Plain English Awards - Rumsfeld Honoured

[Jen Reese]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "junediamanti" 
<june.diamanti at b...> wrote:
> Today in London, the Plain English Campaign host their annual 
awards.
> 
> Donald Rumsfeld sadly is unable to attend to receive in person 
> the "Foot in Mouth" trophy, despite having beaten off strong 
> competition from George W Bush and Britain's own Deputy Prime 
> Minister, John Prescott.  
> 
> The award, for the single most confusing piece of public 
gobbledegook 
> is for the following cryptic remarks made to baffled journalists:
> 
> "Reports that say 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."
> 
> Well deserved I say.


What? I can't believe Rumsfeld won't be there in person for this 
honor! I'm curious to hear what Bush and Prescott said that were in 
the running with this one. lol-- June, any idea?

Jen, who read that...ah...*sentence* twice and can't make heads or 
tails of it