BurtWorm
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Mon Jul-21-08 03:58 PM
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"Johnny, I want you to turn off that tv and clean up your room in this time horizon!" |
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"Someone get an ambulance in this time horizon!"
"What is your estimated time horizon for arrival?"
Personally, I don't see a time horizon in which that phrase becomes part of the English language.
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tekisui
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Mon Jul-21-08 04:00 PM
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1. I think it just means the future. |
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Time on this horizon.(point and pan with you hand across the horizon)
Could be anywhere on this horizon. Not a vertical or linear time, but a horizon.
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BurtWorm
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Mon Jul-21-08 04:08 PM
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2. I think we know what he really means. |
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"Time table." He just doesn't have the guts to say it, or even to continue pretending that a time table isn't called for. The time is past when the Bushists can pretend to be in control of events. Events have overtaken them.
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tekisui
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Mon Jul-21-08 04:09 PM
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3. But, horizon sounds so fresh and |
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so much like a neo-con bushit word. 183 days until his becomes history.
And, hopefully prosecuted shortly thereafter.
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Mon Jul-21-08 04:35 PM
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Mon Jul-21-08 04:46 PM
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5. procrastinators unite--your phrase is hERE |
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Yea honey we can get married in this time horizon.
Yes dad, my homework will be done in this time horizon.
I know the bill is overdue, a check will be sent in this time horizon
Yes boss, the project will be done in this time horizon
My mother will end her visit in this time horizon
Remove roast from oven when done in this time horizon.
Little Jimmy has to pee really bad??? I will find a gas station to stop at in this time horizon.
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mantis49
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Mon Jul-21-08 05:32 PM
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6. Funny comment by Daniel Schorr (sp?) on NPR today: |
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"And from the Whitehouse Euphemism Office........They gotta have one, right?"
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Mon Jul-21-08 05:36 PM
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7. Horizon - The optical illusion of where the sky meets the land or the sea. |
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It doesn't exist in reality. I think they knew what they were saying when they coined this little nugget of doublespeak.
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