What words do you hate typing? The two that drive me nuts are: administration and Washington. I always miss the ‘g’ in Washington. I’m also really sick of typing ‘George’.
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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I always screw up administration. Well almost always.
Just as well, Steven D, as we turn it on its head. This administration is screwed up so a little typo reinforces the idea.
Having spent $1.6 billion on a media campaigns, BBC is reporting Rumsfeld has admitted. “US ‘losing media war to al-Qaeda'”
No, that’s not a typo.
Rummy, I know you said “democracy is messy’ or something like that but ya mean to tell us we’re losing the media war as well as the civil war?
Can’t make this up.
So on the media war thing, where’s General Karen Hughes?
read full BBC article here
Weird – I’m always getting the “e” & the “i” reversed – thank goodness for spell checkers!
I always start out typing “wi” then I catch myself and think, “wi” = wired; “we” = “we-ird.” It doesn’t stop me starting with “wi” but it helps me fix it pretty quick.
I usually have a momentary brain freeze when typing “constitution”. Usually I second guess myself about how many “t”s I’ve typed and if they’re in the right places.
and think of Cindy Sheehan. Then I feel better and move along.
I never have any problem typing fucking. Let me try the others:
Asshole
Bastards
Fuckers
Goddamn
Shits
scumballs
those all are easy
But I often mistype teh and nad. And it’s really hard to remember to capitalize the M in BooMan.
Gawd, I never, ever noticed until you pointed it out! I’ve been doing it wrong forever and didn’t even know. <hides head in shame>
Just before the icy weather that has descended upon us Hubby asked if I’d noticed the buds on the apple trees across the street.
“Why no,” I admitted and he put me down saying, “You just don’t pay attention, do you?”
So I came back with, “Did you see the geese fucking on the pond yesterday evening?” (We were both in the garden at the time.)
“Um, no,” he replied, “I was busy.”
“But,” I shot back, “they were making a heckava lot more racket than the apple buds.”
Are you two bickering?
Time to get away from each other a little bit? Winter can do taht! 🙂
(oops … there’s one of my worst typos.)
P.S. I believe I once received an e-mail informing me that it is to be spelled BooMan. Boy, I tell you …
We are both know-it-all’s and are forever trying to catch the other in knowing less about something. It’s a game we play and for the most part it’s good-natured and we enjoy it. We both learn to know even more from the contest.
For example, I am going to stop being so oblivious when I go to the mailbox. My excuse is being more concerned about watching for cars going 70mph on our backroad. And, he is sure sorry he missed the geese fucking. It was quite a sight!
BooMan. Boo-Man. Booooo-MAN! I shan’t forget now.
You two have the makings for a great TV reality show! Call Bravo on Monday and pitch yourselves!
BooMan. Yes. Now, I am not sure if Buster the dog aka “BooMan” requires that he have the capitalized M.
he most assuredly does require a capital ‘M’.
It is a matter of dignitude.
M as in Milkbone.
Dignitude with attitude.
……
(Watching “Manufacturing Consent” on LINK TV … have seen it before … but it’s always good to see again / and they’re doing a fundraiser so they take breaks but instead of begging people endlessly to donate, they are interviewing Amy Goodman about her family’s long friendship with Noam Chomsky, her horrific experiences in East Timor, how the NYT ignored the slaughter, etc., e4tc.)
would have definitely made a great episode of “Weekend Warriors.” Yep, we thought it would take a weekend and three weeks later we’re still — some of the time — working on it. LOL! I say, “some of the time” but the truth is: after spending a couple of days scraping paint/varnish remover I’ve ignored the project for two weeks now…
But, hey! Did you just slip that BooMan the dog is actually named Buster?! Just like BooMan the man is actually named Martin?! Are you the only person here who goes by their full, real name or is Susan Hu an a.k.a.?
DEFINITELY HARD:
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I’m always typing ?/a>
P.S. Anyone ever see the series, “Slings and Arrows” on Sundance? It’s on now and it’s hilarious good fun. Someone at IMDb is trying to get people to get Sundance to release the DVD.
Thought it was just me! But I usually type </a?
Republican, and anything associated with it….nuff said.
Peace
I can’t type that. It always comes ‘thuglicans’.
Ok. You start typing about Rome, B and Silvio just to take a break, and I’ll try to cook up something on that other guy…
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Political themes in films, here in Berlin and soon in the Hollywood with the Oscars and the Palestinian film Paradise Now.
BERLIN (Pravda) 1 hour ago — Jasmila Zbanic’s “Grbavica,” a film examining how a single mother and her 12-year-old daughter cope with the aftermath of the Bosnian war, won the top prize at the Berlin film festival.
The movie, a joint Austrian-Bosnian-German-Croatian production, beat out 18 rivals to secure the Golden Bear award for the best film at the closing ceremony for the festival in the German capital.
