HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: twarner@hardy.u.washington.edu (Tom Warner)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: Eulogy
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:03:53 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

rdetweil@boi.hp.com (Richard Detweiler) writes:

>In article <anne.720904972@menaik> anne@cs.UAlberta.CA (Anne J.R. Nield) writes:
>>stanton@athena.cs.uga.edu (Catherine Stanton) writes:
>>
>>
>>>Yes, I too will miss Dhanesh.  How about
>>>alt.fan.dhanesh-(quirks, quotes)?
>>>:)
>>
>>>cat
>>
>>I second the motion!!
>>
>>Anne
>>


>I miss him as well.  Where is he these days?

Oh dear. I'm getting all teary eyed already. And it's only been 6 days.

Yes, where has Dhanesh been?
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Subject: Re: Maybe we won't miss Dan so much...
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 05:36:43 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.030627.12770@athena.cs.uga.edu> stanton@athena.cs.uga.edu (Catherine Stanton) writes:
>In article <6BF2TB4w165w@mintir.new-orleans.la.us> elendil@mintir.new-orleans.la.us (Edward J. Branley) writes:
>>
>>30-40 SS agents are enough to take care of the armies of most small
>>countries...
>>
>Maybe not take care of small countries, but 30-40 SS agents just MIGHT
>be enough to handle Tipper's hair products and makeup accessories.  *smirk*
>(Aww I love ol' Tipper but come on...you know I"m right)

Given Bill and Al's hair, the whole Secret Service must be schlepping
the hair products.  Well, with the mousse and the pouffing, they may
not have to worry about head shots.



And gentlemen in England now abed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speak
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.	   [Henry V, 4.3]
From: madhaus@netcom.com (Maddi Hausmann)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: Shame! Where are the real fans?
Date: 5 Nov 92 20:03:18 GMT
Organization: Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things

I, for one, am not giving up on this group.  The suggestion that it
serve as alt.fan.politicians.unqualified is an excellent one, and
I'm sure the Danster will continue to amuse us.

In two weeks, soon-to-be-ex-Vice President Quayle will be addressing
the Governor's Conference.  Let's stay tuned to see what advice he
has for this mostly Democratic body.

And, will the Governor of Arkansas be in attendance?

-- 
Maddi Hausmann                madhaus@netcom.com
Humorist, Satirist, Tech Writer.  Take your pick.

Centigram Communications Corp, San Jose California  408/428-3553
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle,alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.clinton
From: matta@lclark.edu (Matt Alexander)
Subject: Re: at the risk of sounding repetitive...
Organization: Sacajawea's Voice, Portland OR
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:05:10 GMT

rdavis@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Davis) whines:
>No.  My ancestors were amongst this nation's founding fathers.  You leave...
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>and take Slick Willie and the Democratic party with you... I'm sure that 
>you'd be much happier in Cuba or Russia, where there are still a lot of
>communists who are opposing Mr. Yeltsin.  Have a nice trip :-) :-) :-)

You know, he's pointed this out at least twice, is this supposed to mean
that his heratige is more important than ours?

Next thing you know he'll be saying "why don't you all go back to Africa/
Mexico/Cuba (oops! he used that one!) where you belong?"

--- Matt Alexander

 2-AUG-88:  Bush declares, "I will never apologize for the United States of
    America, ever.  I don't care what the facts are."

 8-SEP-88:  Marilyn Quayle claims that Dan "really is the studious sort" who
    "tries to read Plato's Republic every year."

25-APR-89:  Quayle, visiting American Samoa, tells natives, "You all look like
    happy campers to me.  Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been,
    and as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be."  Calls
    Pago Pago "Pogo Pogo."
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From: cass8806@elan.glassboro.edu (KYLE CASSIDY)
Subject: Re: The Official Internet Quayle Quote List (Part 2 of 2)
Organization: Rowan College of New Jersey
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:36:38 GMT

In article <ERIC.92Nov4185757@matisse.ling.flab.fujitsu.co.jp> eric@flab.fujitsu.co.jp (eric) writes:

