Remember, Pakistan is an official Ally of the US

hdhale: I routinely beat computers at Tic-Tac-Toe. That the kid couldn't beat WOPR even once was a bit of Hollywood silliness.

Hate to break it to you but those computers have been letting you win. WOPR's old school; he plays for keeps.

m1ke: I love the way Obama pronounces "Pockisthan"

Päkistän; Pækisstæn

ĭräq; īræq

Lets call the whole thing off

Lost Thought 00: Remember, Pakistan is an official Ally of the US

So's India. I'm curious as to how this plays out.

Archae hippy: m1ke: I love the way Obama pronounces "Pockisthan"

Päkistän; Pækisstæn

ĭräq; īræq

Lets call the whole thing off

Until he and the news anchors he's emulating start using local pronunciation of American place names, it's all a bunch of B.S.  Mostly, I just want them to pronounce "Marina del Rey" like the locals do.

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Lost Thought 00: Remember, Pakistan is an official Ally of the US

I used to have to remind the troops about that a little too often.

/csb

Ivo Shandor: hdhale: I routinely beat computers at Tic-Tac-Toe. That the kid couldn't beat WOPR even once was a bit of Hollywood silliness.

Hate to break it to you but those computers have been letting you win. WOPR's old school; he plays for keeps.

Computers always take the best move available based on an initial strategy.  You exploit that.  I don't win every single game I play, but enough to where WOPR would have not learned the lesson that all Global Thermonuclear War is futile.

...and we are talking about a movie that practically took a Louisville Slugger to your head with its anti-war, anti-nuke message, right?  ;-)

another cultural observer: Archae hippy: m1ke: I love the way Obama pronounces "Pockisthan"

Päkistän; Pækisstæn

ĭräq; īræq

Lets call the whole thing off

Until he and the news anchors he's emulating start using local pronunciation of American place names, it's all a bunch of B.S.  Mostly, I just want them to pronounce "Marina del Rey" like the locals do.

Enlighten us, then.  Marina del Rey  looks easy enough to pronounce, so I would guess I pronounce it wrong (is it "REE" v. "RAY"?).  I don't do it on purpose, I just don't know.    We have a lake in NC spelled "Kerr" and pronounced "Car" .  Nobody gets it right the first time, and I cringe a little when i hear "CURR", but I don't get angry.  I do let them know about the local pronunciation.

What does get me is when people pronounce things wrong on purpose.  Republican phone banks make sure of this by phonetically spelling Iraq  EYE-RACK.  Its childish.

Marine1: *sigh*

How do these idiots build these things? It's not like their populations all live in good conditions and go to school to learn scientastic things.

/barkeep... another suffering bastard.

Exactly!  And who are the Pakistani's gonna call for technical support?  Themselves?

//Thank you for calling, this is "Steve" from "New Jersey", how can I help you?

Archae hippy: another cultural observer: Archae hippy: m1ke: I love the way Obama pronounces "Pockisthan"

Päkistän; Pækisstæn

ĭräq; īræq

Lets call the whole thing off

Until he and the news anchors he's emulating start using local pronunciation of American place names, it's all a bunch of B.S.  Mostly, I just want them to pronounce "Marina del Rey" like the locals do.

Enlighten us, then.  Marina del Rey  looks easy enough to pronounce, so I would guess I pronounce it wrong (is it "REE" v. "RAY"?).  I don't do it on purpose, I just don't know.    We have a lake in NC spelled "Kerr" and pronounced "Car" .  Nobody gets it right the first time, and I cringe a little when i hear "CURR", but I don't get angry.  I do let them know about the local pronunciation.

What does get me is when people pronounce things wrong on purpose.  Republican phone banks make sure of this by phonetically spelling Iraq  EYE-RACK.  Its childish.

I pronounce it like how Marc Jordan sang it.

//Living in Marina del RAY...
///man you better get a job (get a job)

CVGScorch: Archae hippy: another cultural observer: Archae hippy: m1ke: I love the way Obama pronounces "Pockisthan"

Päkistän; Pækisstæn

ĭräq; īræq

Lets call the whole thing off

Until he and the news anchors he's emulating start using local pronunciation of American place names, it's all a bunch of B.S.  Mostly, I just want them to pronounce "Marina del Rey" like the locals do.

