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From: pat@sphinx.phys.Virginia.EDU (pat walsh)
Subject: Re: The Quayle Dictionary <start>
Organization: University of Virginia Physics Department
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:52:48 GMT

Jeff Wilder writes:

>I don't think the QuayleDikshunerry(tm) should be solely confined to
>Our Boy.  There are many other politicians who deserve an included
>definition or two.  Maybe even some non-politicians.  (Marilyn, for
>instance.)


bentsen (ben' sin) v.t.,v.i.  to overcharge for a meal

        ex: I wish my company allowed a more generous per diem; I was really
            bentsened at that fundraising breakfast the other day.


bush (bush) n.  a small weasel, native to the New England region, though
                often disguised in fur patterns oddly resembling the Texas
                state flag; technically a mammal, though lacking a backbone.
                The bush has a call which often somewhat resembles, but is
                not to be mistaken for, spoken English.


reagan (ray' gun) v.i.,v.t.  to descend deeply into debt, usually with money
                             other than one's own.

        ex: Don't worry about the Christmas bills; we reaganed again this
            year, so we'll let the grandchildren worry about them.


nancy (nan' see) n.  the California shrew.


clinton (klin' ten) adj.  exhibiting a strong preference for unhealthy foods.

        ex: After getting bentsened at that French restaurant last night,
            I'm feeling a bit clinton; let's eat at McDonald's tonight.


gored (gord) adj.  physically lost or misplaced; wandering.

        ex: Rescue squads from as far away as Pennsylvania combed the West
            Virginia woods for the gored campers.


clarence (klar' ens) v.t., v.i.  (expletive deleted)


nixon (niks' en) n.  (expletive deleted)


...and a couple especially for the benefit of my fellow Virginians...


wilder (wile' der) n.  an adult who tends to feud excessively with other
                       adults, esp. other wilders.  syn. robb, arsenio,
                       seanyoung, hatfield, mccoy

		(note this definition is inspired by another Wilder more
                 familiar to Virginians, not by you, Jeff)

ollienorth (ahl'lee north) n.  excessive sanctimony or piousness

         ex:  The artificial cracking of his voice betrayed his ollienorth.


...okay, that's enough...somebody take over, please!

- Patrick Walsh
  University of Virginia Department of Physics
  pw@virginia.bitnet, pw@virginia.edu, pat@gomez.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Tuesday, 22 Dec 1992 13:16:21 PST
From: <RAJA@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: The Dan Quayle Dikshunary

The nattering nabobs of negativism is by W. Safire I think!
Nothing to do with Slac business....rajagopalan
From: sg@monsoon.com (Sunil Gupta)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: Say it ain't so!!!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 12:18:14 EST
Organization: Monsoon Software, Inc. +1 (410) 235-2365

popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell) writes:

> I have heard nothing about this.  But what would we put in a Dan Quayle 
> Library?
> 

[...]

> 
> 5.   One copy "King James Bible"

Well-thumped, of course.

[...]

> 
> 14.  One Copy, "The Toastmaster's book of Public Speaking".
> 

15. One Central-American, anatomically correct doll for boys of all
    ages to enjoy.

16. A "Separated at Birth?" picture of a deer in the headlights and
    Danny in the newslights.

17. One membership card and secret decoder ring from "The Official
    Rush Limbaugh Fan Club".

18. Artist's representation of group portrait consisting of Danny,
    John Switzer, The Krueger Kid, GRANT CUNNINGHAM, Borgie Boy, both
    Michael Luries, etc...

Sunil Gupta
Monsoon Software, Inc.
sg@monsoon.com
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From: pat@sphinx.phys.Virginia.EDU (pat walsh)
Subject: Re: The Dan Quayle Dikshunary
Organization: University of Virginia Physics Department
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:58:34 GMT

Herbert Rutledge writes:

>  This entire lexical exercise, for which we are indebted to Jeff Wilder, 
>  is an outstanding example of:


>     spirology n:  the study of deviant vice-presidential behavior

...often signaled by the dubious distinction of destructive, divisive discourse
from the permanently, prodigiously and proudly poison pens of basically
bombastic, backward-looking, bench-warming Buchanans (didn't he write the
"nattering nabobs of negativism" speech) and their ilk...

