www/fun/jokes quotations.html

[Rob Myers]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Rob Myers <robmyers>    09/08/05 18:12:26

Modified files:
        fun/jokes      : quotations.html 

Log message:
        Double-space the quotes so the attribution is clearer.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/fun/jokes/quotations.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.12&r2=1.13

Patches:
Index: quotations.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/fun/jokes/quotations.html,v
retrieving revision 1.12
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -b -r1.12 -r1.13
--- quotations.html     5 Nov 2008 00:45:30 -0000       1.12
+++ quotations.html     5 Aug 2009 18:12:22 -0000       1.13
@@ -12,30 +12,35 @@
                                - Unidentified MP, on BBC Radio 4
                                - from Mark Saxby (Reading, England)
 
+
 "The President continues to surprise people, so I am not surprised
 to be surprised."
 
                                - US Secy of Defense Dick Cheney
                                - from Mark Wiersbeck (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
 
+
 "President Bush is due to address the nation in approximately 20
 minutes precisely."
 
                                - Peter Jennings, ABC News
                                - from Roger Allen (Nashua, NH, USA)
 
+
 "Mobile launchers are more difficult to detect because they move
 around, unlike  fixed launchers."
 
                                - Katie Coucik, NBC News
                                - from Lowell McCulley (Nashua, NH, USA)
 
+
 "Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in
 a moment."
 
                                - Tom Brokaw, NBC News
                                - from Jeff E. Nelson (Nashua, NH, USA)
 
+
 "We have good reason to believe he was stabbed.  There was a sharp
 object sticking out of his chest".
 
@@ -43,34 +48,40 @@
                                  cited in National Lampoon calendar
                                - from Jim Reisert (Hudson, MA, USA)
 
+
 "The City of Rochester (Michigan) is considering a ban on smoking
 at the park because people are leaving their butts on the beach."
 
                                - Announcer, WJR Radio, Detroit, MI
                                - from Jim Cotton (Novi, MI, USA)
 
+
 "Men between the ages of 18 and 25 must register for the draft on
 their 18th birthday."
 
                                - Sign in a US Post Office
                                - from Bruce Stadler (Dallas, TX, USA)
 
+
 "This door must not be opened under any circumstances."
 
                                - Sign outside a fire exit in a hotel
                                - from C. N. Kumar (Karnataka, India)
 
+
 "We have to expect it, otherwise we would be surprised."
 
                                - Unidentified general officer, re: Gulf war.
                                - from Thierry Ciot (Valbonne, France)
 
+
 "Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time."
 
                                - Ellen Kushner on "Caravan", WGBH radio,
                                  Boston
                                - from Roger Goun (Nashua, NH, USA)
 
+
 "It is mandatory that tenderers provide proof that the specified  
 performance requirements are likely to be achieved by the proposed
 system."
@@ -79,28 +90,33 @@
                                  prospective client
                                - from Kass Antanaitis (Canberra, Australia)
 
+
 "President Union will address the nation on the state of the Bush."
 
                                _ Hampton Pearson, news reporter, WBZ TV 
                                - from Paul Poznick (Andover, MA, USA)
 
+
 "Although some functional managers had heard of RISC, virtually
 none had heard of RISC"
 
                                - Digital Marketing Study
                                - from Ken Berkun (Hong Kong)
 
+
 "Sir James Spicer...has officially opened a lavatory at the Piddle
 Valley First School near Dorchester."
 
                                - VNS #2244 Main News, 23 Jan 90
                                - from Dick Binder (Nashua, NH, USA)
 
+
 "Tensions in Latvia...are tense..."
 
                                - WBZ Radio, Boston, 21 Jan 91, news
                                - from Gunar Zagars (Andover, MA, USA)
 
+
 Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: "I would
 not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were
 supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live
@@ -109,47 +125,56 @@
                                -- Miss Alabama in the 1994
                                -- Miss USA contest.
 
+
 "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the
 world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that,
 but not with all those flies and death and stuff." 
 
                                -- Mariah Carey
 
+
 "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of
 your life."
                                -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to 
become 
                                -- Spokesperson for federal anti-smoking 
campaign.
 
+
 "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body,"
 
                                -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky 
basketball forward.
 
+
 "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates
 in the country,"
 
                                -- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.
 
+
 "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers.
 We are the president." 
 
                                -- Hillary Clinton commenting on the release
                                -- of subpoenaed documents.
 
+
 "That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass,
 and I'm just the one to do it." 
 
                                -- A congressional candidate in Texas.
 
+
 "I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them.
 There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians
 were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves." 
 
                                -- John Wayne
 
+
 "Half this game is ninety percent mental." 
 
                                -- Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark
 
+
 "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities
 in our air and water that are doing it." 
 
@@ -158,59 +183,72 @@
                                Dan Quayle, Vice President
                                George W. Bush, Texas Governor
 
+
 "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." 
 
                                -- Dan Quayle
 
+
 "It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or
 another"
 
                                -- George Bush, US President
 
+
 "We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
 
                                -- Lee Iacocca
 
+
 "I was provided with additional input that was radically different from
 the truth. I assisted in furthering that version." 
 
                                -- Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra 
testimony.
 
+
 "The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like
 Norman Einstein."
 
                                -- Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & 
sports analyst.
 
+
 "We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of
 people." 
 
                                -- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.
 
+
 "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." 
 
                                -- Unknown.  This has been attributed to:
                                Al Gore, Bill Clinton, George Bush
                                (Sr. and Jr.), and Dan Quayle
 
+
 "We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
 
                                -- Al Gore, VP
 
+
 "Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas."
 
                                -- Keppel Enderbery
 
+
 "Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we
 received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply
 if there is a change in your circumstances." 
 
                                -- Department of Social Services, Greenville, 
South Carolina
 
+
 "If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as
 they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night.
 And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record."
 
                                -- Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman
+
+
 </pre>
 
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 Updated:
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-$Date: 2008/11/05 00:45:30 $
+$Date: 2009/08/05 18:12:22 $
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