| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 304.1 | Pursuit of Excellence? | FRSBEE::COHEN | Bowling for Towels | Thu Jan 15 1987 17:51 | 13 |
| < Note 304.0 by GOBLIN::MCVAY "Pete McVay, VRO (Telecomm)" >
-< Memorable Quotes >-
< Coaches at Boston's English High School are complaining because
< the Headmaster has imposed stricter academic requirements (B instead
< of a C average) on athletes. The swimming coach stated on a local
< radio news program:
Correction:
The headmaster raised the standards from passing (D-) to a "C" average.
Mark
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| 304.2 | TKO | THEBAY::WAKEMANLA | Cybernetic Etymologist | Mon Jan 19 1987 18:23 | 5 |
| I heard one from Don King, the fight promoter, he said:
"Like a Virtuoso played on a Stradivarious"
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| 304.3 | Would you believe another one? | DRAGON::MCVAY | Pete McVay, VRO (Telecomm) | Mon Jan 19 1987 19:33 | 7 |
| The center on the U. of Indianna Hawkeye basketball team complimented
their new coach: "He is interest in us as student, not just as
basketball players. He want to see us do good in academic also."
-- an approximation, since I was driving to work at the time. Where
does NPR get these people? Do they have inside contacts at the
National Institute for the Linguistically Impaired?
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| 304.4 | Just checking... | GNERIC::QUAYLE | | Tue Jan 20 1987 08:57 | 5 |
| Re. -.1: are you sure that wasn't the University of Iowa? I don't
think Indiana has a new basketball coach yet! :^)
Mike
(A Notre Dame basketball fan who therefore cannot like Bobby Knight)
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| 304.5 | pots calling kettles dept.... | NAVAJO::WRODGERS | SIC SEMPER TYRANNUS! | Tue Feb 10 1987 08:57 | 9 |
| A few years back, one of the Albuquerque high school coaches dismissed
a star player. The TV news people interviewed the coach that night,
live, after a game. When asked why he had kicked the kid off the
team, the coach said, "The little sonofabitch was always cussing
during practice."
The kid got back on the team.
Wess
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| 304.6 | Evangelist | KAOA08::CUSUP_LAPLAN | | Tue Jan 26 1988 20:33 | 5 |
| Television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart once advised his audience
"Don't ever bargain with Jesus. He's a Jew"
Reprinted from _Scandal Annual 1988_ without permission
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| 304.7 | And on a more uplifting level... | RANGER::KALIKOW | Nature abhors a VAXuum; DEC too! | Thu Apr 26 1990 18:39 | 9 |
| ... here's a stunning quotation that I came across in Erik
PIRU::GOETZE's delightful monograph "The DIGITAL ARTlibrary...
explained". (Artwork that helps to sell!)
Human speech is like a cracked kettle
on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to,
while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
-- Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880
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| 304.8 | A singalong favorite | STAR::RDAVIS | But there the resemblances end | Mon Apr 30 1990 18:12 | 6 |
| She said, "Oh no. I guess it is my fate
To live a life I can't communicate."
How painful, painful - but giving up is OK.
I reach for her check. I see her check has been paid.
-- Tom Verlaine, 195?-?
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| 304.9 | I never would have guessed | POWDML::SATOW | | Thu May 28 1992 06:54 | 6 |
| Students at Boston's Madison Park High School interrupted a ceremony to
protest lack of books and other supplies, caused by budget cuts. A freshman
was quoted as saying:
We ain't got no books. We ain't learning nothing
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| 304.10 | I'm looking for the error... | UNXA::ADLER | Rich or poor, it's nice to have $$$ | Thu May 28 1992 14:24 | 5 |
| >We ain't got no books. We ain't learning nothing <------
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... Oh, there it is. No period at the end of the sentence.
/Ed ;^)
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| 304.11 | ...and you missed it. | SMURF::CALIPH::binder | REM RATAM CONTRA MVNDI MORAS AGO | Thu May 28 1992 14:49 | 8 |
| Re: .10
> We ain't got no books. We ain't learning nothing
Nah. The error is that "ain't" is a first-person singular interrogative
form, a contraction of "am I not" - cf Fowler.
-dick
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