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From: v140pxgt@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Daniel B Case)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Dorothy Parker
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:16:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <C17qxv.EM8@boi.hp.com>, hypes@boi.hp.com (Gary Hypes) writes...
>Janet M. Swisher (swisher@cs.utexas.edu) wrote:
>: 
>: Golly, I consider myself pretty culturally literate, but I didn't know
>: she did that stuff (well, I knew she wrote stories).  Those may be her
>: best accomplishments, but I suspect it's true that she's best known
>: for being a wit.
>: 
> 
>The sad truth is that the corpus of her work is not large, and the
>memorable work that remains is largely couplets (she originated "Men
>seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses") and witticisms.  She was
>a capable and promising writer whose lifestyle prevented her from
>performing major focused efforts.
> 
>Parker was probably mentally ill (manic-depressive) and became
>self-destructive through alcoholism, obsessive sexual behaviors, and
>several suicide attempts. Although she lived until the 1960s, her really
>good literary work was only during the 20s and 30s.
> 
>On the other hand, in addition to her journalistic efforts, she was
>There At The Creation.  Her friends and associates included the Lost
>Generation writers (F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, ...) and all
>the major literary and theater figures of those times.  She was one of
>the original staff writers at the birth of The New Yorker magazine and
>was a regular (for Parker, anyway) contributer to the great periodicals
>of the day:  Vanity Fair, Vogue, etc.
> 
>Her anti-Fascist activities earned her a grilling before Joe McCarthy's
>HUAC in the 50's. She basically told them, "I am who I am, I've done
>what I've done, and you can go to hell."  Cowed by the thought of
>sending a famous woman to a prison cell, the McCarthy crowd dropped
>charges against her and let her alone.  The left-wing taint, however,
>coupled with her already damaging reputation for being unreliable about
>writing assignments (a combination of laziness, poor work ethic, and
>alcoholism) caused offers for work to disappear.
> 
>At best, Parker was a difficult person to like; she could be (and was)
>nasty and vicious publicly to even her best friends.  Robert Benchley was
>probably the only friend she never turned on.

The story I heard that illustrates simultaneously her best and worst sides goes
that when her husband, Alan Campbell, died in the early '60s, a friend of hers
was there when his body was being removed from her house. She asked Dorothy if
she could get anything for her. "Yes" she said, "get me a new husband". The 
friend was aghast "Why, that's the most callous thing I ever heard!". "In that
case, go down to the deli and get me a ham sandwich and tell them to hold the
mayo".

> 
>Sadly, tragically, Parker was alone, mostly forgotten, penniless, and 
>essentially blind when she died in 1967.  She made the grave error of
>outliving both her friends and her times.
> 
> 
>- Gary Hypes -

Funny this should come up, as this is her centennial year (august 22).
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From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: The cat who walks through walls
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:39:49 GMT

Blarg

this lot are from the chapter headings from The cat who walks through
walls, by R. Heinlein.

Sorry bout the capitals, both shift keys are on the blink

"Whatever you do, you'll regret it" Allan McLeod Gray

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.  Mao Tse-Tung

I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs  h.L. Mencken

He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death
					H.H. Munro

Don't lock the barn after it is stolen.  Hartley M. Baldwin

You can;t cheat an honest man. He has to have larceny in his heart
	in the first place.     Claude William Dukenfield

More later :)

Eccles


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From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: From a friend
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:28:42 GMT

Life looks better over a woman's shoulder......

		-a friend

Eccles

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From: acjbooks@citr.uq.oz.au (ACJ Books (Chris))
Subject: Re: Churchill - folowup to rqst for full quote
Keywords: churchill quote beaches
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:27:19 GMT

rickertj@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (John Rickert) writes:


>    By the way, I heard that Churchill had a hoarse throat the day
>the famous "We-shall-never-surrender" speech was delivered, and that
>an actor instead made the broadcast.  After the actor died (about
>5 or 10 yrs. ago), the story was made known.  Is there any truth to
>this, or is this just one of those interesting fictions?  (Please,
>si possible, give references...)


