How Have We Become a Nation of Dumbies?

FreedomFriend | 10/21/01 | Freedom Friend

[aruanan]

Here...;-}

It was too irresistible to pass up.

My dictionary states that "dumbies" is appropriate. It also states that "dummies" is correct. Therefore, what's with the grammar police? Can you tell me?

Well, your dictionary probably said that "dumby" was an earlier form of "dummy" which has been in use for over 200 years in the sense of "A person who has nothing to say or who takes no active part in affairs; a dolt, blockhead." Neither American Heritage nor Merriam-Webster lists "dumby" as an "appropriate" spelling for "dummy". Besides, you should be glad that people call you on it. This demonstrates that language, like DNA, has mechanisms in place to correct misreadings and, in this way, ensure some measure of continuity rather than the chaos of unbridled mutation.

[bannie]

ok....I AM the TEACHER!!!!!lol!

[bannie]

I'm copying THAT PICTURE!!! BULLETIN BOARD MATERIAL!!!!!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AMERIKA]

All your "dumbies are belong to us!"

Don't take offense. This is one of those spontaneous things that happen here. LOL!

[Greg Weston]

"For example, how can our federal government neglect to protect our borders?"

Because the freaking idiots are too damn busy worrying about BS and playing Globalist that's why.

[bannie]

I think he just mis-spelled "Yeck". Shillery's black pantsuit was mixed up in the christining somewhere...

[TBP]

Public education is to blame for a lot of it, but not EVERYTHING.

Public education has been systematically dumbed down, removing academic standards and replacing them with "diversity" and other aspects of liberal ideology. It's OK if you can't spell or add, as long as you're doing something about global warming (which, BTW, may well not even exist, but don't tell anyone.)

The media would rather waste air time and column inches with celebrity gossip than actual news. Why do they think I'm supposed to care more about who some starlet is sleeping with than about the actions of my government? Is it because they are shallower than a kids' wading pool (yes) or because they know that uninformed people can more easily be brought to believe in their cause? (Also yes.)

Then there is Hollywood. The movies that make the largest profits are the G-rated movies, so Hollywood makes almost none of those and increases the number of Rs and NC-17s (the euphemism for X) every year. Either they can't get their little pea brains out of the gutter or they have an agenda that has little or nothing to do with maintaining standards or making money.

Then there are our noble public servants. These are the people who tax us to support deviant art, hand our money to lazy people who refuse to work and to foreign dictators, let terrorists move freely into our country, try to tkae away our self-defense, and do so many other things to protect us from ourselves.

That is why society is so dumb it sometimes can barely function.

[_Jim]

" You’ll probably find that you’ll have to go through a little “hazing” here. I went through it for about six months. It’s sort of like basic training in the Marines. The survivors come out stronger than they went in.

FreedomFriend, you got off light!

On the subject I first chose to post on I got royally flamed (and STILL get royally flamed for the same, unwavering position I hold on that subject today)!

[bannie]

o, greg....you slipped in something serious and meaningful there...whaz'w'dat?

[bannie]

Where's my other shoe??? not THAT one...my other one!!!

[Fintan]

Damned if I didn't forget what I was gonna say...

[Greg Weston]

Well more people have to call for putting AMERICA FIRST.

[Texaggie79]

No entry found for dumbies in the dictionary.

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:-) (nothing personal we FReepers love to laugh.)

[swheats]

http://www.millan.net/comics

It could have been a lot worse. Thank God for President Bush, hopefully these are the years of restoration of all that we have allowed to decay.

[bannie]

I agree, greg...we were just playing in the sandbox in here. Silly but fun. I'm old: Forgive me? PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE???

[captain11]

How Have We Become a Nation of Dumbies?

One sitcom and sheeplike concession at a time.

[hole_n_one]

Freedom Friend will give you a pass........on the other hand, anytime I say boo, FF will look down on me, over the spectacles, and be appalled at my behavior.

If I didn't know better, I'd say Freedom Friend had the hots for me.

[bannie]

It could have been worse!

You are right that The President saved unknown lives by his quick action!! Calling down all of the flights was a brilliant move--and one upon which old ObL did NOT, I think, COUNT!!!!

I'm so much more comfortable knowing that...

The GROWN-UPS are IN CHARGE!!!

[hole_n_one]

Where's the cigar?