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(The Straight Dope)   What's the origin of "Third World"? What are the first and second worlds?   (straightdope.com) divider line 47
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2001-10-09 03:41:51 PM
Got that damn Police song in my head....

"One world is enough, for all of us."
 
2001-10-09 03:42:19 PM
People don't know this?
 
2001-10-09 03:43:02 PM
new filter catches another one...heh heh

And Europe, US, industrialized = First World
Developing nations = Second World
shiatholes like Afghanistan = Third World
 
2001-10-09 03:45:48 PM
geez, what a dork did you mean ~f1rst-post~ hahhahaahghah
 
2001-10-09 03:47:12 PM
Aren't communist nations second world countries?
 
2001-10-09 03:48:27 PM
Pretty funny Steevie

It's the unwanted world that happens just when everyone starts to get comfortable.
 
2001-10-09 03:48:32 PM
No, Afghanistan=Fourth World
Farkistan= .5 World
 
2001-10-09 03:48:51 PM
*sniff* I love the filters.. bwaahahahaa!!
 
2001-10-09 03:52:22 PM
I forgot what lettuce is.
 
2001-10-09 03:53:06 PM
I thought second-world countries had enough to eat - they just didn't like it. "Airline food again?"
 
2001-10-09 03:53:08 PM
Bill_Cosby:
Yeah, I guess so, according to the article....huh...always heard it same way as my interpretation
Oh well, more than one way to skin a cat...
 
2001-10-09 03:54:12 PM
Last I remember of geography, the Russian republics were second world, everything else either first or third. I wonder if that still holds true. Does China still qualify as third world?
 
2001-10-09 03:59:19 PM
That was clear as mud. Was that supposed to be English?
 
462
2001-10-09 04:00:12 PM
i have no idea what this has to do with anything but...
shaftman3: GOING TO TOOL ON NOV 1 LICK MY STRYPER ASS,
AND I SAW THEM WITH KING CRIMSON AS WELL :P
 
2001-10-09 04:06:10 PM
So, this is truly a Third World War? hehehehehe
 
2001-10-09 04:06:50 PM
Funny thing about Tool, I saw guys wearing their t-shirts everywhere and I didn't even know they were a band. I just saw the type of guys wearing them and figured the government had made them label themselves or something.
 
462
2001-10-09 04:07:29 PM
lol, excellent
 
2001-10-09 04:08:44 PM
Farkistani Press

Osama bin Laden was recently spotted being whipped by three fat bearded men in what could only be described as "a haven for pig loving donkey boys".

Al-Kalim-Ce-Andre Habib-Al-Salami was there and had this to say: "oh my golly gosh heck... Osama was pig-tied up and had a very huge cucumber poking out of his widely stretched anus! it was big affront to glorious taliban ruling leadership!"

bin Laden could not be reached for comment.
 
2001-10-09 04:17:45 PM
Does anyone have a list of the exact words that get filtered and what they get changed to.
 
2001-10-09 04:19:06 PM
Before 1991, it was:

First World: "The West" (US, Canada, Australia, Japan and Western Europe)

Second World: Communist Bloc (USSR and Eastern Europe)

Third World - Everybody Else
 
2001-10-09 04:21:24 PM
Who doesn't know this?
 
2001-10-09 04:31:35 PM
boobies

testing, 123
 
2001-10-09 04:35:15 PM
Wow, I feel old if there really are people who don't know what the 1st and 2nd worlds are (were).
 
2001-10-09 04:40:40 PM
Guess what's in my pants.
 
2001-10-09 04:46:29 PM
I had to read that guy Sauvy's stuff in grad school. It was completely boooorrrrrrring!
 
Liz
2001-10-09 04:47:04 PM
When I was in college, one of my professors taught his classes that the preferred "politically correct" categories were MIC (More Industrialized Country) and LIC (Less Industrialized Country). Personally, I think that's a crock of doodie. However, I suppose it would make life much easier for idiots like the person who submitted this retarded question.
 
2001-10-09 05:04:13 PM
http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20011006

You gotta be farking kidding me
 
2001-10-09 05:19:27 PM
I don't get it....I never see the boobiess...I see that CharlieBrown's is first.
 
2001-10-09 05:20:34 PM
What the heck? Oh!! It becomes the last post! lol
 
2001-10-09 05:22:29 PM
I could post every single 8 letter word combination possible in order to test the filter, then compare the output with the input.

But I won't cause I'm not as asshole.
 
2001-10-09 05:23:58 PM
People don't know this?

That the term was coined by Rene Dumont? No, I am willing to bet that the don't.
 
2001-10-09 05:27:16 PM
boobies
 
2001-10-09 05:28:14 PM
Got any gifs on you?
 
2001-10-09 05:32:20 PM
I always thought it went like this:

1st World - Super powers
2nd World - Super powers' lackey nations
3rd World - They don't answer to anyone...yet
 
2001-10-09 05:40:05 PM
yes I am the master of the boobies!
 
2001-10-09 05:53:41 PM
first world- Democracy
second world- Communist
third world- Developing

Why is it so hard?
 
2001-10-09 05:54:35 PM
I thought Earth was the third world.
 
2001-10-09 06:10:37 PM
According to my old econ text:
4th World = developing countries with oil
 
2001-10-09 06:21:06 PM
Mrstickerman: Its not hard, I just thought differently, sheesh...
 
2001-10-09 07:48:34 PM
My apologies, Mr. ArmyOfFun; I was not mocking YOU; I was mocking ALL the farkers out there.

Come on down to South Texas, I'll buy you some fajitas.
( With YOUR money, of course. :P )
 
2001-10-09 07:50:29 PM
OK, looks like my middle line was taken out, becuse im am used to using angle irons in IM.
It read:
*Ducks out of the way to avoid thrown rotten tomatoes, along witn boos and hisses*
 
2001-10-09 07:51:24 PM
Drew, *YOU* are paying for the French fries.
 
2001-10-09 08:30:57 PM
Hey man, don't be so farking hard on yourself.
 
2001-10-09 08:39:29 PM
FRENCH FRIES WITH FAJITAS??
 
2001-10-09 10:23:35 PM
By the time we get done, Afghanistan will probably be 5th world....
 
2001-10-09 10:24:04 PM
I suppose it would make life much easier for idiots like the person who submitted this retarded question.

Or for the idiots who click on a question even though they already know the answer.
 
2001-10-10 12:33:10 AM
Sethor: Was that a David Byrne reference?
 
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