12-16-2006, 10:15 PM
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Location: Calgary
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YOU! Are Times' Person of the Year
Boy... this seems like a cop-out... but makes sense.
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The "Great Man" theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men." He believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating this year.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/16/time.you.tm/index.html
Last edited by Jayems; 12-16-2006 at 10:17 PM.
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12-16-2006, 10:22 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Yes! I kick ass!
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12-16-2006, 10:26 PM
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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I'm Awesome!!!!!
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12-16-2006, 10:26 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by getbak
Yes! I kick ass!
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haha
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12-16-2006, 10:43 PM
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Redundant Minister of Redundancy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Montreal
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12-16-2006, 11:49 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Nov 2006
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This is what I've been trying to tell people! I'm freaking awesome!!
Heh, glad to see people are getting that lame "great people" theory of history out of their heads. Anyone who has been trained in History in the past 20 or so odd years already gets that there is more to the French Empire then Napolean.
Still, seems kinda lame of Time Magazine to further legitimize the awfulness that is Web 2.0 buzz. Oh well.
I repeat, I'm awesome! 
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12-16-2006, 11:52 PM
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Redundant Minister of Redundancy
Self-Banned
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Sounds like Time magazine has become pretty lazy to me.
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12-17-2006, 12:03 AM
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Had an idea!
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Originally Posted by CrusaderPi
Sounds like Time magazine has become pretty lazy to me.
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Why?
Of course I deserve it...
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12-17-2006, 12:08 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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This is definitely going on my resume.
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12-17-2006, 12:11 AM
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Unfortunately, Time's "Person of the Year" award has lost it's direction lately. It's supposed to be for the man, woman, couple, group, idea, place, or machine that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year."
Technically Bin Laden should have gotten it after 9/11, but the editors just can't seem to do that - I suspect they're seriously worried about killing the magazine if they do that.
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12-17-2006, 01:26 AM
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Originally Posted by getbak
This is definitely going on my resume.
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Curses. You beat me to it.
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12-17-2006, 01:31 AM
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Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse
Unfortunately, Time's "Person of the Year" award has lost it's direction lately. It's supposed to be for the man, woman, couple, group, idea, place, or machine that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year."
Technically Bin Laden should have gotten it after 9/11, but the editors just can't seem to do that - I suspect they're seriously worried about killing the magazine if they do that.
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I'm pretty sure there would be a boycott of epic proportion, which in turn is not good for buisness.
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12-17-2006, 03:24 PM
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It's not easy being green!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: In the tubes to Vancouver Island
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Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse
Technically Bin Laden should have gotten it after 9/11, but the editors just can't seem to do that - I suspect they're seriously worried about killing the magazine if they do that.
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While true.. That would be the death of a magazine.
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12-17-2006, 05:47 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Finally someone confirms it.
I'm kinda a big deal.
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12-17-2006, 07:43 PM
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Gotta agree with Hulse.
The award should be about impact, not necessarily positive impact.
In this case, the award going to "you" could mean we all suck
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