Tuesday, May 02, 2006

I'm the (nucular) Decider !!!

First click on this link ... (make sure speakers are on)

Are you remided of ...
Song: I am the Walrus (listen/see)(lyrics)
Artist: Beatles

By the way, 'nucular' is not peculiar to Bush -- Eisenhower was the first to mis-pronounce it so ...

... why you still hear "nucular" from people like politicians, military people, and weapons specialists, most of whom obviously know better and have been reminded repeatedly what the correct pronunciation is. The interesting thing is that these people are perfectly capable of saying "nuclear families" or "nuclear medicine." I once asked a weapons specialist at a federal agency about this, and he told me, "Oh, I only say 'nucular' when I'm talking about nukes."

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