HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: weasel@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Rosenberg)
Subject: Re: Question
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:37:14 GMT

In article <acjbooks.727868446@citr.uq.oz.au> acjbooks@citr.uq.oz.au (ACJ Books (Chris)) writes:
>weasel@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Rosenberg) writes:
>
>>I have for the past few years been compiling a list of quotes.  It is
>>currently around 47k or so.  Should I post it?  If I do I would post it by
>>moderately arbitrary topic divisions that I've put into it.
>
>>I've seen a decent percentage of it floating around the net, but certainly not
>>all of it.  I will of course, leave out all of the quotes I've just grabbed
>>off alt.quotations that I plan on adding to it in the near future :)
>
>>Comments?
>
>Please do - it will supplement my Oxford, Bartlett, Penguin, etc
>dictionaries.    BUT has it as good an index!

It's divided by topics, such as "Love", "Politics/Law", "Science", etc...
This includes the "Misc" topic and the "Uncategorized" topic which is due
largely to laziness or uncertainty.
Within each topic, the quotes are alphabetical by speaker, unless unknown in
which case they're at the end.  There is no cross-referenced list of speakers.

At the time I started it, this seemed like the best way to do it, and I've
left it as such with minor revisions.

--Weasel

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"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid"
	Heinrich Heine




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From: amd@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk (Andrew Dunn)
Subject: Re: Funny stuff -- Instructor Quotations
Reply-To: amd@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk
Organization: Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:00:58 GMT


Thermodynamics is just TdS.

An un(?)intentional pun by D. Lynden-Bell
during a lecture at Cambridge University.

---
 Andrew Dunn
 Institute of Astronomy
 Cambridge, UK.
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From: bigdave@joker.tdd.sj.nec.com (David Sweeney  x2987)
Subject: Re: Groucho
Organization: NEC-AM TDD, San Jose, California
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:21:00 GMT

pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN) writes:
st923459@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>>Here's a nice one...
>>
>>Dick Cavett quotes Groucho Marx:
>>
>>"PS.  Did you ever realize that Peter O'Toole has a double-phallic name?"
>>
>
>  How about "Woody Woodpecker"?  

Or "Dick Butkus", for that matter...

-- 
Dave Sweeney, Hard Worker  [bigdave@tdd.sj.nec.com / bigdave@netcom.com]
         -- VIVID ANIMATED TONGUE WILL SHOCK YOU GREATLY! --
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From: ecaxron@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Ron Graham)
Subject: Ground Rules for Adopting Quotes...?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 27 Jan 1993 11:11 EST  

I was wondering what others around here use as their personal "ground
rules" for deciding which quotes they encounter here are "keepers" and
which are not.  (I'm not talking about adding quotes to a paper you're
writing - just about the ones you keep for yourself.)

Specific questions:

(1) Do you need the reference from which the quote came?
(2) If not, under what conditions will the author's name be sufficient?
(3) Do you tend to ignore quotes for which the author's name is not given?
(4) How important is it to "nail down" the exact words?
(5) Do you take quotes away from this newsgroup to entertain :-) others?
(6) Which do you prefer - funny or serious quotes?

I am willing to summarize responses to this inquiry, but I wonder if it
might not be more fun to discuss openly.  You decide.

RG

"Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with something you
 didn't have a good answer to."  -  Douglas Adams
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From: npbattan@iastate.edu (Nathan P Battan)
Subject: women
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:07:02 GMT

Words from the wise:

 "Why can't they invent something for us to marry instead of WOMEN?"

	-Fred Flintstone


-- 
 -Nathan      npbattan@iastate.edu

    "Wisdom rests quietly in the heart of him who has understanding, 
     But what is in the heart of fools is made known."  -Proverbs 14:33
From: dnewcomb@whale.st.usm.edu (Donald R. Newcomb)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Love
Keywords: Bly poetry
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:52:45 GMT
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi

In article <1jk5ub$lp1@agate.berkeley.edu> ksanthan@garnet.berkeley.edu (Kumaran Santhanam) writes:
>Love heightens all of the senses...except the common.

Can someone confirm or correct this quote. I wrote it down from
memory.

"The breath of the man who loves and the woman who loves
goes to fill the water trough where the spirit horses drink.
					--Robert Bly
-- 
Donald R. Newcomb              * University of Southern Mississippi
dnewcomb@whale.st.usm.edu      * (Gulf Park), Computer Science
newcomb@usmcp6.bitnet          * Do not bend, fold, staple or mutilate.
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From: wgatherg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William Gathergood)
Subject: Re: Time
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:24:25 GMT


>>>       Any Quotes on TIME out there?


