He's better than the old white guy that they send out to the really tragic stuff that speaks like he wants to be a beat poet and asks really inappropriate questions. I think his name is Pat Collins but I haven't watched local news in years.
I trust you know the expression 'calling a deer a horse'? It's a Chinese expression, and this is the story behind it, lazily copied and pasted:
Zhao Gao, one of the chief ministers of the second Qin emperor, suspected some of the ministers of being disloyal to him. He had a servant bring a deer into the hall and called all the ministers together. Pointing to the deer he said, 'Look at this fine horse I have brought for His Majesty the Emperor. I want to know what each of you thinks of it.' One by one the ministers spoke. Most of them praised the 'horse', saying what a splendid animal it was and how clever Zhao Gao had been to find it. A few, though, refused to call it a horse, and one even said, 'Horse? What horse? I see only a deer!'
After they had all finished speaking, Zhao Gao gave a signal to his soldiers, who grabbed all those who had not said that the deer was a horse. He had them executed, hoping in this way to terrify everyone into silence."
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Date: 2008-12-04 04:19 am (UTC)...shit, he's gotten old.
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Date: 2008-12-04 04:58 am (UTC)(I also just don't like laughing at image after image of people hurting themselves.)
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Date: 2008-12-04 03:14 pm (UTC)You rang?
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Date: 2008-12-04 08:48 pm (UTC)If so, I think you have your solution.
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Date: 2008-12-04 10:26 pm (UTC)Zhao Gao, one of the chief ministers of the second Qin emperor, suspected some of the ministers of being disloyal to him. He had a servant bring a deer into the hall and called all the ministers together. Pointing to the deer he said, 'Look at this fine horse I have brought for His Majesty the Emperor. I want to know what each of you thinks of it.' One by one the ministers spoke. Most of them praised the 'horse', saying what a splendid animal it was and how clever Zhao Gao had been to find it. A few, though, refused to call it a horse, and one even said, 'Horse? What horse? I see only a deer!'
After they had all finished speaking, Zhao Gao gave a signal to his soldiers, who grabbed all those who had not said that the deer was a horse. He had them executed, hoping in this way to terrify everyone into silence."
Source: http://www.sacu.org/qinstories.html
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Date: 2008-12-05 03:10 am (UTC)Also, fwiw, its apparently Inappropriate Parenting Behaviour to threaten infants in public with leaving them out for bears