08-28-2007, 10:28 AM
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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A part of being intelligent is knowing information at the moment is it is requested, and being able to think on your feet in such situations.
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Sure it is...but how often do you or I at age 17 and with a live audience and TV cameras in our face......have to think on our "feet" like she did.
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08-28-2007, 10:31 AM
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#22
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by transplant99
Sure it is...but how often do you or I at age 17 and with a live audience and TV cameras in our face......have to think on our "feet" like she did.
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If you know you're going to be grilled on very general questions on society on live TV, you tend to study up on general answers and get someone to coach you on what sort of questions to expect. Its not a difficult concept for anyone with moderate public speaking abilities and a C- average or better. A question like that should not have been a total surprise and should not have generated a rambled and incoherent answer like that.
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08-28-2007, 10:36 AM
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Not the 1 millionth post winnar
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Los Angeles
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Poor kid. Odds are this is what she'll be remembered for. Tough to have that kind of infamy when you're 16.
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08-28-2007, 10:45 AM
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#24
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: NYYC
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Originally Posted by transplant99
Sure it is...but how often do you or I at age 17 and with a live audience and TV cameras in our face......have to think on our "feet" like she did.
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Hey it's her choice to be on TV, so it's up to her to make sure she's prepared.
Smart people prepare, stupid ones don't.
I definitely realize that being nervous makes some people act in less than ideal ways, but I think in this girl's case it just brought out the truth.
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08-28-2007, 11:58 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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I was actually watching this live...
It was pretty hard to listen too. Blonde moments with the um and like. 
Last edited by Joborule; 08-28-2007 at 12:00 PM.
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08-28-2007, 12:35 PM
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#26
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Powerplay Quarterback
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I could hardly finish watching it was so embarassing...
As if intelligence has anythingto do with being Miss USA anyways...
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08-28-2007, 03:17 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: 127.0.0.1
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I agree with her.
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08-28-2007, 03:18 PM
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by foofighter15
In all fariness how can she answer that question though?
She can't give the obvious answer....cause those people are morons. So what would be a legitmate answer that would fit the contest?
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"Cause Americans are MORONS".
She would have won.
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08-28-2007, 03:55 PM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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Maybe she heard the question wrong, and thought she was being asked to illustrate why this is.
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08-28-2007, 03:56 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Calgary
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Or maybe she can't find it on a map either and didn't realize people should be able to?
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If edmonton wins the cup in the next decade I will buy everyone on CP a bottle of vodka.
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08-28-2007, 04:12 PM
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#31
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Calgary
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They should set this question/request (Please point out the USA on this big picture map) up as a mandatory "entrance pop quiz" at all wallmarts, anyone unable to answer within, lets say 5 seconds, is shot on the spot... harsh yes, but quite possibly necessary for the survival of the species...
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08-28-2007, 04:40 PM
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Not the 1 millionth post winnar
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Los Angeles
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double post.
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-Bax
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08-28-2007, 04:41 PM
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Not the 1 millionth post winnar
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Los Angeles
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Originally Posted by MaDMaN_26
harsh yes, but quite possibly necessary for the survival of the species...
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Not at all! The survival of the species is being handled quite well by the welfare Moms and Walmart shoppers with their 9 child families.
It is the "elites" and professionals with their one or two kids that are putting us at risk! To say nothing of the gays, and sex education advocates.
Hooray for the trailerparks!
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"Isles give up 3 picks for 5.5 mil of cap space.
Oilers give up a pick and a player to take on 5.5 mil."
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08-28-2007, 05:21 PM
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#34
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: My wife's place
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Originally Posted by DuffMan
I agree with her.
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So did the judges, apparently she was third runner up!
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08-28-2007, 05:26 PM
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#35
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Kalispell, Montana
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Originally Posted by Table 5
Smart people prepare, stupid ones don't.
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I aced Public Speaking in college and never wrote a single speech. Off the cuff everytime. (demostration speech aside).
Some people have a natural abilty to think on their feet, preparation or not. I wouldn't say they are stupid.
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08-28-2007, 05:27 PM
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#36
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Kalispell, Montana
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Originally Posted by GirlySports
"Cause Americans are MORONS".
She would have won.
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08-28-2007, 07:12 PM
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#37
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Franchise Player
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Well that was certainly a train wreck of an answer.
It's like someone gave her the topics of AIDS in Africa and the war in Iraq to fall back on in case she didn't have an answer. Of course she stumbled across it like roller skates on marbles.
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08-28-2007, 07:19 PM
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#38
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GOAT!
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Originally Posted by Caged Great
Well, if their leader can't, then why should everyday Americans know where it is then?
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No kidding. I mean, afterall, the French don't even have a word for "entrepreneur."
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08-28-2007, 08:07 PM
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#39
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Shanghai
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Man, I feel really bad for her. The poor girl is being ridiculed all over the place for that. It's not like being a little dim is something that makes you a bad person. At that age, I bet she'll be pretty crushed by all the negative attention she's getting.
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08-28-2007, 10:35 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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That was much better than her previous response, a rambling answer that included references to "U.S. Americans" and mentions of South Africa and "the Iraq."
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LOL
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