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Schwarzenegger: Profanity in veto was 'wild coincidence'
Sacramento Bee ^ | 10/30/9 | Rob Hotakainen

Posted on 10/30/2009 12:48:44 PM PDT by SmithL

WASHINGTON ---- It may be highly improbable mathematically, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday that the encoded profanity contained in one of his veto messages was "a wild coincidence."

Speaking to reporters at the White House, the Republican governor said: "That was a total coincidence. It was one of those wild coincidences."

The first letter in seven lines of the message, when read from top to bottom, combine to spell out "F• you."

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: ammiano; fword; goldenstate; schwarzenegger; veto
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I have no idea if he even tried to keep a straight face while saying that.
1 posted on 10/30/2009 12:48:45 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Uh huh.

Plausible denial. ;)

Key word: Wild.


2 posted on 10/30/2009 12:52:22 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: SmithL
Bull
Sh*t
3 posted on 10/30/2009 12:52:26 PM PDT by Fawn (Zoo has African Lion-WhiteHouse has Lyin African)
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To: SmithL

“California, California!
We’ll drink a keg of booze
‘till we sway inside our shoes”


4 posted on 10/30/2009 12:52:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
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To: SmithL

Well, the articel doesn’t say what the last line is.


5 posted on 10/30/2009 12:52:34 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: SmithL

One in ten million isn’t zero.

But it is close enough to make me think it wasn’t an accident.


6 posted on 10/30/2009 12:53:00 PM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: SmithL

Letters to the editor sometimes carry a coded message.


7 posted on 10/30/2009 12:53:44 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: SmithL

Question is, did they realize that it was there as a wild coincidence, and just kept it that way, or not?

He didn’t deny it, he just said it was a wild coincidence.

Elaine: “Well you have to admit, it IS a coincidence.”

Writer: “That all it is, just a coincidence.”

Elaine: “A pretty big coincidence.”

Writer: “No, it’s just a coincidence. There are no big coincidences or small coincidences, just coincidences.”

/seinfeld


8 posted on 10/30/2009 12:53:45 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: SmithL

I was kind of impressed that he did it...


9 posted on 10/30/2009 12:54:12 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: SmithL

What a girly man.


10 posted on 10/30/2009 12:55:05 PM PDT by roses of sharon (Call the NFL and welcome their new Commissioner, Al Sharpton.)
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To: SmithL

This isn’t even the first time this has been done. In the late 1980s or early 1990s, I believe, SPY magazine, a monthly, reported about a resolution in the Congressional Record in favor of a constituent that, when the first letters of each line were read down, read F***YOUBOB.

I don’t have the resources to track this down now.


11 posted on 10/30/2009 12:55:25 PM PDT by Piranha (Obama won like Bernie Madoff attracted investors: by lying about his values, policy and plans.)
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To: SmithL

sure it was. While they run the state into the ground, they spend their time and our money on juvenile crap like this.


12 posted on 10/30/2009 12:56:37 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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'wild coincidence'

The probabilities could be as low as:

27 to the 10th power, or one in 205,891,132,094,649... or one in about 205 Trillion. This is assuming:

There was no overflow in my calculator in a number that large; the letters are equal in occurrence, but of course they are not; the 27th "letter" factors in a paragraph start.

13 posted on 10/30/2009 12:57:11 PM PDT by C210N (A patriot for a Conservative Renaissance!)
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Come on. Nut up and own it. It was beautiful...
14 posted on 10/30/2009 12:57:41 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: SmithL

Of COURSE the arrangement of letters was deliberate. The interesting mystery is, Did Arnold HIMSELF know in advance?, or was this just a freelance job by some sophomoric staffers?


15 posted on 10/30/2009 12:58:49 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: SmithL

Be fair to the Governor.
Unless there’s evidence to the contrary, we should take him at his word.
Lose the cynicism, people!
Lose your jaded assumptions about politicians.
Schwarzenegger would never be vulgar in communicating with the legislature.
He isn’t that sort of man.
I wouldn’t support him if he were.
Take your negativity elsewhere.


16 posted on 10/30/2009 12:59:12 PM PDT by Sloth (For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of the International Olympic Committee.)
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To: SmithL

Uh, yeah...


17 posted on 10/30/2009 12:59:47 PM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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Schwarzenegger: Profanity in veto was 'wild coincidence'

A wildly HILARIOUS coincidence.

Speaking profanity to pansies.

18 posted on 10/30/2009 12:59:56 PM PDT by AreaMan
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To: Sloth

I agree.


19 posted on 10/30/2009 1:00:23 PM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: SmithL

Actually, the first 2 letters were “T” and “I”. The guy he’d be saying it to was “Tom”. So it reads, “Tom, I F....U”. How many millions more does that make it?


20 posted on 10/30/2009 1:01:41 PM PDT by mudblood
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