Dalai Lama Sez Fuggit!

[dales]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Dalai Lama didn't curse at a Brown University event, the college swears — even if the closed captioning said differently.

A closing comment Wednesday by the Dalai Lama was mistaken for a profanity by the person transcribing his remarks for closed captioning at a speech on peace.

The exiled Tibetan leader urged listeners to share his thoughts with others if they found them interesting. If not, he said, they could "forget."

The closed captioning on a large screen at the Rhode Island Convention Center transcribed the remark as an expletive.

Some in the audience also believed the Dalai Lama, who has a strong accent, had used a profane phrase. Questions have arisen previously over the same comment in other venues.

A Brown spokeswoman confirmed the Dalai Lama said "forget" and said the closed captioning that appeared was an error.

[MajGenl.Meade]

An understandable confusion

Delhi Llama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fat Italian


That speech in full:

Silvio Dante: What the forget are you doing?
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Sil, take it easy.
Silvio Dante: I'm losin' my prayer wheel over here! This forgotten moron's playing "Hazel". Get the forget out of here!
Matthew Bevilaqua: I was just trying to sweep the cheese away...
Silvio Dante: Why? Why now? Leave it there.
Matthew Bevilaqua: I don't know. I was just...
Silvio Dante: What? Where do you get these forgetten idiots, huh? Where do you get them? He's sweeping the cheese, I'm trying to get... Leave the forgotten cheese there, all right? I love forgotten cheese at my feet! I stick motherforgotten provolone in my socks at night, so they smell like your sister's walking frame in the morning. Alright? Now leave the forgotten male chicken vacuuming cheese where it is! Here, here, here. Go ahead. Have a good time.
Tony Soprano: Fuhgeddaboudit

(cont. see also p94)