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- From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Inauguration Parade Coverage (Was: Statistical bullshit)
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 21:54:17 GMT
- Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God
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- In article <C17z08.9ns@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ssalter@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (-=[SLS]=-) writes:
- > Screw it, who cares? Inaugurations are like football games, completely
- > worthless displays.
-
- Now wait just a minute there. In a football game, there is at
- least a significant chance of one of the principles suffering a serious
- injury. Inaugurations are much worse. When was the last time someone
- was paralyzed while being inaugurated. One president died a long time
- ago, but nothing in recent years. I doubt any president has ever broken
- a leg ala Joe Thiesman(*) during an inauguration.
-
- ObPeeve: Joe went on to become one of the most annoying announcers
- on TV. Too bad the injury couldn't have prevented him from ever
- speaking again.
-
- (*)For the American football impaired, Joe was the quarterback for the
- Washington Redskins several years ago. His career ended when he was
- sacked and had his leg broken in spectacular manner. Now that was a
- games worth watching. The injury involved his leg flopping around in
- all sorts of unnatural positions. Of course, the TV crew showed it
- about a hundred time from different angles in slow motion. As I
- remember, there was a great deal of blood and might have been a bone
- shard or two visible. This, however, might just be my overactive
- imagination projecting the injury I would have liked to have seen
- on this event. I haven't seen the tape of this in years.
-
- --
-
- "My essential point is that the First Amendment does more for men
- than it does for women by protecting speech that supports patrimony"
- -- Law Prof. Mary Becker, U of Chicago Law School
-