Enlighten us, then.  Marina del Rey  looks easy enough to pronounce, so I would guess I pronounce it wrong (is it "REE" v. "RAY"?).  I don't do it on purpose, I just don't know.    We have a lake in NC spelled "Kerr" and pronounced "Car" .  Nobody gets it right the first time, and I cringe a little when i hear "CURR", but I don't get angry.  I do let them know about the local pronunciation.

What does get me is when people pronounce things wrong on purpose.  Republican phone banks make sure of this by phonetically spelling Iraq  EYE-RACK.  Its childish.

I pronounce it like how Marc Jordan sang it.

//Living in Marina del RAY...
///man you better get a job (get a job)

...I think you meant "jerb".

Archae hippy: another cultural observer: Archae hippy: m1ke: I love the way Obama pronounces "Pockisthan"

Päkistän; Pækisstæn

ĭräq; īræq

Lets call the whole thing off

Until he and the news anchors he's emulating start using local pronunciation of American place names, it's all a bunch of B.S.  Mostly, I just want them to pronounce "Marina del Rey" like the locals do.

Enlighten us, then.  Marina del Rey  looks easy enough to pronounce, so I would guess I pronounce it wrong (is it "REE" v. "RAY"?).  I don't do it on purpose, I just don't know.    We have a lake in NC spelled "Kerr" and pronounced "Car" .  Nobody gets it right the first time, and I cringe a little when i hear "CURR", but I don't get angry.  I do let them know about the local pronunciation.

What does get me is when people pronounce things wrong on purpose.  Republican phone banks make sure of this by phonetically spelling Iraq  EYE-RACK.  Its childish.

On the other hand, the local pronunciation of Martinez, GA makes the locals sound like a bunch of dumb hicks.

Ivo Shandor: WOPR's old school; he plays for keeps



Fark yeah, he does.

cannibalparrot: Archae hippy: another cultural observer: Archae hippy: m1ke: I love the way Obama pronounces "Pockisthan"

Päkistän; Pækisstæn

ĭräq; īræq

Lets call the whole thing off

Until he and the news anchors he's emulating start using local pronunciation of American place names, it's all a bunch of B.S.  Mostly, I just want them to pronounce "Marina del Rey" like the locals do.

Enlighten us, then.  Marina del Rey  looks easy enough to pronounce, so I would guess I pronounce it wrong (is it "REE" v. "RAY"?).  I don't do it on purpose, I just don't know.    We have a lake in NC spelled "Kerr" and pronounced "Car" .  Nobody gets it right the first time, and I cringe a little when i hear "CURR", but I don't get angry.  I do let them know about the local pronunciation.

What does get me is when people pronounce things wrong on purpose.  Republican phone banks make sure of this by phonetically spelling Iraq  EYE-RACK.  Its childish.

On the other hand, the local pronunciation of Martinez, GA makes the locals sound like a bunch of dumb hicks.

GA specializes in mispronunciation:  Cairo is kay-roh, Albany is all-binny

Archae hippy: another cultural observer: Archae hippy: m1ke: I love the way Obama pronounces "Pockisthan"

Päkistän; Pækisstæn

ĭräq; īræq

Lets call the whole thing off

Until he and the news anchors he's emulating start using local pronunciation of American place names, it's all a bunch of B.S.  Mostly, I just want them to pronounce "Marina del Rey" like the locals do.

Enlighten us, then.  Marina del Rey  looks easy enough to pronounce, so I would guess I pronounce it wrong (is it "REE" v. "RAY"?).  I don't do it on purpose, I just don't know.    We have a lake in NC spelled "Kerr" and pronounced "Car" .  Nobody gets it right the first time, and I cringe a little when i hear "CURR", but I don't get angry.  I do let them know about the local pronunciation.

What does get me is when people pronounce things wrong on purpose.  Republican phone banks make sure of this by phonetically spelling Iraq  EYE-RACK.  Its childish.

Pfft, that cannot even get halfway into India.  None of the good Hindu targets in India are withen 900 km of Pakistan.  And why would you bother pointing it the other way towards a "Government of the month" -Istan country?

Marine1: *sigh*

How do these idiots build these things? It's not like their populations all live in good conditions and go to school to learn scientastic things.

/barkeep... another suffering bastard.

It doesn't take a village to make a nuke. It only takes a dozen extremely smart people to make it. In a country of over 100 million I'm sure there are more than a few Einsteins even if 99.99% are complete illiterates.