>Okay, I've seen this, I've read this (not all of it, but enough to get
>the picture), and now I know. This is all a plot. Dan Quayle is a
>plot, there can be no doubt about it. The whole idea is to make Reagan
>look intelligent. There can be no other explanation.
>
>Whether they're succeeding is a different question, though.
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>Eric M. Visser                         email: eric@flab.fujitsu.co.jp
>Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.              phone: 044 - 754 - 2671
>Kawasaki, Japan                        fax  : 044 - 754 - 2570
	   ^^^^^

hey, aren't you the guys who paid reagan like eight million bucks to come 
over and spend the weekend? who's looking silly now? :-)

kc
From: vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: All I have to say
Date: 7 Nov 92 03:30:07 EST

In article <D2150056.i049jp@erics.infoserv.com>, erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith) writes:
> rdavis@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Davis) writes:
> 
>> rdosser@UTKUX1.UTK.EDU (rdosser) writes:
> 
>> >Gosh, it sure would be nice if Quayle was the GOP nominee in '96.
>> >Without incumbency on his side, I doubt he'd even take Indiana. 
> 
>> As long as the the Western branches of Pravda are controlling the U.S.
>> mass media, you're right, he won't stand a chance.  Unfortunately.  
> 
> I see that you, like most Republicans, are still fighting the Cold War.
> Ah, for the good old days, huh?

And I would like to add that the Russians now only WANT to be our friends,
they NEED US in this time of upheaval. The people of the XUSSR put their
lives on the line and are PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE END OF THE SOVIET
UNION. The SOVIET UNION DOES NOT EXIST. GET THIS THRU YOUR THICK SKULL.

Republiclones seem to believe in one and only one thing. Divide and Conquer.
I myself believe that the Republiclone party is going to a has been real soon.
Look at your history of political parties in the USA. Which one is the oldest.
How many have failed.

I myself see United We Stand as the next great party in America. The Repubs
have fizzles away...

-Garrett



> 
>> As to Clinton's likliness of destroying the economy: in the unusual event
>> that he doesn't accomplish this on his own, I'm sure that Gorey Al and
>> Herr Hillary will help him to do so, as will some of his other advisors
>> and those friends of his, who have hidden in the background, such as
>> the Rev. Jessie "Ah hates dem whities" Jackson, Mario Coomo (as the
>> "Rev." Jackson pronounces it), Bella "Let's outlaw religion" Abzug, 
>> Anita "Ah slept everywhere" Hill, and Sen. Ted "Dunk her in the water"
>> Kennedy, and the rest of the Tax and Spend, lets Leave America Defenseless
>> crowd.
> 
> As usual, tolerance abounds among the right wingers.
> 
> If you didn't notice it last Tuesday, let me clue you in: the country
> has moved beyond this brand of politics.
> 
> -----
> Eric Smith
> erics@infoserv.com
> CI$: 70262,3610
> 
>
From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: quayle hunting
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 10:22:34 PDT
Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
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airn@ellis.uchicago.edu (Anthony Airne) writes:

> This evening CNN reported that Dano rejected any notion that he might have
> been a drag on the Republican ticket. In the same breath, they quoted James
> Baker on his plans to head for his ranch and shoot some birds. I wonder if
> he'll be training a bead on any Quayle.

Well, I couldn't help but note the fact that when Bush went on his election
day shopping trip in Houston one of the items he picked up was a quail (sp?)
hunting license.

-----
Eric Smith
erics@infoserv.com
CI$: 70262,3610


Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
From: train@gvls2.gvl.unisys.com (Herbert Rutledge)
Subject: Crazy polls, nutty pollsters
Keywords: Statistics, reliability of
Organization: Paramax Systems Corporation, Paoli PA
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:16:29 GMT



   Well, George, it's over, and it's time to look at how *you* did as
   compared to those crazy polls by those nutty pollsters.

   The New York Times average of all of the polls on November 3rd showed
   Clinton with a 6% lead (margin o' error of 3 points).  Here's the
   popular vote tally (with 99.2 of the vote counted):

            George Bush:  38%
            Bill Clinton: 43%

   As for the GOP Personal Best, here's how it stacks up:

            Herbert Hoover, 1932:  41%
            Barry Goldwater, 1964: 38%
            George Bush, 1992:     38%

   As has been pointed out earlier, the one poll that showed spectacular
   error was also the only poll that showed Bush with a lead over Clinton:
   the My Weekly Reader poll.  All I can say is that this demonstrates that 
   the use of psychedelic drugs by elementary school children has gotten
   entirely out of hand.

