WOTY suggestion

Beverly Flanigan flanigan at OHIO.EDU
Tue Jan 2 21:45:57 UTC 2007


I second the motion: 'decider' for WOTY, and 'macaca' for Most
Outrageous.  Can someone vote on my behalf?!

At 01:12 PM 1/2/2007, you wrote:
>If I were the decider on the WOTY for 2006, that is what I would choose:
>DECIDER.  GWB, the soi-disant "decider" has already given it such resonance
>by the ineptitude of nearly all his important decisions, that even if no
>one else ever uttered it, it would live on, a jagged, ugly chunk of a word,
>poking forth from  his legacy.
>AM
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