Bits of random facts

bmwracer wrote:
From Wiki:

In addition to Hebrew and English, Portman has studied and/or can speak (to some degree) French, Japanese, and German. She has recently been learning to speak Arabic.

Wow! That a lot! :wow: I didn't even know she can speak French. A multilingual chick :thumbsup: :applaud:

bmwracer wrote:
From Wiki:

In addition to Hebrew and English, Portman has studied and/or can speak (to some degree) French, Japanese, and German. She has recently been learning to speak Arabic.

well she did go to harvard....

brooke shields went to princeton and graduated with a degree in French i believe.

Tu_triky wrote:well she did go to harvard....

That's not saying much 'cause our VP went to Harvard. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
That's not saying much 'cause our VP went to Harvard. :beaten:

haha....well it's more than somebody going to Fresno State.

Did you know that the American Government forks out 8 Billion dollars A MONTH for the "war" on Iraq, and 1.5 billion dollars A MONTH on Aphganistan. That's nearly 10 billion A MONTH. And yet they can't send the PROMISED few million dollars a year to Africa to aid the 40 million children infected with the HIV virus.

And our PM isn't any better. He decided not to show up to the AIDs conference at the last moment, leaving Stephen Lewis high and dry.

I was totally indifferent to Bill Clinton when he was the president, but I like what he's doing NOW. At least he's aware of the issue and the Clinton foundation is doing a lot.

Aphganistan??

Afghanistan??

Gomen... It was too tempting. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:Aphganistan??

Afghanistan??

Gomen... It was too tempting. :sweat:

GAH! You'd think I'd know how to spell it, considering my background. :beaten:

I don't think I'll edit. The embrassment is too funny. >>flushes red<<

Wynter wrote:GAH! You'd think I'd know how to spell it, considering my background.

I don't think that comes into play... I still misspell AmeriKKKa. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
I don't think that comes into play... I still misspell AmeriKKKa. :beaten:

LOL! Wow, Dave Chapelle would LOVE that.

Wynter wrote:LOL! Wow, Dave Chapelle would LOVE that.

I've seen it spelled that way somewhere... Maybe on a rap album... Ice Cube? :headscratch:

bmwracer wrote:
I've seen it spelled that way somewhere... Maybe on a rap album... Ice Cube? :headscratch:

Hai, Amerikkka's Most Wanted.

When you think about it, that's a rather powerful statement. Controversy can be a marvelous thing sometimes.

From wonderful Wiki:

The most common usage of the letters "kkk" in alternative political spelling is the spelling of "America" as Amerikkka. A reference to the Ku Klux Klan, this is often done to indicate the belief that the United States or American society is fundamentally racist, oppressive and corrupt. The earliest known usage of "Amerikkka" recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is in 1970, in a journal called Black World. Presumably, this was an extrapolation from the then already widespread "Amerika".

The spelling "Amerikkka" came into greater use after the 1990 release of the Gangsta rap album AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted by Ice Cube.

The San Francisco Bay View regularly spells America as "Amerikkka". [/i]

bmwracer wrote:From wonderful Wiki:

The most common usage of the letters "kkk" in alternative political spelling is the spelling of "America" as Amerikkka. A reference to the Ku Klux Klan, this is often done to indicate the belief that the United States or American society is fundamentally racist, oppressive and corrupt. The earliest known usage of "Amerikkka" recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is in 1970, in a journal called Black World. Presumably, this was an extrapolation from the then already widespread "Amerika".

The spelling "Amerikkka" came into greater use after the 1990 release of the Gangsta rap album AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted by Ice Cube.

The San Francisco Bay View regularly spells America as "Amerikkka". [/i]

Thanks for the note. Wiki is grand. Personally I do believe that calling America a Democracy is a big lie, but I won't go there. It'll just be interesting (or scary, for that matter) to see how it evolves over the next 15 years. And not just America. I'm talking all of the west.

Wynter wrote:Personally I do believe that calling America a Democracy is a big lie

Under the currrent regime, yes.

America is not a democracy. The rich get more votes than the poor, regardless of what party/president is in power.

:usuck:

krim wrote:America is not a democracy. The rich get more votes than the poor, regardless of what party/president is in power.

:usuck:

Wow, that sounds aristocratic... :sweat:

Change of pace: The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

LOL! Wow, Dave Chapelle would LOVE that.

Have you seen Dave Chapelle's Gay America video clip? Absolutely hilarious!

Another bit of random, and totally useless fact - Richard Gere is part-Japanese.

ganmo wrote:

LOL! Wow, Dave Chapelle would LOVE that.

Have you seen Dave Chapelle's Gay America video clip? Absolutely hilarious!

LOL! Yesh. He's one of the few people who make me laugh out loud. :mrgreen:

Another bit of random, and totally useless fact - Richard Gere is part-Japanese.

Seriously??? I always suspected so!

"...there are gay landscapers..." :rofl:

The dude dancing behind that lawn mower...I laughed so hard I cried. :rofl:

Yes...I thought Richard Gere looked Asian...it's his eyes. And then I read somewhere that he had said in an interview that either his great-grandparents or grandparents were Japanese.

ganmo wrote:"...there are gay landscapers..." :rofl:

The dude dancing behind that lawn mower...I laughed so hard I cried. :rofl:

Competition for Hard Gay, no doubt. :hehe:

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. MMmmmmm... chocolate... :drooling: