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Demit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 02:06 PM
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You know what I'm afraid of? "Misunderestimate" is starting to look like a
real word! People are using it without attribution, or putting it in verbal quotes now. Josh Marshall just did--I knew something was wrong with the sentence and had to look twice to see what it was. Gack! Don't let Chimpy make this contribution to the English language!!
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 02:07 PM
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1. Ha ha! Get it? Its funny because our president is a dumbass!
Wait! That's not funny!

In fact, its terrifying!
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 02:08 PM
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2. Oh no. You're becoming Edumacated.
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kittenpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 02:09 PM
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3. well, at least our children is learning! n/t
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No Exit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 02:16 PM
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6. ... but we still can't afford to put food on our families! n/t
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kittenpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 02:19 PM
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8. well you gotta make the pie higher!
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 02:11 PM
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4. It is embarrassing but it's life
The real test is whether or not it will stick around after he leaves office, which I doubt.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com
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signmike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 02:16 PM
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5. Aboluley!
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bloom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 02:17 PM
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7. I noticed that too
there is probably nothing anyone can do.

Oh - what a legacy he'll have... :eyes:
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No Exit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 02:19 PM
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9. President Jabberwocky
War is peace. Freedom is slavery.

We've gone Through the Looking Glass--didn't you know?
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TheFarseer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 02:32 PM
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10. Misunderestimate is a word
Misunderestimate has always been a word :crazy:
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ChairOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 02:37 PM
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11. Oh boy. I've sooo misoverestimated the language skills of DUers... /eom
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Demit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 02:47 PM
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14. LOL! See how insidious it is?
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fob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 03:14 PM
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15. Are you serious?
Edited on Tue Mar-01-05 03:14 PM by fob
Care to provide a definition, especially one pre-1999 or whenever the fuckstick* uttered that nonsense?


What he meant to say was "people underestimate him".
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TheFarseer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 03:19 PM
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16. it was a 1984 reference
"We are at war with Eurasia, we have always been at war with Euaria"
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bloom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 03:23 PM
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17. people don't usually use crazy eyes
when they are serious.

It sounds like a take-off from 1984.
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 07:10 PM
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23. he's used it at least twice
I believe the definition would be something along the lines of "wrongly underestimate" -- which is actually redundant, but there are plenty of examples of idioms where repetition is used for emphasis.


http://www.dubyaspeak.com/ro6.shtml#misunder

They misunderestimated me. (Nov. 6, 2000)

The folks who conducted this act on our country on September 11th made a big mistake. They misunderestimated the fact that we love a neighbor in need. They misunderestimated the compassion of our country. I think they misunderestimated the will and determination of the commander-in-chief, too. (Sept. 26, 2001)

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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 02:37 PM
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12. I'm all for putting this in the dictionary.
After all, this is what happens when people call a guy chimp and he proceeds to reform their government into a poverty and death machine.

Misunderestimation.
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Demit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 02:41 PM
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13. LOL! As long as the definition makes some reference to a chimp.
And is illustrated with one of those chimp-mouth photos.
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 03:36 PM
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18. Just like "normalcy"
Warren G Harding, considered the most stupid president until quite recently, invented the word. He was reading a speech & mispronounced "normality."

But Normalcy keeps popping up.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 06:15 PM
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19. Hey!! You got a problem with that?
:D
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Demit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 06:55 PM
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20. Woops! Forgot about you, Misunderestimator.
You shall be grandfathered in. :)
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 06:58 PM
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21. I would HATE it if my name became a word... it would mean that I
would be a part of it all... :scared:
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 07:04 PM
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22. ** gets credited in the Oxford English Dictionary, someday?
How ironic! (I think he's already in Bartlett's Quotations.)
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 07:21 PM
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24. Noo-kya-lar Is Already in the Dictionary
*******QUOTE*******

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

Pronunciation: 'nü-klE-&r, 'nyü-, ÷-ky&-l&r

\ ÷ \ The obelus, or division sign, is placed before a pronunciation variant that occurs in educated speech but that is considered by some to be questionable or unacceptable. This symbol is used sparingly and primarily for variants that have been objected to over a period of time in print by commentators on usage ....


\ & \ in unstressed syllables as in banana, collide, abut. This neutral vowel, called schwa ....

********UNQUOTE*******
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