-- 
 _________________________________________________________________________
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From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: seconding the motion....
Date: 8 Nov 1992 20:00:20 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

lana@magenta.corp.sgi.com (Lana Mountford) writes:

>The reporter predicted  that Wilson would come out swinging sometime 

Forget Wilson.  He's shot himself in the foot.  Good thing it was in 
his mouth at the time.

							--  Michal

Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
From: tim@gold.iss.nus.sg (tim poston)
Subject: Re: Weekly Reader wrong! Who else?
Reply-To: tim@iss.nus.sg (tim poston)
Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 03:47:58 GMT

In article <Bx7sz5.D2v@mail.boi.hp.com> rdetweil@boi.hp.com (Richard Detweiler) writes:

>On CNN, Ken Bode brought up this factoid:  The last Presidential bell-weather 
...
>to fall as a perfect bell-weather test according to Bode.

That's bell-wether.
Not rain and shine,
but the wether (sheep) with a bell hung on its neck,
for the others to hear and follow.

Since very few of the other sheep
(uh...electors)
were hearing these `with the majority' districts,
I don't think the metaphor's a great one.

Tim

_______________________________________________________________________________
  As the red sun sank toward the Rocky Mountains,
  Zeke noticed that the horses were getting more and more restless,
  and even the sheep had formed little Marxist study groups.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Xref: sparky alt.fan.dan-quayle:6675 alt.politics.bush:13825
From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle,alt.politics.bush
Subject: Re: 1996 GOP Veep Choice (Was: Re: Complete this sentence)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 08:10:39 PDT
Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


cah@tyr.JPL.NASA.gov (Allen Halsell) writes:

> As a second point, wasn't Powell born in Jamaica?  I could be wrong,
> but if so this would certainly disqualify him from the Presidency
> (and therefore the Veep-ship).

That wouldn't disqualify him unless he wasn't born a U.S. citizen.
Being born outside the U.S. does not make one ineligible for the
presidency.

-----
Eric Smith
erics@infoserv.com
CI$: 70262,3610
From: coolidge@speaker.wpd.sgi.com (Don Coolidge)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: What? Bill Clinton plays golf?
Date: 11 Nov 1992 18:27:09 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: fddi-speaker.wpd.sgi.com

In article <crb2.721497260@Ra.MsState.Edu>, crb2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Chad R. Berthelson) writes:
|> coolidge@speaker.wpd.sgi.com (Don Coolidge) writes:
|> 
|> >Nobody attacked Quayle just for playing golf. He was (roundly and 
|> >justly!) attacked for playing it regularly at a country club that 
|> >excludes persons of African descent. The correlation between the 
|> >membership of such clubs and the set of white male Republicans is 
|> >far too monotonic to be mere coincidence. 
|> 
|> This is where I throw the flag on this one!  WHOA partner...you are
|> confusing your newstories (although given the slant in the media
|> I don't blame you exclusively, just 95% or so).

No, just apparently not remembering enough of them...you're right about
Clinton, of course. But wrong about Quayle.

|> It is BILL CLINTON that got into trouble (primaries..) for playing at
|> an all WASP country club, not DQ.  DQ got into trouble for using
|> perks of the office for recreation, like AF2 rides and Scuba lessons
|> that WE paid for (although I side with DQ on the scuba thing, that's
|> a crock of a newstory...read an old paper).

DQ also did "the golf thing". As VP. Repeatedly. And, not that the SCUBA
lessons are admirable in and of themselves, but they are far less important 
to me than exclusionary golf clubs.

As Clinton also did so, I'm taking what steps I can as a private citizen
to voice my extreme displeasure. (Even so, he's clearly still the correct
choice when compared with 4 More Years.)
 
|> >I have no idea at what country club Clinton played golf, but if it
|> >was one of the above sort, I'd land on him as hard as I possibly could
|> >for doing so. On the other hand, given Clinton's public record with 
|> >respect to minorities, I'd be shocked shitless if the club were
|> >exclusionary in any way. 
|> 
|> Go change you pants....

Pants are changed. Letters are being written. Your name may be one one. 
Beware...:^)
 
|> The one he played in the other day probably (most likely) isn't all-white
|> because he has already taken that heat, he isn't stupid (dishonest maybe..).

Whereas Our Boy apparently fails on both your counts...

