[kj] OT Boycott the film Tropic Thunder

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Yeah, I know. It's a term I don't like. Either you have ordered 
something, or you have not.

It's like the woman in SiCko being told she had not been "pre-approved" 
to have an ambulance ride, by her insurance company. Either you are 
approved, or you are not approved. If you are in a state before being 
approved, you are not approved. No one says "post-approved" -- they just 
"approved," because that's what "approved" means. All this business lingo!

This is what pisses me off about credit card offers that come in the 
mail saying "YOU ARE PRE-APPROVED!" It sounds like, wow, I am approved! 
But it actually means, "You are not approved! But you should try to be!"

-Brian


Brendan wrote:

> I can just imagine George Carlin mocking the term 'pre ordered' :)

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>> There is such a thing as pre-order sales. That is, books can be

>> pre-ordered, and are tallied on the best seller lists from then on. I

>> have pre-ordered stuff many times, but not Gems of Power, thank God. :)

>>

>> -Oliver

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>> folk devil wrote:

>>     

>>> yes, but also realise that the NY times and LA times have a

>>> best-selling books list, that has best sellers from before the

>>> books actual day of release.

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