by the grandson of Sherpa Tensing…in March.
Tsering Gyaltsen Sherpa, 32, will be opening the cafe at the Khumbu glacier at 5,300 metres to allow climbers to access the web.
Expeditions, which cost almost £40,000 on average, are expected to pay some £660 for using the transmitter that will be installed on a slope 300 metres higher than the camp. Ananova
Daily Archives: 29 Jan 03
State of the Union Cut-Up:
In a way, it makes more sense than the original. [Tony Manzo]
What he did made me curious about something; I ran the text of the State of the Union through a word frequency counter and sorted it in descending order. Here’s the list of words used (or misused) more than five times, barring the trivial ‘the’, ‘of’, ‘a’, etc.:
84 WE
73 IS
70 OUR
64 THAT
56 FOR
49 WILL
42 HAVE
42 THIS
38 NOT
36 ARE
33 I
32 PEOPLE
31 HAS
29 ALL
28 YOU
27 WEAPONS
26 WORLD
26 HE
26 WITH
25 IT
25 ON
25 FROM
25 AMERICA
24 S
24 BE
24 BY
22 MORE
20 AS
19 COUNTRY
19 THEIR
19 SADDAM
19 HUSSEIN
18 THESE
18 WHO
18 MUST
17 AMERICANS
16 NO
16 MANY
15 OR
15 EVERY
15 UNITED
15 AN
15 CAN
15 AMERICAN
15 ONE
14 IRAQ
14 NATION
14 THEM
13 YEARS
13 AT
13 US
13 YEAR
12 MILLION
12 NUCLEAR
12 GOVERNMENT
12 AIDS
12 THAN
11 WAR
11 COULD
11 ITS
11 NEW
11 THEY
11 HELP
11 TONIGHT
11 INSPECTORS
10 ECONOMY
10 NATIONS
10 THREAT
10 CONGRESS
10 INTELLIGENCE
10 POWER
10 OWN
10 SECURITY
10 THOSE
10 AGAINST
10 WORK
9 PEACE
9 ASK
9 STATES
9 LIFE
9 HAD
9 HIS
9 DO
9 CITIZENS
9 CARE
8 ONLY
8 SHOULD
8 ENERGY
8 AL
8 QAEDA
8 WHEN
8 NOW
8 GOOD
8 YET
8 SO
8 DRUGS
8 MATERIALS
8 MAKE
8 YOUR
8 TAX
8 IRAQI
7 AFRICA
7 GREAT
7 WHICH
7 CHEMICAL
7 CHILDREN
7 INCOME
7 NEXT
7 OUT
7 TERRORISTS
7 HEALTH
6 KEEP
6 CONTINUE
6 BRING
6 PLAN
6 TERROR
6 UP
6 PROTECT
6 IF
6 BIOLOGICAL
6 USE
6 FREE
6 DAY
6 ALSO
6 MEN
6 NEED
6 TERRORIST
6 DISARM
6 INTERNATIONAL
6 REGIME
6 KNOW
6 SENIORS
6 FIRST
6 OTHER
6 U
6 EVIDENCE
6 MUCH
This too elucidates Bush’s thought process as well as the original, for example, “People has all you weapons world he with it on from America.” Or how about, “By more as country Saddam Hussein these who must Americans no many or every united an can American one Iraq nation them. Years at us, year million nuclear government aids than war could its new they help tonight inspectors economy nations threat. Congress intelligence power own security those against work peace ask states life. Citizens care only should energy al Qaeda yet so drugs materials make your tax…” But, of course, it’s the speechwriters we have to thank, not the eloquence of Dubya himself.
Spike Wrote to Say Goodbye:
I missed it, way down at the bottom of this recent column, but the Spike Report at OJR is, as Spike puts it, ‘slated to cease publication at the end of this month if sponsorship for the column can’t be found’, after a venerable five years’ of eclectic, eloquent and erudite observation. Any sugar daddies out there who can forstall the silencing of one of the more witty, whimsical and acute observers of the scene? Spike (who reveals he is the secret identity of Gideon Brower) posted his final column today, he wrote to say.
