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| 1. Thursday, March 5, 2009 2:43 PM |
| jordan |
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No, it's not a bed-time story for the kiddies. But I found this unusually interesting... might just be because my BA is in communications. I'm actually surprised that he uses the teleprompter so much...
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| 2. Thursday, March 5, 2009 2:48 PM |
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In spite of this, he still uses pregnant pauses and the word uhhh with a hand gesture between every other word. I believe he is very articulate, I just don't get why he does that.
"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this." -Dale Cooper
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| 3. Thursday, March 5, 2009 3:00 PM |
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On the flip side, google Bush quotes if you need some chuckles. He has said some of the dumbest stuff in front of a microphone in recorded history.
"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this." -Dale Cooper
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| 4. Thursday, March 5, 2009 3:14 PM |
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| QUOTE:In spite of this, he still uses pregnant pauses and the word uhhh with a hand gesture between every other word. I believe he is very articulate, I just don't get why he does that. |
at one point in the campaign i literally thought the "uhhhhs" would sink him
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| 5. Thursday, March 5, 2009 4:26 PM |
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uhhh <don't say "clinging to guns and religion"> uhhh <don't say "clinging to guns and religion"> but seriously, he likes to be precise in his wording, which trades-off against off-the-cuff fluency. Unlike, say, Biden...
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| 6. Thursday, March 5, 2009 4:30 PM |
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Um is worse than uh.
Uh can be okay once in a while but um sounds horrible.
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| 7. Thursday, March 5, 2009 6:30 PM |
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I had a teacher who would knock 1 point off your overall speech grade for each "uh" or "uhm" you did. Learned really quickly to not do that! :)
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| 8. Thursday, March 5, 2009 8:03 PM |
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QUOTE:I had a teacher who would knock 1 point off your overall speech grade for each "uh" or "uhm" you did. Learned really quickly to not do that! :)
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What about "you know"? Yeah, place keepers (the official term) are annoying. I notice that lots of people use the word "like" about 4 times in every, like, sentence.... (Me no like) Perhaps he could change it to "om", so people will feel he's meditating over the subject... you know? Ummm... oooommmmm....
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| 9. Friday, March 6, 2009 6:19 AM |
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oh, that's right - she did knock off points for those too. I always had a problem with uhm so that's what stuck in my head.
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