From: glass@devl.fnal.gov (Michael Glass)
Subject: More small thoughts and misdemeanors
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 06:35:38 GMT

More small thoughts, mostly on the debates, not worth separate posts.

    Nutritional Label: this post contains less than 2% of the
                       recommended daily allowance of a.f.d-q humor.

-- Department of "Say what?"

   On the Tom Snyder radio show the evening after the debate, a caller
   claimed that Quayle's "page 304" screw-up *affirmed* his decision to
   vote for B/Q.  Say what?  The caller didn't dispute the facts of the
   case--he agreed that DQ probably screwed up.  But it was the Evil Media
   which *reported* the screw-up, you see, so....  No, I didn't follow it
   either, but it does leave one speechless.

-- Department of normal social intercourse

   I once worked with an engineer who would never give an inch, even
   in the most ordinary conversation.  If you noted that the sun would
   rise in the East, he never betrayed agreement, either verbally or
   non-verbally.  He reserved the right to disagree with even the
   plainest fact if it suited his ends to do so.  It drove me nuts.

   Most of us are incapable of such behavior, unlike Dan Quayle.

-- (Continued)

   In the debate between the Illinois candidates for the Senate, Carol
   Mosley Braun was a normal conversationalist and Rich Williamson was
   of the don't-give-an-inch mold.  Williamson, consequently, can say
   anything he damn well pleases, leaving Braun to simply deny everything
   and get more and more irritated with her inability to connect.

   I thus forgive Al Gore for not stomping on DQ harder.

-- Drug Department

   I disagree with Dr. Maddi Hausmann that George Bush exhibits Halcyon
   side effects.  Behavior-wise, it looks to me more like he is suffering
   from a massive dose of cortico-steroids.

   Remember Operation Thyroid Storm?  Two hundred thousand people died--
   not for any global geopolitical reason, but because GB had a hormonal
   imbalance.  The McGoofy group should fire a few pundits and hire a few
   pharmacologists, 

-- Deptartment of "Is there a word for it?"

   DQ begins his response to the question on environmental policy by
   asserting there is NO conflict between full employment and environmental
   protection.  Sounds lovely, until DQ then warns us that increasing CAFE
   standards would cost 300,000 jobs, and follows up with some nonsense
   about saving the owl and forgetting the jobs.

   My question is: just what do you call this rhetorical device?  It's
   quite effective, and tends to slide right by.

-- Department of scuzz and slimeballs: (Republicans, avert your eyes)

   Fellow Democrats, when was the last time you had a chance to vote for
   a genuine scuzz bucket?  Dukakis is a straight-arrow, as is Mondale
   before him, and Carter, and McGovern, and so was dear old Humphrey.
   The last slimeball to win the Democratic nomination was Lyndon Johnson,
   and all HE did was whip a recalcitrant Congress into passing the civil
   rights bills, Medicaid, Head Start, etc.

   JFK was reputed to mess around mightily, and FDR was no altar boy.

   Maybe DQ is JEALOUS when he snipes at Clinton's character.  Not because
   DQ wants a piece of the action, but because he senses that Clinton has
   a potential for greatness.

-- What does "Moors."  "Moops." etc. mean?


-- Michael Glass             :  On the other hand, maybe DQ _really_
   glass@adcalc.fnal.gov     :  just wants a piece of the action.