(Herbert, I tried responding to your e-mail but my attempts were bounced by
 both (yikes!  too much alliteration) Paramax and Unisys.  Anyway, thanks
 for the e-mail and for your submissions also.)

- Patrick Walsh
  University of Virginia Department of Physics
  pw@virginia.bitnet, pw@virginia.edu, pat@gomez.phys.virginia.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
From: dks@athena.mit.edu (dks)
Subject: Re: President Quayle? It ain't over yet folks...
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:39:14 GMT

In article <15229.2b3bad5a@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>,
vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
>
> Well, now that the Bushman has pardoned all the crooks and sent a
> clear message that it is OK to break the law, as long as you have
> rich and powerful friends, the focus is now on the Bushman himself. 
> 
> As far as I can tell he is not allowed to pardon himself.

There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents the President from
granting a self-pardon, especially if impeachment proceedings have not yet 
begun.  In fact, rumor has it that Tricky Dicky actually considered it...

In any case, as far as "Iran-Contra" is concerned, the point is moot: by
allowing their dogs to shred everything that wasn't nailed down, by doing
their utmost to cripple justice -- "obstruct" is too weak a word -- for
more than six years, and by farting in the general direction of Congress
and the American people, both Reagan and Bush have by now generated enough
of a smoke screen that they have *effectively* pardoned themselves.


Dhanesh

  We should have impeached the bastards when we had the chance.
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Tuesday, 29 Dec 1992 09:58:39 EST
From: Alexandre Pechtchanski <APPMS@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Good news in a.f.d-q (At last!)

Hi, folks:
With all our worries about what gonna happen to our beloved group,
we have some good news at last: Dhanesh has broken his silent spell
and joined us (in persona; I'm sure he never even considered
abandoning us, he was probably just too busy to write - weren't
you, Dhanesh?).  I hope I am speaking (writing?) for us all:

Welcome back, Dhanesh!  Please, don't deprive us your witty and
deep comments, or we'll have to resort to allegeny-bashing for the
lack of food for thought ;-)

ObDQ:  Why was it that nobody mentioned the connection between
this popular song (sorry, I always miss its title on radio and
I don't have a record) "Don't know much about history, don't
know much about ..." etc.  I hereby submit it to be considered
"The Official Danforth J. Quayl(e) Anthem" and to be included
(as an appendix) into Quayle Quote File (tm).  Any objections?

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York  -------------------------
internet: desnick@msvax.mssm.edu      #include <std.disclaimer>
bitnet:   appms@cunyvm                
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Opinions?  If you find one, please let me know...
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From: dianem@boi.hp.com (Diane Mathews)
Subject: Re: Good news in a.f.d-q (At last!)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:18:09 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard

In article <1hq2isINNsn7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa680@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Vern Morrison) writes:
>In a previous article, APPMS@CUNYVM.BITNET (Alexandre Pechtchanski) says:
>>ObDQ:  Why was it that nobody mentioned the connection between
>>this popular song (sorry, I always miss its title on radio and
>>I don't have a record) "Don't know much about history, don't
>>know much about ..." etc.
>    The song is called "(What A) Wonderful World" and is by the late Sam
>Cooke (or Cook, as Danoe would probably spell it).  You're right, this is a
>natural for a Quayle anthem.  "Don't know much about a science book/Don't
>know much about the French I took . . ."

It exists already, some of the words have been changed to better fit the
beloved veep.  i'll see if i still have a copy.
From: spencer@ais.org (Spencer PriceNash)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: The Dan Quayle Dikshunary
Date: 24 Dec 92 14:20:23 GMT
Organization: UMCC

In article <18865@mindlink.bc.ca> Robert_Broughton@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Broughton) writes:
>> Michael Chaplin writes:
>>
>> Would that be "pusillanimous pussy-footing"?
>> Was that Safire's or Buchanan's, though?
>
>I think it was George Wallace that said this one.

