Percent is another word I rarely use, probably even less frequently than country. I just don't think of things in terms of percentages -- I couldn't care less. But GUESS WHO does use it. Again, I just thought I'd point it out.
Phony Ransom Note:
You stand a 99% chance of killing your daughter if you try to out smart us.
Follow our instructions and you stand a 100% chance of getting her back.
Rocky Mountain News, Interview with JR, 7/18/97:
JR: "We became a way for the talk shows and the Geraldo Riveras to make a lot of money. One (supermarket weekly) said their revenue went up 30 percent when they started putting our stories on the first page.''
Larry King Live, 3/27/00:
KING: Why did they think it was you?
J. RAMSEY: Because the police always go after the parents. And we understood that after...
KING: The death of a child?
J. RAMSEY: Absolutely, 100 percent of the time.
LKL, 3/28/00:
VAN SUSTEREN: The only thing, John, the child, obviously, was very well taken care of. She had the best of everything, and the only sort of thing is whether or not did you lose your -- could someone lose his temper? That's the only thing.
J. RAMSEY: No, no. Greta, the key point, people say that 80 percent of the time (UNINTELLIGIBLE) is the parents.
Videotaped deposition of JR, Atlanta, 8/29/00:
22 Q. Mr. Ramsey, I take it, and
23 correct me if I am wrong, please, that the
24 fact that you sent two shirts as opposed to
25 one indicated you were not certain which of
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1 the two you were wearing?
2 A. Well, I think that's what we did,
3 but I don't, I mean, I don't remember
4 exactly the logic. I know that we were
5 asked about shoes, and the picture didn't
6 even show shoes, so I couldn't remember what
7 shoes we had on. So was it to send all my
8 shoes or one hundred percent sure.
He uses the word percent more frequently that those I've cited here, but I didn't think it was fair to include those, since in those instances the interviewer was asking him about opinion polls, and those, of course, deal with percentages.
I found no instances at all of Patsy using the word percent in any of the copies of the interviews that I have.
Phony Ransom Note:
You stand a 99% chance of killing your daughter if you try to out smart us.
Follow our instructions and you stand a 100% chance of getting her back.
Rocky Mountain News, Interview with JR, 7/18/97:
JR: "We became a way for the talk shows and the Geraldo Riveras to make a lot of money. One (supermarket weekly) said their revenue went up 30 percent when they started putting our stories on the first page.''
Larry King Live, 3/27/00:
KING: Why did they think it was you?
J. RAMSEY: Because the police always go after the parents. And we understood that after...
KING: The death of a child?
J. RAMSEY: Absolutely, 100 percent of the time.
LKL, 3/28/00:
VAN SUSTEREN: The only thing, John, the child, obviously, was very well taken care of. She had the best of everything, and the only sort of thing is whether or not did you lose your -- could someone lose his temper? That's the only thing.
J. RAMSEY: No, no. Greta, the key point, people say that 80 percent of the time (UNINTELLIGIBLE) is the parents.
Videotaped deposition of JR, Atlanta, 8/29/00:
22 Q. Mr. Ramsey, I take it, and
23 correct me if I am wrong, please, that the
24 fact that you sent two shirts as opposed to
25 one indicated you were not certain which of
0030
1 the two you were wearing?
2 A. Well, I think that's what we did,
3 but I don't, I mean, I don't remember
4 exactly the logic. I know that we were
5 asked about shoes, and the picture didn't
6 even show shoes, so I couldn't remember what
7 shoes we had on. So was it to send all my
8 shoes or one hundred percent sure.
He uses the word percent more frequently that those I've cited here, but I didn't think it was fair to include those, since in those instances the interviewer was asking him about opinion polls, and those, of course, deal with percentages.
I found no instances at all of Patsy using the word percent in any of the copies of the interviews that I have.