Americans love to throw around the term "hero." They not only ascribe the word to illiterate athletes, but to people who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
An extreme example of the latter would be the infamous Iran-hostage "crisis" that ended after 444 days on January 20, 1981. With Kim Jong Il's best friend, Jimmy Carter, spending more than a year trying to remove his thumb from his left nostril, Iran's version of Crazy Guggenheim -- Ayatollah Khomeini -- had things pretty much his way.
A Anachronistic(uh-nak-ruh-NIS-tik) — from the Greek for “a mistake in time” — refers to a person or thing that belongs, or seems to belong, to another time.
Example (as used by Robert Ringer today): “Racism, ‘glass ceilings,’ and a prejudice against such factors as age and physical disabilities are not so much anachronistic as irrelevant.”
Americans love to throw around the term "hero." They not only ascribe the word to illiterate athletes, but to people who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
An extreme example of the latter would be the infamous Iran-hostage "crisis" that ended after 444 days on January 20, 1981.
By Robert Ringer | Mon, Nov 1, 2010
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