All this debate about who said these weirdo things that were said so
many years ago...it makes me realize we must *never* forget what Quayle
said.  His words must live on forever.

It would be quite frightening if we were to discover that others wrote
the words Quayle spoke.
-- 
Spencer PriceNash   spencer@spencer.ann-arbor.mi.us   spencer@ais.org
"We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward."  -- Quayle
From: dave.parsons@factory.com (Dave Parsons) 
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: Say it ain't so!!!
Date: 2 Jan 93 16:38:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Invention Factory's BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-8298v.32bis
Reply-To: dave.parsons@factory.com (Dave Parsons) 

TO: pat@sphinx.phys.Virginia.EDU (pat walsh) 
PW> memorial in Washington was eventually supplemented by a statue of three 
PW> soldiers, the Dan statue too must be supplemented by figures of the two South 
PW> American officials looking on in amusement.  Finally, over one of the 
PW> officials there must be a bronze thought balloon bearing the words "What a 
PW> dope!", preferably in both Spanish and English. 
 
 
Dear Sir... 
 
I am reading a.f.d-q by way of a fidonet (or something) gateway and  
haven't figured out how to reply to the ubiqutious 'ALL' so I am  
sending this to you as email. 
 
Even if we discount the Dan Factor the simple consideration of the 
concept of a "bronze thought balloon" (shades of Led Zeppelin!) is  
enough to temporarily disconnect those nasty higher reasoning  
centers that so frequently intrude on my contemplation of the 
last 12 years of American political life (if you call that living.) 
 
Thank you. 
 
Dave 

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 . KWQ/2 1.0C . 
                                                                                                                                                                           
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From: wilder@nx20.mik.uky.edu (jeff wilder)
Subject: Re: The Quayle Dictionary <start>
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
X-Path: nx20.mik.uky.edu!wilder
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:29:46 GMT

In <1992Dec22.155248.5625@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> pat@sphinx.phys.Virginia.EDU (pat walsh) writes:

|...and a couple especially for the benefit of my fellow Virginians...

|wilder (wile' der) n.  an adult who tends to feud excessively with other
|                       adults, esp. other wilders.  syn. robb, arsenio,
|                       seanyoung, hatfield, mccoy

|		(note this definition is inspired by another Wilder more
|                 familiar to Virginians, not by you, Jeff)

Well, the story in my family is that *all* the Wilders are related.
You're a dead man, Pat.  Doug can't help his excesses!
--
==============================================================================
| Jeff W  uk06666@ukpr.uky.edu | Meddle not in the affairs of cats, for they |
| Wilder  & wilder@mik.uky.edu | are subtle, and will piss on your cyberdeck.|
==============================================================================
From: dylan@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (Dylan)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Home Planned for Quayle Memorabilia
Date: 29 Dec 92 13:49:57 -0500
Organization: OGRE Institute

Taken from the Philadelphia Inquirer 29 Dec 92
without permission.



The mangled law degree?  The dog chewed it.

Home Planned for Quayle memorabilia

Associated Press
  Huntington, Inc. - some enterprising Hoosiers want to tap those
special tourists who want to visit Indiana to see memorabilia of
the soon-to-be-former vice president, Dan Quayle.
  Memorabilia such as his Little League uniform.  Or his Indiana
University Law degree, partially chewed by a family dog.
  It would be the nation's first vice presidential museum.
  The Dan Quayle Commemorative Foundation wants to house the Quayle
Center and Museum in an old church here in his home town, and open 
it in May.
  "We're talking about Dan Quayle's life, his family, his political
career, the fact that this is history in the making for the state
of Indiana," said foundation spokesman David A. Schenkel.  "We're 
documenting as much as we can, for future generations to enjoy."
  The group has displayed memorabilia on the 44th vice president for
two years at the Huntington City-Township Library and Huntington 
College.
  More than 12,000 people have visited those displays, but with the
collection growing and the church up for sale, the foundation board
decided the time was right for a permanent home, Schenkel said.
  Barbara B. Hancher, president of the Huntington County Chamber of
Commerce, said a Quayle museum would be good for retailers.
  "The kind of people who would come to a Quayle museum are also the
kinds of people who might take the time to wander into an antique
shop or a gift shop or look at the community a little bit more than
some," Hancher said.


