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Sayhey
Dec 1, 2003, 11:00 PM
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has won a "Foot in Mouth" award for one of his now legendary bizarre remarks.

Mr Rumsfeld won the prize for comments made at a news conference in February last year which left observers baffled.

"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns," he said.

The British Plain English Campaign annually hands out the prize for the most nonsensical remark made by a public figure.

Not that he didn't have competitors.

Mr Rumsfeld fought off stiff competition for the award from actor turned California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger among others.

Mr Schwarzenegger weighed in on the gay marriage debate with the comment "I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman."

BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3254852.stm)


IJ Reilly
Dec 1, 2003, 11:25 PM
That's priceless -- and I wouldn't pay you a cent for it even it it wasn't!
zimv20
Dec 1, 2003, 11:29 PM
i was watching letterman tonight. seems they're doing short segments of video of bush.

tonight i saw bush spit onto the WH lawn. pure class.
Judo
Dec 2, 2003, 05:09 PM
heh yea they play that clip of bush spitting quite abit. They have a few clips of Arnie doing some questionable things to. Makes me chuckle every time. :)
manitoubalck
Dec 4, 2003, 03:38 AM
“REPORTS THAT say something hasn’t happened are interesting to me, because as we know, there are known unknowns; there are things we know we know,” Rumsfeld told the briefing.
“We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”

Yes:confused: :rolleyes: :confused:
IJ Reilly
Dec 4, 2003, 10:10 AM
I disagree. But in the interests of being agreeable I won't disagree in a disagreeable manner. But I digress.
pseudobrit
Dec 4, 2003, 05:12 PM
Originally posted by zimv20
tonight i saw bush spit onto the WH lawn. pure class.

Was he wearing a suit?

I ask because if he were working out or something it'd be understandable. I spit on the ice when I play hockey because I have to.

Bonus points if he was spitting tobacco juice!
Judo
Dec 4, 2003, 05:18 PM
He was wearing a suit. It looks like he spits out a piece of gum or something. He turns around to look behind him to see if any ones looking, turns back and spits.