Comments on: My Bad, Part 2 http://revision99.com/2005/01/17/my-bad-part-2/ Harshing your mellow since 2004. Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:38:07 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Larry Jones http://revision99.com/2005/01/17/my-bad-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-129 Larry Jones Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:40:00 +0000 http://revision99.com/2005/01/17/my-bad-part-2/#comment-129 Ron -- Don't feel bad. As a member of The Platters once said to me, "We can't BOTH be fabulous." English Professor -- I was using hyperbole to make the point that MLK deserves to receive high honor from our society. The "Dream" speech is a remarkable oration, and extemporaneous, too! Kung Pow Pig -- That's two references to love in two comments. Are you The Love Pig? Ron — Don’t feel bad. As a member of The Platters once said to me, “We can’t BOTH be fabulous.”

English Professor — I was using hyperbole to make the point that MLK deserves to receive high honor from our society. The “Dream” speech is a remarkable oration, and extemporaneous, too!

Kung Pow Pig — That’s two references to love in two comments. Are you The Love Pig?

]]> By: Kung Pow Pig http://revision99.com/2005/01/17/my-bad-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Kung Pow Pig Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:33:00 +0000 http://revision99.com/2005/01/17/my-bad-part-2/#comment-128 They say you always kill the thing you love. That's just what I've heard. They say you always kill the thing you love. That’s just what I’ve heard.

]]> By: English Professor http://revision99.com/2005/01/17/my-bad-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-127 English Professor Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:19:00 +0000 http://revision99.com/2005/01/17/my-bad-part-2/#comment-127 I don't think he'd want to be on Mt. Rushmore. Using the sacred grounds of a people you've conquered to carve the images of your own leaders--hmmm, he might find that problematic. I agree with you, though, that he's a giant of the 20th century. In a recent graduate Rhetorical Criticism class we watched a video of his I Have a Dream speech, and I was amazed at how many students had never seen it. They knew a sound bite or two, but had never seen or heard the entire speech. Shouldn't that be required somewhere in high school? Civics, History, Speech and Drama, English, somewhere? I don’t think he’d want to be on Mt. Rushmore. Using the sacred grounds of a people you’ve conquered to carve the images of your own leaders–hmmm, he might find that problematic. I agree with you, though, that he’s a giant of the 20th century.
In a recent graduate Rhetorical Criticism class we watched a video of his I Have a Dream speech, and I was amazed at how many students had never seen it. They knew a sound bite or two, but had never seen or heard the entire speech. Shouldn’t that be required somewhere in high school? Civics, History, Speech and Drama, English, somewhere?

]]> By: Ron Southern http://revision99.com/2005/01/17/my-bad-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Ron Southern Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:49:00 +0000 http://revision99.com/2005/01/17/my-bad-part-2/#comment-126 This bleeding-heart liberal (me) also forgot about it and blew right past it and now I'm ashamed to own up to it. On my own blog, that is. Of course, I have seen one or two bits of evidence that some people have navigated from my blog over to yours, so I guess I'll be discovered even if I don't say anything. I may just give them your Permalink for today and tell 'em, "What he said!" This bleeding-heart liberal (me) also forgot about it and blew right past it and now I’m ashamed to own up to it. On my own blog, that is. Of course, I have seen one or two bits of evidence that some people have navigated from my blog over to yours, so I guess I’ll be discovered even if I don’t say anything. I may just give them your Permalink for today and tell ‘em, “What he said!”

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