Bosnian director Jasmila Zbanic poseswith her Golden Bear in Berlin. Reuters
The eight-strong jury led by British actress Charlotte Rampling selected two runners-up: ” Offside,” a comedy that uses soccer mania to highlight the struggle for women’s rights in Iran, and Danish-Swedish production ” En Soap” (“A Soap”).
The jury selected Britain’s Michael Winterbottom as best director for “The Road to Guantanamo.”
The best actor and actress awards both went to Germany: Moritz Bleibtreu for his role in “Elementarteilchen” (“The Elementary Particles”), based of the novel by Michel Houellebecq; and Sandra Hueller, who starred in “Requiem”, reports AP.
“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”
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politicization. Can’t fucking pronounce it either. Andit is an important concept I’ve been speaking and writing on of late. Like, ” ‘The War on Terror’ has been subjected to excessive politissicizashun.”
Seriously. Wouldn’t you just say that something “has been politicized”? Or in your example, “The War on Terror has been excessively politicized.” Or better yet, “The so-called ‘War on Terror’ is just a fascist political ploy.”
“W” does it and everybody coos and thinks it’s cute and makes him all human and stuff. Well alrighty then…..they aren’t the only ones who can just make shit up!
yup, it’s a word, according to Merriam-Webster:
– po·lit·i·ci·za·tion p&-‘li-t&-s&-‘zA-sh&n noun
Yeah. A normal person would. But I stumble over that word once a week. It is just there in the thought. But it never comes out right.
Too funny, this announcement. Go read
“Halliburton Wins Contract to Reconstruct Cheney’s Reputation”
won’t spoil it for you read it here “the $42-billion contract represents the first time the company has been employed to…
I hate typing “symphony”… and I work for one…
Rythm, rythum, rhythm. I have to type that word 3 or 4 different ways until I find the one that looks less wrong.
I was just getting ready to type that. I always want it to be rhythum cause that’s how it’s pronounced. My real problem word is occasional. I had to run spellchecker on it twice to get it right in this comment. I want too many “s’s” or not enough “c’s.”
And congratulations. I always want it to be congradulations…
typing the words skippy’s got a brand new look! go check it out!
This diary contains links to almost all of the Medicare D diaries that I have written. Am requesting that people start writing LTEs and contacting their congresscritters re: the after-effects of it in order to get this changed.
Thanks.
low income families whose loved ones died without burial insurance, to help them cover final expenses.
I know this is an exercise in futility w/the current crop of dems. But, of they actually act on it, they will have at least shown they are willing to stand up for their consituents. And I do not believe that it will happen, but I am giving them the chance to patially redeem themselves.
Kinda call it one last stand.
Millions of Americans will find themselves in this position shortly. Remember while Med D for Death cuts across all ages, the majority of those impacted are elderly people, whose health may be somewhat frail to begin with, a frailty that is only marginally boosted by their medicines, and others suffer from life-threatening conditions, for which medication means the difference between continuing on in this plane or expiring.
I, too, am suggesting a way to offer the politicians a way to demonstrate their compassion in a robust and practical manner.
What they will say is that it is covered umder SS–something like 300 bucks!
But I see what you mean.
this one works
patients. I always type it patietns, and spellcheck doesn’t pick it up.
about capital/capitol and principal/principle. I have to look it up every time.
Connecticut (impossible to remember for some reason)
privilege (never looks right – where’s the ‘d’?)
irrelevant ( an ‘a’ or an ‘e’ in the last syllable?)
concomitant (doubly difficult: are there two ‘m’s or only one? does it end in ‘ent’ or ‘ant’?)
And unrelated — a few of my favorite English words:
mucilage (a wonderful sound — never can figure out how to work it into a sentence in normal conversation)
scrofulous (a great adjective)
coprolite (a great noun: fossilized dinosaur turd)
and for some good words in the naughty category:
concupiscent
callipygian
steatopygous
Anything with a schwa.
to this new keyboard, I hate typing just about anything…but it’s getting easier the more practice I put in…
My pet peeve is the people who confuse “diary” and “dairy” — whenever someone pimps their “dairy”, I have to go pour myself a glass of milk…
I hate typing anything when I realize that I have run out of cigarettes! Unfortunately, I started smoking again. 🙁
This is a very good piece by Gore Vidal on Empire, Dictatorship and Bush. It’s a bit long but definitely worth the read. From Truthdig, Robert Scheer’s great site.
Link here.
definitely, excellent, recommend…
I myself always have trouble with the word sovereign which I want to spell sovreign for some reason. Same for sovereignty which I spell sovreignty.
I also often have trouble with liaison but thankfully use that word less.
BTW if it’s supposed to be BooMan with a big “M” then why is the name of the site Booman Tribune with lowercase m?
Pax