posted on September 9, 2002 07:31:19 PM new
1. 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 forever which is why I would not live forever."---Miss Alabama, 1994 Miss USA contest
2. "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I would love to be that skinny, but not with all those flies and death and stuff." ---Mariah Carey
3. "Smoking kills. If you're killed you've lost a very important part of your life." ---Brooke Shields during a federal anti-smoking spokesperson interview
4. "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."----Mayor Marion Barry
5. '"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." ----Dan Quayle
6. "It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another."---George W. Bush
7. "We've got to pause and ask ourselves : exactly how much clean air do we need?"---Lee Iacocca
8. "I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version."---Oliver North's Iran-Contra testimony
9. "The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."---Joe Theisman, NFL quarterback and sports analyst
10. "We don't necessarily discriminate. We just exclude certain types of people."---Col. Gerald Wellman, ROTC instructor
11. "Your food stamps will be stopped because we received notification that you passed away. You may reapply if your circumstances change." ----Department of Social Services, Greenville South Carolina
posted on September 9, 2002 08:19:41 PM new
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
-Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle at a fundraising event for the United Negro College Fund. He was attempting to quote the line "a mind is a terrible thing to waste"
posted on September 10, 2002 07:25:16 AM new
Thanks for the chuckles, Stu.
#11 hit home to me. 11. "Your food stamps will be stopped because we received notification that you passed away. You may reapply if your circumstances change."----Department of Social Services, Greenville South Carolina. Would be funnier if not so sad. Did the person who sent that letter even think about what it said?
Reason I say that is my husband's golfing buddy, just three weeks ago, received a reply to a request for a Sears charge card he had made. [Problem is...he never applied as he has had one for over 40 years...another story]. It stated that his application was being denied as they it didn't include his home address. But they had mailed the denial to him via USPS. Sad.
