There is absolutely no way I’ll be able to make this relevant to tech. But I’m posting it anyway. Our Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, vetoed a California legislative finance bill – AB 1176. The letter is terse and to the point. And the first letter of each line in paragraphs 2-3 are even terser and more to the point.
Schwarzeneggers battles with the state legislature are epic. But this just goes way beyond epic. It’s something for the history books.
I wish I had the time to do this kind of thing in my posts here on TechCrunch.
See the SF Chronicle for all the quotes and denials.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled programing.
you can do it in your posts and comments with a lot less effort by making it horizontal
we need a plugin to help with this. not the horizontal part (har har), but the governator way.
This will be on a t-shirt by Friday
I loves it.
Was this a secret message by Gov. Schwarzenegger to the State Assembly?
http://www.youp...ls.asp?pid=6382
.
It should become the standard reply to anyone you want to flip off online- just copy and paste that part of his response into your own posts. Then again, I might quickly regret that I ever suggested this…
Thats a hilarous idea. I wonder how he got the words and sentences so that it would make sense, without being noticed.
it was noticed
You sir, got ownd.
Wonderful effort! i wish we could read some more letters with such deep (and hidden ) thoughts
Because we’re blind and can’t read? Make the letters bold if you like, but if you made it horizonal you wouldn’t be able to read the rest, and the whole thing is just diplo-speak for fuck you anyway. Go Arnie – how many people can turn to moronic politians and say “Fuck you asshole!”
yeah
American Culture…!!!!
what a masterpiece.
WIN
For those calling shenanigans:
http://gov.ca.g...eto_Message.pdf
It’s real.
Is Gov.com even a legitimate website?
It’s not gov.com; it’s ca.gov, which is the domain of the California government. It’s real.
I like his style.
Oh totally.
Arnie is great at style, except for the part about repeatedly shafting CA with things such as running as a reformer and then becoming GOP/Dem stooge and his support for illegal activity. For an example of the latter, he’s pushing a plan that helps banks profit from money that was earned illegally. Details at my name’s link.
Quote from a follower: @vansunder: Why didn’t Arrington circle the first letter of the first paragraph as well? Makes it a little funnier. At least to me…
Don’t forget to circle the ‘I’ too.
To the members,
I
F
*
*
K
Y
O
U
Sincerely,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The man’s got style!
You can add the ‘S’incerely and ‘A’rnold too For ‘S’tate ‘A’ssembly. So
I F**K YOU SA.
“i fuck yousa” … ??? HOLY SHIT, ARNOLD IS JAR JAR BINKS
You can say “FUCK YOU” here, you know. We’re all adults.
Hi. I am a precocious 4 year old and I just learned a new word. Thanks!
I am certain that any 4-year old who not only knows the word precocious, but can also spell and properly use the word, also knows the word “fuck”.
If a 4-year old is reading Techcrunch, and the comments, they most certain know the word “fuck”.
that’s fucking precious.
“I fuck you” does not make any sense. Who says that? It sounds retarded. “Fuck you” is the message, and I think it’s awesome.
its a non-USA thing to say that.
As seen in “The Hangover”, said by a naked Asian man that just jumped out of a trunk and is brandishing a tire iron, “You wanna fuck on me!?!”
And yeah, I think taking all of the first letters is the full message: T I Fuck You SA = “Tom, I Fuck You State Assembly” or maybe, “Tom, I Fuck You Silly Ass.” Good times! 8-D
Nah, it’s not a non-USA thing. I am from Austria, and we don’t say the “I” either.
I talk to British people all day long and while they sure know how to swear, they don’t say the I either. It’s just not part of the message.
The Governator FTW!!
let me rephrase. every time i’ve heard it, it was from a non native english speaker. which certainly doesn’t imply every non native english speaker uses the term.
Mahesh would say it like that
It was used repeatedly in The Big Lebowski by the German nihilists at the end, after they’ve torched The Dude’s car.
Actually, “I fuck you” makes perfect sense. Arnold holds the key to what they want — he either approves the bill or vetoes the bill. “I fuck you” indicates he will not be approving many of his bills. ha, ha, ha, ha,ha.
AWESOME!
