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MLK quotes you are unlikely to hear on Fox News or Glenn Beck's show today

Personally I like Fox news and Glenn Beck, but I still read this to see what MLK meant. I know MLB means major league baseball, or sometimes middle linebacker. I thought maybe this was major league karate.
 
I didn't know that people DIDNT know what MLK meant...I just thought it was like knowing what JFK or FDR was....(Franklin Delano Romanowski?);)
 
Disenthral said:
I didn't know that people DIDNT know what MLK meant...I just thought it was like knowing what JFK or FDR was....(Franklin Delano Romanowski?);)
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+1

All USAians know what MLK stands for. The rest of the world gets a pass.
 
Polly Parrot said:
I didn't know either. Didn't even know he had his own day.
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Martin Luther King Jr is essentially an institution in itself in the US. He's definitely more well-known than 90% of our former presidents. Pretty much every major city in the US has a Martin Luther King Blvd or St or Rd or something. It's actually kind of weird now that I think about it.
 
I was thinking about this today. even on the news in the U.S. they will often say MLK Boulevard instead of Martin Luther King Boulevard.
 
I am from US and didn't know what MLK meant. I thought it was just me so I asked 3 other people from US what MLK was and they didn't know either. However they all knew JFK and FDR. I do not know what day MLK day is, but I do remember it was a paid holiday so okay by me. I suppose it is not politically correct to not know what MLK means and now I feel just awful.
 
I think expatriate is a word but the word expat is often misused because technically expatriates were forced to leave home, which is not always the case with many people called expats. I am in Asia and travel frequently.
 
jimthompson said:
I am from US and didn't know what MLK meant. I thought it was just me so I asked 3 other people from US what MLK was and they didn't know either. However they all knew JFK and FDR. I do not know what day MLK day is, but I do remember it was a paid holiday so okay by me. I suppose it is not politically correct to not know what MLK means and now I feel just awful.
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I gotta say, it's nice to see someone go right against this current trend of pretending to be smarter than they actually are.
 
jimthompson said:
I think expatriate is a word but the word expat is often misused because technically expatriates were forced to leave home, which is not always the case with many people called expats. I am in Asia and travel frequently.
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Odd. The OED says:

a. An expatriated person. In modern usage, a person who lives in a foreign country.

b. Of, pertaining to, or being an expatriate; living in a foreign country esp. by choice.

The verb implies exile though, not the noun.

Also, not to threadjack but you never did answer my query here: http://www.bookandreader.com/forums/f15/what-is-wrong-with-society-21202-2.html#post304705
 
Yes Beer I am often thinking the same thing when reading this forum. Some people who write in that they just finished reading The History of Sub-Atomic Particles or some such thing probably really read Zombie Vampire Killers. Or something fictional, like the new york times. However, I am sure there are many intelligent people on forum, like the guy who reads the Glenn Beck books.
 
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