>John Rickert
>rickertj@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu

Interestingly I have a record (12" vinyl!) of Churchill's wartime speeches.
As an aside, one thing that impressed me, was that we remember the stirring
punch-lines, so to speak. The rest of the speeches were, to me, quite
unmemorable, and quite boring!

As for the above, I thought the speech was actually delivered in the Commons,
so the actor must have been *damn fine*! Nonetheless, I will look up my refer-
ences, and listen to the record, and see if I can vouch for the authenticity.

What an interesting story.
Chris.

Mr Churchill, you are drunk.
Yes madam, and you are ugly. ... But *I* shall be sober in the morning.

Mr Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has much to be modest about.

I will look up more Churchill.

Mr Menzies, I wouldn't vote for you if you were the Archangel Gabriel.
Madam, if I were the Archangel Gabriel, *you* wouldn't be in my
    constituency.

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From: ghouse@gauss.cs.jhu.edu (Mujtaba Ghouse)
Subject: Re: Fiery the angel.. Blade Runner
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Distribution: alt
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:13:31 GMT

michael@neuron6.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Rivero) writes:
>Nathan Otto Siemers (ns14@crux2.crux2.cit.cornell.edu) wrote:
>: This one has bugging me for a long time.
>: Spoken by Rutger Hauer, as Roy in Blade Runner
>: 	Fiery the angels fell
>: 	Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders
>: 	Burning with the fires of  (Hawk?  sounds like.)
>: Anyone know where this comes from?
>  The word is "Orc". I have a vague memory that this was from T.S. Eliott,
>but I'm probably wrong on this.

Yes.  Yes, the word is "Orc" and yes, you are wrong :-) :-)

Actually, the exact quote above might be Elliot, but there's a very similar
one from Blake, plate 11 of "America, a Prophecy":

     Fiery the angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll'd
     Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc;
     . . .

(It was the "Orc" reference that tipped me off.  Had to be either
Blake or Tolkein, and it didn't sound much like JRR, so I rooted around
in William Blakes "Daughters of Albion," "America" and "Europe" until
I found it.  I confess I don't have the complete works of all major writers
memorized.)

-Mujtaba Ghouse
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"Oh my piglets, we are the origins of war, not history's forces, nor the
times, nor justice nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas,
nor kinds of government, nor any other thing.  We are the killers.  We breed
wars, it runs in our blood like syphilis.  Dead bodies rot in streams because
living ones are rotten.  For the love of God, can't we love one another just a 
little?"
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From: bacchus@bnr.ca (Mark Bacchus)
Subject: Re: SEX
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Norcross, GA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:06:25 GMT

In article <63727@mimsy.umd.edu> tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!)) writes:
>faber@loon.cs.wisc.edu (Ted) writes:
>>slouie@ocf.berkeley.edu (Shelley Louie) writes:
>>
>>>First, take a breath and then sing...
>>>
>>>"No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women, no fun, no sin, no you, no wonder I'm 
>>> lost"
>>>	 -"Turning Japanese" by the Vapors
>>
>>	"everyone around me is a total stranger,
>>	 everyone avoids me like a Cyclone Ranger,
>>	 Eeeeeeveryone"
>
>     Yep. But what the heck's a Cyclone Ranger?

I thought it was "psyched Lone Ranger".
Not that that makes any more sense...

-- 
Mark Bacchus
bacchus@bnr.ca
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: bam003@acad.drake.edu
Subject: DIR/REG
Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:43:28 GMT


Posting before you is a desparate man:

	I am looking for a quote (attributed please) taht I heard that goes
something like:  Rarely are all the members of a family born under the same
roof.