- Don Coolidge
From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: Integrity
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 23:25:25 PDT
Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
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train@gvls2.gvl.unisys.com (Herbert Rutledge) writes:

>    What was *really* distressing, however, was the sight of Dan Quayle
>    insisting that something was correct that even a child should know was
>    wrong

The child did know it was wrong. Quayle had to coax and cajole him into
adding the extra 'e' on the end.

-----
Eric Smith
erics@infoserv.com
CI$: 70262,3610


Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle,alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.clinton
From: olt@elwood.isgs.uiuc.edu (Scott Olt)
Subject: Re: at the risk of sounding repetitive...
Organization: Madame Tinkertoy's House of Blue Lights
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 08:51:50 GMT

Ariel Mazzarelli writes:

>erics@infoserv.com writes:
>>Robert Davis, WASP-thang, spews:
>>> My ancestors were amongst this nation's founding fathers.  You leave...

Nobody gives a shit about your ancestors, Bob. Go tell it to alt.daughters.
of.the.american.revolution, eh? 

>>> and take Slick Willie and the Democratic party with you... I'm sure that 
>>> you'd be much happier in Cuba or Russia, where there are still a lot of
>>> communists who are opposing Mr. Yeltsin.  Have a nice trip :-) :-) :-)

>>I'm sure you'd be much happier in Argentina. That's where the last batch
>>of fascists found refuge.

>Mr. Smith,  I was born in Argentina.
>I have worked with Argentinians.
>Argentinians are friends of mine.
>Mr. Smith,  Mr. Davis is no Argentinian.

Ms. Mazzarelli, Mr. Davis would undoubtedly suffer apoplexy, were he to
be accused of being an Argentinian. 

Imagine the scandal, if Chip and Buffy and Chad were to hear such a libel-
ous rumour...what would Daddy think??? And the Tennis Committee?!?
 
>Ariel
>PS:  Sorry,  I just had to defend the national honor.

That's quite all right...some of us whose ancestors were here *long*
before Mr. Davis' ancestors invented Republicans think he's pretty much
full of shit, too.


--
Scott Olt                           "If a program can't rewrite its own code, 
Ill. St. Geological Survey           what good is it?" - Mel, a Real Programmer
olt@elwood.isgs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
From: liuyh@vis.toronto.edu (Yuanhui Liu)
Subject: Re: Maybe we won't miss Dan so much...
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:27:14 GMT

In article <jberger.43.0@novell.com> jberger@novell.com (John Berger) writes:
>In article <92Nov11.120132est.24@orasis.vis.toronto.edu> liuyh@vis.toronto.edu (Yuanhui Liu) writes:
>>>
>>>hehehe...yeah, that's a serious head of hair.  However, if Tipper wanted to get
>>>lost in the woods with *me*, I probably wouldn't complain :-)
>>>
>>>Of course, I'd make sure I didn't bring along any Metallica or Guns 'N Roses
>>>tapes for mood music... :-)
>>>
>>there's no need for Metallica or Guns 'N Roses, Tipper is a Deadhead,
>>she must have Grateful Dead CDs with her in the woods.  
>
>No REAL deadhead would carry CD's -- they'd have TAPES!  Lots 'n' lots of 
>TAPES!
>
yes, but tapes from that era don't have protective classification labels
on them!  ;->  Maybe she felt the need to restrict Al's access to explicit
blah, blah, blah music.  
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>|Edward J. Branley         elendil@mintir.new-orleans.la.us|
>>>|Seashell Software, Metairie, LA            +1-504-455-5087|
>>
>>
From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: All I have to say
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 12:10:27 PDT
Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
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rdavis@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Davis) writes:

> rdosser@UTKUX1.UTK.EDU (rdosser) writes:

> >Gosh, it sure would be nice if Quayle was the GOP nominee in '96.
> >Without incumbency on his side, I doubt he'd even take Indiana. 

> As long as the the Western branches of Pravda are controlling the U.S.
> mass media, you're right, he won't stand a chance.  Unfortunately.  

I see that you, like most Republicans, are still fighting the Cold War.
Ah, for the good old days, huh?

