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Title: Rand Illusion
Post by: Pat K on March 15, 2009, 08:14 PM NHFT
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/221335/march-11-2009/the-word---rand-illusion (http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/221335/march-11-2009/the-word---rand-illusion) >:D
Title: Re: Rand Illusion
Post by: Vitruvian on March 15, 2009, 08:57 PM NHFT
Why do people seem to find Ayn so difficult to pronounce?  It only has three letters.
Title: Re: Rand Illusion
Post by: Lloyd Danforth on March 15, 2009, 09:55 PM NHFT
Sometimes y is silent
Title: Re: Rand Illusion
Post by: Mike Barskey on March 15, 2009, 10:31 PM NHFT
Quote from: Lloyd Danforth on March 15, 2009, 09:55 PM NHFT
Sometimes y is silent

sooo, do we pronounce your name "lahd" or "lode"? :)
Title: Re: Rand Illusion
Post by: Giggan on March 15, 2009, 11:30 PM NHFT
Holy false dichotomies and collectivism...

There's a difference between satire and oversimplification.
Title: Re: Rand Illusion
Post by: Lloyd Danforth on March 16, 2009, 06:48 AM NHFT
Quote from: Mike Barskey on March 15, 2009, 10:31 PM NHFT
Quote from: Lloyd Danforth on March 15, 2009, 09:55 PM NHFT
Sometimes y is silent

sooo, do we pronounce your name "lahd" or "lode"? :)

Sometimes
Title: Re: Rand Illusion
Post by: Friday on March 16, 2009, 07:04 AM NHFT
Quote from: Lloyd Danforth on March 16, 2009, 06:48 AM NHFT
Quote from: Mike Barskey on March 15, 2009, 10:31 PM NHFT
Quote from: Lloyd Danforth on March 15, 2009, 09:55 PM NHFT
Sometimes y is silent

sooo, do we pronounce your name "lahd" or "lode"? :)

Sometimes
I believe the proper Welsh pronunciation is something like "thud".   :D
Title: Re: Rand Illusion
Post by: Pat McCotter on March 16, 2009, 08:29 AM NHFT
And while I was watching the video what comes floating by my newsreader but this:

QuoteDrive-by pundits are killing newspapers
Frayed Thread in a Free Society (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031302273.html)
By Kathleen Parker
Sunday, March 15, 2009; Page A17
BOSTON -- The biggest challenge facing America's struggling newspaper industry may not be the high cost of newsprint or lost ad revenue, but ignorance stoked by drive-by punditry.

Yes, Dittoheads, you heard it right.
more (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031302273.html)