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Subject: Re: Home Planned for Quayle Memorabilia
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Date: 29 Dec 92 20:24:15 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.134957.2808@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>, dylan@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (Dylan)                        writes...
>Taken from the Philadelphia Inquirer 29 Dec 92
>without permission.

>Home Planned for Quayle memorabilia

YES! Finally a place for the "true" Quayle fan.
> 
>Associated Press
>  Huntington, Inc. - some enterprising Hoosiers want to tap those
>  Memorabilia such as his Little League uniform.  Or his Indiana
>University Law degree, partially chewed by a family dog.

What is the name of the dog? I guess Quayle never bothered framing his
law degree.

>  It would be the nation's first vice presidential museum.
>  The Dan Quayle Commemorative Foundation wants to house the Quayle
>Center and Museum in an old church here in his home town, and open 
>it in May.

Does anyone know anything about this foundation? Enquiring minds
want to know.

>  "We're talking about Dan Quayle's life, his family, his political
>career, the fact that this is history in the making for the state
>of Indiana," said foundation spokesman David A. Schenkel.  "We're 
>documenting as much as we can, for future generations to enjoy."
>  The group has displayed memorabilia on the 44th vice president for
>two years at the Huntington City-Township Library and Huntington 
>College.
>  More than 12,000 people have visited those displays, but with the
>collection growing and the church up for sale, the foundation board
>decided the time was right for a permanent home, Schenkel said.

I have to wonder who these 12,000 people are and what state of mind they
were in?
	Perhaps this could be like a Mecca for the Quayle fans out there.
We must all make a pilgrimage once in our lives.
> 
-Garrett
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
From: bsmart@bsmart.TTI.COM (Bob Smart)
Subject: Re: I'm sorry.
Reply-To: bsmart@bsmart.TTI.COM (Bob Smart)
Organization: Citicorp+TTI
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:38:15 GMT

Why worry what the little bozoes would do with firearms?  They'd
probably just end up creating extra nostrils for themselves--why assume
they'd be any more competent as sharpshooters than they are as essayists?

Perhaps as a humanitarian gesture, we should send them a "This End Up"
picture, though?  You know, the kind somebody should have given Dannoe
before handing him a flamethrower?

---------

A fanatic is someone who does what he knows that God would do if God knew the
facts of the case.

Some mailers apparently munge my address; you might have to use
bsmart@bsmart.tti.com -- or if that fails, fall back to
72027.3210@compuserve.com.  Ain't UNIX grand?
From: vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Date: 3 Jan 93 23:15:14 EST
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Physics

In article <1993Jan3.095323.28270@news.ysu.edu>, ah724@yfn.ysu.edu (Sundara Pandian) writes:
>  Am I missing something? Why this newsgroup is called
> `alt.fan.dan-quayle' when there is hardly any fan
> mail? 
> 

Can you say SAR-CASM? Look it up in the dictionary...

-Garrett

>   "..Personal negative attacks. Has anyone been reading
> my press clippings for the last four years?"
> 
>  [Dan Quayle in the Vice Presidential Debate '92 ]
> 
> -- 
> pax vobiscum,
> sundara pandian.
> ah724@yfn.ysu.edu
>
From: aa680@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Vern Morrison)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: From alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Date: 21 Dec 1992 15:06:11 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aa680@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Vern Morrison)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger) says:

>If you lefties think that this is a contradiction, you should spend some 
>time over on alt.fan.dan.quayle.  I got kicked out of that group because I 
>didn't think that dan is as dumb as the media portrays him.

