ETA: Just a fun fact because everyone seems to have survived the crash--As I learned a while back, the Hudson River is not actually a river, it is a tidal estuary.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
Guy was on one of the ferryboats when it was redirected to respond to the crash. He posted that live through Twitter as it happened; actually responded faster than most media outlets. Modern technology, eh?
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
quote:As I learned a while back, the Hudson River is not actually a river, it is a tidal estuary.
I learned that from the West Wing, I'm not ashamed to say.
Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :
I assure you, so did he.
Posted by Humean316 (Member # 8175) on :
Hey! I looked it up too just to make sure Sorkin was right. Besides, everything I know, I seem to know from the West Wing in some form.
BTW, the pilot is apparently about to give a press conference. He did a great job with that plane apparently.
ETA: The Huffington Post has some amazing pictures of the crash up on it's website.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
The West Wing IS full of a lot of fun facts, though he does occasionally get a couple things wrong.
I had to read a LOT of Lincoln last semester for a class I took on the American Civil War, and in the episode "The Stormy Present" when President so and so dies and they all go to his funeral, Speaker Walken talks about how the other guy was quoting Lincoln's second inaugural, to which Bartlet replies "the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present," and Walken gives him a look and replies "yeah something like that."
In actuality, that line comes not from Lincoln's second inaugural, but from his second message to Congress, which was a sort of letter he wrote that was like a State of the Union address, it just wasn't delivered by him.
Still, the West Wing is fun for tons of little UBIs.
Edited because I got the title of the episode very obviously wrong.
[ January 15, 2009, 06:28 PM: Message edited by: Lyrhawn ]
Posted by Humean316 (Member # 8175) on :
Very true. The other one I remember is that there are three words in the english language that begin with the letters dw. Anyone?
ETA: Dwindle, dwarf, and dwell. I didn't want that to go on too long...
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
I'm sure you'd only give me credit for two of these though...
Edit: I was sure I'd be ninja'd by someone, but I didn't expect it to be the one who posted the question!
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
Piffle. Dweomer, dwerg, dweeb, and dwayberry.
Posted by Humean316 (Member # 8175) on :
LOL, sorry Xavier, I had to run a quick errand and didn't want to not be able to post the answer.
And I believe that all of the words King of Men posted are either slang or names, and thus don't count.
Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :
quote:Originally posted by Humean316: And I believe that all of the words King of Men posted are either slang or names, and thus don't count.
Note: The above statement can and will be used against you in future philosophical and/or political arguments.
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
The OED lists all my words. And also, get your mind out of the gutter; 'dwayberry' is not slang, it is the berry of the Deadly Nightshade.
Posted by Humean316 (Member # 8175) on :
quote:Note: The above statement can and will be used against you in future philosophical and/or political arguments.
I thought philosophical and/or political arguments were off limits? You don't talk about architecture and I don't talk about important things, right?
And dwayberry is my new word of the day...
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Mine's "piffle."
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
quote:I learned that from the West Wing, I'm not ashamed to say.