QotD: Man of the Year
Posted December 19th, 2004 @ 06:51pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Question: Time magazine just announced that George W. Bush is their "Man of the Year" for 2004. Who would you choose as second place, and why?
My Answer: I am choosing Ben Roethlisberger. 🙂 He's done quite nicely, and has had a far more immediate impact on my life than anyone else I can think of (and also care to "award"). How's that for just plain silly? I expect more intelligent answers than the one I've given from the rest of y'all. 😀
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Posted 19 Dec 2004 at 10:18pm #
I like your choice for number two better than their choice for number one, that's for sure.
How about Steve Jobs, in this year of the iPod/iTMS?
Dave Winer or somebody symbolic to the blogging movement (year of the blog)?
Posted 19 Dec 2004 at 10:21pm #
Winer would never get my vote for anything other than "dickhead of the year." And hey, I usually win that one. 🙂
Posted 21 Dec 2004 at 3:00am #
Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Ajatollah Chomeini ... George W. Bush.
i dont think i have to say more
Posted 21 Dec 2004 at 3:34am #
Phantoms of the Year: Windows Security, a version of Linux that is ready for the desktop, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Osama Bin Laden
They all _have_ to be somewhere. Let's invade some countries, I know we will find them 😉
Posted 21 Dec 2004 at 9:49am #
Sven, yes, you do need to say more because ya left out, oh, 70 or so Men of the Year did you not? Men like Eisenhower, Roosevelt, Truman, and Kennedy. You left out Gandhi and Lindbergh. Winston Churchill and Bill Clinton.
And you didn't answer the question.
Posted 21 Dec 2004 at 10:34am #
Ok, to _really_ answer the question (as phantoms don't seem to count): I'll choose Steve Ballmer. Why? Quite simple: Steve Jobs would have deserved the number one (for kicking everyone's butt with the iPod) but it would have looked quite unfair if he was number two _behind_ this moron.
With the dancing monkeyboy, there are finally two asshats nominated as "Man of the Year" - and they even look equally stupid.