td11 wrote:

Phan Paul wrote:One thing that needs to stop on this board is the superfluous "s" popping up here and there--rolling musics thread, etc. Sure, the first few times someone used internets, I chuckled along with everyone else. But since if I'm not mistaken, that had its origin as a political joke, it should be stopped. Now. No good can come of it.

internets is still funny to me.

Bakestar wrote:

td11 wrote:

Phan Paul wrote:One thing that needs to stop on this board is the superfluous "s" popping up here and there--rolling musics thread, etc. Sure, the first few times someone used internets, I chuckled along with everyone else. But since if I'm not mistaken, that had its origin as a political joke, it should be stopped. Now. No good can come of it.

internets is still funny to me.

The origin of this is the 2004 Presidential Debate when Bush referenced looking at "the Internets," correct?

Bush referred to publicly funded computer terminals connected to the Internet as "Internets" in the third Gore-Bush presidential debate on October 17, 2000:[1]

JOYCE CLEAMER, AUDIENCE MEMBER: ...I'm very concerned about the morality of our country now. TV, movies, the music that our children are, you know, barraged with every day. And I want to know if there's anything that can be worked out with the—Hollywood, or whoever, to help get rid of some of this bad language and whatever, you know...
BUSH: ...We can have filters on Internets where public money is spent. There ought to be filters in public libraries and filters in public schools so if kids get on the Internet, there is not going to be pornography or violence coming in.
In the 2004 election's second debate in St. Louis, Missouri, Bush used the word "Internets" in response to an audience question about a potential military draft:[2]

DANIEL FARLEY, AUDIENCE MEMBER: Mr. President, since we continue to police the world, how do you intend to maintain our military presence without reinstituting a draft?
BUSH: Yes, that's a great question. Thanks. I hear there's rumors on the, uh, Internets, that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period. The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well. It works when we make sure they've got housing, like we have done in the last military budgets.

td11 wrote:

Bakestar wrote:

td11 wrote:

Phan Paul wrote:One thing that needs to stop on this board is the superfluous "s" popping up here and there--rolling musics thread, etc. Sure, the first few times someone used internets, I chuckled along with everyone else. But since if I'm not mistaken, that had its origin as a political joke, it should be stopped. Now. No good can come of it.

internets is still funny to me.

The origin of this is the 2004 Presidential Debate when Bush referenced looking at "the Internets," correct?

I actually looked this up just last night. "Internets"

Bush referred to publicly funded computer terminals connected to the Internet as "Internets" in the third Gore-Bush presidential debate on October 17, 2000:[1]

JOYCE CLEAMER, AUDIENCE MEMBER: ...I'm very concerned about the morality of our country now. TV, movies, the music that our children are, you know, barraged with every day. And I want to know if there's anything that can be worked out with the—Hollywood, or whoever, to help get rid of some of this bad language and whatever, you know...
BUSH: ...We can have filters on Internets where public money is spent. There ought to be filters in public libraries and filters in public schools so if kids get on the Internet, there is not going to be pornography or violence coming in.
In the 2004 election's second debate in St. Louis, Missouri, Bush used the word "Internets" in response to an audience question about a potential military draft:[2]

DANIEL FARLEY, AUDIENCE MEMBER: Mr. President, since we continue to police the world, how do you intend to maintain our military presence without reinstituting a draft?
BUSH: Yes, that's a great question. Thanks. I hear there's rumors on the, uh, Internets, that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period. The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well. It works when we make sure they've got housing, like we have done in the last military budgets.

z ipper wrote:is eating a half gallon of ice cream in a sitting easy or hard or moderate?

Bill McNeal wrote:Why does a dusting of snow double my communte?

Bill McNeal wrote:how long is your commute?

phatj wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:how long is your commute?

Normal: 25-30 min.
Today: 85 min.

jemagee wrote:Yeah, but as a whole, the state has, what, 10, 15 traffic lights?

Phan Paul wrote:

jemagee wrote:Yeah, but as a whole, the state has, what, 10, 15 traffic lights?

25. They keep installing more of those newfangled things, dagnabit.

True story: Until recently, there was only one light between here and the Texarkana Airport--about an hour away. Now there's three.