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"Never Google Drunk"
AIA-FL Blog ^ | June 3, 2010 | Bethany Stotts

Posted on 06/03/2010 8:46:24 AM PDT by bs9021

“Never Google Drunk”

Bethany Stotts, June 3, 2010

Commencement is usually a time when the speaker gives encouragement to the college graduates as they head off into the work force and pursue their life dreams. But NBC’s Today Show anchor Ann Curry, this year’s Wheaton College commencement speaker, gave mixed signals, making an embarrassing mistake during her speech.

She mistakenly listed Billy Graham and other alumni from Wheaton College (Illinois) as graduates of the Norfolk, Mass.-based campus.

In the embedded video from NBC’s Late Night show with Jimmy Fallon, Curry provided her explanation for the journalistic mixup: never Google drunk. (HT @Tweed)

“…so I had this one [commencement speech] at Wheaton College and I had to get some background about who had actually graduated from Wheaton College and you should never Google drunk. … If you think about it, just stop yourself. Give your keyboard to a designated Googler. …” (emphasis added)....

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TOPICS: Education; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: anncurry; education; journalism; wheaton

1 posted on 06/03/2010 8:46:24 AM PDT by bs9021
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To: bs9021

Another splendid role model for America’s youth.


2 posted on 06/03/2010 8:47:50 AM PDT by jazminerose
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To: bs9021

I have to cut her some slack on this — journalists don’t usually do any research. They mostly make $%#& up.


3 posted on 06/03/2010 8:49:38 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: bs9021

LOL thank God for the internet so people can see that these people are no different than 0. Dummies who don’t know what they are talking about.


4 posted on 06/03/2010 8:50:34 AM PDT by Dengar01
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To: bs9021
“…so I had this one [commencement speech] at Wheaton College and I had to get some background about who had actually graduated from Wheaton College and you should never Google drunk. … If you think about it, just stop yourself. Give your keyboard to a designated Googler. …” (emphasis added)....
Derek Zoolander: Or are you here to tell me what a bad eugoogoolizer I am?
Matilda: A what?
Derek Zoolander: A eugoogoolizer... one who speaks at funerals.
[Matilda looks at Derek confused]
Derek Zoolander: Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?

5 posted on 06/03/2010 9:02:55 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (....just doing the job(s) that Catholics refuse to do....)
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To: bs9021

Now, if you google
Ann + Curry + Drunk + Google

You get over 44,000 hits
(good job Ann)/sarc


6 posted on 06/03/2010 9:05:56 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: bs9021

How fitting for a TV news-journalist.


7 posted on 06/03/2010 9:11:38 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: bs9021

NPR —> retarded, moronic Idiots.


8 posted on 06/03/2010 9:14:59 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: bs9021

One or both of these colleges should have modified its name a long time ago.


9 posted on 06/03/2010 9:32:39 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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