Gothamist: Extra, Extra

zincink

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:57:37 -0500

who listens to radio?

S.D.

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:28:27 -0500

Well, Mollygizer, I'm trying to be more better... That's Humor; Feel free to correct me but I'm pretty sure that will fly right over your head. anonymass Said: "The best part about that post wasn't the "your" mistake, it was the random capitalization of "Good," "Citizen," and "You." Love that stuff - one can tell a lot from a person's writing. I'd guess that S.D. is a highly unorganized, eccentric person. I might have guessed that he/she is German, but Germans don't capitalize adjectives or pronouns." I swear, I laughed out loud at that one, especially since anyone can got to my Blog and figure out my gender. Am I highly unorganized, eccentric person? Eccentric maybe, unorganized, not really. My tendency for capitalization is a really bad habit I picked up from my programming: I capitalize variables like that when I code. ;)

bdo

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:20:58 -0500

The United States does not claim English, or any other language, as the official language. Some states do, but there is no official national language.

ABC Girl

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:56:26 -0500

Who keeps those idiots on the air at HOT 97? Do they purposely look for every uneducated person in America to showcase on that station? Any station that allows an inflammatory song about shooting cops on the air deserves to have the plug pulled. Are they trying to incite riots or get publicity for being notorious & controversial? Either way, they suck. Apparently we can expect nothing less from the very station that hires DJ's that threaten to harm their rival's children, poke fun of singers who die in airplane crashes, carelessly toss around racial epithets and play hurtful songs about people dying in the Tsunami of 2004. I say boycott this station and the idiots that are in charge of programming.

jason

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:18:03 -0500

"here are my lyrics for a new rap I wrote: "I'm gonna shoot those guys in blue, you know the guys who prevent crimes and direct traffic. Those guys deserve to die cause they stop me from selling drugs and raping women and shooting old people in the faces! UHHGGGh yeah!"" That's pretty good. When's the release date?

uncommon sense

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:44:57 -0500

"I wouldn't mind if everybody had to take some kind of test rather than being given automatic citizenship just by being born here. Some of them are damn stupid." And you don't think that that might have as much to do with the education system than the people it's "educating?" Because of course, you surely don't mean that we should deny rights based on the government's own failings or that we should impliment a system that would surely never be used to discriminate. And of course it's never been a problem when third generation native-borns don't have citizenship rights; that had absolutely nothing to do with the riots in France last year at all.

anonymass

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:24:42 -0500

The best part about that post wasn't the "your" mistake, it was the random capitalization of "Good," "Citizen," and "You." Love that stuff - one can tell a lot from a person's writing. I'd guess that S.D. is a highly unorganized, eccentric person. I might have guessed that he/she is German, but Germans don't capitalize adjectives or pronouns.

Stewart

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:08:22 -0500

Martin Luther King would weep openly if he knew how the equal opportunities he fought so hard far have been squandered.

Isaiah

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:20:21 -0500

Didn't MLK's dream involve mattresses or something? Yeah, now I remember. http://fecundmellow.blogspot.com/2006/01/start-rumor-monday-company-in-trouble.html

Brightliner

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:20 -0500

I wouldn't mind if everybody had to take some kind of test rather than being given automatic citizenship just by being born here. Some of them are damn stupid. I remember seeing on one of the newsmagazines quite a few years ago that a lot of Americans didn't know what the Electoral College was. One nitwit thought, "Is that where election people go to school?" BTW, just to jump on the knock others for knocking others for knocking others' language skills bandwagon, I notice there have been three iterations of the message and nobody bothered to notice that English should be capitalized. I don't believe there's any such thing as a lowercase "english" in any of its noun or adjective forms.

Mollygizer

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:43:47 -0500

Being that your a Good, grammatically correct Citizen, I'm sure You meant "Is there an english literacy evaluation as part of the citizenship test?" And being that you're a good, grammatically correct citizen... learn the difference between your and you're before you go criticizing anyone else's grammar.

Cop Hata

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:31:45 -0500

here are my lyrics for a new rap I wrote: "I'm gonna shoot those guys in blue, you know the guys who prevent crimes and direct traffic. Those guys deserve to die cause they stop me from selling drugs and raping women and shooting old people in the faces! UHHGGGh yeah!"

S.D.

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:24:20 -0500

"Is there an english literacy evaluation as part of the citizenship test. It is much needed considering the kind of immigrant elements in cities like nyc and miami." (sigh) Being that your a Good, grammatically correct Citizen, I'm sure You meant "Is there an english literacy evaluation as part of the citizenship test?" Right?

Tim N.

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:17:31 -0500

Mahopac, New York... yup, ancestral home of the N. family... Mahopac High, class of '81. My brother graduated with the guy who drove the goat-torturer to the farm. It's not much of a claim to fame, but it's something...

smitty

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:32:25 -0500

Ooh! ooh! Legistlative, judicial and executive. Phew, I can still be a citizen! Our education system in this country is such shite, I bet a lot of current U.S. citizens can't answer that question.

x-new yorker

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:10:01 -0500

Is there an english literacy evaluation as part of the citizenship test. It is much needed considering the kind of immigrant elements in cities like nyc and miami.

S.D.

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:51:28 -0500

"Now it will also ask why there are three branches."?? GW Bush has been asking the rubber stamp Congress that for Years!

Chris

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:15:10 -0500

It was meant to be asked rhetorically: "Why are there three branches of government?"

Peter

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:11:02 -0500

I'm still trying to figure out the painted-goats-and-porn deal.

warren

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:09:40 -0500

I know, I know! Martin Luther King's dream was that, someday, we would have a president who would lie about a threat in another country and then invade it based on those lies so that 3,000+ Americans and even more Iraqis could die for a reason not discernible to anybody would doesn't believe the government's propaganda.

Bill

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:58:30 -0500

The old citizenship test asked...How many states are there in the U.S.A.? The new test asks...How many states can we do without?