	Or something to that effect, saying that friends are a person's true
family...  If anyone knows the full quote (it is longer than what I put there)
or knows who said it, please EMail me or post here.
Thank you VERY much,
-Brian

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From: rpratt@novell.com (Robert Pratt)
Subject: Quote lists
Summary: Jeff Meyer @fluke
Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, Califonia
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:55:11 GMT

   As far as quote lists go, whatever happened to Jeff Meyer, who posted
the canonical quotes list once a year or so.  The last list I saw from
him was in May of 1991, and was ~600K of text.  He used to be
moriarty@tc.fluke.com, but he seems to have given up on the net quotes
business.  Of course, this may just prove that he has a life now, unlike
the rest of us :-) 

Bob



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From: gugler-sean@cs.yale.edu (Sean Gugler)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Question
Date: 24 Jan 1993 20:45:06 -0500
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Undergraduate
NNTP-Posting-Host: frog.zoo2.cs.yale.edu
In-reply-to: acjbooks@citr.uq.oz.au's message of Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:40:46 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.
[stuff munged]
>
>Please do - it will supplement my Oxford, Bartlett, Penguin, etc
>dictionaries.    BUT has it as good an index!

At 47k, it might be best if you'd compress and uuencode it before
posting, though I'm sure the net has seen worse in raw text.

If anyone really wants, I guess I could do the same with the files
I've gathered, as well; closer to 80k, some from famous sources, some
that I overheard personally.

-- 
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P.O. Box 1902 Yale Station         gugseap@yalevm          <-- Bitnet
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From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: Question
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 09:57:28 GMT

> > I have for the past few years been compiling a list of quotes.  It is
> > currently around 47k or so.  Should I post it? 

> At 47k, it might be best if you'd compress and uuencode it before
> posting...

I think this is a bad suggestion.  It creates a significant nuisance for
the reader, it saves only a small percentage of filespace, and at least
for non-NNTP sites, it costs *more* in terms of transmission time.  Save
uuencode for real binary postings.

And 47K bytes isn't all that large anyway, compared to, for example,
some of the FAQ lists that are posted regularly... and they're always
in straight text form.

Splitting the posting into sections, and maybe not posting them all
on the same day, might be a good idea for a different reason -- most
people probably don't *want* to read that many quotations at once.
Compare rec.humor.funny's treatment of its "one-liner file".

ObQuote:
   Tortoise:  But we must be careful in combining sentences.  For instance,
              you'd grant that "Politicians lie" is true, wouldn't you?
   Achilles:  Who could deny it?
   Tortoise:  Good.  Likewise, "Cast-iron sinks" is a valid utterance,
              isn't it?
   Achilles:  Indubitably.
   Tortoise:  Then, putting them together, we get "Politicians lie
              in cast-iron sinks" ...
(Douglas R. Hofstadter, "Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid")

ObSigQuote:
-- 
Mark Brader            \  "He's suffering from Politicians' Logic."
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto  \ "Something must be done, this is something, therefore
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com \ we must do it."   -- Lynn & Jay: YES, PRIME MINISTER
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From: nguyenth@floreal.ibp.fr (Thao Nguyen)
Subject: Re: Un Baiser ou Un Bisou!
Organization: Universite PARIS 7 - UFR d'Informatique
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:42:46 GMT

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

>  Since Cyrano usually spoke in French, I would suspect this isn't exactly
>what he said.  What was the French word for "loving" that he used?  I can't
>think of any containing an "i."

Un baiser: un petit point rose que l'on met sur l'i du verbe Aimer.
How does it sound? Nice hey!!!
-- 
Florence Nguyen
Believe it or not but I have no e-mail address! Perhaps because I don't know it :)
From: harrison@cs.ubc.ca (James Harrison)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: married with children/M*A*S*H
Date: 27 Jan 1993 13:40:15 -0800
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sapporo.cs.ubc.ca


check out:

cheers.norm
married.with.children
jack.handey

in /ftp/pub/pickup/jwu at cs.ubc.ca

These files will not be located at this server for long.

