From: glass@adcalc.fnal.gov (Michael Glass)
Subject: More small thoughts and misdemeanors
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 05:10:13 GMT

More small thoughts and misdemeanors, on various threads:

-- Take heart, ye who want to keep alt.fan.dan-quayle alive!  Rev. Spooner
   is long gone, yet "spoonerism" is still part of the active English
   lexicon.  We need not rmgroup just because D.Q. has been rmveeped.

-- Of course if we retain the dan-quayle name but lose the person, then 
   a.f.d-q neologists(*) need to get busy and define a word such as 
   "quaylism."  We already got a good start when we considered possible 
   definitions of the verbs "to quayle" and "to danforth."

   (*) "Neologists"--how's that for a neologism!

-- I'm collecting saliva samples from some Switzer / Davis / huang /
   CUNNINGHAM et al. posts.  (I'm not sure whether these folks roll
   their eyes independently, it doesn't show over the E-mail, but they
   definitely drool and froth.)  Maybe we can try DNA matching to test
   the theory that these are really many names being used by a small
   number of people.

-- Dan Quayle will become very rich in private law practice and never
   run for public office again.  This the opinion of local Republican
   impresario Tom Roeser on the "Inside Politics" radio show today.  I
   tend to agree.  After all, a person who has reached his station
   doesn't have to actually practice law to get rich as a lawyer, his
   name and connections suffice to make him valuable.

-- The idea of D.Q., defender of the American heartland against the
   scourge of trial lawyers, soaking up the megabucks as a well connected
   "lawyer/lobbyist," is a stitch.

-- If the old rumours about M.Q. taking D.Q.s exams are true, then she
   is considerably wiser then we generally give her credit for.  Could
   she have forseen that it wouldn't matter in his future careers if he
   didn't actually *know* the material?

-- Maybe Maddi Housmann or someone else could collect some of the funnier
   a.f.d-q material from the last year or two and publish it in r.h.f?
   I have seen a lot of good stuff scroll off the screen in the last year.
   (This is not a serious suggestion, just a wistful wish.)

-- I don't know what Nancy Kassebaum looks like, but I know she cannot
   be nominated for Republican V.P. unless she has blond, big, hair.  On
   the other hand, twelve years (1984 to 1996) is approximately the usual
   time lag for the Republicans to pick up a Democratic advance and claim 
   it as their own.

-- I have high hopes for Hillary Clinton.  I keep remembering an old
   cartoon showing a teacher and a class of students at the tip of
   Battery Park.  The teacher points at the Statue of Liberty out in
   the harbor, and one of the students says "I know who that is!  That's
   Eleanor Roosevelt!"  I feel that H.C. is going to be like that.  I
   wish we could get a president like that.


-- Michael Glass               |   "Tempus Fixit"
   glass@adcalc.fnal.gov       |     Time Heals
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