I teach Broadcast Journalism and students have a hard time understanding that 
deadlines in television are inflexible.  They want to promise to edit a story 
tomorrow for a show that has to go downtown tonight.  So I put a sign up over 
the editor with a simple truth which eludes them.

         "TIME IS SEQUENTIAL."

Bill Gathergood    wgatherg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
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From: malibu@IASTATE.EDU
Subject: Hitchhiker's quotes
Keywords: Marvin
Reply-To: malibu@IASTATE.EDU
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:54:58 GMT

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From: kencham@centi.cs.umn.edu (Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote)
Subject: Re: Time
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:35:26 GMT

In <1993Jan23.203349.10761@news.acns.nwu.edu> weasel@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Rosenberg) writes:

>In article <13j34=g@rpi.edu> ungsur@rpi.edu writes:
>>Keywords: 
>>
>>
>>  	Any Quotes on TIME out there? 
>>

My favorite TIME quote (lyric) here is by THE _Pink Floyd_ :

	Ticking away the moments that make up a dog day,
	You fritter away the hours in an off-hand way,
	Turning around on a piece of ground in your hometown,
	Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Of course, the whole song (_Time_) has some great lines on TIME!

\deepak
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From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Deadly Ed")
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Question
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:28:56 GMT
Organization: Eaters of Wisdom
In-reply-to: acjbooks@citr.uq.oz.au's message of 24 Jan 93 09:40:46 GMT

In article <acjbooks.727868446@citr.uq.oz.au> acjbooks@citr.uq.oz.au (ACJ Books (Chris)) writes:
   Please do - it will supplement my Oxford, Bartlett, Penguin, etc
   dictionaries.    BUT has it as good an index!

What do you need an index for when you've got keyword search?
--

   Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum.
Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			    mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu
From: joleary@estwm0.dnet.estec.esa.nl (John O'Leary)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Bathroom Graffiti
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:52:04 GMT
Reply-To: JOLEARY@ESTWM0.DNET.ESTEC.ESA.NL
Organization: European Space Agency (ESTEC)


In article <93025.131806RON@psuvm.psu.edu>, Ron McCarty <RON@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>In days of old
>when knights were bold
>and toilets not invented
>they dropped their load
>upon the road
>and road away contented

In days of old
When men were bold
And johnnies weren't invented
They wrapped their socks
Around their cocks
And came away contented.

(Apologies in advance to anybody offended.)
--
John O'Leary,  ESA / ESTEC / WMS  (ERS-1 Project)
Internet:  JOLEARY@ESTWM0.DNET.ESTEC.ESA.NL
Bitnet:  JOLEARY@ESTEC   DECnet:  ESTWM0::JOLEARY
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From: weasel@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Rosenberg)
Subject: Re: Star Trek
Keywords: Dr. McCoy
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:44:12 GMT

In article <C12nLE.Lpx@acsu.buffalo.edu> v091n6fu@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Ariana) writes:
>I'm surprised no one has posted any of the infamous Dr. "Bones" McCoy quotes on
>this string yet! Here are two of my personal favorites:
>
>"I'm a doctor, not a magician!"
>
>"Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a mechanic!"
>
>(I know they're similar...most of his really good lines are."

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Sat. Night Live version....

Scene...The enterprise is turned into a restaurant.  A man over in the corner
starts choking on his meal...

Willima Shatner:  Bones, do something!  This man is choking.
Bones:  Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor...oh yeah!

*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
*  Mike Rosenberg                   |   msr@casbah.acns.nwu.edu              *
*                                   |   jth@isp.nwu.edu                      *
*  "Weasel is not a nickname --     |   weasel@merle.acns.nwu.edu            * 
*   it's a state of mind."          |   weasel@nwu.edu                       *
*                                   |                                        *
*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid"
	Heinrich Heine
From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Wanted: Cool Einstein-quotes...
Date: 21 Jan 1993 22:29:05 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.ucsc.edu


In article <1993Jan21.112455.11875@maths.tcd.ie> edowling@maths.tcd.ie (Emma Dowling) writes:
>
>	Most Scientific discoveries are not heralded by the cry Eureka, 
>	but more by "Thats Funny....."
I've seen this one attributed to Isaac Asimov
-- 
haynes@cats.ucsc.edu
haynes@cats.bitnet

"Ya can talk all ya wanna, but it's dif'rent than it was!"
"No it aint!  But ya gotta know the territory!"
        Meredith Willson: "The Music Man"

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From: nguyenth@floreal.ibp.fr (Thao Nguyen)
Subject: Un Baiser ou Un Bisou!
Organization: Universite PARIS 7 - UFR d'Informatique
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:00:09 GMT

Hi,

I'd like to start a thread on kisses...U know that us, I mean froggies
are kindda expert on that :)...well anyway here some quotes I gather
sometime ago:

A kiss: 
"The anatomical juxtaposition of 2 orbicularis oris muscles
in a state of contraction" - Dr. Henry Gibbons

" To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; to an old maid,
charity"- V.P. Skipper

"A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving" - Cyrano de Bergerac

Bisous!!
-- 
Florence Nguyen (T3)
Believe it or not but I have no e-mail address! Perhaps because I don't know it :)
From: jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au (Jim Garner)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Non-quotes
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:18:22 GMT
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz

faber@loon.cs.wisc.edu (Ted) writes:

|>Just like Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson" in any of
|>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.

|	And Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca.  Kind of
|	an interesting thread - well known non quotes.

