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RudyRules:

--- Quote from: TexasLady on February 23, 2008, 12:08:29 PM ---
--- Quote from: Rob on February 18, 2008, 11:12:10 AM ---I love Omarosa, but hate it that she had to bring Piers family into it.....other than that, MORE OMAROSA!!

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Of course you love her! :lol3: Cause you are a provocateur!

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First, I like, not love, Omarosa just for her gutsyness & her business skills, BUT...her people skills suck. Second, I agree with you Rob...hate that she attacked Piers' family. That was totally uncalled for and rude, to say the least.

I don't like Piers at all and wish he would hurry up and get fired.

TL, I looked up the word "provocateur" and it's barely in the dictionary!! :lol3: It says: "agent provocateur", then the word below is 'provocation' meaning 'to site anger or resentment'. Next, is the word is 'provocative' meaning 'tending to arouse or excite a response..." etc.
Ok, I know you all are just elated for that little vocab lesson! :lol:

RudyRules:

--- Quote from: Rob on February 18, 2008, 11:12:10 AM ---I love Omarosa, but hate it that she had to bring Piers family into it.....other than that, MORE OMAROSA!!

--- End quote ---
Yay Rob! Thanks for being a provocateur...tending to arouse/excite our responses about the love/hate Omarosa stuff!
I hated her at first and hated the idea of her being on this Apprentice. Now I respect her for having the dang guts to even allow herself to be competing with ALL these really popular, talented, hot, bigtime celebs!
Heck, Omarosa deserves to win, (aside from her insults to Piers' family) just for agreeing to be on this show with all Celebs! Doesn't anyone her agree with me?? ???
(ha ha, probably not except Rob!)
She has interacted with most of them favorably and consistently, working very hard with them.

Don't get me wrong, I DO like others also...esp Trace, Carol Alt, and Lennox. Baldwin...kinda-sorta.

Normally, I hate Celeb editions, but I love this Celeb Apprentice. It turned out to be verrry entertaining/interesting! :jumpy: :tup:

apskip:

--- Quote from: RudyRules on February 23, 2008, 02:32:32 PM ---
--- Quote from: TexasLady on February 23, 2008, 12:08:29 PM ---
--- Quote from: Rob on February 18, 2008, 11:12:10 AM ---I love Omarosa, but hate it that she had to bring Piers family into it.....other than that, MORE OMAROSA!!

--- End quote ---

Of course you love her! :lol3: Cause you are a provocateur!

--- End quote ---
TL, I looked up the word "provocateur" and it's barely in the dictionary!! :lol3: It says: "agent provocateur", then the word below is 'provocation' meaning 'to site anger or resentment'. Next, is the word is 'provocative' meaning 'tending to arouse or excite a response..." etc.
Ok, I know you all are just elated for that little vocab lesson! :lol:
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Ho, ho, Rudy Rules, you did a smart thing by looking in the dictionary for agent provocateur. However, your mistake was is looking at the American English dictionary. You may need a FRENCH dictionary since agent provocateur is a French word.
I went to a wide variety of sources for a good definition and here is the best I found:

Traditionally, an agent provocateur (plural: agents provocateur, French for "inciting agent") is a person employed by the police or other law enforcement body to act undercover and entice or provoke another person to commit an illegal act. More generally, the term may refer to person or group who provokes another to perform a wrong or rash action, the deliberate purpose being to incite wider conflict or harm.

An agent provocateur is often a police officer that encourages suspects to carry out a crime under conditions where evidence can be obtained; or who suggests the commission of a crime to another, in hopes they will go along with the suggestion, so they may be convicted of the crime. These are sometimes called sting operations.

One common use of Agents provocateurs is to investigate consensual or "victimless" crimes; since each participant in such crimes are willing participants, it is often difficult for the authorities to discover such crimes without the use of undercover agents.

Agents provocateurs are also used against political opponents. Here, it has been documented that provocateurs deliberately carry out or seek to incite counter-productive and/or ineffective acts, in order to foster public disdain for the group and provide a pretext for aggression against the group; and to worsen the punishments its members are liable for (see Red-baiting).

Historically, Agents provocateurs activities have been one operational tactic of labor spies who may also be hired to infiltrate, monitor, disrupt, and/or subvert union activities.

Terrorists act as agents provocateurs when they seek to provoke government repression or an aggressive response, hoping thereby to reduce the credibility of the government, gain it enemies, alienate, divide, and demoralize its constituency, and increase support for themselves. In this sense, provocation may be combined with endorsement terrorism. In many cases terrorist provocation is an example of what is colloquially called "let's you and him fight".

The activities of agents provocateurs pose a number of ethical and legal issues.

Rob, aren't you sorry you started all this, you terrorist!

RudyRules:
Ok apskip, thank you for the French edition. Excellent job. Very interesting synopsis. :tup:

Well, at least I was close enough to Texas Lady's French word to describe Rob's comments!!
The word 'provocative' is close enough! 'tending to arouse or excite a response"! :lol:
Rob, see what you did. You made...uh...aroused/excited TL, apskip & me go beyond the call of duty to describe & research your comment about Omarosa!

Oh wait. :groan: Rob didn't iniate all this...Omarosa did!! :lol3:

It all goes baaacck to Omarosa, the Villainess of Celeb Apprentice! :)

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