[lbo-talk] We need education!

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 28 19:49:11 PDT 2007


"Q: If you could live forever, would you want to, and why?

"Miss Alabama: I would not live forever because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever."

- Miss Alabama, responding to a question in the 1994 Miss USA contest

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2002/11/56482

-B.

Dennis Claxton wrote:

"Youtube audio might not be the problem in this case:

'Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?,' Miss Teen USA contender Lauren Caitlin Upton (Miss South Carolina) responded...

'I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the US should help the US, uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.'

http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2007/08/video-miss-sout.html"



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