16 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }}
16 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }}

Obama Wins Booker Prize!

by derekwong28
13 replies
  • OFF TOPIC
    • |
PostPartisan - Obama Wins Booker Prize
  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    The world has gone mad - officially. They awarded a prize to someone they admit doesn't meet the basic qualifications for the prize. What they did is cheapen their own image. Seems to be a lot of that going around now.

    Looking like herd behavior in the upper echelons. That's not a political "I don't like....." - but a comment on those people who are jumping on a bandwagon and abandoning their own principles in the process.

    kay
    Signature
    Saving one dog will not change the world - but the world changes forever for that one dog
    ***
    2024 Patriot's Award for Service to Veterans
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1264893].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    That is the most hysterical thing I've seen all week.
    Signature
    "The Golden Town is the Golden Town no longer. They have sold their pillars for brass and their temples for money, they have made coins out of their golden doors. It is become a dark town full of trouble, there is no ease in its streets, beauty has left it and the old songs are gone." - Lord Dunsany, The Messengers
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1264901].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
      That is the most hysterical thing I've seen all week.
      The article itself, or the fact that people missed the humor?


      Paul
      Signature
      .
      Stop by Paul's Pub - my little hangout on Facebook.

      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1265028].message }}
      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

        The article itself, or the fact that people missed the humor?


        Paul
        Who missed the humor? Is there something that is funny besides the idea that he is JUST as qualified for all those other prizes? He ALSO won the 10,000Meter womens run, even though he never attempted it, and isn't a woman.

        He is ALSO going to be in the guiness book of world records for the smallest man. NO, WAIT! He might actually WIN that one!

        Steve
        {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1265175].message }}
      • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
        Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

        The article itself, or the fact that people missed the humor?
        A bit of both.

        I especially like the way Obama himself seems to be doing a bit of head-scratching over it. "Wow, the Nobel Peace Prize, I'm like... really... um, okay, seriously - WTF?"
        Signature
        "The Golden Town is the Golden Town no longer. They have sold their pillars for brass and their temples for money, they have made coins out of their golden doors. It is become a dark town full of trouble, there is no ease in its streets, beauty has left it and the old songs are gone." - Lord Dunsany, The Messengers
        {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1266511].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Phnx
    Err Kay, read the article. It's just a satire (not a particularly good one) but mildly funny.

    Though before I read it I actually thought it was legit - nothing would surprise me at the moment.
    Signature
    In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. ~ Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

    Easy Weight Loss
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1264902].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
      Originally Posted by Phnx View Post

      Err Kay, read the article. It's just a satire (not a particularly good one) but mildly funny.

      Though before I read it I actually thought it was legit - nothing would surprise me at the moment.


      Maybe Kay was being sarcastic or was it a knee jerk reaction??

      TL
      Signature

      "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. -- Mark Twain

      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1266849].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Frankly, if an OBVIOUSLY undeserving entity "wins an honor", I have NEVER viewed that as raising the individual up. It LOWERS the value of the "honor", and hurts all that won it before.

    It would be like everyone in a history class getting As on their papers, though one said that columbus invented the TV set, marconi invented macaroni, and that gun powder was invented by george washington, and the teacher then acknowledged that those WERE the correct answers! Would YOU consider that student to be an A student? NOPE! You would QUESTION if the OTHERS deserved the As! Would that teacher be considered a GOOD teacher because his class always got As? I HOPE NOT!!!!!!

    THAT is why I am upset! At times, I have gotten high praise for something and felt bad because I didn't feel it deserved.

    Steve
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1264992].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    A great lawyer once said, "When I was young, I lost a lot of cases I should have won. Now, I win a lot of cases I should have lost. It all evens out."

    Well, WTF do you expect from a lawyer?
    Signature
    "The Golden Town is the Golden Town no longer. They have sold their pillars for brass and their temples for money, they have made coins out of their golden doors. It is become a dark town full of trouble, there is no ease in its streets, beauty has left it and the old songs are gone." - Lord Dunsany, The Messengers
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1265010].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    This article wasn't meant to be funny in a belly laugh kind of way - it was meant to make a point.

    By the way - I have breezed through some of Barry's writings and find it to be melodramatic trash with absolutely Elizabethan gush for metaphores. I also saw evidence of a very failed attempt at allegory in parts. The only reason it is being "highly regarded" is for the same reason he just won that Nobel.
    Signature

    Sal
    When the Roads and Paths end, learn to guide yourself through the wilderness
    Beyond the Path

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1266471].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    What? Kay was being sarcastic? That's never happened before!

    I'm thinking this time she read a few sentences and was too disgusted to read far enough to find out it was sarcasm. I did the same thing til I saw the post that it was satire. After reading Barry's writing - which was nothing more than era 2000 versions of Mein Kampf - I was too disgusted at the world for allowing the rise of another Fuhrer and the recent Nobel dicision to read the whole article.
    Signature

    Sal
    When the Roads and Paths end, learn to guide yourself through the wilderness
    Beyond the Path

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1267235].message }}

Trending Topics