[LINK] Re: Link Digest, Vol 172, Issue 5

[Ivan Trundle]

my good.

Thanks, folks... I now know that Shakespeare was ahead of his time,  
again.

Rather prescient, in a way. Today I attended a seminar presented by  
Martin Seligman, and he opened the day with this little tale:

When he was once much more in the media spotlight, he was given some  
media training, but was still confounded by a TV reporter who wanted  
to get a sound byte: and his media minder said that one word will do  
(it must have been a piece for CNN) and that he should be mindful of  
how he might be interpreted. The question from the reporter went like  
this:

"Dr Seligman, can you tell me, what is the state of the body of  
American psychology today?"

Seligman: "Good"

Reporter: "Sorry, I need more than that. Can we do this again?"

(the media advisor suggested that two words would be sufficient if he  
could remain succinct)

"Dr Seligman, can you tell me, what is the state of the body of  
American psychology today?"

Seligman: "Not good"

Reporter: "Sorry, I still need need more than that. Can we do this  
again?"

(the media advisor suggested that three words would have to do, and  
cautioned him not to overstate things)

"Dr Seligman, can you tell me, what is the state of the body of  
American psychology today?"

Seligman: "Not good enough..."


...well, it was funny when he said it, at least.

iT

On 02/03/2007, at 4:00 PM, Linda Rouse wrote:

> Try the FWSE  (Famous Web Search Engine) as New Scientist calls it.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&hl=en&num=10&btnG=Google 
> +Search&as_epq=my 
> +bad&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi= 
> &as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&safe=images
>
> The Mavens' Word of the Day
> The exclamation My bad! is an apologetic way of saying 'My  
> fault! ... Some people nominated My bad! as a candidate for 1999  
> "Word of the Year," an ...
> www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20000111 - 8k - Cached -  
> Similar pages
>
> best
> Linda
>
> At 3:01 PM +1100 2/3/07, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>> On 02/03/2007, at 12:25 PM, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>>
>>>  Stilgherrian wrote:
>>>>  On 2/3/07 11:26 AM, "Stewart Fist"  
>>>> <stewart_fist at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>>>>    And I don't know how Aspirin (a German invention) came to be  
>>>>> listed as an
>>>>>  Australian invention.  I guess we are getting Russianised or  
>>>>> Americanized.
>>>>  Aspirin was a German invention, yes. Aspro, i.e. aspirin-in-a- 
>>>> tablet, was
>>>>  the Australian thing.
>>>
>>>  OK, my bad...
>>
>> Can a Linker with more communicative teenager offspring tell me  
>> what 'my bad' means, and its origins?
>>
>> iT
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