James

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From: bsamman@ocf.berkeley.edu (Ben Samman)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: A man for all Seasons
Date: 28 Jan 93 04:10:46 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: avalanche.berkeley.edu


I'm looking for the correct version of the following quote from the movie:
"A Man for All Seasons".  The quote goes something like this:  "What will
you do when you cut down all the trees to get to the Devil and the wind
rages about you"

If possible the exchange between More and the other guy would be greatly
appreciated.

Ben.
bsamman@ocf.berkeley.edu
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From: ungsur@vccnw04.its.rpi.edu (You WISH you knew my name)
Subject: Time
Reply-To: ungsur@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:53:17 GMT

Keywords: 


  	Any Quotes on TIME out there? 

 	

		Speaking of time, is the well known quote :

 			"Time is of the essence"

 				or:

			"Time is evanescent"

				 ?

			



					bye 
            

					   Rich
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From: shallit@graceland.uwaterloo.ca (Jeffrey Shallit)
Subject: Re: ecology & Christianity
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:47:19 GMT

In article <21JAN199310400459@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> ecaxron@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Ron Graham) writes:
>My point is, the quote by the original poster (by Lynn White, Jr.) puts the 
>problems of ecology everywhere in the world squarely at the feet of 
>Christianity.

Actually, it didn't.  It said:

"[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until
we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for
existence save to serve man."

	-- Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our 
	Ecologic Crisis", Science V. 155 No. 3767 (10 March 1967),
	pp. 1203-1207.

That is, the problems are due to a Christian *axiom*, not to all
of Christianity.

I have already made one request that you read the original article.
Have you done so yet?  (I doubt it.)

As I have already said once, White himself is an historian and a
Christian, and the article supports his thesis quite well.

Go read it.

Jeff Shallit
From: lerczak@acsu.buffalo.edu (Horse)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: StarTrek&Bones
Date: 22 Jan 93 02:11:36 GMT
Organization: No Quarter

st923459@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:

>Mr. Spock is wheeled into sick bay on a gurney.  At least two of his legs
>are broken and vital body parts are falling out through a large hole in his

yes, but he still had the use of his other legs, so he could move around a
bit. ;)

Horse.
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From: pete@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Peter Alexander Merel)
Subject: Re: unfinished limerick
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:30:47 GMT

mbr2@quads.uchicago.edu (Curious Of All Natures) writes:
>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...

I don't know the rest of this one, though I can say that it already fails
to scan. But I am reminded of:

There was a young man of Dundoo,
Whose limericks stopped at line 2.

And of course 

There was a young man of Verdun.

But my favourite limerick, courtesy of the subgenii, goes

There was a young lady of Sydney,
Who liked it right up to her kidney,
But a man from Quebec
Shoved it up to her neck;
He had a big one, didn't he.

-- 
Internet: pete@extro.su.oz.au          |         Accept Everything.            |
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From: jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy)
Subject: Re: Un Baiser ou Un Bisou!
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:15:01 GMT

There is an oldie, for it must date back from the times
when every gent had to wear a moustache, and it goes:
"Un baiser sans moustache est comme une soupe sans sel"

(a kiss without a moustache is like a soup without salt)
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From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: Mixed quotes
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:24:40 GMT

jthorpe1@cc.swarthmore.edu (jere7my tho?rpe) writes:

>In article <damiene.727764747@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>,
>damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles) wrote:
> 
>> "Let not the sands of time get in your lunch"
>> 		- Saturday Night Live, I think

>National Lampoon, from "Deteriorata", a parody of "Desiderata" on their
>album Radio Dinner.  Easy mistake--lots of the same people in Nt'l Lampoon
>and SNL.  I personally liked "Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to
>your face."

Sorry, but I'd just heard it on the radio, and recognised the voices :)

Eccles
From: kubipdal@uts.uni-c.dk (Peter Dalg}rd)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: remember
Keywords: I am good
Date: 22 Jan 93 19:25:11 GMT
Organization: UNI-C, Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education

In <C19JCM.IwK@ecf.toronto.edu> scriven@ecf.toronto.edu (SCRIVEN ADAM) writes:

>In article <1993Jan21.172003.16235@maths.tcd.ie> cecilia@maths.tcd.ie (cecilia cheuk) writes:
>>        " YOU must remember this.
>> ..when I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad..I'm better!!! "

>Where is this from, does any one know?

