Nuclear.

[ghouck]

You will notice that nobody else on this board took my overly obvious bait, save for you.

I don't bother because I've accepted you as simply a person that is inclined to be as insulting as they can without being direct in any way. I'm not surprised you never re-registered, else you'd actually have to DEAL with the negative karma that comes your way, which you seem to be incapable of doing.

[Menard]

You will notice that nobody else on this board took my overly obvious bait, save for you.

I don't bother because I've accepted you as simply a person that is inclined to be as insulting as they can without being direct in any way. I'm not surprised you never re-registered, else you'd actually have to DEAL with the negative karma that comes your way, which you seem to be incapable of doing.

ooo....ouch

Did you practice that for long?

[Dave M]

"Nucular" actually bugged the hell out of me (they aren't splitting the nuculus of the atom) until I realized that Bob Newhart says it. Somehow, that makes it OK. I'm pretty sure that Clinton is the only President to pronounce it "nuclear". It's the semi-official Presidential pronunciation since Truman, I think, maybe because it sounds folksy or something.

You know who's REALLY stupid? People who rise to obvious bait. Sometimes I consider not even baiting people, so annoyed am I by those who rise to it. Also, people who think that capital gains tax cuts would stimulate the economy, duh, how stupid.

[Rev. Powell]

You know who's REALLY stupid? People who rise to obvious bait. Sometimes I consider not even baiting people, so annoyed am I by those who rise to it. Also, people who think that capital gains tax cuts would stimulate the economy, duh, how stupid.

I rise to obvious bait all the time: are you calling me stupid???!!!   

[Menard]

You know who's REALLY stupid? People who rise to obvious bait. Sometimes I consider not even baiting people, so annoyed am I by those who rise to it. Also, people who think that capital gains tax cuts would stimulate the economy, duh, how stupid.

I rise to obvious bait all the time: are you calling me stupid???!!!   

Of course not; he didn't think you would understand the word.

[Zapranoth]

The acceptability or non-acceptability of "knew-kyoo-ler" doesn't change the fact, fact, fact that many people who don't say it that way make the snap judgement, as Ash put so well.

Including me.  When I hear that variation of how it's pronounced, I think, "stoooo-pid."

You can argue usage as correct or not all you want.  Look where that gets the French, after all!  I think the Academie Francaise has done a grrrr-eat job of keeping "le t-shirt" and other Anglicisms out of the French language, don't you?  But you can't argue someone's opinion.  And my opinion:  when I hear "knew-kyoo-ler," I think, "stupid."

What really annoyed the p**s out of me for that debate, though, was the full bring out the Gimp, pommel horse and red rubber ball treatment that the word "maverick" was given.   I think that debate needed a Marine armed and ready to execute the first VP candidate to use the word "Maverick" more than twice in the debate.   We'd then be searching for two new candidates.  =)  Because everyone knows that neither of those candidates is the real Maverick:

[raj]

ER, as has been already pointed out Jimmy did say Nucular -- I remember it, despide years of self-medication to forget the 70s (gah, disco and polyester leisure suits, s**t I need another beer now, thanks).

There are regional pronunciations that do grate on me, one being "vehicle" pronounced veHICle.  But it is a Southernism (I think that's the region that says it that way the most).  William Safire did some columns on this whole pronunciation thing for the NYTimes (back when it was good) Sunday magazine in the 1970s.  (Yeah, I'm a geek/nerd, so what).  Basically he said these were just regional pronunciations and not to get worked up over it.

Besides, we can't agree with the Brits over how to pronounce "aluminum". . .

[ulthar]

*As I recall, after all, weren't you the person who (sorry for laughing) said the (laughing again!) IRA had never (more laughter!!!!) murdered a civilian?

I think you need to check your reading comprehension skills.  I NEVER said the IRA never murdered a civilian.  Go ahead...reread my posts on the subject.

What I said was...are you ready?  The IRA was DIFFERENT from ISLAMIC TERRORISTS.

Thanks for playing, though.

[ER]

You really are funny. It's 100% incorrect to say "nukulur" and as for the IRA...

September 23, 2008, 05:10:31 PM
Ulthar: "...the main line IRA attacked political, military and police targets exclusively.  There was 'collateral damage,' but the innocent bystanders were not the targets of the attacks."

