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sj2
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The weasel survey from DNRC
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Oct 20 18:21 UTC 2003 |
Results of Dilbert's 2003 Weasel Awards
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The second annual exuberantly non-scientific Weasel Poll results
are in. 35,874 people voted. I'll be spending the next few weeks
publicly embarrassing the winners. They are...
Tally Weaseliest Organization
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7950 Recording Industry Association of America
6322 White House
4470 Democratic Party
3989 ACLU
3859 Organized religion
3039 Fox News Corporation
3008 Republican Party
1860 Congress
1323 New York Times
Tally Weaseliest Country
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12739 France
10761 USA
5845 Saudi Arabia
4668 North Korea
801 Iran
509 Canada
219 Germany
Tally Weaseliest Company
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12854 Microsoft
7645 Halliburton
7220 MCI WorldCom
2425 Kmart
1313 Merrill Lynch
1173 HealthSouth
1017 Freddie Mac
970 Salomon Smith Barney
Tally Weaseliest Profession
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10309 Politicians
7854 Lawyers
6234 News media
6059 Tobacco executives
4217 Oil executives
1043 Accountants
Tally Weaseliest Individual
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13959 George W. Bush
5104 Michael Moore
3057 Yasser Arafat
2820 Jacques Chirac
2141 Saddam Hussein
1883 Tom Daschle
1105 Arnold Schwarzenegger
1095 Al Franken
1023 Ariel Sharon
932 Bill O'Reilly
695 Ann Coulter
483 Charles Schumer
400 Sean Penn
383 Jayson Blair
230 Richard Grasso
195 Gerhardt Schroeder
188 Bill Bennett
146 Jack Grubman
Tally Weaseliest Behavior
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18877 Blaming fast food restaurants for making
you fat
5748 Religious extremism
4688 Creating computer worms/viruses because
no one will date you
3997 Driving a Hummer
1487 Using cell phones in restaurants
1077 Using speaker phone in cubicle
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keesan
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response 1 of 72:
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Oct 20 18:52 UTC 2003 |
Yesterday at the library some man was yelling loudly for about ten minutes
(to himself, as the rest of us tried to ignore him), presumably at someone
near him who had been using a cell phone in the library, where you are not
expected to be carrying on a conversation (or yelling). I don't see how it
would matter in a restaurant.
What is a Hummer?
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cross
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response 2 of 72:
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Oct 20 19:16 UTC 2003 |
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jaklumen
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response 3 of 72:
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Oct 21 00:01 UTC 2003 |
resp:0 it's interesting how left-wingers and right-wingers, so to
speak, are both on there ;>
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rcurl
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response 4 of 72:
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Oct 21 00:52 UTC 2003 |
But not surprising.... I presume those opposites were on the survey, and
the electorate is split near 50-50 on many things.
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remmers
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response 5 of 72:
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Oct 21 02:26 UTC 2003 |
Walmart didn't make the weaseliest company list? How strange.
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sabre
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response 6 of 72:
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Oct 21 02:54 UTC 2003 |
The weaseliest liberal forum..GREX
The weaseliest grexer.........remmers
remmers..you are one SLEAZY weasel.
I think jaklulantern should give you his billy goat gruff routine
You actually resemble an ole goat....with that nasty goatee of yours
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mcnally
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response 7 of 72:
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Oct 21 06:02 UTC 2003 |
#6 is almost totally pointless but it does manage to suggest an idea
that intrigues me -- I wonder what remmers is like when angry.
As much as I've enjoyed his company on the occasions when we've met,
I have at best a casual acquaintance with him. Certainly I'm not the
best judge, but I find it almost impossible to imagine him fuming mad.
Can anyone else picture that? (One thing I *do* know for sure, though:
sabre is going to have to work a lot harder if he ever wants to see it.)
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rcurl
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response 8 of 72:
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Oct 21 06:19 UTC 2003 |
sabre only diminishes himself by his gratuitous and juvenile jabs at
various people.
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janc
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response 9 of 72:
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Oct 21 14:34 UTC 2003 |
Notice the Democratic party ranked as more weasely than the Republican
Party. Finally, Bush's strategy makes sense. But running the
Weaseliest White House in history, he draws all the weasely votes off
from his party, making it look better than the Democratic party.
Scott Adams definitely tilted this survey. Why weren't cartoonists
listed among the choices for weaseliest occupations?
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gull
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response 10 of 72:
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Oct 21 14:59 UTC 2003 |
I'd say there's plenty to offend everyone in #0. ;>
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gull
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response 11 of 72:
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Oct 21 15:18 UTC 2003 |
Re #9: It does look like having both The White House and The Republican
Party on the same list split the Republican weasel vote.
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mcnally
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response 12 of 72:
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Oct 21 16:29 UTC 2003 |
Either that or another on-line poll got "Freeped"..
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bhelliom
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response 13 of 72:
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Oct 24 16:17 UTC 2003 |
Ah yes, Wal-mart. The store of family values, savings, and cheap
migrant labor.
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remmers
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response 14 of 72:
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Oct 24 16:53 UTC 2003 |
Wal-Mart just got raided over the latter. How embarassing. Couldn't
happen to a nicer giant corporation.
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bhelliom
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response 15 of 72:
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Oct 24 17:14 UTC 2003 |
Yep...they got busted in several states, including Michigan.
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rcurl
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response 16 of 72:
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Oct 24 17:31 UTC 2003 |
I thought I read it was a contractor to Wal-Mart, not Wal-Mart, who
got "busted".
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bhelliom
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response 17 of 72:
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Oct 24 17:40 UTC 2003 |
The migrant workers were busted...I think the Wal-mart sotres were the
site of the raids...I'll have to re-read the article.
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rcurl
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response 18 of 72:
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Oct 24 18:07 UTC 2003 |
The illegal aliens get busted for being illegal, but won't the company
that hired them, the contractor, also be indicted for giving them employment?
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bhelliom
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response 19 of 72:
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Oct 24 18:36 UTC 2003 |
I believe so. Wal-mart may also face problems, if it cannot be proven
that they had nothing to do--deliberately--with hiring illegals.
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gelinas
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response 20 of 72:
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Oct 24 18:57 UTC 2003 |
Shouldn't that be the other way? "Wal-mart may also face problems, if it can
be proven that they knew about the hiring of illegal aliens"? Innocent 'til
proven guilty, and all that?
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mynxcat
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response 21 of 72:
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Oct 24 19:21 UTC 2003 |
That's what one would think
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other
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response 22 of 72:
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Oct 24 19:33 UTC 2003 |
Wal-Mart CONTRACTED someone to fill positions, which they did using
illegals. This was probably solely for plausible deniability.
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goose
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response 23 of 72:
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Oct 24 19:59 UTC 2003 |
One NPR report talked about Wal-Mart executives being on tape talking about
these illegals. So they may have evidence of knowledge.
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tod
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response 24 of 72:
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Oct 24 20:17 UTC 2003 |
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