Mae West, innitso? Same one with the "pickle in yer pocket" (pistol?) and
the slight variant (to a man with his hat in his lap) "Say, is that a
ten-gallon hat or are you just enjoying the show?"

I think she was once asked why she had a mirror in her bedroom ceiling --
"I wanna see how I'm doin'!"

Verifications, please.

	Peter
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From: schaefeb@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Barry A. Schaefer)
Subject: Curt Siffert
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:41:05 GMT


"I'm in a BIZARRE."
	- Curt Siffert

-- 

My name is Barry.  I really enjoy masturbating upon my roommate as he sleeps.
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: The Simpsons
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:27:03 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

"A man who envies our family
		is a man who needs help."
Lisa
-- 
"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.
From: ahmad@ra.cs.umb.edu (Ahmad Hashem)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Twain on speeches
Date: 22 Jan 93 21:17:27 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."

                                             - Mark Twain
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From: shallit@graceland.uwaterloo.ca (Jeffrey Shallit)
Subject: Re: Getting an accurate quote
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:24:36 GMT

In article <1k3ena$kgh@agate.berkeley.edu> danhua@garnet.berkeley.edu (Dan Hua) writes:
>Hello Folks! 	I was wondering if anyone knows the
>complete quote which includes these words (about
>England)  ".... this happy breed of men,...this land
>of poets,.. this realm, this land, this England."  I might
>have misquoted somewhat.  Oh, since I also have about 800
>articles to catch up, could the person who knows send the
>info to me too? (in addition to the newsgroup)).
>
>Thanks alot in advance.
>
>
>Dan
>
>danhua@garnet.berkeley.edu
>

Shakespeare, Richard II.  Haven't you ever heard of "Bartlett's"?


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From: hypes@boi.hp.com (Gary Hypes)
Subject: Re: remember
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:11:01 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Peter Dalg}rd (kubipdal@uts.uni-c.dk) wrote:
: In <C19JCM.IwK@ecf.toronto.edu> scriven@ecf.toronto.edu (SCRIVEN ADAM) writes:
: 
: >In article <1993Jan21.172003.16235@maths.tcd.ie> cecilia@maths.tcd.ie (cecilia cheuk) writes:
: >>        " YOU must remember this.
: >> ..when I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad..I'm better!!! "
: 
: >Where is this from, does any one know?
: 
: Mae West, innitso? Same one with the "pickle in yer pocket" (pistol?) and
: the slight variant (to a man with his hat in his lap) "Say, is that a
: ten-gallon hat or are you just enjoying the show?"
: 

Yes, Mae West said something like that. The other quote is "Is that a
pistol in your pocket, or are ya' just glad to see me?"  Another:  "If I
have to choose between two evils, I like to pick the one I haven't tried
before."

- Gary Hypes -
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From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Subject: Re: Star Trek: The Original Series
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:33:30 GMT

Help.  This quotation group was really first-class until recently, but
it has been filling up with Star Trek trivia.  I think these should be
elsewhere, e.g., in
 rec.arts.startrek
 rec.arts.startrek.current
 rec.arts.startrek.fandom
 rec.arts.startrek.info
 rec.arts.startrek.misc
 rec.arts.startrek.tech

or somewhere.  Same for movie trivia, e.g., how many movies had
Schwarzenegger and Sinatra together.

Don't get me wrong: I regard ST as one of the most civilizing
operations in today's media.  But there are better newsgroups for 
fandom.  I didn't care for the many Nietsche quotes here last month --
but I don't suppose there ais a rec.arts.Nietsche.fandom group for
those.

----  "Words should be our servants, not our masters."