> As to Clinton's likliness of destroying the economy: in the unusual event
> that he doesn't accomplish this on his own, I'm sure that Gorey Al and
> Herr Hillary will help him to do so, as will some of his other advisors
> and those friends of his, who have hidden in the background, such as
> the Rev. Jessie "Ah hates dem whities" Jackson, Mario Coomo (as the
> "Rev." Jackson pronounces it), Bella "Let's outlaw religion" Abzug, 
> Anita "Ah slept everywhere" Hill, and Sen. Ted "Dunk her in the water"
> Kennedy, and the rest of the Tax and Spend, lets Leave America Defenseless
> crowd.

As usual, tolerance abounds among the right wingers.

If you didn't notice it last Tuesday, let me clue you in: the country
has moved beyond this brand of politics.

-----
Eric Smith
erics@infoserv.com
CI$: 70262,3610
From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: Newsgroup name change was Re: Dan Quayle?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 09:20:45 PDT
Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
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hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes) writes:

> xmodem@Blue.Kludge.COM (Xmodem) writes:

> >Anybody have any news about what he's doing now that he's no longer gonna 
> >be Vice President.  Can't really imagina he'd win race as a senator or 
> >anything.  I'm depressed.  Or maybe not.

>    I don't imagine he'd have *any* difficulty winning back his
>    Indiana seat in the Senate.  This isn't a comment so much on
>    *dan* as it is on *indiana*.

Maybe not, but I believe he'd have to wait until 1998. Wasn't that seat
up for election this year?

-----
Eric Smith
erics@infoserv.com
CI$: 70262,3610
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
From: liuyh@vis.toronto.edu (Yuanhui Liu)
Subject: Re: one or two e's
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 8 Nov 92 21:41:47 GMT

In article <96667@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
>A Mike Peters post election cartoon had our heroes at desks in the
>Oval Office, with Dan saying "Is there one or two e's in resume?"
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

David Lettermen used the same joke recently on "Top ten things
the Quayles are doing before moving out" ...

>and George saying "Oh shut up."
>
>I liked it.
>-- 
>-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu) "[George Bush] is a man
> who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple." --Jim Hightower


Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
From: cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast)
Subject: Apologies for RD
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 08:16:08 GMT

	Just an apology for a MD resident by the name of Robert Davis.  Most of
us are much smarter than him.  (Tsongas DID win our state!)  RD is just a sorE
loser.  And his views do not reflect the many thousands of intelligent MD'ers
who do want to make this country strong again!
-- 
***RUSH***YES***FLOYD***PEARLJAM***METALLICA***STING***PAULSIMON***REM***U2***
*  "We are going to have the best educated American people in the World!" ;-)*
*   Vice President Dan Quayle  September 21, 1988 ;-)  Clinton 1996! ;-) ;-) *
*******(c-amin1@uiuc.edu)***Chintan Amin***UniversityofIllinois***GoIllini****
From: darsie@eecs.ucdavis.edu (Richard Darsie)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: Weekly Reader wrong! Who else?
Date: 6 Nov 92 22:05:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of California, Davis

In article <4NOV199209551316@utkvx1.utk.edu>, ljones@utkvx1.utk.edu (Me? Graduated? Nope. Not yet.) writes:
> 
> Greetings, all, to a new democratic future!
> 
> 	So the readers of the weekly reader have made their first
> slip in predicting the presidential race.
> 	All across the country there are counties, small towns,
> and checker-playing old men who have never failed at predicting
> the outcome of a presidential race.
> 	But now that the readers of the Weekly Reader have erred,
> I wonder how many other predicters have mistakenly thought Bush 
> would win.
> 	So please, netters, report on who slipped up and who is still
> right on track. If possible, report how long the predicter has
> been calling them correctly.
> 
> Gracious,
> Leslie Jones

Well, here are some other popular indicators usually right but wrong
this year (as detailed in Nov. 16 Time magazine):

1) The New Hampshire primary: Since 1952 no one has won the White House
   without first winning this primary - until now.

2) Bordeaux quality: A bad vintage year (and this is) usually means
   a Republican victory.

3) Crook County, Oregon: For the first time since county lines were
   drawn in 1882, voters here were wrong about a presidential election; 
   they picked Bush.

4) The World Series:  In 8 of the past 11 elections, an American League
   victory presaged a Republican victory, a National League victory meant
   a Democractic win.  Despite Toronto's win, baseball's average drops
   to .667.

And from the NFL,

5) The Minnesota Viking Monday Night poll: Every time the Minnesota
   Vikings have played on the Monday night before election day and
   won, the Republicans have won - until now.

Richard
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle