posted on August 24, 2001 10:30:54 PM new
Bunnicula: Glad you like it! My two personal favorites in it are "where wings take dream" and the pit bull thing. What exactly is the pit bull doing on the pants leg??!!!
posted on August 24, 2001 11:46:28 PM new
Here's a few more for you. I've never heard funnier stuff in my life
CONVICTION
"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question."
— Reynoldsburg, Ohio, October 4, 2000
TRUST
"There's a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.'"
— Boston, Massachusetts, October 3, 2000
"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness."
— CNN online chat, August 30, 2000
MR. BUSH'S NEIGHBORHOOD
"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself."
— Financial Times, January 14, 2000
TIME
"The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some of their own money."
— Westminster, California, September 13, 2000
FAITH
"Our priorities is our faith."
— Greensboro, North Carolina, October 10, 2000
"We have practically banished religious values and religious institutions from the public square and constructed a 'discountfort zone' for even discussing our faith in public settings."
— Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 9, 2000
FAMILY
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."
— La Crosse, Wisconsin, October 18, 2000
ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY WON'T HOLD STILL
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
— Nashua, New Hampshire, January 27, 2000
GIST FOR THE MILL
"I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists."
posted on August 25, 2001 11:36:30 PM new
Thanks roadsmith. I enjoyed that poem and sent it to a friend. I can't read Bushisms without thinking of Vice President Dan Quayle, neither can she and she arranged some of his quotations as a writing exercise. It's long but I enjoyed reading it.
My Misstatements
Dan Quayle Quotations
It's rural America.
It's where I came from.
We always refer to ourselves
As real America.
Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
Somewhere between real and real real.
If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day.
But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
You all look like happy campers to me.
Happy campers you are
Happy campers you have been
And as far as I'm concerned
Happy campers you will always be.
I have made good judgments in the Past.
I have made good judgments in the Future.
In the past, we have tried too much
To prevent the making of mistakes.
We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.
We will move forward, we will move upward
And yes, we will move onward.
The future will be a better tomorrow.
I am the future.
If we do not succeed
Then we run the risk of failure.
I believe
We are on an irreversible trend
Toward more freedom and democracy
But that could change.
People who bowl vote.
Voters are like trees
If you are trying to build a forest.
If you have more trees than you have forests
Then at that point
The pollsters will probably say you will win.
A low voter turnout is an indication
Of fewer people going to the polls.
I'm not a Yuppie, I'm a Senator.
I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
I hope there's some respect and dignity
For the things I did not do.
I used to be a Batman fan until I had this job.
Now all of a sudden, Robin looks awfully good, yeah
I should be Robin and not Batman.
I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
Robin is going to make a return.
The next sequal to Batman will be "Where's Robin?"
That is not a yes or no question.
I'm the Vice President. They know it
And they know that I know it.
They asked me to go out in front of the Reagans
I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan
So we went out behind the Bushes.
Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush and my fellow astronauts.
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
For NASA, space is still a high priority.
Those same asteroids which promise material riches
Can be a threat as well.
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
Public speaking is very easy.
You smile discreetly, you look like you're enjoying yourself
Like you're ready to get down to serious business.
You've got to be careful what you say.
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
And you take the U.N.C.F. model
That what a waste it is to lose one's mind
Or not to have a mind
Is being very wasteful.
How true that is.
How true that is.
