Conference 7.286::humor

947.0. "Adults say the darndest things..." by LEXSS1::PUCHRIK (Cooler Master) Sun Jun 01 1997 10:47

    
    "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the
    world, I can't help but cry.  I mean I'd love to be skinny like that
    but not with all those flies and death and stuff."  - Mariah Carey
    
    "Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same
    reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered
    other similarities, but can't remember what they are." - Matt Lauer on
    Today
    
    "I never had knee surgery on any other part of my body." - Winston
    Bennett, Univ. of Kentucky basketball forward
    
    "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates
    in the country." - DC Mayor Marion Barry
    
    "The streets are safe in Philadelphia.  It's only the people who make
    them unsafe." - Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia
    
    "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this
    century's history...We all lived in this century.  I didn't live in
    this century."  - Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republican vice-
    presidential candidate during a news conference in which he was asked
    his opinion of the Holocaust
    
    "Smoking kills.  If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of
    your life." - Brooke Shields, on appointment to federal antismoking
    campaign