Slog - Comments on Who's more quotable? http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable Ann Coulter or Adolph Hitler? Take this quiz! (Hat tip to one of the Blakes.)... Copyright 2007 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:37:54 -0800 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:11:13 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle Only got 6 right out of 14 - that's a hard quiz!

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378219 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378219 Trash Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:10:13 -0800 Comment by schmoo I missed five, and I have read all of Ann Coulter's books. Is there an easier test we can take?

]]> schmoo http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378226 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378226 Trash Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:15:27 -0800 Comment by a Solid B I think I got lucky. I got 12 right while feeling moderately confident about two of the answers.

]]> a Solid B http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378237 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378237 Trash Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:24:32 -0800 Comment by cienna I only got 6 right, but I might or might not be drunk.

]]> cienna http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378268 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378268 Trash Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:50:02 -0800 Comment by Fnarf I only missed two. Coulter's got a jazzy pop-blather style, while Hitler (in translation) is quite plodding. Really, I don't see what those crazy Deutschers saw in him.

Isn't the best thing to just pretend Coulter doesn't exist? The only reason she's there is to provide a bogus outlying opinion so the far right can claim they are moderate.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378297 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378297 Trash Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:05:25 -0800 Comment by hijacked Fnarf: The only reason she's there is to provide a bogus outlying opinion so the far right can claim they are moderate.

So true! If only the Democrats had taken that strategery in re: "the reds" back in the day. The only other reason "Liberal" is a cussword is 'cuz "Conservative" is one syllable longer and harder to spell.

]]> hijacked http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378306 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378306 Trash Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:08:57 -0800 Comment by bolo got 11. those are some scary people.

]]> bolo http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378312 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378312 Trash Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:13:18 -0800 Comment by Mr. X I got 10 right. Did they add "America" into the Hitler quotes (I'm guessing they were originally "Germany", but that would have been a dead giveaway).

God, I just want to kick Ann Coulter in the nuts...

]]> Mr. X http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378318 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378318 Trash Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:18:19 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle good point, Coulter is there to make an "outlier" so the extreme radicals can pretend they're "moderate".

hadn't thought of it that way.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378386 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378386 Trash Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:04:56 -0800 Comment by Longball "Did they add "America" into the Hitler quotes"?

That tripped me up too. I don't have an answer and i really don't feel like Googleing "Hitler quotes" to find out, but i do imagine that he would have had a lot to say about America back in the day. We were, afterall, struggling to be the exact opposite of the homogenous society he was creating one train load at a time.

]]> Longball http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378390 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378390 Trash Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:06:42 -0800 Comment by hijacked Re:
We were, afterall, struggling to be the exact opposite of the homogenous society he was creating one train load at a time.

Interesting observation, in light of calls by many on the right to ship the Mexicans back in trains...

]]> hijacked http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378430 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378430 Trash Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:15:29 -0800 Comment by dingle 12 right. pretty easy, you can tell just by the language they use. From style and vocabulary. You coulter would use a word like connoisseurs, or that the concept of social justice would be big with the NAZI?

I don't know what this is trying to show, that Ann Coulter doesn't sound as respectable as Hitler?

]]> dingle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378438 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378438 Trash Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:32:41 -0800 Comment by pedanticman Um, it's Adolf, yo.

]]> pedanticman http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378504 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378504 Trash Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:06:56 -0800 Comment by Aexia I don't know what this is trying to show, that Ann Coulter doesn't sound as respectable as Hitler?

I'm sure all her stuff sounds more eloquent in the original German.

]]> Aexia http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378879 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378879 Trash Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:56:17 -0800 Comment by GBM 14 out of 14!

Easy tactic:

Any quote which uses vocabulary or grammatical structure beyond a 4th-grade reading level = Hitler.

]]> GBM http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378882 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/whos_more_quotable#c378882 Trash Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:11:13 -0800