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Plain English Campaign gave their 2003 Foot in Mouth (for a baffling quote by a public figure) award to Donald Ramsfeld for this comment:
http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/footinmouth.html

'Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.'

I don't know what baffled public they are talking about, but it(the comment) makes perfect sense to me. The award tells a lot more about Plain English than D.R.

speaking of blogging :-)

Dave Barry on farting herring and the internet:

If you go on the NewScientist site (http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994343 ) you can actually hear a recording of herring making this mysterious noise. Isn't modern technology amazing? A hundred years ago, if you had told people that some day there would be a giant network of incredibly sophisticated ''thinking machines'' that would allow virtually anybody, virtually anywhere on Earth, to hear a herring cut the cheese, they would have beaten you to death with sticks. And they would have been right.