Conference thebay::joyoflex

Several weeks ago Dear Danforth was in some poverty-stricken place
and commented to a large crowd, "You all look like happy campers
to me!"

Just how healthy *is* George Bush?

Perry

    The AP newswire carried a story about D.Q. trying to repeat
    the line used for Black US colleges -- "A mind is a terrible
    thing to waste."
    
    Well, he tellingly mangled the line to be (approximately):
    "It's terrible to not have a mind."!

    Someone somewhere may find it re-assuring that in the UK we'd almost
    forgotten that the US has got a VP.
    
    And until reading 673.0 I'd forgotten his name.
    
    Must be great to be such a high profile and memorable international
    statesman.
    
    :-)

    A story in the Guardian diary a couple of days ago (they were good
    enough to concede that it may be apocryphal, but a real diarist never
    lets the truth get in the way of a good story). Mr Q was making a
    speech somewhere in Latin America, and began by apologising for being
    unable to speak the language - they didn't teach Latin at his school.
    
    I'd put a big fence around Kennebunkport now, if I were you.
    
    Chris

    Re: .4
    
    I think this is the fourth place I've seen this story posted. Somebody
    claimed it was a joke written by Q's own staff. Perhaps we should start
    a topic concerning the gullibility of those who dislike Quayle.

    Last night on US's National Public Radio there was an interview
    of one of the co-authors of a book about famous quotes that 
    never were spoken.
    
    Some names and quotes I remember:
    
    Dan Quayle's "I wish I had studied Latin..." quote was stated to
    be the fabrication of some comic though the convolution of "A
    brain is a terrible thing to waste" was true (NPR even played
    a tape of his gaffe).
    
    Churchill's "blood, sweat and tears" was considered an improvement
    on what he really said: (approx) "We have nothing to offer but
    blood and guts, tears and sweat".
    
    Many of the quotes attributed to the Hollywood mogul Sam Goldwyn
    were in fact creations of the studio's publication department.
    Sad to say, but, such gems as "Gentleman, count me out" and
    "the film was so bad it made the hair on my teeth stand on edge"
    were bogus.  The author said there was a running contest for
    the best Goldwynism every day -- ten bucks to the winner.

>    Churchill's "blood, sweat and tears" was considered an improvement
>    on what he really said: (approx) "We have nothing to offer but
>    blood and guts, tears and sweat".
    
I think it's blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

Clay

    Re .6 and .7:
    
    And following Clay's lead ...
    

>   Many of the quotes attributed to the Hollywood mogul Sam Goldwyn
>   were in fact creations of the studio's publication department.
>   Sad to say, but, such gems as "Gentleman, count me out"  ...
    					      ^^^^^
    ... should be "... _include_ me out"

    Jim

    Did he really say that..
    
    "Roe vs. Wade are optional ways to cross the Patomac River"?!?!??

re .-1:

>    Did he really say that..
    
>    "Roe vs. Wade are optional ways to cross the Patomac River"?!?!??

Nah, he's dumb but his spelling isn't *that* bad.
:<)

Larry

    Your American president of vice Dann'l Quayle reminds me of the
    most interesting excuse ever given to me by a customer for not working
    on his equipment. 
    
    I had been sent from Reading to Leicester to install an option on
    a Laboratory PDP8E in the mid 1970's and the dear Doctor Wiedemann
    (spelling uncertain) asked me to come back in an hour as he'd...
    
    "just got the Quayle used to the dark!"
    
    Could it be the same Quayle?
    
    Bucko...
    

Well, Our Boy is still at it.
This month, while recounting the 20th anniversary of the First Moon Landing he 
called on the crowd to "Remember those three famous Americans- Neal Armstrong, 
Michael Collins,and Buzz Lukens...



(Buzz Aldrin was the astronaut. Donald R.'Buz' Lukens is the Republican 
Congressman now under investigation for fooling around with a teenage girl).

- Skeezix


re:.10 the Roe vs. Wade comment was made at the big pro-choice rally in Wash.
by the woman from COLO who ran with Gary Hart,(Pat ?)
"Dan Quayle probably thinks that Roe vs. Wade are the two ways to cross the 
Potomac".

Re .8: I think that "include me out" is uttered by
Bertie Wooster in one of P.J. Wodehouse's books,
perhaps "Stiff upper lip, Jeeves"

John.

    As stated in .8, "Include me out" is first attributed to Goldwyn.

>  < Note 673.14 by SSGBPM::KENAH "Haunted by angels|Haunted by wraiths" >


>   As stated in .8, "Include me out" is first attributed to Goldwyn.
    
    I think it more than possible that Bertie Wooster was supposedly
    quoting Goldwyn, courtesy of P.G. Wodehouse -- who did a lot of
    writing in and for Hollywood.
    
    Jim 	<contributor_of_.8>

    
    overheard on the net....
    
|          "Republicans understand the importance of bondage          |
|    between a mother and child." -- Dan Quayle, G.O.P. Rally 1988    |

    You missed my '89 favorite:
    
    In an August 11 interview on Cable Network News, the head of the
    National Space Council, Vice President Dan Quayle, explained why the US
    should undertake a manned mission to Mars: "Mars is essentially in the
    same orbit.  Mars is somewhat the same distance from the sun, which is
    very important.  We have seen pictures where there are canals, we
    believe, and water.  If there is water, there is oxygen.  If oxygen,
    that means we can breathe."
    
    Ray

    
    	My favorite is:
    
    	"We are on an irreversible trend towards [something], but
    	that could all change."
    
    							Shawn L.
    

    I did hear that a Quayle aide said "Honeke's gone", and Quayle replied
    "well, we'll just have to drink the Carlsberg".