You get a fish, and you get a fish..! EVERYBODY GETS A FISH!! - Oprah Winfrey

- Seems the first guy didn't know how to use the lever to close the door.
- Pushing lever up to close a door is not intuitive.
- Bad place to locate a lever to shut door in emergency cases such as this.

/grin Reminds me of an old Doug Anthony All Stars joke...

Oprah Winfrey is the fattest most powerful woman on the planet earth.

It takes the entire Panama canal and three Kansas wheat belts to feed Oprah every day.

Oprah Winfrey, you are the Gross National Product!

George Carlin did this bit in 2005! That's 12 years ago, and look where we are today!

I mean, you look today at American government, about what's going on with the FCC and the recent tax bill, and you see just how average Americans are getting shafted openly by corporations. At least they had the decency to do it behind closed doors before. Now people like Ajit Pai just give the American public a big middle finger and smile for the cameras while they're doing it.

This bit basically predicted the election of Donald Trump with that whole section on how idiots keep electing rich people who don't care about them.

Meanwhile, you have people like Sean Spicer unironically saying that Oprah Winfrey shouldn't run for president because she has no political experience.

We are truly down the rabbit hole here and I'm not sure we're ever getting out again.

According to Wikipedia...

The Cecil B. DeMille Award is an honorary Golden Globe Award bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment".

Sorry, still don't see it. Harpo Productions is responsible for (among others) The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil, Rachael Ray and The Dr. Oz Show (which, I would argue, is actually a social harm).

She's had a hand in a few interesting films (notably Selma), but she's just not in the same league as previous winners.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-on-The-Oprah-Winfrey-Show

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" ... has been added as a related post - related requested by ant.

Yes, you're ignored, and I read your comment anyway.

No, in saying "use drugs," I was not "implying cannabis." I said "use drugs" because I meant "use drugs." Rather than trying to interpret or 'read into' what I'm saying, it might help if you responded to my post, and not what you post in your mind on my behalf.

And I will take you up on your 'challenge:' below is a list of ten "highly intelligent" people who have used cocaine (note: at no point did I say "encourages the use of cocaine." I said "use drugs" without becoming addicted, and being able to function), so that you can provide me with 10,000 more** whose lives and families have been destroyed by it. (**And note here, we're talking about individuals whose lives were destroyed by the use of cocaine itself, and not by the pointless drug laws that imprison people for having a mental or emotional condition that provokes "self-medication" as a form of treatment. Nor are we talking about the illegal status of cocaine which, itself, gives rise to violent cartels that function in the shadow of its legal status.)

So, while certainly many of the following list of "highly intelligent" (non-cognitively deficient) and successful "celebrities" may no longer be using cocaine, all of the following have used cocaine and are/were not addicted and function(ed) just fine:

Sigmund Freud
Thomas Edison
Oprah Winfrey
Stephen King
Tim Allen
Hunter S. Thompson
Angelina Jolie
Robert Louis Stevenson
Steven Tyler
Robert Downey, Jr.

There are others (like William Burroughs, Eric Clapton, Grover Cleveland, David Crosby, Arthur Conan Doyle, Isadora Duncan, Ulysses S Grant, Abbie Hoffman, Elton John, King George V, Larry Kudlow, Sir Paul McCartney, & Barack Obama), but I thought I'd stop at 10.

And if you post the 10,000 names of those whose lives and families were destroyed by cocaine (and not by the pointless drug laws or its illegal status) by the end of the week, I'll take your point.

This is so pretentious. If your goal is to be Jesus, David Beckham or Oprah Winfrey, then higher education may or may not be helpful. If, on the other hand, you want to gain a lot of knowledge in a particular field in a short amount of time, then going to college is your best bet.

How many self taught doctors or engineers do you know?

Of the rich people he lists, most of them come from wealthy families. Most billionaires do go to college.

It's too bad that he slept through his classes and his mum didn't come to graduation, but it is hardly the fault of his school. If he felt he wasn't learning anything, he could have studied harder, changed classes, changed majors or even gone to another college.

There are many types of intelligences. College does not necessarily make you better or smarter. What you get out of higher education is directly proportional to what you put in.

Stay in school: http://soc101.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/education-pays-income-by-education-level-2011-update/

>> ^spaceman:

Up vote for David Attenborough and not Operah Winfrey.


Oprah Winfrey? You referring to the round gall?

>> ^aurens:

A short and varied list of Americans educated in public high schools before the creation, in 1980, of the Department of Education:
Steve Jobs
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Ron Paul
Warren Buffett
Toni Morrison
Carl Sagan
Ernest Hemingway
Linus Pauling
Sandra Day O'Connor
John Steinbeck
Bob Dylan
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Milton Friedman
Noam Chomsky
Oprah Winfrey
George Lucas
Jimmy Carter
Paul Newman
Amelia Earhart
Walt Disney
George Carlin
Elvis Presley
Neil Armstrong
Richard Feynman
Aaron Copland
(I could keep going, but I'm sure you get the point.)>> ^ghark:
No public education ... Sounds exciting.



Aye aye, was being sarcastic

A short and varied list of Americans educated in public high schools before the creation, in 1980, of the Department of Education:

Steve Jobs
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Ron Paul
Warren Buffett
Toni Morrison
Carl Sagan
Ernest Hemingway
Linus Pauling
Sandra Day O'Connor
John Steinbeck
Bob Dylan
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Milton Friedman
Noam Chomsky
Oprah Winfrey
George Lucas
Jimmy Carter
Paul Newman
Amelia Earhart
Walt Disney
George Carlin
Elvis Presley
Neil Armstrong
Richard Feynman
Aaron Copland

(I could keep going, but I'm sure you get the point.)>> ^ghark:

No public education ... Sounds exciting.

Maybe this was just after Cruise used his Force Storm™ on her?

Hello, I was looking for the SNL Parody of "The Secret" and Oprah Winfrey. I have looked everywhere and it's been removed everywhere I go. I noticed you had uploaded originally to this site. Do you have a copy that I could get?

Thank you

I'm a 51 year old American and I despise television. I have noticed that people don't get any smarter, there is a never-ending audience for all this stupidity. One example that comes to mind is Oprah Winfrey (I have never seen a single show but have heard plenty about her) being suckered in by that guy that wrote "A Million Little Pieces". She said she was up all night, reading his riveting story about drug abuse. And all her fans bought into it and made him rich. Then it turns out to be largely fiction. Oprah is so worldly and wise, so what could possibly be so riveting about yet another drug abuse tale? Turn on VH1, every child star, rock star, TV star, porn star has a similar story, so what. It all exemplifies just how stupid you have to be to watch TV and follow pop culture. The phrase "reality show" sums up everything contemptible about American TV. I half expect to find an old Mad Magazine in a drawer, with a spoof back in the 70s saying television of the future will be so bad that they will resort to ratings spectacles of putting former child stars in a boxing ring with each other.
I could go on but you get the point. I would have to be held hostage before I would watch The View, Dancing with the stars, American Idol, The Apprentice, Friends, Wheel of Fortune, America's Most Wanted, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......
Thanks for letting me rant.

>> ^Deano:
>> ^GreatBird:
This must be the UK version of Life. Here in the States we have Oprah Winfrey as narrator. I would much rather have Sir Attenborough.

Oprah?! Ha ha, that made me laugh.


Oh my god, me too! How and why would they replace Sir God Attenborough with her ??