I tot it’s another crap from MG, but again, AWESOME!
MG??? As in MiGuel Arrington?
Commenting without reading. FAIL!
He said that he thought it was by MG. He is not guilty of not reading but rather of not being able to spell.
Oh, internet and your infinite variety.
MG = my guvna
Why am I named in this?
Woah! What a style of writing from governator. He always rockz!
This is just another example of the high caliber of journalism.
Well considering Arnie was a piece of Tech in the past this great piece belongs here.
Well spotted Mike.
C
U
Next
Tuesday.
That is the power of PRINT.
You can’t do that on your new-fangled web, what with its adjustable font sizes, different browsers and operating systems.
Hail PRINT!
I believe you can
do
it using a brand new technology called “line break” — or in HTML.
Try it for yourself.
If only you’d remembered to hit enter after “line break” instead of adding a —, then it would have been funny.
I know, it’s wonderfully ironic.
Way to fuck up your joke. Self fulfilling prophecy and all that.
Gosh! IdioT!
Ahh, Muphry’s Law in action.
http://home.pac...sund/muphry.htm
A great little read and sooo perfect for this or any other web site’s comments sections!
Well, all I can say is I like his style. It is certainly an
outstanding piece of prose. This is something
which increases my respect for him tremendously!
Heh, I see what you did there.
Great find mike!
There are two T’s in the very first word in excerpt.
Isn’t this act a bit ‘Bart Simpson’ for a professional person in a position of authority and responsibility?
My values must be getting old-moded…
I mean out-moded. I can’t even keep up with the keyboard.
It sends the right message across, and that’s whats important
Listen, loyalty is very touching. But it is not the most important thing in your life right now!
But what IS important is gravity! I have to remind you Luke, this is my weak arm!
I think in this day and age (where “professional people” especially “those with responsibility” in government dick around and twiddle their thumbs while people suffer because of their willingness to take it up the wazoo each time some lobby comes in with oodles of cash) things like this are almost justifiable.
Can’t wait until this really catches on and you see angry motorists leaning out their windows at cars that just cut them off… “HEY! FOR SOME TIME NOW I HAVE LAMENTED THE FACT THERE ARE MAJOR ISSUES…”
“Cat”, indeed.
wut.
doh.
It is mildly related to tech, as in Meg (”I created jobs at Ebay”) Whitman is running for his job after he leaves office in 2011.
Too bad Arnie was not born in the US and cannot run for president, but I hope Obama considers him for Secretary of Defense in the future.
Love to hear him say this to our enemies: “I vill not kill you, I vill decimate you.”
There is no way that is a coincidence.
He says
I F*ck yo uSA
I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street!! Arnold Schwarzenegger is the best!
Classic Arnie…now lets send something like this to the collection of money Whores who run our government in Washington and give them a message.
Wow the terminator has done it… respect to Arnie.
Anyway Mike, your pieces are getting really entertaining…
That’s the spirit anyway, why apologize?
Even though I don’t live in California, nor does any of the legislative issues concern me, I found this to be fantastic. Way to go Arnold!!!
One day he will simply terminate them.
The probability of this is about (1/53)^8 (as CAPS and space are also perfect), which is one giant number!
Like a billion billions to 1!
man how did you ever find this!
Oh Arnold… the most liberal republican is the US.
Arnold for President!
LOL!!
If I had a time machine, I would go back to when Terminator was showing in theaters, then show people this letter, then take pictures of their faces.
Then I’d come back and make a website from them.
Plus, you’d be naked. And you couldn’t bring the letter with you. Did you even watch Terminator?
Maybe he could bring the letter if he hid in his… never mind
Win.
this is monumental. What might have angered the governator so fiercely?
Hard to say, exactly, but my guess is that it’s all the wasted time, energy, effort, and money that’s wasted day in and day out in every single government office in California, let alone across the country.
Assuming, of course, that he was sincere about the full message and not just the “hidden” one. Or that he really does give a shit.
Wow! now this article is on Top 10 Twitter trends !
nobody cares about twitter.
Yeah, how is Twitter at all relevant to tech, anyway? 8-P
Best item I have seen on TechCrunch in years! Oh and to the above by @tywright – I’m sure T-shirts are being made as I type this!
