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Jermaine Dupri Quits Recording Academy Due To Janet Uproar |
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8:25 pm EST, Feb 6, 2004 |
LOS ANGELES The controversy surrounding Janet Jackson's Super Bowl performance has caused the singer's boyfriend to call it quits from the Recording Academy. On Friday Jermaine Dupri held a press conference to announce he is resigning from his position as president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' Atlanta chapter I can understand and sympathize with his reasons and maybe it's the 30 something caucasian living inside my head. All I can think to say in response is... Who? Jermaine Dupri Quits Recording Academy Due To Janet Uproar |
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USA Today: Cubans in car-boat are stopped at sea |
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9:49 pm EST, Feb 4, 2004 |
MIAMI (AP) Eleven Cubans trying to sail to Florida in a 1950s Buick converted into a tailfinned boat were intercepted at sea by the Coast Guard and will be sent back to their homeland, exile activists said Wednesday. A group of Cubans sails toward the Florida Straits on a modified 1959 Buick Tuesday. Tho boat was intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard. I did not realize Monster Garage was playing in Cuba now... USA Today: Cubans in car-boat are stopped at sea |
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9:21 pm EST, Feb 3, 2004 |
And I thought my job was tough... I wonder if there are any Chief Font Officer positions open anywhere... In a sign that no matter is too small to affect international diplomacy, the US State Department has issued an edict banning its longtime standard typeface from all official correspondence and replacing it with a "more modern" font.
In an internal memorandum distributed on Wednesday, the department declared "Courier New 12" - the font and size decreed for US diplomatic documents for years - to be obsolete and unacceptable after February 1. "In response to many requests and with a view to making our written work easier to read, we are moving to a new standard font: 'Times New Roman 14'," said the memorandum. The new font "takes up almost exactly the same area on the page as Courier New 12, while offering a crisper, cleaner, more modern look," it said, adding that after February 1 "only Times New Roman 14 will be accepted." Hail to the Font |
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NY Times | Capt. Kangaroo dead at 76 |
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7:02 pm EST, Jan 23, 2004 |
Bob Keeshan, who delighted millions of children and their parents for three decades as television's gentle, patient Captain Kangaroo and before that as the original Clarabelle the Clown on the old "Howdy Doody Show," died yesterday in Vermont, his family said in a statement to The Associated Press. He was 76.
No cause of death was announced, but he had had heart problems since the 1980's. Captain Kangaroo, a round-faced, pleasant, mustachioed man possessed of an unshakable calm, was both unique and welcome when his show premiered on Oct. 3, 1955. I guess Captain Kangaroo was the Sponge Bob equivalent for my generation. Rest in Peace Capt. K. You made a difference while you were here. NY Times | Capt. Kangaroo dead at 76 |
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Onion.com | Labor Secretary Has Her Hours Cut |
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10:35 pm EST, Jan 20, 2004 |
Maybe another tax cut will get Ms. Chao back on full time... Deeming the move "regrettable but necessary," White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card announced Monday that Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao's work hours will be scaled back to 30 per week starting Jan. 26.
"It's merely a cost-cutting measure and says absolutely nothing about Elaine, who's done wonderful work for the Bush Administration since she came on board in 2001," Card said. "Once the economy turns around, the first thing we'll do is return Elaine to her original hours. That's a promise."
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"Whoa, look at the time," said Chao, glancing at her cell phone. "It's already 3 p.m.? Sorry, gotta go punch out now. New rules."
Onion.com | Labor Secretary Has Her Hours Cut |
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RE: CNN | FCC Chairman wants to overturn decision on Bono's expletive |
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5:27 pm EST, Jan 15, 2004 |
inignoct wrote:
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] like the FCC ruling suggests, i thought the issue of obscenity
] hinged on the context. i.e. "He was fucking that girl." (the
] sex act) vs. "He was fucking angry." (adjective) or "I pissed
] on the fire hydrant." (the bodily function) vs. "I was really
] pissed off." (adjective)
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] powell can eat a d---. The word Fuck comes from the German word Flichen which means 'to strike'. It can fall into many gramattical categories:
As a transitive verb for instance; John fucked Shirley.
As an intransitive verb; Shirley fucks. It's meaning is not always sexual.
As an adjective; John is doing all the fucking work.
As part of an adverb; Shirley talks too fucking much.
As an adverb enhancing an adjective; Shirley is fucking beautiful.
As a noun; I don't give a fuck.
As part of a word; absofuckinglutely or infuckingcredible or as nearly every word in a sentence; Fuck the fucking fuckers. Not many words have the total versatility offered by the word fuck. So, all that being said Mr. Powell. WTF ?!? RE: CNN | FCC Chairman wants to overturn decision on Bono's expletive |
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CNN | FCC Chairman wants to overturn decision on Bono's expletive |
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10:22 pm EST, Jan 14, 2004 |
Doesn't he have anything better to worry about? Hey Mike, here's a topic to discuss. The Telecommunications act of 1996; Toothless or Worthless ? WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell has asked his fellow commissioners to overturn a much-criticized decision that an expletive uttered by the musician Bono on a network program was not obscene.
During last year's NBC broadcast of the Golden Globes Awards, the lead singer of the Irish rock group U2 said "this is really, really, fucking brilliant." --Expletive Undeleted for your protection. CNN | FCC Chairman wants to overturn decision on Bono's expletive |
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