I just saw Mr. Bush in Rwanda on TV

[dong20]

Hell i'd look like shit after 8 years of fucking up running this country.

Fixed that for you.:biggrin1:

 

[D_Gunther Snotpole]

Hell i'd look like shit after 8 years of fucking this country.

Yeah, he might need a snooze.

 

[D_Gunther Snotpole]

Not necessarily early-onset Alzheimers, but possibly a delayed effect of heavy drinking earlier in his life, in the judgment of Dr. Joseph M. Price (article).

It's a bit ambiguous. Price also says:

"Slowly developing cognitive deficits, as demonstrated so clearly by the President [sic], can represent only one diagnosis, and that is 'presenile dementia'! Presenile dementia is best described to nonmedical persons as a fairly typical Alzheimer's situation that develops significantly earlier in life, well before what is usually considered old age."

 

[Tattooed Goddess]

Stress ages everyone. I have an aunt who looks 15 years older than her older sister. She's had a very hard life.

Presidency ages everyone. Clinton also showed signs of aging. Part of it is the age in which they hold office is the age people start to look old. Plus add the stress.

 

[Tattooed Goddess]

Fixed that for you.:biggrin1:

Sorry. dont agree.

 

[dong20]

Sorry. dont agree.

No need to apologise, or agree. Let's say he's made an ample contribution?

 

[Not_Punny]

There is no participle, dangling or other, in the phrase "I just saw Mr. Bush in Rwanda on TV"; but there is indeed an ambiguity. As Groucho Marx's Captain Spaulding said: "I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know." Odd that that comment also concerned something happening in Africa.

D'oh... you're right. The phrase gets stuck in my mind as representative of any and all ambiguity in sentence structure. :banghead2::banghead2:

Added later:

It bugged me that I didn't know the name of this phenomenon, so I looked it up. The name is "syntactic ambiguity" as in the Groucho Marx phrase, "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."

 

[D_Gunther Snotpole]

Stress ages everyone. I have an aunt who looks 15 years older than her older sister. She's had a very hard life.

Presidency ages everyone. Clinton also showed signs of aging. Part of it is the age in which they hold office is the age people start to look old. Plus add the stress.

Well, physically, Bush is in better shape than any recent president.
The mental stuff seems to be happening much earlier than one would expect ... if it is happening.
Sometimes I think Bush is deliberately inclined to malapropism just to seem a man of the peeps.

 

[faceking]

I thought that same thing when I saw him this morning on TV..he looked pale and appeared to have a hard time balancing himself!!

Look at any President near the end of their term, much less an 8 year term. The Whitehouse is an aging machine.... and given a trans-continental flight...

 

[faceking]

Plus look at anyone from 52 to 60, or 60 to 68

Find me anyone, not in Hollywood, that doesn't look markedly different.

 

[D_Gunther Snotpole]

Plus look at anyone from 52 to 60, or 60 to 68
Find me anyone, not in Hollywood, that doesn't look markedly different.

It's not just his physical appearance.
Bush looks great for his age.
He often doesn't sound that good, though.

 

[kalipygian]

I think W. should meet Mugabe while he is in the neighborhood, they would be entirely simpatico.:biggrin1:
He is getting worse at not knowing where he wants to go with a sentence once he has started it.

Gillette, you are doing like Pecker with all the Canadian jokes, making me spit out my cookies.

And when is Canadian history month?

 

[Drifterwood]

Yes, it's true. Tony Blair also looked like shit after ten years in office.

Gerundive - in Rwanda - never mind :wink:

 

[B_ScaredLittleBoy]

The picture was very grainy and the audio wasn't great which I thought was strange because America should be able to afford a decent video camera and mic.

Maybe that was a ploy; harder to tell he's ill if you can't see him properly. Similarly, such a shit picture might make him look ill. I wouldn't know though because I switched over as soon as he came on.

 

[dong20]

I think W. should meet Mugabe while he is in the neighborhood, they would be entirely simpatico.:biggrin1:

Mugabe has a far better education. What common ground do they have, election fraud?:biggrin1:

 

[D_Gunther Snotpole]

Mugabe has a far better education. What common ground do they have, election fraud?:biggrin1:

Both responsible for a lot of deaths, and both hosed their nation's economy, and both terminally unpopular.

 

[dong20]

Both responsible for a lot of deaths, and both hosed their nation's economy, and both terminally unpopular.

And both in advanced states of denial about it.