As an FYI...in reality though a relatively large portion of the Pakistani population is actually quite educate and 'smart.

queezyweezel: Marine1: *sigh*

How do these idiots build these things? It's not like their populations all live in good conditions and go to school to learn scientastic things.

/barkeep... another suffering bastard.

Yeah, Islamabad is just a series of mud huts.....


[farm4.staticflickr.com image 640x438]

Of course, if you take the picture of the city while you're standing IN the mud hut section of town, the rest of the town looks awesome.  Where is the honesty in photojournalism?

R.A.Danny: ltdanman44: just a bunch of prick waving

It can be an awesome thing sometimes. Everyone should have a few tests then look at NK and say "We're WAITING!"

LOL!

And:  "WHENevar!

Archae hippy: cannibalparrot: Archae hippy: another cultural observer: Archae hippy: m1ke: I love the way Obama pronounces "Pockisthan"

Päkistän; Pækisstæn

ĭräq; īræq

Lets call the whole thing off

Until he and the news anchors he's emulating start using local pronunciation of American place names, it's all a bunch of B.S.  Mostly, I just want them to pronounce "Marina del Rey" like the locals do.

Enlighten us, then.  Marina del Rey  looks easy enough to pronounce, so I would guess I pronounce it wrong (is it "REE" v. "RAY"?).  I don't do it on purpose, I just don't know.    We have a lake in NC spelled "Kerr" and pronounced "Car" .  Nobody gets it right the first time, and I cringe a little when i hear "CURR", but I don't get angry.  I do let them know about the local pronunciation.

What does get me is when people pronounce things wrong on purpose.  Republican phone banks make sure of this by phonetically spelling Iraq  EYE-RACK.  Its childish.

On the other hand, the local pronunciation of Martinez, GA makes the locals sound like a bunch of dumb hicks.

GA specializes in mispronunciation:  Cairo is kay-roh, Albany is all-binny

I am fascinated by the pronunciations of Beaufort (bow-fert) NC and Beaufort (bue-fert) SC.  Then there is Staunton VA pronounced "stan-tin"

/I've driven through Intercourse

hdhale: Computers always take the best move available based on an initial strategy. You exploit that. I don't win every single game I play,

Perfect strategy leads to a draw for any opening move. I would believe you if you said you never lost to a computer, but that's not the same as winning a game. Are you sure it was a computer you were playing against and not a chicken in disguise?

Archae hippy: What does get me is when people pronounce things wrong on purpose.  Republican phone banks make sure of this by phonetically spelling Iraq  EYE-RACK.  Its childish.

Why donch yoo just move to Chiner!

Kevin72: [upload.M-59.wikimedia.org image 500x500]

Kevin, I'm really happy for you, Ima gonna let you finish, but M-22 is one of the best Michigan highways of all time, OF ALL TIME!

Lil' Kim just got schooled in "Showing off your balls" 101.

Polish Hussar: Kevin72: [upload.M-59.wikimedia.org image 500x500]

Kevin, I'm really happy for you, Ima gonna let you finish, but M-22 is one of the best Michigan highways of all time, OF ALL TIME!

Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes and Glen Lake for the win. M-59 to get to Grandma's house. Actually, I had it on my clipboard because a troll in another tread had m59 in his screen name.

Archae hippy: another cultural observer: Archae hippy: m1ke: I love the way Obama pronounces "Pockisthan"

Päkistän; Pækisstæn

ĭräq; īræq

Lets call the whole thing off

Until he and the news anchors he's emulating start using local pronunciation of American place names, it's all a bunch of B.S.  Mostly, I just want them to pronounce "Marina del Rey" like the locals do.

Enlighten us, then.  Marina del Rey  looks easy enough to pronounce, so I would guess I pronounce it wrong (is it "REE" v. "RAY"?).  I don't do it on purpose, I just don't know.    We have a lake in NC spelled "Kerr" and pronounced "Car" .  Nobody gets it right the first time, and I cringe a little when i hear "CURR", but I don't get angry.  I do let them know about the local pronunciation.

What does get me is when people pronounce things wrong on purpose.  Republican phone banks make sure of this by phonetically spelling Iraq  EYE-RACK.  Its childish.

It's WASHington not WARSHington. You don't WARSH a car or clothes, you WASH them. Where is the farking R?

/Hate that half the people from the damn state can't say it right.

That article was disappointingly brief.