        I've never before heard anyone claim to have been kicked out of 
an unmoderated newsgroup.  This ludicrous assertion shows you for the
bonehead you truly are.  Have a nice day.
-- 
    "The biggest problem with reading [Usenet] is there is so much and it 
is all so interesting.  It is easy to be enamored with it.  Be selective
about which groups you read.  It could mean your job, your family, or your
college career."  --Ed Krol, _The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog_
From: carrie@wpi.WPI.EDU (Carrie A Ayers)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: Good news in a.f.d-q (At last!)
Date: 3 Jan 1993 00:15:52 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

{Stupid, friggin emacs!  Let's try this again.}

I posted this over the summer and Dave Wood added a verse to it.


     DAN QUAYLE'S WONDERFUL WORLD

Don't know much about history
Don't know much foreign policy
Don't remember how I got through school
I'm sure I didn't break the rules
But what's it matter 'cause my granny says
"Boy, if you want to you can be vice prez
And what a wonderful world this will be"

Don't know much about the women's vote
Don't know much about the bill I wrote
Don't know much about the foreign vets
I've never voted for 'em yet
But I do know if you dad tries hard
He can get you in the National Guard
And what a wonderful place that can be

Now, I never claimed to be an A student
But what's wrong with C's?
And maybe by knowing the names of my cabinet
I can win their love for me

Don't know much about air pollution
Don't know much about the constitution
Don't know much about th' economy
It never much affected me
But there's one thing that I know for sure
If the rich stay rich and poor stay poor
What a wonderful world this will be

Don't know much about the national debt
I've never had to pay one yet
If we need to we can sell the States
To the Japanese at discount rates
But I do know if things get bad
George and I can always call my dad
And what a wonderful world it will be.

	--Ben White, Su Koester, and Ken Whang
	  St. Louis, 10/31/88


Don't know much about what's on TV
Fact or fiction looks the same to me
Who's elite?  Only I can tell
They're the ones that know how to spell
But I do know that choice is bad
Otherwise I'd have a childless dad
And what a wonderful world this would be

	--Dave Wood, Pittsburgh, 7/10/92


BTW, I've been off the net for a month.  Did Mike by chance post an updated
Quayle Quotes?  If so, can someone send me a new copy?


patricia

--
Ya know, it really sucks being laid-off only six months out of college and,
on top of that, right before Christmas and, on top of that, losing net access.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
From: spencer@ais.org (Spencer PriceNash)
Subject: Re: Say it ain't so!!!
Organization: UMCC
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:30:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.153557.14225@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> pat@sphinx.phys.Virginia.EDU (pat walsh) writes:
>garrett@Ingres.COM (MMMMM...ESSENCE OF GELFLING) writes:
> [...]
>(discussion about the rumors of a Quayle museum or statue in Huntington,
> Indiana)
> [...]
>>I wonder about the size and content of it. Will it be closet size?
>>Will it be the first library that deals exclusively with comic books?
>>	And if it a statue, what pose might he strike?
>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Why, there's only one possible choice, and the photo on which the artwork
>must be based already exists!  It's the famous photo, recently discussed in
>this group, of Dan in danger of blowing off his own elbow with a missile
>launcher (or grenade launcher or whatever the bloody thing was) because he's
>holding it backward.  And, just as the original V-shaped wall of the Vietnam
>memorial in Washington was eventually supplemented by a statue of three
>soldiers, the Dan statue too must be supplemented by figures of the two South
>American officials looking on in amusement.  Finally, over one of the
>officials there must be a bronze thought balloon bearing the words "What a
>dope!", preferably in both Spanish and English.
>

I've got to get in to work after the holiday break is over and post the
caption for that photo.  It came from the New York Times and belonged
to a co-worker.  I wish I'd written down the date of the photo, though
it must have been in several newspapers.

Yeah, that would be an excellent choice for the statue pose.


>- Patrick Walsh
>  University of Virginia Department of Physics
>  pw@virginia.bitnet, pw@virginia.edu, pat@gomez.phys.virginia.edu
-- 
Spencer PriceNash   spencer@spencer.ann-arbor.mi.us   spencer@ais.org
"We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward."  -- Quayle
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