And Shakespeare never said "Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well."
Hamlet Act 5 Scene 1, look it up.

-- 
Jim Garner B.Math (Newcastle NSW Australia) - jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au
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From: weasel@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Rosenberg)
Subject: Re: LA Law and Northern Exposure quotes
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:35:19 GMT

In article <1ja3s3INNt3t@FROG.ZOO2.CS.YALE.EDU> gugler-sean@cs.yale.edu (Sean Gugler) writes:
>In article <SEEGER.93Jan14075218@esparc51.webo.dg.com> seeger@esparc51.webo.dg.com (Joe Seeger) writes:
>>
>>Leland MacKenzie (of LA Law) had a couple of memorable quotes.
>>
>[...]
>>I don't recall the context of this one, but it's such a universal
>>statement that I don't think it matters:
>>
>>	"When is it ever gonna cease to suck around here?"
>
>When asked how his summer break went, my friend Joel replied,
>
>"If life sucked any more, I'd have a full-body hickey."

This reminds me of a quote I said a few months ago, in comment to how
someone's day had gone.

"That sucks so much, it makes my jaw ache just thinking about it."

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*  Mike Rosenberg                   |   msr@casbah.acns.nwu.edu              *
*                                   |   jth@isp.nwu.edu                      *
*  "Weasel is not a nickname --     |   weasel@merle.acns.nwu.edu            * 
*   it's a state of mind."          |   weasel@nwu.edu                       *
*                                   |                                        *
*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid"
	Heinrich Heine


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From: mbr2@quads.uchicago.edu (Curious Of All Natures)
Subject: unfinished limerick
Reply-To: mbr2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Universtiy of Chicago
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 04:49:20 GMT

I've been on a quest to discover the rest of this limerick.  I seem to
remember it having to do with someone exploding.

--------

There once was a man from Kentucky,
Who never in his life got lucky...

--------

Anyone know the rest?
Or have plausible suggestions?

-Matt Ryan, more mellow than melons,
mb-ryan@uchicago.edu                Curious Of All Natures
==================================  ====================================
If I'm dreaming, never let me wake. You'll never see the end of the road
If I'm awake, never let me sleep.   When you're traveling with me.
               -old chinese fellow                        -Crowded House     
==================================  ====================================
From: rand@skydiver.Eng.Sun.COM (Avant-Garde-A-Clue)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: More Churchill
Date: 20 Jan 93 19:00:37 GMT
Reply-To: rand@skydiver.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: skydiver


There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
        Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
        Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government
except all the others that have been tried.
        Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
        Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
        Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had
to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
        Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
        Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
        My Early Life - 1930

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
        Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into
the smallest amount of thoughts.
        Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
        Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is
make the rubble bounce.
        Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
        Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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From: siffert@spot.Colorado.EDU (Thunder-Thumbs)
Subject: Curt Siffert
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:59:10 GMT

I would like to make it clear that I am NOT Barry Schaefer's roommate.

Curt

(I'm in a bizarre... i'm in a bizarre... fuck, I'm in a bazaar.)

-- 
*  Curt Siffert                  *  'Love is like toast -                 * 
*  Thunder-Thumbs                *   burnt on the outside with            *
*  siffert@spot.colorado.EDU     *   gobs of butter all over it.'         * 
*  Finger me for a good time!!   *   - Me   (Geez, who else?)             *
From: lightnin@parker.WPI.EDU (Reality's Comic Relief)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Star Trek quotes
Date: 27 Jan 93 00:54:11
Organization: DeityCo: Major and Minor Deities Placement Agency
	<1993Jan22.055048.13990@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
	<OLSON.93Jan23002515@husc8.harvard.edu> <C1C084.Mr@ecf.toronto.edu>
	<faber.728003120@cs.wisc.edu>
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In-reply-to: faber@loon.cs.wisc.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 23:05:20 GMT

>>>>> On 25 Jan 93 23:05:20 GMT, faber@loon.cs.wisc.edu (Ted) said:

.> In article <OLSON.93Jan23002515@husc8.harvard.edu> olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson) writes:
>In article <1993Jan22.055048.13990@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> rez@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Anestis Kozakis <Rez>) writes:
>
>>>>This list contains the ten most common phrases in the original series.
>>>>
>>>>"Beam me up, Scotty"			- Kirk to Lieutenant Scott
>>Actually, this was never really said (as far as I can remmeber), or was
>>that "Scotty, beam me up"?
>
>Just like Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson" in any of
>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.