So if you say they "attacked political, military and police targets exclusively" you're more or less saying they never murdered a civilian, right? All killings of civilians were "accidental" in your fairy tale version of history. When I showed actual murders in the coldest blood were planned and carried out against civilians, you put your foot in your mouth big time by challenging me to:

September 23, 2008, 10:55:27 PM
Ulthar: "Can you cite any FIVE attacks PROVEN to have been IRA and for which civilian, non-politicals were the intended targets?"

And if it wasn't made clear enough by your post cited above, when you challenged me to cite examples of murders of civilians, implying they never murdered civilians, and I did, showing to the nth degree that the IRA did murder civilians, you wiggled out of your earlier statement, when you came off looking like an uninformed ass, by using the line in the final quote of:

Ulthar: "As I said, that's not to say that they did not indeed end up killing civilians, but they were most certainly not the primary target of most attacks."

So pulling people off a bus and shooting them based on ethnicity isn't directly targeting civilians and isn't murder, huh? You so clearly don't know what you're talking about, and you clearly tried to get off by indirectly saying the IRA never murdered civilians.

Dude, be a man. Own up to what you said and implied and THOUGHT. Being wrong isn't fatal, and your online buds here won't think the worse of you because you really didn't know as much about the IRA and its campaign of murder as you tried to make it sound you did, namely because I don't think anyone else but you thinks you're an infallible genius to start with.

[ulthar]

You really are funny. It's 100% incorrect to say "nukulur" and as for the IRA...

September 23, 2008, 05:10:31 PM
Ulthar: "...the main line IRA attacked political, military and police targets exclusively.  There was 'collateral damage,' but the innocent bystanders were not the targets of the attacks."

So if you say they "attacked political, military and police targets exclusively" you're more or less saying they never murdered a civilian, right? All killings of civilians were "accidental" in your fairy tale version of history. When I showed actual murders in the coldest blood were planned and carried out against civilians, you put your foot in your mouth big time by challenging me to:

September 23, 2008, 10:55:27 PM
Ulthar: "Can you cite any FIVE attacks PROVEN to have been IRA and for which civilian, non-politicals were the intended targets?"

And if it wasn't made clear enough by your post cited above, when you challenged me to cite examples of murders of civilians, implying they never murdered civilians, and I did, showing to the nth degree that the IRA did murder civilians, you wiggled out of your earlier statement, when you came off looking like an uninformed ass, by using the line in the final quote of:

Ulthar: "As I said, that's not to say that they did not indeed end up killing civilians, but they were most certainly not the primary target of most attacks."

So pulling people off a bus and shooting them based on ethnicity isn't directly targeting civilians and isn't murder, huh? You so clearly don't know what you're talking about, and you clearly tried to get off by indirectly saying the IRA never murdered civilians.

Dude, be a man. Own up to what you said and implied and THOUGHT. Being wrong isn't fatal, and your online buds here won't think the worse of you because you really didn't know as much about the IRA and its campaign of murder as you tried to make it sound you did, namely because I don't think anyone else but you thinks you're an infallible genius to start with.

I'm done with this.  Believe what you want.  It's pointless to try to explain myself to you.

[ghouck]

Retaliatory karma, real mature. Oh well, I can take it, and obviously you can't take criticism. Not exactly in line with "Be a man", but I didn't expect any better.

[Menard]

Dude, be a man. Own up to what you said and implied and THOUGHT. Being wrong isn't fatal, and your online buds here won't think the worse of you because you really didn't know as much about the IRA and its campaign of murder as you tried to make it sound you did, namely because I don't think anyone else but you thinks you're an infallible genius to start with.

...but...but...I thought snookums was infallible.

[Ash]

Wait...
How did this thread go from talking about the mispronunciation of the word "nuclear" to IRA terrorism?

And I was under the impression that ER was a girl.  Are you a girl ER?

[Allhallowsday]

Wait...
How did this thread go from talking about the mispronunciation of the word "nuclear" to IRA terrorism?

And I was under the impression that ER was a girl.  Are you a girl ER?

ASH!  Are you a girl??

[Allhallowsday]

Dude, be a man. Own up to what you said and implied and THOUGHT. Being wrong isn't fatal, and your online buds here won't think the worse of you because you really didn't know as much about the IRA and its campaign of murder as you tried to make it sound you did, namely because I don't think anyone else but you thinks you're an infallible genius to start with.

...but...but...I thought snookums was infallible.

A$$hole...     
I disown my own bad nature.  Negative virtual karma to that Menard-thingy.