Comments on: Palin’s English

By: nahiaali33

nahiaali33 — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:44:33 +0000

“I Should certainly do it,” said Sherlock Holmes.
I started at the interruption, for my companion had been eating his breakfast with his attention entirely centered upon the paper which was propped up by the coffee pot. Now I looked across at him to find his eyes fastened upon me with the half-amused, half-questioning expression which he usually assumed when he felt he had made an intellectual point.
“Do what?” I asked.
He smiled as he took his slipper from the mantelpiece and drew from it enough shag tobacco to fill the old clay pipe with which he invariably rounded off his breakfast.
“A most characteristic question of yours, Watson,” said he. “You will not, I am sure, be offended if I say that any reputation for sharpness which I may possess has been entirely gained by the admirable foil which you have made for me. Have I not heard of debutantes who have insisted upon plainness in their chaperones? There is a certain analogy.”
Our long companionship in the Baker Street rooms had left us on those easy terms of intimacy when much may be said without offence. And yet I acknowledged that I was nettled at his remark.
“I may be very obtuse,” said I, “but I confess that I am unable to see how you have managed to know that I was… I was…”
“Asked to help in the Edinburgh University Bazaar…”
“Precisely. The letter has only just come to hand, and I have not spoken to you since.”
“In spite of that,” said Holmes, leaning back in his chair and putting his finger tips together, “I would even venture to suggest that the object of the bazaar is to enlarge the University cricket field.”
I looked at him in such bewilderment that he vibrated with silent laughter. you are interesting complete story http://www.stories.pk/urdu-hindi/the-field-bazaar-t12784.html, i hope you like it.

By: Fairy Hardcastle

Fairy Hardcastle — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:23:50 +0000

Refudiate. It’s not such a bad concoction is it? It has a certain efficiency about it. You are asking someone to both refute (give an argument against) and repudiate (affirm that it is not your point of view) in one word. Reminiscent of bloviate which is a BOR favorite.

By: CentristNYer

CentristNYer — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:58:50 +0000

Watusie // Jul 21, 2010 at 8:07 am

“…a real leader would have led the charge to fix the problems in the system – not just said “oh well, this sucks, I’m outta here”.

But, Watusie — didn’t you get JeninCT’s memo? Palin is a “fighter”!

By: Watusie

Watusie — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:07:41 +0000

JeninCT OK, once more from the top for all the slow learners out there: She resigned because people and groups were hammering her with nonsense ethics violations that cost both time and effort to defend, so she chose to leave the office of the governor in the hands of her Lt. Governor, who shares her values and ideals.

The sheer hatred of her on these boards only cements my opinion that it must have been hell to be governor with that big target on her back. I don’t blame her for doing what she did. It was best for Alaska and best for her.

Firstly, the problems with the Alaska ethics complaints system did not detrimentally impact the lives of the ordinary Alaska citizens, so Palin could have continue to fulfill her duty to the people who elected her – the truth is she simply found it inconvenient to do so, and so quit on them.

Secondly, a real leader would have led the charge to fix the problems in the system – not just said “oh well, this sucks, I’m outta here”.

By: msmilack

msmilack — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:50:18 +0000

Xunzi Washington // Jul 20, 2010 at 7:51 pm

Either the entire labor story was made up and she was never in labor in the first place before she returned to Alaska; or it’s at least partly true which means that she knew she was taking a risk with the health of the infant and didn’t care. Whether that is because the baby was developmentally imperfect or because of her ambition, I can’t say.

By: Xunzi Washington

Xunzi Washington — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:40:45 +0000

Jen

I’m assuming that there’s only a finite amount of Kool Aid in the world and your behavior in this thread has convinced me that the price must be going up, up, up.

By: CentristNYer

CentristNYer — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:35:08 +0000

JeninCT // Jul 20, 2010 at 10:00 pm

“She resigned because people and groups were hammering her with nonsense ethics violations”

You really are astonishingly gullible.

By: JeninCT

JeninCT — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:00:57 +0000

CentristNYer wrote:

@Xunzi:

“I’m still waiting for Jen to explain this remark: “I also believe that she left her role as governor because it was in the best interests of her state.”

In other words, Jen believes that we should hire as president the woman who had to resign her last job because she’d failed so miserably. ”

OK, once more from the top for all the slow learners out there: She resigned because people and groups were hammering her with nonsense ethics violations that cost both time and effort to defend, so she chose to leave the office of the governor in the hands of her Lt. Governor, who shares her values and ideals.

By: CentristNYer

CentristNYer — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:39:02 +0000

@Xunzi:

I’m still waiting for Jen to explain this remark: “I also believe that she left her role as governor because it was in the best interests of her state.”

In other words, Jen believes that we should hire as president the woman who had to resign her last job because she’d failed so miserably.

If that isn’t a totally deranged line of thought, I don’t know what is.

By: Watusie

Watusie — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:27:15 +0000

JeninCt: the number of hours spent in the air determines the strength of a woman’s uterine muscles, so that Palin was able to just “hold it in” until she got to Wasilla? I’m going to mark that down as one of the stupidest things I’ve heard.