Cool! Seth Rogen wears "Vote Kerry" T-shirt in new movie "Funny People"

[beachmom]

I got this via the whiny humorless "Newsbusters" website, which every time they complain about Kerry, I get some cool new video or a past speech to check out. (as in big time unintended consequences).

Here is the clip (you have to watch a short ad before it begins. Watch Seth's T-shirt):

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi355533337/

[Luftmensch067]

1. Love it!

Bringing JK back into the popular consciousness, one step at a time. :-)

Maybe this is the thread to tell you guys about a little trivia project of my own to rehabilitate the Kerry name. The other day, I found a website where you can play Twenty Questions online, against the computer. The regular game won't let you choose a person's name, but there's also a People edition, and that's the one I've been playing. It keeps asking you questions and you can choose either Yes, No, Unknown, Irrelevant, Sometimes, Probably, Doubtful to answer them. After 20 questions, it will make a guess. At that point, you can say Right, Wrong or Close.

When I first started playing, using John Kerry as the person I was answering questions about, my answers to the computer utterly baffled it. It learns about a person solely from the people playing the game and their answers, and whoever had told it about JK was...well, like most people we meet with misperceptions. So I kept playing, over and over, reeducating that machine to learn the TRUTH. LOL!!! Before, if it asked me "Are you considered a hero?" and I said Yes, it would guess anyone in the world but John Kerry. Now, if it gets a Yes to that question, it immediately considers him one of the first possibilities! If only we could get real people to understand the truth that easily...

Sometimes it's hard to know what to answer because the questions are weird.

Here's a sample of a game I just played:

Q24. I am guessing that it is John Kerry?
Right, Wrong, Close
23. Are you skinny? Yes.
22. I guessed that it was Ron Paul? Wrong.
21. Are you known as a hero? Yes.
20. I guessed that it was Bill Clinton? Wrong.
19. Were you involved in a scandal? Doubtful.
18. Do you have famous parents? No.
17. Are you a nice person? Yes.
16. Are you still on the air? No.
15. Are you violent? No.
14. Are you part of an association or league? Probably.
13. Were you popular in the '80s? Irrelevant.
12. Were you born between 1900-1950? Yes.
11. Are you European? No.
10. Do you have dark hair? No.
9. Are you bald? No.
8. Are you on television? Sometimes.
7. Were you popular in the '60s? No.
6. Do you play Classical music? Sometimes.
5. Have you won awards? Sometimes.
4. Are you a movie star? No.
3. Are you known for your live performances? No.
2. Were you nominated for an Academy Award? No.
1. Do you wear makeup? No.

I mean, he does wear makeup for television appearances, like anyone, but I've decided to always answer that one as No. Same thing with live performances, even though technically when he makes a speech... On the other hand, when it asks about being on television or Classical (or rock) music or being on a team or using a ball or being funny or being athletic, I say Sometimes. As you can see here, I also apply that logic re awards and being part of an association or league (Bar Association?) Your answers may vary. I don't think those questions are that important. It will also ask about being popular in various decades. For Sixties and before I say No, for Seventies, I say Sometimes because that was his first time of national recognition. For Eighties and Nineties I say Irrelevant. For after 2000, I say Yes. Again, you may make different choices. It's kind of fun to think about why you make your decisions about some of these kind of ambiguous choices. I always say no to dark hair and yes to gray hair (though some of us think it's more of a silver!) but when it asks me, rather rudely, if JK is OLD, I usually get diplomatic and go with Probably. Irrelevant might be more polite! (I also wince whenever I say Yes to Are you skinny, but it seems more true than not!) When it asks me if he's married to someone famous, I think of THK and say Probably. If it asks me whether he has been in trouble with the law or been involved in a scandal, I say Doubtful, which seems slightly stronger than No to me, but maybe No would be better. It will also ask whether the person in question is popular with children, teens, older adults -- I always say Yes, which initially astonished it!

The only really important questions to say YES to are things like Are you known as a hero, Are you a national icon, Are you a sex symbol (c'mon!), Are you a humanitarian, Are you a Democrat, Are you charismatic, etc. If the computer hears positives on that enough times (and I've made a start!) it's going to get John Kerry as a result more and more quickly. It's quite fun if you have a few minutes to waste! Here's the link (ignore all the requests for info and just hit Play): http://people.20q.net/

Happy computer brainwashing, everyone. :-)

Edited to add: When it makes a guess, I always say Close for FDR, JFK, Barack Obama and Al Gore. I say Wrong for Bill Clinton, but that's just me.

[JI7]

4. i was going to say "do you have dark hair" should be yes

but i guess the answer is based on what his color would be right now.

[wisteria]

2. The tee shirt gets a lot of exposure in that clip-great to see.

As for that site, did you read some of the comments? This site seems to attract the dumbest of the dumb in RW blogging and opinion.

[beachmom]

3. I didn't look at comments. In general, sites like You Tube and so forth

have vile comments, which I have learned to not even see one word of. Maybe they are very young people who have no sense of social grace?