.> 	And Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca.  Kind of
.> 	an interesting thread - well known non quotes.

Most famous non-quote around these parts:

"Anyone, anyone, Bueller, Bueller?"
	-not from Ferris Bueller's Day Off

-lightnin
From: fazer@polaris.unm.edu (Scott Deshaies)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Bathroom quotes
Date: 21 Jan 1993 23:26:32 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: polaris.unm.edu

Read these on a bathroom wall on campus...

"Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?"

"Heisenburg may have been here"
    (from the Heisneburg Uncertainty principle in Physics?)

"Here I sit, broken hearted;
  Tried to sh*t, but only farted"

and so on...
--
Scott Deshaies / fazer@polaris.unm.edu / Univ of New Mexico / 129.24.9.204
  
 
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From: davidd@ctsx.celtech.com (davidd)
Subject: Blues brothers said...
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:45:20 GMT
Organization: Cellular Technical Services, Seattle


Hello, I was talking with a friend the other night and we
couldn't remember what Jake and/or Elroy said about "...and it's
dark and we're sitting in a car with sunglasses..." something
like that. Can anyone remember what they said. Thanks.

David

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From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Non-quotes
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:31:45 GMT
Organization: Sirius Cybernetics Corporation

>|>Just like Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson" in any of
>|>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.
>
>|	And Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca.  Kind of
>|	an interesting thread - well known non quotes.
>
>And Shakespeare never said "Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well."
>Hamlet Act 5 Scene 1, look it up.
>
Well, that's true: the actual line is "... knew him, Horatio." But it hard
to use that without having to explain who the hell Horatio is. Another
almost-quote: although the words "Ich bin ein Berliner." did come from JFK
during a trip there, he was not speaking in the first person; he was saying
that that was what a lot of Germans could now be proud to say.
 

-- 
"A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@ 
I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
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From: scasburn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Steven M Casburn)
Subject: Definition of racism
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:14:59 GMT

     "The modern definition of 'racist' is 'someone who is winning an argument 
with a liberal'"
                    -- Peter Brimelow, National Review (2/1/93)
|
-- 
    Steve Casburn (scasburn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
     "It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done.
      It is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
                          --Sydney Carton, "Tale of Two Cities"
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From: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
Subject: Re: Norm (Cheers) Quotes List
Organization: Computing Center, Mississippi State University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:14:14 GMT

In article <1js545INN7sp@hopi.cis.ohio-state.edu> almaguer@cis.ohio-state.edu (alejandro almaguer) says:
: In article <1993Jan22.211339.19687@burrhus.harvard.edu> glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier) writes:
: >\LISTS\NORMISMS
: >
: >The Normisms file, Version 1.3.
: >
: >    Maintained by rjc@math.princeton.edu (Raymond Chen).  Please
: >    do not distributed modified versions of this file.  This      
: >    header may not be deleted.
: >
: 
: This Header may not be deleted???  Yeah, OK.  First off, these are Cheers
: quotes, not yours.  You have no copyright of them.  Most Likely, 
: everyone compiling such lists is infringing on the WRITERS rights :).
: Alt.fan.david.letterman (sp?) can no longer post top ten lists because
: of copyright infringement.  

Lessee.  First, I should point out, in case anyone missed it, that Andrew
Glazier, who posted the list here, isn't the one who originally compiled
the list and put the above "header" in it.

Now, nowhere in that posting does the Raymond Chen claim any copyright
on it...certainly not in the paragraph you quoted.  He simply gave the
name and email address of the person who compiled it and asked that
that information remain in it (and he asked politely...even said
please).  I can think of at least two legitimate reasons for that
request.

First, Raymond obviously went to a lot of trouble to compile the list
and include references to specific episodes.  I see nothing wrong with
wanting to get the credit for that as long as he doesn't claim that he
wrote the dialog or that he "owns" it in any way.

Second, the dialogs quoted probably aren't all of the normisms (ick)
from the series.  Keeping the compilation information in the file makes
it more likely that Raymond will be notified, by readers, of dialog
which he missed...thus allowing him to keep the list more up to date.

I see nothing to suggest that he wanted anything more than that.  Unless
you have some more specific information you might want to consider
lightening up a little bit.

BTW, specific quotes like these probably come under fair use since they
are small parts of a larger whole (where letterman's top ten lists may
consititute entire "works" in and of themselves).
--
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