>>>The Title must be
Oprah says: No Deal>>>
>>>Some minutes ago I saw the "Deal or No Deal" show where Oprah Winfrey was the guest. She said "No deal" till the very end. The consequence was that the winner (someone from the audience) did not get 75,000, not 50,000 dollar, but only 5,000.
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>>>We too have this show in the Netherlands. There was a striking difference between the American audience and ours. The Americans all reacted like little children, yelling "No deal!" all the time and they are sooo greedy.
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>>>Then finally Oprah and the host didn't give the 5,000, but the max: 100,000. It was all a setup. Gheez.
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>>>The Americans can be soo childish in their behavior.
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>>The generalized conclusion you draw is ridiculous and insulting. It has the equivalent depth of understanding as saying all Dutch people pay for prostitutes and smoke pot.
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>It is only insulting if I intend to insult. Can we agree that it is provocative?!
Peter, provocative is when you voice an idea that may be controversial but is based on an observation that is either clever or has some merit and causes the hearer to think ... something other than "My God, this man is an idiot."
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
