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Congratulations! You're Time Magazine's Person of the Year

#1 Postby Brent » Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:31 pm

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#2 Postby CajunMama » Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:21 am

Hang on....i'm writing my acceptance speech :lol:
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#3 Postby HurricaneBill » Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:30 am

You LIKE me! You really LIKE me!
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#4 Postby Jack8631 » Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:38 am

HurricaneBill wrote:You LIKE me! You really LIKE me!


ROFL!!!!!!!!!! :lol:
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#5 Postby Regit » Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:43 am

Kind of funny. Although, Time Magazine's designation of person of the year will never hold merit again after claiming that no person more affected the world in 2001 than Rudy Giuliani.

I've never picked up a copy of Time again after that issue came out. I used to have a subscription.
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#6 Postby JQ Public » Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:07 am

my time magazine person of the year?
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#7 Postby kevin » Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:19 am

I think its a good article. There is something absolutely revolutionary going on beneath our surface. Information will become widely accessible and media will be produced by growing numbers.

America loves its solitary geniuses its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses but those lonely dreamers may have to learn to play with others. Car companies are running open design contests. Reuters is carrying blog postings alongside its regular news feed. Microsoft is working overtime to fend off user-created Linux. We're looking at an explosion of productivity and innovation, and it's just getting started, as millions of minds that would otherwise have drowned in obscurity get backhauled into the global intellectual economy.

Who are these people? Seriously, who actually sits down after a long day at work and says, I'm not going to watch Lost tonight. I'm going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguana? I'm going to mash up 50 Cent's vocals with Queen's instrumentals? I'm going to blog about my state of mind or the state of the nation or the steak-frites at the new bistro down the street? Who has that time and that energy and that passion?

The answer is, you do. And for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME's Person of the Year for 2006 is you.


Mad North Korean dictators, militant islamists, and all the Parliamentarians and Autocrats of the world will fade away. In history they will become minor figures or footnotes, but if this information revolution continues it will be as important as Gutenberg's Press.

Whether we'll have peace among nations or the triumph of liberal democracy, isn't certain. Information and our need for it can be blocked, just likes can burn. Around the world people are burning from the information in their minds. Revolutions bring reaction. The world will never be the same.
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#8 Postby Cookiely » Sun Dec 17, 2006 6:18 am

I am truly touched at receiving this award for all the hard work I've done in the creation of my website. None of this would have been possible without my best friend giving me a computer which was truly a gift that will keep on giving. I would like to give thanks to my mother and father who instilled my never give up attitude which enabled me to teach myself how to use the computer. Many tears were shed in my frustration to learn, but it was worth all the pain and suffering. :cheesy:
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#9 Postby JonathanBelles » Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:38 am

aw geez ya didnt have to :lol:
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#10 Postby TexasStooge » Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:14 am

Wow! I don't know how I manage to get this kind of award, but got it!

I like to thank everyone for this award including my friends and family!

(Points fingers) Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, (takes deep breath)...Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you...
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#11 Postby Stephanie » Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:28 am

I saw that in the paper this morning. I must admit I like the way Time Magazine selects their "person" of the year, over the years and how they justify their reasoning behind it. I think that they do usually get it right. :)
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#12 Postby senorpepr » Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:31 pm

JQ Public wrote:my time magazine person of the year?


EDIT: Corrected "Your" to "You're" in the title... -senorpepr
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#13 Postby JQ Public » Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:04 pm

yahoozie someone got my joke ;)
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#14 Postby Chacor » Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:12 pm

Love some of the responses on the BBC News website:

William Erb, New York City: "I'd like to thank both me and myself, also I'd like to say thanks to I and all of the great parts of myself that made me possible."

kirsty Jones, Honiton, United Kingdom: "Nice try TIME but am still not taking out a subscription!!!!!"

Timothy Jay Smith, Paris, France: "It's just dumb. Like most of "You", You lacks imagination."

"Randall": "I respectfully decline my "Person of the Year" award."

Ronald Hill, Tucson, United States: "I am most proud of my work posting my status on Facebook, and videos from the UofA games on Youtube, and I think an award for that is long overdue. :) [...] (Yes, this is pretty much proof the award is irrelevant, but c'mon, lighten up and revel in it for a bit, huh?)"

Norman peacock, Birmingham: "So I take it the Time person of the Year is entitled to a free copy then?"

Best acceptance yet: Paul B. Heritage, Yorkshire: "Thank you Time magazine. I deserve it."
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#15 Postby gtalum » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:53 am

What a ridiculous cop-out.
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#16 Postby azskyman » Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:04 am

While I can understand to a point, I think it was a very un-courageous choice! Their choices have not always been the good guy, nor have they always reflected anyone from my top ten list, but being a part of journalism for almost thirty years, I think it dilutes the meaning and substance that has always been attributed to it.

I'm sure each of you, all of us, are deserving of the award, but I would rather have seen a choice which, good or bad, would have at least stirred dialogue instead of jokes.
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#17 Postby Regit » Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:52 pm

azskyman wrote:While I can understand to a point, I think it was a very un-courageous choice! Their choices have not always been the good guy, nor have they always reflected anyone from my top ten list, but being a part of journalism for almost thirty years, I think it dilutes the meaning and substance that has always been attributed to it.

I'm sure each of you, all of us, are deserving of the award, but I would rather have seen a choice which, good or bad, would have at least stirred dialogue instead of jokes.


I agree with you. Though this year's choice isn't nearly as bad as the sample I cited farther up of Giuliani in 2001. The Person of the Year of 2001 could have been no one other than Osama Bin Laden if the designation has any merit whatsoever.

I think the best choice this year was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The idea that they can't pick a "bad guy" anymore is ridiculous and spineless. Hitler was Man of the Year. Stalin got it twice.

Though looking at the last few years I think Time may intentionally be watering down the Person of the Year feature, maybe to even eventually phase it out.
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#18 Postby sportsandweatherfreak » Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:15 pm

Sweet I never win anything until now!
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#19 Postby Thunder44 » Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:53 am

The TIME Person of the Year has become a joke. The whole thing that made it interesting was that they chose only ONE person that they felt had the most impact over the past year. It made it kind of special. Who cares anymore who the person will be, everyone has now been "the person of the year".
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