Tuesday, May 16th, 2006...5:04 pm
Great, Next He’ll Sing That Marty Robbins Song
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This morning on C-SPAN:
Caller from Arkansas: For someone to take — to hold an office and take the oath of that office, and then refuse to uphold the laws of this nation, to me you ought to be tried for treason and hanged.
Host: Thank you, caller. Congressman?
Rep. Raúl Grijalva: I don’t know how — well, if well it’s a reaction to that, I’d prefer not to be hanged.
I’d like to point out to Raúl that the proper word would be the participle “hung.”
7 Comments
May 16th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
Picky picky!
May 16th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
Ted,
Isn’t a gerund a verb ending in “ing” and acting as a noun. Like… “Margaret Sanger loves aborting”? Aborting would be the object.
Also, when talking about execution, “hanged” is proper no?
Pedro hung sheetrock all day.
Pedro was hanged by eugenicists.
Right?
May 17th, 2006 at 8:34 am
Raul and morg are right. It is ‘hanged.’
May 17th, 2006 at 9:03 am
I thought it was a good reaction to an obviously deranged caller. Raul did good
May 17th, 2006 at 6:58 pm
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May 17th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
Ted,
What is this “1984″? Embarrassing history is just edited out of the books without acknowledgement? You know, Stalin did that.
Lizzy, are you a Stalin fan too?
May 17th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
So, what’s the verdict on “hung”? Is that going to get erased too, or are you just going to let that one “hang”.