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I saw some thing on CNN ysterday aft discusing all the nominees and most were negative: Rumsfeld, president of Iran etc. When "youtube" got mentioned as a long shot I turned to my wife and said "bingo!"
oh man I should've placed a bet or something! gots my finger on the zeitgiest, dudes!
― mark coleman (lovebug ), Sunday, 17 December 2006 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link
hmm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_the_YearSince 1927, every serving President of the United States has been a Person of the Year at least once with the exceptions of Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Gerald Ford.
1950: The American Fighting-Man (first abstract chosen)
1960: U.S. scientists (represented by Linus Pauling, Isidor Rabi, Edward Teller, Adam Fisher, Donald A. Glaser, Willard Libby, Robert Woodward, Charles Draper, William Shockley, Emilio Segre, John Enders, Charles Townes, George Beadle, James Van Allen and Edward Purcell)
1966: The Generation Twenty-Five and Under
1968: Apollo 8 Astronauts Frank Borman (b. 1928), Jim Lovell (b. 1928), William Anders (b. 1933)
1969: The Middle Americans
1975: American Women (represented by Betty Ford, Carla Hills, Ella Grasso, Barbara Jordan, Susie Sharp, Jill Conway, Billy Jean King, Susan Brownmiller, Addie Wyatt, Kathleen Byerly, Carol Sutton and Alison Cheek)
1982: The Computer (first non-human abstract chosen)
1988: Endangered Earth (Planet of the Year)
1993: The Peacemakers: Nelson Mandela (b. 1918), F.W. de Klerk (b. 1936), Yasser Arafat (1929–2004), and Yitzhak Rabin (1922–1995)
1998: Bill Clinton (b. 1946) (2nd time) and Kenneth Starr (b. 1946)
2002: The Whistleblowers: Cynthia Cooper of Worldcom (b. 1963), Sherron Watkins of Enron (b. 1959), and Coleen Rowley of the FBI (b. 1954)
2003: The American Soldier (2nd time)
2005: The Good Samaritans: Bono (b. 1960), Bill Gates (b. 1955), and Melinda Gates (b. 1964)
2006: You - Referencing contributors to user created content "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." [2]
― jw (ex machina), Sunday, 17 December 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link
the 'person of the year', just like last year and the year before that and the year before that and maybe the year before that, is obviously Bush. Time just doesn't want to be accused of 'hating America'.
― nuneb (nuneb), Sunday, 17 December 2006 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link
"the google" video is the funniest thing I have seen in weeks. Thank you, so much, for that link.
― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 18 December 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link
it's like you think people can;t come up with any new ways of being an asshole and then time names you person of there year and yr all i will not stop fighting until i am people sexiest man alive.
― jhoshea (jhoshea), Monday, 18 December 2006 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link