Reminds me of a classmate’s yearbook blurb that started “Freeing us can kill you or us, …..”
The next part reveals the name of the school through the first letters of the words, so I will keep it mum. It got by our tough teacher/editor and made it in print.
Don’t worry, the majority of articles “written” on this blog aren’t tech related either.
For the author, who obviously never read Proust, this is an acrostic.
I don’t think we need to drag Proust out for this.
Regardless of who uses an acrostic, why does someone have to have read their work to know what word defines it? Does someone who reads lots of poetry automatically know what iambit pentameter is?
PS: Yes, I had to Google that shit to make sure I spelled it right. 8-P
iambic
lol, win
lrn2google and English
lol, Epic Fail on my use of proof-reading!
Is the probability
(1/26)^7 * (# lines Arnold has written in his term – 7)
?
Not quite, as the initial letter frequencies of words
is not uniform.
call it improbable in the
extreme.
much lower because the distribution of first letters in a line in English is not linear across the alphabet.
you would need to take a sample of all his writing, do a distribution of first letters for his style and apply that set on the probability of a certain phrase.
also with the same data set of previous letters you could do analysis on style/words etc. to deduce a probability that this letter was intentional
yea ok einstein u go and keep yourself busy for the next 30 years while I kick back and enjoy a good laugh
actually it’s *higher* for the reason you say.
beautiful
Epic, tell us how ya feel Arnie
Going to be hard for
Everyone to realize
That this was intentional.
That sort of joke
On the subject of legislature is rare.
Telling the whole legislature to
Have relations with itself, and
Everyone in the public reading it?
Cant believe that
He did something like this
On the statewide, or
Probably even the national stage. It
Presents an interesting question
About his public relations skills.
Nice.
What? So he acts like a British politician. Personally I would love to see more blunt honesty in our leaders.
GET TO THE CHOPPA!
I have a headache.
http://www.yout...h?v=BANkMaLJaY4
I’m glad it’s not a tooma.
hahaha with the austrian accent too. man that was nice. thanks.
i think this is going in my top 10 of 09. thanks mike. thanks GUVNA!!!
Perhaps the speech writer didn’t have anything better to do? I hardly think it’s a coincidence.
Probably California would be in better shape if Arnold spent less time figuring out how to say fuck you to the legislature and instead built relationships to fix things.
good one.
No not a good one. First off I doubt Arnold actually wasted the time to do it, more likely it was some poor staffer that wrote it up.
Secondly, building relationships only goes so far when dealing with politicians who could give a rats ass about the people who voted them in. When time and time again they ignore any real issue and waste time on fluff bills you eventually have to give up on extending an olive branch and simply be brutally honest.
As awesome as it would be otherwise, I honestly doubt Arnie wrote this himself. They have people to do this for them, you know. Do you think Obama writes his own speeches? I’m more inclined to believe it was the person who wrote this letter’s intention, rather than Arnie’s.
“..regularly scheduled programing. ” –> Shouldn’t it be ‘programming’ ?
Sorry … had to ask
As longtime purveyors of disguised middle fingers, we at BirdSmack fully endorse the Governator’s actions.
The tech relevance is such that if it is real then someone had to manipulate the text to make it work in the first place. It’s relevant Michael.
Our legislature sucks in CA. Arnold has been a breath of fresh air for these against those scum bags.
A breath for fart maybe. Our education system has never been in the worst shape.
“has never been in the worst shape”. So it’s good then?? Or was the glaring error in that sentence just to highlight your point?
That letter is loaded with awesome.
It’s about time someone said it to them!
A little more:
http://www.sfga.../MNBN1ABKB8.DTL
Nice digging, but that link was already given by MA in the post: “SF Chronicle” in green = that link.
BTW, what’s less stupid, saying “that link was already given” or “that was already linked to”? Obviously I found the latter to be more funky (funkier?), but is it actually considered proper? And yes, I’m sure I’ll have at least one answer in very short order.
Ammiano wishes Schwarzenegger would kiss his “gay ass”. Maybe Arnie was just trying to grant his wish.
ok, where can I buy a shirt with that?
+1