first time I ignore to hear the wording in this show but next time, when I was in front of tv last time then I got this show, which I have found most intelligent.

There are least great show on the television besides the big advertisements on every chanel, normally I use to mute the tv when the advertisements appear, but when I have seen this show the voice was bigger.

Really this show is funtastic, besides fun there are the things which are so important in public places that how to present ourself and how to cope up with the situations this show is greatly helpful, I don't know what is your experience.?

It proves that H.L. Menken was correct in his assessment of US culture....

"No one ever went broke underestimating public taste!"

Dale in Ala

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But it's "funtastic"!

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what book did she tell you to read, and what diet did she tell you to go on?

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Oprah was the first to promote 'The Secret', I believe. Y'all know the book I'm talking about, right? It's the one that says that all you have to do to get anything you want in life is to simply wish for it to happen, and it will.

For instance, if you want a brand new car, all you have to do is think that you will get a brand new car, and a new car will subsequently drive itself to your door without any effort on your part. Somehow your 'positive thoughts' attracted those good things (the car, etc) to you.

I used to have a lot of respect for Oprah's show until I heard that she was peddling that tripe.

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"Creating Neologisms in English for Non-Native Speakers"

by Armondo Archaeaptyryx

I think it was called..

Dale in Ala

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Hey, Oprah wanted to have her name and picture on everything she's associated with, and it happened. Her show, production company, magazine, book club, etc. Coming soon, Oprahland theme park! There's an Emotional Rollercoaster, the Media Sideshow, the Dr. Phil Diet Food Court, and the Tom Cruise Bouncy Couch for the smaller kiddies. And every seat has a special surprise under it. *

* Not responsible for what may be found under seats. Ewww.

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Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

ROFL!!

Tom Cruise should have his own park too...Adventures in Cruiseland, or something like that.

Surely somebody has posted about 'The Secret' on BAUT before (am too lazy to search).

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Intelligence may not be clearly defined, but you know stupid when you see it--Noclevername

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge--Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Tom Cruise already has a little place called Wackyland, right in the heart of Woo-Woo Central.

You take a DC-8 through space to the Galactic Empire, then a left turn at Psychiatrist's Row. Can't miss it.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

yea, I've been there. They clone Tom Cruise's flesh and make it into burgers.

It's a weird place.

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Does anyone else remember the furor when Oprah shut down her book club with a claim that there were no books out there worth reading? When she reopened it, she put John Steinbeck back on the best-sellers' list again. I can forgive a certain amount for bringing him to people's attention, though I can't fathom why you'd need Oprah to tell you what to read. Still, better Oprah than Martha.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Neeeever heard of it. The only Oprah furor I couldn't avoid hearing about was the one where she said Mad Cow Disease made her scared to eat beef, and a bunch of ranchers got all up in arms about it. Now, that's just ridiculous, blaming a talk show host for declining sales during a beef plague scare!

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

On a side note, I think it's absolutely ludicrous for "Dr." (nonpracticing) Phil to be hawking diet products. "Yes, now you too can have a body like Dr. Phil!"

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Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I think we'd like to keep the small medium at large section for SciFi and Space and Astronomy stories. I'm moving this thread to off-topic babbling.

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That wishful-thinking thing doesn't sound like her. Certainly she'd tell people that it's important to keep a positive attitude when trying to do something and it's a key to success, but the leap from that practical advice to disregarding OTHER keys to success is a pretty long leap, and she's not into superstitious mumbo-jumbo in general.

I wouldn't take psychological advice from him, either.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

That's okay, he doesn't give any.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

The exact Mencken quote isBut you got the gist of it.

Here's another great oneRe the show in the OP, I'm proud to say I've never seen it nor do I have any intention ever to see it.

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well, since most of what's on the Oprah show can be catagorized as "fiction"- with a little pseudo science thrown in for good measure- then it can maybe go in the small media at large section.. or isn't "pseudo science fiction" allowed?

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Speaking of the Oprah show, check this out: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070623/...oks_the_secret.