on the air.; 10/30/06, 9:01 AM
KCFleming said...: Ha ha ha!
Some people don't know the right internet slang!
Way funny! ROTFLMAO (and he doesn't get that either!!)

It's like he doesn't even know how a checkout scanner works. Man, count on NPR to be down with the 411 for all things cultural.; 10/30/06, 9:19 AM
Rick Lee said...: What's wrong with saying "Internet blogs"?; 10/30/06, 9:35 AM
KCFleming said...: Rick, as it is short for weblogs, where else can one read blogs?
The weekly shopper?; 10/30/06, 9:46 AM
jimbino said...: It's embarrassing to realize that the last time a US president spoke a single foreign language fluently was 100 years ago.

How about instituting a policy that denies a university degree to anyone not fluent in a foreign language?; 10/30/06, 10:07 AM
JorgXMcKie said...: How about we deny degrees to anyone who can't solve a simple quadratic equation and write a logical statement?

That'd get rid of a whole bunch of useless degrees.; 10/30/06, 10:24 AM
Doug said...: Only slightly off the topic, but I have always wondered why some diseases are preceded by "the" and some aren't. Some examples: "the flu", "the clap" and sometimes people use "the crabs". While you have "a cold" or just plain "cancer".; 10/30/06, 10:25 AM
MadisonMan said...: Typically, only one strain of virulent flu is active at a time. The one strain you have is the flu. There's no need to be vague about it. A cold, however, can have multiple pathogenic sources. So the cold is too precise. Which one?

That's always been my understanding, at least -- I could be wrong .; 10/30/06, 11:06 AM
jimbino said...: The flu is like The Ukraine and The South of France.; 10/30/06, 11:14 AM
John Stodder said...: When Bush found a good joke on an internet blog, he told Laura it made him "LOL out loud!"

I kind of like The Google. Sort of like The Hague. Or The Dalles. It must seem like The Google to Yahoo! sometimes.; 10/30/06, 11:42 AM
Al Maviva said...: Jim, where did you learn that? Was it at The Ohio State University?

As for Bush, NPR can make fun, but that's only because they are too NooB to understand L33t. Bush was only talking about teh 9oo9l3 because it is teh suck, and that's how teh l33t s@y 1t. Phear Bu54! NPR is Fuxxxx0red!; 10/30/06, 11:46 AM
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JackOfClubs said...: What does the Manolo say about all this? And wouldn't Charlotte's web be an example of a non-internet web log? I mean, technically, it had daily postings and it was on a web... just not The Web.

(Sorry, for the triple post. Typos...); 10/30/06, 1:42 PM
Gahrie said...: I'm shocked, Shocked I tell you, that someone over the age of 50 is unfamiliar or uncomfortable with the internet!

Why, it is almost like the world wide web has only been around for ten years or so!

I bet Pres. Bush knows a lot more about TV tubes than most people under the age of 40.; 10/30/06, 2:07 PM
Charles Giacometti said...: Gahrie makes a great point, which is the age of the speaker can be a determinant in their comfort with emerging technology. (And this is not to say the sole determinant, as some of the brightest Internet people I know are in their 50s and 60s).

I heard a talk in the recent past that described digital strangers (roughly, people over 50), digital immigrants (roughly, people between 20 and 50), and digital natives (people under 20). While these are generalizations, they struck me as useful ones.; 10/30/06, 2:48 PM
Al Maviva said...: I bet Pres. Bush knows a lot more about TV tubes than most people under the age of 40.

I'll keep that in mind when the country is facing the challenge of bringing its old 50's vintage Emersons, RCA's and Montaignes out of mothballs to deploy nationwide in an effort to fend off a brutal invasion of Cold War-era Soviet cartoons on channels 14-999.; 10/30/06, 2:57 PM
Jeremy said...: A lot of college freshmen here in California just spent the last two months discovering that NorCal students say that they "drove 101 to 405" while SoCal students "drove the 101 to the 405." Didn't we all get our jollies off of this one a while ago?

charles- Are "Internet people" virtual friends from Second Life or is that just a funny turn of phrase used to describe people that use the internet?; 10/30/06, 3:22 PM
Jim Kenefick said...: I'll keep that in mind when the country is facing the challenge of bringing its old 50's vintage Emersons, RCA's and Montaignes out of mothballs to deploy nationwide in an effort to fend off a brutal invasion of Cold War-era Soviet cartoons on channels 14-999.

As opposed to our current desperate situation, where the nation is facing the eminent threat of...

uhh...

...searching for nude pics of Marcia Cross on the interwebs?

Seriously, I got nuthin'. All I know is, this is just another stupid thing people will waste time with, when we could be criticizing Bush for actualy things he's done wrong.; 10/30/06, 4:26 PM
Charles Giacometti said...: Jeremy asked, charles- Are "Internet people" virtual friends from Second Life or is that just a funny turn of phrase used to describe people that use the internet?

Good question. I work in publishing, and we work a lot with companies like Google and Yahoo, so I tend to think of people who work for these companies as "Internet people," that is, they make their living on the Internet.

No second life here. First life keeps me busy enough...; 10/30/06, 4:36 PM
Jim Kenefick said...: criticizing Bush for actualy

OMG, I is teh st00pidz.; 10/30/06, 4:45 PM
knox said...: NPR. A bigger bunch of pinheads there never were. Except at PBS.; 10/30/06, 5:23 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: I once carpooled with a very liberal woman to take some kids to a weekend camp. She started a political conversation with me, and it seemed to be going well until she suddenly started yelling and then crying.

After that, things were a little awkward. On the way back from the camp, we didn't talk much, so she turned on NPR to listen to Garrison Keillor. She turned up the volume when he started telling jokes about Bush. After each one she would conspicuously guffaw.

I had a good time though. The rides in the car, both to and from the camp, were so awkward that they were humorous enough to enjoy.; 10/31/06, 5:07 PM