ETA: Just a fun fact because everyone seems to have survived the crash--As I learned a while back, the Hudson River is not actually a river, it is a tidal estuary.
Posts: 457 | Registered: Jun 2005
| IP: Logged |
Guy was on one of the ferryboats when it was redirected to respond to the crash. He posted that live through Twitter as it happened; actually responded faster than most media outlets. Modern technology, eh?
Posts: 3486 | Registered: Sep 2002
| IP: Logged |
posted
The West Wing IS full of a lot of fun facts, though he does occasionally get a couple things wrong.
I had to read a LOT of Lincoln last semester for a class I took on the American Civil War, and in the episode "The Stormy Present" when President so and so dies and they all go to his funeral, Speaker Walken talks about how the other guy was quoting Lincoln's second inaugural, to which Bartlet replies "the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present," and Walken gives him a look and replies "yeah something like that."
In actuality, that line comes not from Lincoln's second inaugural, but from his second message to Congress, which was a sort of letter he wrote that was like a State of the Union address, it just wasn't delivered by him.
Still, the West Wing is fun for tons of little UBIs.
Edited because I got the title of the episode very obviously wrong.
I'm sure you'd only give me credit for two of these though...
Edit: I was sure I'd be ninja'd by someone, but I didn't expect it to be the one who posted the question!
Posts: 5656 | Registered: Oct 1999
| IP: Logged |
posted
LOL, sorry Xavier, I had to run a quick errand and didn't want to not be able to post the answer.
And I believe that all of the words King of Men posted are either slang or names, and thus don't count.
Posts: 457 | Registered: Jun 2005
| IP: Logged |
quote:Originally posted by Humean316: And I believe that all of the words King of Men posted are either slang or names, and thus don't count.
Note: The above statement can and will be used against you in future philosophical and/or political arguments.
Posts: 1368 | Registered: Sep 2002
| IP: Logged |
posted
The OED lists all my words. And also, get your mind out of the gutter; 'dwayberry' is not slang, it is the berry of the Deadly Nightshade.
Posts: 10645 | Registered: Jul 2004
| IP: Logged |
Printer-friendly view of this topic
